Saturday Poster Luncheon

Baby's Gone: The Effects of Increased Sentencing Severity on Fertility and Family Formation

Siobhan M. O'Keefe, University of California, Davis

Career Counseling and Youth Crime: Evidence from Career Compass of Louisiana

Swarup Joshi, Stephen Barnes and Louis-Philippe Beland, Louisiana State University

Harm Reduction in Domestic Violence: Does Marijuana Make Assaults Safer?

Jacob Kaplan and Li Sian Goh, University of Pennsylvania

Ineligible Anyway: Evidence on the Barriers to Pell Eligibility for Prison Inmates in the Second Chance Pell Pilot Program in Pennsylvania

Jennifer Lafferty¹, Sarah Tahamont¹, Jordan Hyatt², Nicolette Bell³ and Michele Hiester³, (1)University of Maryland, (2)Drexel University, (3)Pennsylvania Department of Corrections

Serious Mental Illness and the Use of Segregation

Serena Maszak, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York

An Analysis of Private School Surveys in Different Regions: Implications for Arkansas, Arizona, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Texas

Andrew D. Catt and Michael Shaw, EdChoice

Can Machine Learning Improve Early Warning Indicators for High School Dropouts?

Lily Fesler and Thomas Dee, Stanford University

Do School Sizes Matter for Risky Behaviors of Low-Income Teenagers? Evidence from New York City

Kai Hong¹, Sherry Glied¹, Leanna Stiefel¹, S. Sana Fatima¹ and Amy Ellen Schwartz², (1)New York University, (2)Syracuse University

The Effects of Subgroup-Specific Accountability on Teacher Job Assignments, Turnover, and Attrition

Matthew Shirrell, George Washington University

Estimating the Heterogeneous Effects of Performance-Based Funding in Higher Education

James Dean Ward, University of Southern California

Examining Productivity in Rural Education

Matthew Finster¹, Anthony Milanowski², Ning Rui¹ and Victoria Schaefer¹, (1)Westat, (2)Education Analytics, Inc

GAO Review of Lead in School Drinking Water

Amanda Goolden, Alfredo Gomez, Jacqueline Nowicki, Jason Palmer, Diane Raynes, Scott Spicer and Alexandra Squitieri, U.S. Government Accountability Office

Heterogeneous and Spillover Effects of Higher Education Expansion: Evidence from a Radical and Large-Scale National Program in China

Qiao Wen, Columbia University

The Impact of Consequential Accountability Policies on Teachers’ Mental Health

Seth Gershenson¹, Stephen B. Holt² and Rui Wang¹, (1)American University, (2)State University of New York, Albany

Impact of Education Policies on Enrolment and Secondary School Completion of Girls in India

Sangeeta Chatterji, Johns Hopkins University

The Impact of Low-Income Housing Developments on the Composition of Neighborhood Schools

Elise D Dizon-Ross, Stanford University

The Impact of NCLB Waivers on Student Achievement Gaps

Bryant Gregory Hopkins, New York University

Integrating Technology in the Classroom –Continuous Learning, Impacts and Lessons from New York City

Rekha Balu and Emma Alterman, MDRC

Making the Grade: Who Gets in to Advanced Academic Courses Among Ethnically Diverse, Low-Income Youth

Courtney Ricciardi and Adam Winsler, George Mason University

Minimum Wage and Community College Enrollment

Chang Hyung Lee, University of California, Santa Barbara

Neighborhood Advantage and Children's Outcomes: The Mediating Role of Classroom Quality in Preschool

Wendy S Wei¹, Andrea K Busby² and Emily Hanno¹, (1)Harvard University, (2)Northwestern University

A New Measure of English Language Development Course “Quality” for Use in Quantitative Analyses of English Learner Student Progress

Laura Hill¹, Julian Betts², Karen Volz Bachofer², Joseph Hayes¹, Andrew Lee¹ and Andrew Zau², (1)Public Policy Institute of California, (2)University of California, San Diego

Refugee Students and Peer Effects

Maria Camila Morales, Georgia State University

A Snapshot of Preschool Quality: The District of Columbia’s Citywide Public Pre-K Program

Sherylls Valladares Kahn, Dori Mornan, Aisha Pittman and Laura E. Hawkinson, School Readiness Consulting

Using Texting to Nudge Urban Public School Students to and through College

Ryan Yeung, Hunter College, City University of New York and Phuong Nguyen, University of Iowa

Employment Costs of an Increasing Minimum Wage for Persons with Disabilities

Katie M Jajtner, Fordham University

Employment Instability of Deeply Poor Families with Children: Evidence from a Study of Families Who Experience Homelessness

Douglas Walton, Samuel Dastrup and Jill Khadduri, Abt Associates, Inc.

Heterogeneous Effects of Savings on Participation in the Gig Economy

Sam Bufe, Stephen Roll, Olga Kondratjeva and Michal Grinstein-Weiss, Washington University in St. Louis

Leaks in the STEM Pipeline: Evidence from a New Survey of Workers

Drew M. Anderson, Matthew D. Baird and Robert Bozick, RAND Corporation

Redefining Risk: Racial Disparities in Entrepreneurship and Financial Wellbeing

Graham W. Wright, Tatjana Meschede, Jessica Santos, Rebecca Loya and Thomas Shapiro, Brandeis University

Salary Spiking?: How Late Career Raises Lead to Disparity in Pension Benefits

James V. Shuls and Joseph Lux, University of Missouri, St. Louis

Visa Policy Changes and Post-Graduation Job Relatedness Among Foreign Doctorate Recipients: Evidence from the American Competitiveness Acts

Dafeng Xu, University of Minnesota

Biases in Multigenerational Income Regressions: Do Grandparents Matter?

Jørgen Modalsli, Statistics Norway and Kelly N. Vosters, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Differentiating Between Forms of Early Adversity in Two Vulnerable Samples

Tyler C. Hein¹, Melissa K. Peckins¹, Rebecca Waller¹, Leigh G. Goetschius¹, Daniel Shaw², Erika E. Forbes², Nestor L. Lopez-Duran¹, Vonnie C. McLoyd¹, Colter Mitchell¹, Luke W. Hyde¹ and Christopher S. Monk¹, (1)University of Michigan, (2)University of Pittsburgh

Head Start & Nonresident Father Involvement

Alexandra Haralampoudis¹, Louis Donnelly² and Lenna Nepomnyaschy¹, (1)Rutgers University, (2)Princeton University

Minimum Marriage Age Policies in Nigeria: A Policy Diffusion Model

Ene Ikpebe, American University

Restraining Orders, Domestic Violence, and Female Employment

Adan Silverio Murillo, American University

Violence and Children Outcomes: The Case of Children Exposed to Boko Haram

Mofioluwasademi Odunowo, Texas A&M University

The Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Investment Model: A Look at AIM ACOs in Their First Year

Matthew Trombley¹, Betty Fout¹, Sasha Brodsky¹ and David Nyweide², (1)Abt Associates, Inc., (2)Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation

Barriers to Health Information Technology Adoption: Understanding the Value of Data and Being Able to Use It

Bikki Tran Smith¹, Clifford Bersamira¹, Amanda J. Abraham², Colleen Grogan¹, Harold Pollack³, Melissa Westlake⁴, Christina M. Andrews⁴, Keith Humphreys⁵ and Peter D. Friedmann⁶, (1)University of Chicago, (2)University of Georgia, (3)University of Chicago Urban Labs, (4)University of South Carolina, (5)Stanford University, (6)Baystate Health

Does Medicare Increase Opioid Drug Usage: A Regression Discontinuity Study

James W. Henderson, Scott Cunningham and Alexander Law, Baylor University

Family, Income, & Medicaid Policy: Multinomial Logistic Model of Long-Term Care Decisions

Selena Caldera, University of Texas, Austin

Health Insurance Expansion Under the ACA and the Supply of Health Professionals

Cuiping Schiman, Northwestern University

How Do Hospitals Set Their Charity Care Policies? Evidence from Nonprofit Tax Returns

Rebecca M. Sachs, Harvard University

Incorporating Prescription Drug Utilization Information into the Marketplace Risk Adjustment Model Increases Payment Accuracy

Jianhui Xu¹, Erin E Trish¹ and Geoffrey Joyce², (1)University of Southern California, (2)Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics

Medicaid Physician Fees and Use of Primary Care Services: An Analysis of Recent Data Inclusive of ACA Fee Increase

Anuj Gangopadhyaya, Urban Institute, Cuiping Schiman, Northwestern University and Robert Kaestner, University of California, Riverside

Medicaid Today, Uninsured Tomorrow? Medicaid Beneficiary Disenrollment Rates and Physician Participation in Medicaid

Adam S. Wilk, Xu Ji, Cathy Lally and Benjamin G. Druss, Emory University

Moral Hazard Effects of Supplemental Private Health Insurance in Korea

Hansoo Ko and Tony LoSasso, University of Illinois, Chicago

Post-Acute Utilization Between Hospitalized Traditional Fee-for-Service Medicare and Medicare Advantage Enrollees

Shannon Wu, Johns Hopkins University

Why is risk adjustment inaccurate for the sickest patients?

Maya Lozinski, University of Chicago

Effect of Start-up Charter Schools on Nearby Property Values

Peter Bluestone, Nicholas I. Warner and David Sjoquist, Georgia State University

Law As Data: Opportunity and Methods for Evaluation of Housing Outcomes Using Policy Surveillance

Abraham Gutman, Kathleen McCabe, Adrienne Ghorashi, Andrew Campbell and Lindsay Cloud, Temple University

The Multilevel Determinants of the Discrepancy between Actual Vs. Perceived Housing Values Among Homeowners: The Case of Detroit Metropolitan Areas

Minha Noh, Jeffrey Morenoff and Elisabeth Gerber, University of Michigan

Small-Area Fair Market Rents and Changes in Tenant Contribution of Housing Choice Voucher Holders

Jasmine K. Simington, University of Michigan

Social Outcomes for UK Tenants Receiving Housing Assistance: Experiences in a Decade of Changing Policy

Rebecca Benson, King's College London

Understanding the Jobs-Affordable Housing Balance in Metropolitan Areas with Specific Focus on Richmond Region

Thomas E Jacobson, I-Shian Suen, Michael R MacKenzie and Fabrizio Fasulo, Virginia Commonwealth University

Evaluating Biomedical Research Translation Programs

Amanda C Walsh, Alan O'Connor, Ginger Rothrock, Dawn Ohse, Troy Scott, Benjamin Anderson and Meaghan McGrath, RTI International, Inc.

Examining Outcomes of New Investigators in NIH Peer Review and Publications

Silda Nikaj, Rachael Walsh, Paul Jordan and Robert Moore, National Institutes of Health

Design of Three-Level Multisite Moderation Studies with Adequate Power to Investigate Treatment Effect Variation

Nianbo Dong, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Ben Kelcey, University of Cincinnati and Jessaca Spybrook, Western Michigan University

Digitizing Disclosure: The Case of Restaurant Hygiene Scores

Weijia Daisy Dai, Lehigh University and Michael Luca, Harvard University

Do Project Evaluations Influence the Performance of Future Programs? an Analysis of World Bank Health and Education Projects, 2000-2010

Anupama U Dathan, Georgetown University

Exploring Gift Cards Vs Checks As Incentives for Parents: What Do Parents Choose and What Are Related Factors?

Kim Standing¹, Atsushi Miyaoka¹ and Kim McCombs-Thornton², (1)Westat, (2)North Carolina Partnership for Children

Investigating Equity in Juvenile Justice Reform Initiative Performance: An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis

Misti R. Jeffers and Jon A. Chilingerian, Brandeis University

Machine Learning Algorithms for Longitudinal Clustering

Alberto Guzman-Alvarez and Lindsay C. Page, University of Pittsburgh

Spatially Concentrated Disadvantage and Unequal Access to Neighborhood Resources: Evidence from Google Maps Data

Yuqi Lu, Cornell University

U.S. Membership at International Organizations: Cost-Benefit Analysis and Policy Implications

Mary Wong, George Washington University

Understanding the Health Insurance Seam Effect in the 2014 Survey of Income and Program Participation

Heide Jackson, U.S. Census Bureau

Where Does the “Utilization Gap” Come from? Rethinking Open APIs in E-Government

Ran Kim and Kilkon Ko, Seoul National University

Unintended and De Facto: A Case Study about Data Analytics and Insider Threat Policy Implementation

Liza Briggs, U.S. Government

Efficiency of Electric Vehicles Charging Stations: Charge and Get out

Sarah Elizabeth Walsh, Majid Ahmadi and Camila Apablaza, Georgia Institute of Technology

Evaluating the Performance of a National Water Policy Innovation in China: An Empirical Study of the Water Ecological Civilization Pilot Project

Can Cui¹, Jung Eun Kim¹, Tian Tang² and Hongtao Yi³, (1)University of Hong Kong, (2)Florida State University, (3)The Ohio State University

The Impact of Intergovernmental Grants on Clean Energy Innovation: Evidence from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

Taekyoung Lim¹, Tian Tang¹ and William Bowen², (1)Florida State University, (2)Cleveland State University

The Influence of City-Utility Collaboration on Local Level Energy-Related Policy Adoption

Cali Curley, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Shan Zhou, Michigan Technological University and Kewei Xu, Florida State University

Patterns of Cooperation among Coastal Communities Responding to Climate Risks

Rachel N Martin and Derek Kauneckis, Ohio University

The Role of Knowledge Spillover in Distributed Generation Soft Costs

Erik Funkhouser, Ariane Beck, Doug Hannah and Varun Rai, University of Texas, Austin

The Unit-Pricing Program Was Effective! Household Waste Reduced By Almost 50% in New Taipei City

Shun-Wen Wu, Indiana University; Taichung Veterans General Hospital and Lee-Kai Lin, Tunghai University

Advocacy for the Powerless: Nonprofits and the Policy Representation of Non-Voters

Kirsten Widner, Emory University

Linking Policy Entrepreneurship Characteristics and Strategies: Insights from a Systematic Review

Neomi Frisch Aviram, University of Haifa Israel

What Influences Policy Elites’ Cognition of Policy Narratives?

Rachael Moyer¹, Geoboo Song¹ and Michael Jones², (1)University of Arkansas, (2)Oregon State University

Vawa Work Authorization for Immigrant Women Survivors of Domestic Violence

Daun Jung, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York

Do larger food budgets lead to healthier food choices for low-income households?

Dominique J Rolando, University of Minnesota

The Effect of Closing the Gender Wage Gap on Bargaining Power: Evidence from Indonesia

Katie Wilson, Pardee RAND Graduate School

The Effect of SNAP on Food Spending Given Geographic Variation in Housing Prices

Mehreen S. Ismail¹, Parke Wilde¹ and Michele Ver Ploeg², (1)Tufts University, (2)U.S. Department of Agriculture

Food Aid and Household Decision-Making

Hyun Ju Kim, George Mason University

How the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Affects Labor Force Decisions

Bita Fayaz Farkhad and Chad Meyerhoefer, Lehigh University

The Impact of Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme on Adult Health and Nutritional Outcomes

Hannah Patnaik, Syracuse University

Income Instability, Relationship Instability, and Welfare Benefit Receipt: Measuring within-Year Patterns and Associations of These Events in Low-Income Families

Emma Kahle Monahan, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Making the Transition: How Asset Building Services Can Promote Positive Adult Outcomes for Foster Youth

Melanie L. Nadon, University of Washington

SNAP Benefit Amount, Negative Net Income, and Diet

Sabrina K. Young, University of Illinois, Chicago

Debt Outstanding, Capital Investments, and Credit Risks: A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Jinhai Yu, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and Xin Chen, University of Kentucky

In Defense of the Public Interest

Evan Mistur, Gordon Kingsley and Johann Weber, Georgia Institute of Technology

A Longitudinal Analysis of the Impact of Employee Empowerment on Work Attitudes in U.S. Federal Agencies

Ying Jiang and Sang Eun Lee, Arizona State University

Municipal Structure and Government Fiscal Condition: A Perspective from the Management-Performance Linkage

Wenchi Wei, University of Kentucky

Sustaining Public Funding for the Arts and Culture at the State Level: Use of Collaboration and Technology of a State Arts/Cultural Agency

Hsin-Ching Wu, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Testing Theories of Nonprofit Density: Government Failure or Ecological Approach

Joowon Jeong and Tracy Shicun Cui, Georgia State University

The Fair Labor Standards Act and the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission: Do Firms Discriminate More When Minimum Wages Increase?

Paul Treacy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Sociopolitical Behavior across the Socioeconomic Spectrum: The Fractured Landscape of Hydraulic Fracturing

Madeline Gottlieb, University of California, Davis

Jobs for Maine’s Graduates and Schooling Outcomes for Students with Disabilities

Garima Siwach and Michelle Yin, American Institutes for Research

The Water Gap: Environmental Effects of Agricultural Subsidies in India

Shoumitro Chatterjee, Princeton University, Rohit Lamba, Pennsylvania State University and Esha Zaveri, World Bank

The Role of the Emergency Food System in Promoting Health Equity: A Policy Agenda

Kristen Cooksey Stowers and Marlene B. Schwartz Schwartz, University of Connecticut

Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management

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