2017 APPAM Fall Research Conference: Author Index W

Author Index: W

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Benefit Generosity and Injury Duration: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Regression Kinks

Heterogeneity Within the Charter School Sector: Examining the Longitudinal Effects of Charter Operators on Student Achievement in Indiana

Voucher Variation: Heterogeneous Impacts on Student Outcomes across Indiana Private Schools

Waelchli, M.

The Role of Deployment Policy Design in Selecting Technologies: Remodeling the Case of the German Solar PV Deployment Policy

Wafo Tabopda, G.

Urban Growth And Fuelwood Distribution In Dry Tropical Africa: A Next Challenge For Sustainable Management Of Protected Areas

Wagner, J.

Measuring the Effects of Multi-Modal Efforts to Strengthen Connections Between Parents and Social Support Services

Wagner, M.

Measuring Organizational Conditions in Early Education: Testing the Reliability and Validity of the Five Essentials-Early Education Surveys

Waidmann, T.

State Spending and Child Health

Waite, A.

Principals Strategies to Improve Teaching: The Case of Tenure Reform?

Paid Leave: Implications for New Mothers, Caregivers, and Employers

What Influences Wellbeing? Using Data from the Columbia University/Robin Hood Poverty Tracker to Assess the Relative Value of Hardship and Health

The Effect of California's Paid Family Leave Law on Breastfeeding, Immunizations, and Well Child Visits

Waldron, H.

Working and Claiming Behavior at Social Security's Early Entitlement Age: How Measurement Affects Findings

The Impacts of Poverty on Children in the National Capital Region

Wall, N.

Using Administrative Data to Capture Population Prevalence and Needs to Inform Program Delivery

Waller, M.

The Role of Fathers in Reducing Income-Based Inequalities in Children’s Behavioral Outcomes

The Minimum Wage and Fathers’ Residence with Children

Wallis, A.

The Pregnancy Experiences of Women in Rural Communities in Romania: Understanding Ethnic and Social Disparities

Walsh, R.

Minority Representation in Local Government and Distributional Outcomes

Walsh, T.

Meeting All Parents Where They Are: A New Generation of Strengths-Based Technology Interventions

Incorporating Behavioral Science Into a Smartphone App to Reduce Fathers’ Barriers to Participation in Fatherhood Programs

Walton, D.

A Three-Armed, Multi-Site Evaluation Design’s Potential for Within Study Comparison and Policy Learning

Walton, G.

Message Intended Is Not Message Received: Shame, Stigma, and Disengagement in the Academic Probation Notification Process

Wan, Y.

Evaluation of the Impact of a Selective Alternative Teacher Certification Program in Seven Large Urban Districts

Wang, C. Y.

Measuring Students’ Social-Emotional Learning Among California’s CORE Districts: An IRT Modeling Approach

Wang, J.

Early Medicaid Expansion Reduced Payday Borrowing in California

Wang, J.

Spatial Patterns and Determinants of Local Sustainability Experimentation in China

Beyond bureaucracy: The Effects of Environmental Policy Experimentation on Citizens’ Environmental Awareness in Urban China

Wang, J.

The effect of a conditional cash transfer for HIV prevention on young women's experience of partner violence: Evidence from South Africa

Wang, L. X.

The Complementarity of Health Information and Health IT on Opioid-Induced Mortality and Morbidity

Wang, R.

Household Air Pollution and Hypertension: Evidence from a Panel Data Analysis from China

Wang, S.

The Impact of State Policies to Reduce Back Injuries Among Nursing Staff in Hospitals and Nursing Homes

Wang, W.

Testing the Effectiveness of “Managing for Results”: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Wang, W.

Why Are We Lagging Behind? An Empirical Analysis of Municipal Capital Spending in the United States

Wang, X.

Gender Inequality in Transitional China: Does Education Help Narrow Gender Gap in Couples’ Time Use?

Wang, X.

The Effect of Age at School Entry on Educational Attainment and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from China

Permanent Residency and the Job Mobility of High-Skilled Immigrants: Is There Evidence of Job Lock?

Wang, Y.

Social Policy and Governmental Responsibility: From State Socialism to Privatization of Welfare Provision in China

Wang, Y.

Key Design Features for Delivering Energy Efficiency: A Review of Awarding Winning Programs

Wang, Z.

Reforming China’s Power Generation Dispatch Rule: Why Is Merging Provincial Dispatch Zones Inherently Challenging Yet Absolutely Necessary?

Ward, B.

What About the Children? How Opioid Use Affects Child Well-Being

Warfield, G. A. R. Y.

To Improve and Prove: A Practitioner's Perspective on Learning from an Evaluation Partnership

Discrepancies in Child Support Paid and Owed Among Noncustodial Parents: Evidence from Survey and State Administrative Data

Warland, C.

Implementation and Impacts of Subsidized Employment Programs

Warman, C.

The Effect of Prices on Youth Cigarette and E-cigarette Use: ‘’Exit Ramps’’ or Gateways

Social Impact Bonds – Challenges of Measurement, Impact and Policy Innovation

Measurement and Outcomes of Federal, State, and Local Procurement Policies

The Razor’s Edge: Social Impact Bonds and the Financialization of Early Childhood Services

What Are We Searching for? Estimating the Returns to Job Search

Waslin, M.

State and Local Immigration Policies: What Lies Ahead?

Wassmer, R.

Four Decades of Prop 13: Property Tax Knowledge and Attitudes in California

Watanabe-Rose, M.

Mathematics Remediation Reforms in States and University Systems: Using Data to Influence Policy Changes

Waters, A.

Substance Use Prevalence and Child Welfare Caseloads: Empirical Evidence

Does Initiating Tobacco Use With Flavored Products Predict Current Smoking Status? An Examination by Race, Gender, and Sexual Identity.

A Promising Culture: College Going Culture and the El Dorado Promise

Watson, T.

The Impact of the ACA Medicaid Expansion on Disability Program Participation

The Effect of SNAP and the Broader Safety Net on Mental Health and Food Insecurity

Watts, B.

Great Evidence, Lousy Findings: Why Methods-Based Evaluation Approaches Might Hinder Effective Program Development

Watts, T.

It’s About Time: Evidence on Time Use and its Effects in Early Childhood Educational Contexts

Waxman, A.

The Long Road to Work: The Divergent Effects of Transportation Policies by Worker Skill in a Locational Sorting Model

Weathers, E. S.

Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in School District Funding

Weaver, K.

Policy Analysis and the Politics of Health Policy: Scholarship, Knowledge Translation and Policymaking

Webber, D.

The Impact of Layoff for Working College Students.

Weber, A.

The Effects of the Early Retirement Age on Retirement Decisions

Weber, R.

Do Local Governments Use Business Tax Incentives to Compensate for High Business Property Taxes? Theory and Evidence

Webster, J.

The Effect of Student Loans on Family Finances

Wehde, W.

Earthquake Risks and Policy Preferences in Oklahoma : Risk Perception, Political Ideology and Causal Beliefs

Wei, D.

The Design of a Deductible/Credit System for Post-Disaster Public Assistance

Wei, T.

Design-Based Causal Inference for RCTs and QEDs: Theoretical and Empirical Advances

Wei, W.

Municipal Structures and Government Fiscal Performance: A Visit of the Bond Ratings

Grid-Group Foundations of Voluntary Program Member Motivations

Weigensberg, E.

Superutilization of Child Welfare and Other Services: A Descriptive and Predictive Analysis of Service Use Among Families in Child Welfare

Weiland, C.

Meeting All Parents Where They Are: A New Generation of Strengths-Based Technology Interventions

Ways to Improve Teacher Performance

Text-Based Mentoring to Support Positive Child Development and Maternal Health and Well Being

Sustaining Impacts of High-Quality PreK through Third Grade: Lessons from a Partnership with the Boston Public School District

What Accounts for Racial and Ethnic Differences in Use of Bank and Nonbank Financial Services?

Identifying Student-Level Factors Associated with Success in Accelerated Models of Developmental Education: A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Weiss, D.

Criminal Background and Job Performance

Weiss, M.

Supporting Community College Students from Start to Degree Completion: Long-Term Evidence from a Randomized Trial of CUNY’s ASAP

An Experimental Evaluation of a Computer-Assisted, Modular Approach to Developmental Math

Welch, E.

Public Organization Adaptation to Extreme Events: Evidence from U.S. Transit Agencies

Wenger, J.

Do Minimum Wage Changes Affect Employer-Sponsored Insurance Coverage in the Post-ACA Era?

Werner, A.

Career Progress in the First Generation of the Health Profession Opportunity Grants Program

West, B. R.

Effects of National Board Certified Teachers on Student Achievement and Behavioral Outcomes: Studies Conducted in Two States

West, J.

Building Blocks: How Social Support Systems are Key to Improving Child Health

West, K.

Using Data to Understand and Inform Teacher Hiring

Do Early-Offers Equal Better Teachers?

West, M. R.

Does Private Schooling Affect Non-Cognitive Skills? International Evidence Based on Test and Survey Effort on PISA

Measuring and Charting the Development of Student Social-Emotional Learning: Evidence from the First Large-Scale Panel Survey of Students

Measuring School Effects on Social-Emotional Learning: Evidence from the First Large-Scale Panel Survey of Students

Weted, C. A.

Framing a Typology for Presidential Management: Executive Orders and Policy Control

Intermediate Impacts of the City of Seattle Minimum Wage Ordinance

Perceptions of Work, Identity and the Work-Family Interface for Low-Wage Workers

Wherry, L.

Early Health Investments and Long-Term Outcomes: Evidence from New Linkages Between Birth Records and Census Data

Whitaker, S.

Applications of Predictive Modeling and Machine Learning to Improve Policy Implementation

Tax Policy and Their Impact on Local Governments

Predictive Modeling of Surveyed Property Conditions and Vacancy

White, J.

Public Policy Issues in the Municipal Securities Market

White, J.

Interests, Ideas, and Cost Controls (or not) in the Affordable Care Act

White, K.

Paid Family Leave and Low-Income Families: Building On Evidence and Lessons Learned From State Programs

White, L. V.

Empirical Research on Environmental Beliefs and Governance

Controlling household electricity loads: the effect of income and perceived control on TOU acceptance

White, R.

Donut Devourers, Fish Fanatics, and Eager Educators: Victors and Voices of State Education Policymaking

Whiteman, E. D.

SNAP Judgments: Is Reporting in the Digital Age Affecting Discourse about Welfare?

Wiedrich, K.

New Evidence on the Determinants and Consequences of Racial Differences in Outcomes

Wikstrom, K.

Environmental Justice and Water Policy During a Drought: Community Stressors, Minority Residents, and Cutback Assignments

Wilde, E. T.

Identifying and Misidentifying Effective Principals from Teacher and Student Outcomes

Wilde, P.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Food Costs, And Nutritional Quality Of U.S. Household Food Purchases By Share Of Spending On Meat: Implications For U.S. Consumers And Federal Nutrition Policy

Wilder-Smith, O.

An Observational Measure of Regulation-Related Skills in the Early Childhood Classroom Setting

Wileden, L.

Interrogating the Dynamic Feedback Loop Between Crime, Neighborhood Change, and Perception

Wilk, A. S.

Health Quality

Expanding Medicaid Access without Expanding Medicaid: Why did Some Non-Expansion States Continue the Primary Care Fee Bump?

Effect of Medicaid Primary Care Fee Bump in 2013-2014 on Primary Care Physicians' Service Pattern

Applications of Predictive Modeling and Machine Learning to Improve Policy Implementation

Beyond Bills and Floor Votes: Using Text Reuse Methods to Trace the Progress of Policy Ideas and Better Understand Legislative Institutions

Ex Ante and Ex Post Moral Hazard: Lessons from the ACA and Risky Sex

Willen, A.

The Long-Run Effects of Teacher Collective Bargaining

Williams, B. D.

Post-Incarceration Housing Challenges and Strategies

We All Want the Same Thing: An Organizational Analysis of a Housing Reentry Program

Williams, J. M.

Cost-Effectiveness of Early Childhood Interventions to Enhance Head Start: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Williams, S.

Identifying Magnet School Profiles in North Carolina: A Mixture Modeling Approach

Wilson, D.

Measuring News Sentiment

Wilson, E.

Deploying Distributed Energy Resources: Classifying Barriers and Opportunities Among Municipal Utilities and Rural Electric Cooperatives

Wilson, V.

A Demographic Analysis of Trends in Work Hours, Unemployment and Labor Market Disconnection

Wimer, C.

Using Microsimulation Models to Evaluate Tax Policies That Affect Low-Income Families with Children

Assets and Savings Behavior

Labor Markets, Wages, and Policy

Who is Poor? Measuring Poverty with Income or Consumption

Wimer, C.

Using Assets to Improve Poverty Measurement: Comparing Official, Supplemental, Consumption, and Assets-Augmented Poverty Measures

What Influences Wellbeing? Using Data from the Columbia University/Robin Hood Poverty Tracker to Assess the Relative Value of Hardship and Health

Child Care Expenses and Poverty: Examining the Burden of Child Care Expenses on Low Income Families

Winecoff, R.

Leveraging Multiple Datasets to Evaluate the Effects of Public Health Insurance

Wing, C.

Provider Decision Making and Patient Outcomes

Wing, C.

Using Within-Study Comparison Approaches to Examine Systematic Variation and Generalization of Treatment Effects

Wage Rigidity, Monopsony, and Physician Employment in the Public Sector

Welfare Rules, Incentive Effects, and Family Structure

Winship, S.

Deep Poverty: What is the Best Measure?

Winston, P.

Paid Family Leave and Low-Income Families: Building On Evidence and Lessons Learned From State Programs

Exploring Cross-Domain Instability in Families with Children

Winters, M.

Coursework and Instructional Time

The Effect of Florida’s Test-Based Promotion Policy on Student Performance Prior to the Retention Decision

What Happens to Students who Exit Charter Schools?

Wiseman, M.

The Safety Net and Outcomes for the Disadvantaged

Administrative Data Applications

Wiser, R.

Sources of Price Dispersion in U.S. Residential Solar Installations

Witte, J.

Creating a Digital Archive for Doing Research on the Production of Social Science Knowledge

Wodicka, C.

Bridging the Gap Between Graduate School and Your Non-Academic Policy Career Path

Woldetsadik, M. A.

Long-term Impact of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence on Women and Families: Preliminary Evidence from War-affected Regions of Northern Uganda

Examining Donor Approaches to Gender Programming for Post-Conflict Reconstruction & Peacebuilding in War-Affected countries in Africa and Asia

Wolf, P. J.

The Experimental Effects of the Louisiana Scholarship Program on Student Achievement after Three Years

Evaluating School Vouchers: Evidence from a within-Study Comparison

Wolf, S.

Understanding the Effects of State Safety Net and Labor Policies on Family Economic Stability and Health

Wolfe, B.

Ties Between Health Policy, Early Health Problems and Lifetime Earnings

Wonderly, C.

Difference-in-Differences with Synthetic Controls: Federally Funded Housing's Impact on School District Performance

Wong, A.

The Effects of Michigan's Medicaid Expansion on Financial Outcomes

Wong, K.

How Do State Education Officials Shape Policy and Student Outcomes? Individual and System-Level Analyses

Wong, T. K.

Immigration Enforcement and Immigrant Integration at the State and Local Level

The Determinants and Effects of Sanctuary Policies

Wong, V. C.

Using Within-Study Comparison Approaches to Examine Systematic Variation and Generalization of Treatment Effects

Advancing Design Replication Research

Assessing Correspondence in (Design)-Replication Studies

Do Students Respond to Accountability Pressures? Evidence from NCLB Implementation Details

Wong, V. C.

Full- Vs. Half- Day Pre-K: Results from Year 1 of a Longitudinal, Multi-Cohort Randomized Control Trial

Wong, W.

Decentralization and Federalism

Where You See Determines What You Believe: Linking Youth Satisfaction and Trust in Government with the Use of Social Media

Woo, D.

Race and Reporting: A New Approach to Estimating the Effect of Student-Teacher Race Congruence on Disciplinary Infractions

Wood, M.

How Much Can External Validity Bias Be Reduced by Aligning Sample and Population on School District Characteristics?

Wood, T. J.

Did Obamacare Cost Clinton the 2016 Election?

Woodbury, S.

Unemployment, Unemployment Insurance, and Reemployment Policies

Worker Displacement

Unemployment Insurance Policy

Tax Policy and the Solvency of State Unemployment Insurance Trust Funds

Woodford, M.

Paying for Success in Medicaid: Evaluation of Nurse Family Partnership Services in South Carolina

Woodworth, J. L.

Charter Management Organizations 2017

Workman, S.

Neighborhood Tabulation Areas: Enhancing Population Health and Human Services Capacity in NYC through Shared Information at the Small Area Level

Woronkowicz, J.

Real Estate Investments for Nonprofit Organizations

Wright, C.

Choose Wisely: A Case Study of College Student and Advisor Perspectives on Major Field of Study Choices

Wright, I.

Comparing the Allocative and Productive Effeciciency of New Orleans Charter Schools and Traditional Public Schools in Louisiana

Accountability at Its Finest: Front Line Workers Responding to the Use of Body-Worn Cameras

Wright, J.

Racial Representation in Police Departments: Does It Impact Use of Force?

Wright, S.

Local Uses of State Wage Data to Drive Effective Employment and Training Programs

Wu, A. Y.

Disability and Geography: Variation in Prevalence, Program Participation and Program Outcomes

The Labor Market Experience of Older Workers Who Were Denied SSDI on the Basis of Vocational Factors

Wu, C. F.

Multiple Program Participation and Long-Term Employment and Earnings Trajectories among Single-Mother Families

Does SNAP Participation Moderate the Relationship between Employment Hardships and Food Insecurity During and After the Great Recession?

Wu, D.

Disaggregating the Effects of Instructional Time on Academic Achievement: Evidence from the TIMSS Assessments

Wu, Y.

Making Information Work for Low-Income Students in College Choice: Experimental Evidence Under Centralized Admissions

Wu, Y.

The determinants of municipal general fund expenditure volatility: Evidence from large American cities

Why Are We Lagging Behind? An Empirical Analysis of Municipal Capital Spending in the United States

Wyckoff, J.

Measuring Teacher Quality: Does the Common Core Make a Difference?

Teacher Labor Market Reforms and the Teacher Pipeline

New Measurements on the Effectiveness of Public Organizations and Employees: Examples from Education

Assessment, Incentives, and Policy Evaluation in K-12 Education

Principals Strategies to Improve Teaching: The Case of Tenure Reform?

Wyckoff, J.

Examining the Importance of Student Teaching for Student and Teacher Outcomes

Wyness, G.

Teaching To The Test: The Long Run Impacts Of Standardized Testing On Student Outcomes

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