The APPAM Policy Council approved creation of this award on March 30, 2007. There is no external funding for this award and the recipients do not receive cash prizes. APPAM seeks to reward and encourage excellence in research by new/emerging scholars as represented among the poster sessions delivered at the Annual Fall Research Conference. Up to three poster presentations will be recognized each year through this award. The presenters of the winning poster sessions each will receive a custom prize ribbon created specifically for the award. All poster sessions presented at the Fall Research Conference will be eligible for the award provided that they are presented in person during one of the three poster sessions.
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Previous Recipients
2012 Fall Research Conference
Thursday, November 8
First place: Income Estimation for Non-Household Members in the Redesigned SIPP Instrument, Lindsay Monte and Ashley Edwards, U.S. Census Bureau.
Second place: Is Differential Within Household Migration Capture Effectively with the National Change of Address Registry? Alison K. Fields, William K. Koerber, and Amy O'Hara, U.S. Census Bureau
Third place: Community-Based Support for Coping with Hard Times: Searching for What Works for Disadvantaged Families, Sandra Danziger, Richard Rodems, Carolyn Barnes, and Sue Ann Savas, University of Michigan
Friday, November 9
First place: The Validity of Instrumental Variable Analysis in Comparative Effectiveness Research, Laura F. Garabedian, Paula Chu, Darren Toh, Alan Zaslavsky, and Stephen Soumerai, Harvard University
Second place: Addressing the Multiple testing Problem in Subgroup Analysis in the Supporting Healthy Marriage Evaluation, Daniel Gubits, Abt Associates; Jorgen Harris, MDRC; Meghan McCormick, New York University; and Amy Lowenstein, MDRC
Third place: The Effect of Early-Life Education on Later-Life Mortality, Dan A. Black and Yu-Chieh Hsu, University of Chicago; Lowell J. Taylor, Carnegie Mellon University
Saturday, November 10
First place: On Persistent Poverty in a Rich Country, Tomnoy Islam, Jenny Minier, and James P. Ziliak, University of Kentucky
Second place: The Impact of Abortion on Young Women's Marriage Decisions, Rouding Tan, City University of New York
Third place: Public Sector Strategies to Overcome Fiscal Constraints and Serve the Public Interest Through Public Private Partnerships, Eric Boyer, George Washington University
2011 APPAM Fall Research Conference Poster Session Winners
Thursday, November 3
First place The Impact of Adequate Prenatal Care in a Developing Country: Testing the WHO Recommendations, Gissele Gajate-Garrido, International Food Policy Research Institute
Second place Spillover, False Positives, and the Demography of Urban Policing, Amanda Geller, Columbia University
Third place Job Displacement and the Duration of Joblessness: The Roles of Spatial Mismatch, Frederik Andersson, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency; John Haltiwanger, University of Maryland; Mark Lutzbach, US Census Bureau; Henry Pollakowski, Harvard University; Daniel Weinberg, US Census Bureau
Friday, November 4
First place Does Greater Autonomy Improve School Performance? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Analysis in Chicago, Matthew P. Steinberg, University of Chicago
Second place Impacts of Accountability on Teacher Quality and Assignment: A Quasi-Experimental Approach, Niu Gao, Florida State University
Third place Additional Returns to Investing in Girls Education? Effects on Learning Outcomes of Younger Siblings, Javaeria Qureshi, University of Chicago
Saturday, November 5
First place Was There a Race to the Bottom After Welfare Reform? Sarah Burns, University of Kentucky
Second place The Price of Impatience: Municipal Bond Liquidity and Its Implications, Justin Marlowe, University of Washington
Third place Investment Determinants of Cultural Building, Joanna Woronkowicz, University of Chicago
2010 APPAM Fall Research Conference Poster Session Winners
Thursday, November 4
First place Effects of State Child Safety Seat Laws on Injuries and Fatalities, Jill Cannon, Rebecca Kilburn and Brian Weatherford
Second place Divorce and Women's Risk of Health Insurance Loss, Bridget Lavelle and Pamela Smock
Third place The Role of Debt on the Transition to Adulthood, Fenaba Addo
Friday, November 5
First place Improving policy through web-enhanced qualitative interviews (the case of methamphetamine) Tim Mulcahy, Henry Brownstein and Johannes Huessy
Second place Tying local policy, management, and institutional arrangements to environmental outcomes: The role of urban forests in municipal sustainability initiatives, Rachel Krause and Sarah Mincey
Third place Evaluating Support for Municipal Government Term Limits: Evidence from a National Survey of Municipal Officials, Douglas Ihrke, Nathan Grasse, Brian Cherry and Grace Chikoto
Saturday, November 6
First place Choosing Where to Teach: The Effect of Teacher Quality of the Charter Versus Public School Decision, Lauren Calimeris
Second place Labor Market Conditions and Medicare Utilization and Spending, Jennifer Mellor and Melissa McInerney
Third place The Effects of Stability of Health Insurance Coverage on Access to Healthcare Among Non-Elderly Populations of Chicago, Adetokunbo Oluwole
2009 APPAM Fall Research Conference Poster Session Winners
Irma Arteaga, University of Minnesota, Non-Instrumental Variables Approaches for Modeling Attrition: The Case of the Long-Term Effects of Early Education
Myong-Hyun Go, Pardee RAND Graduate School, Effective Smoking Cessation Programs for Adolescent Smokers in School
Anna Johnson, Columbia University, Who Uses Child Care Subsidies Comparing Recipients to Eligible Non-Recipients on Family Demographic Characteristics and Child Care Preferences
2008 APPAM Fall Research Conference Poster Session Winners
Nathan Gray, University of Arkansas, The Effect of the Ohio Charter School Policy on Traditional Public School Achievement
Kyoungsun Heo, Indiana University, The Impact of the Climate Challenge Program on the CO2 Emissions Generated by Investor-Owned Utilities: A Program Evaluation
Janet Rosenbaum, Harvard University, Comparing the Sexual Behavior or Virginity Pledgers and Similar Non-Pledgers
2007 APPAM Fall Research Conference Poster Session Winners
Brian Cadena, University of Michigan, How Do Immigrants Respond to Competition from Similarly Skilled Natives
Jennifer Cartland, Children's Memorial Research Center, Children with Parents Involved with the Justice System — The First Report from a New Demonstration Project
Wenli Yan, University of Kentucky, Revenue Diversification, Economic Base and Revenue Stability: County Level Analysis