Previous JPAM Featured Articles

As part of APPAM's ongoing effort to showcase JPAM authors' work to the APPAM membership and the public policy world at large, we asked JPAM article authors to answer a couple of questions about their research.

• What was the genesis of the idea for their research/paper?
• What is the main conclusion that becomes evident from their research? (Or, what is their main takeaway?)
• What are some of the more interesting or surprising findings/conclusions did they find in the process of bringing it together?

For the current issue's featured articles, click here.

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The Effect of English Language Learner Reclassification

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By Deven Carlson and Jared Knowles

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The Effect of Nighttime Driving Restrictions on Teens

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By Monica Deza and Daniel Litwok

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The Social and Productive Impacts of Zambia’s Child Grant

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By Sudhanshu Handa, David Seidenfeld, Benjamin Davis, Gelson Tembo and the Zambia Cash Transfer Evaluation Team

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Representative Bureaucracy, Organizational Integrity, and Citizen Coproduction: Does an Increase in Police Ethnic Representativeness Reduce Crime?

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Sounman Hong, assistant professor,Yonsei University, Korea

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Parental Leave Legislation and Women's Work: A Story of Unequal Opportunities

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Sari Pekkala Kerr, economist, senior research scientist, Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW) at Wellesley College

Click here to listen to a podcast of Sari Pekkala Kerr describing the research.

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The Impact of Child Care Subsidies on Child Well-Being: Evidence from Geographic Variation in the Distance to Social Service Agencies

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Erdal Tekin, Professor of Public Policy, School of Public Affairs, American University; Research Associate, NBER; Research Fellow, IZA; Chris M. Herbst, Assistant Professor, School of Public Affairs and Faculty Affiliate, School of Social Work and the Center for Population Dynamics

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Do Employers Prefer Workers Who Attend For-Profit Colleges? Evidence from a Field Experiment

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• Francisco (Paco) Martorell, Assistant Professor, School of Education, University of California - Davis
• Cory Koedel, Associate Professor, Economics and Public Policy, University of Missouri - Columbia
• Rajeev Darolia, Assistant Professor, University of Missouri, Truman School of Public Affairs and College of Education
• Francisco Perez-Arce, Economist, RAND Corporation
• Katie Wilson, Ph.D. Candidate, Pardee RAND Graduate School

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Collective Reputations Affect Donations to Nonprofits

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Matthew Potoski, Professor, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara

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Information Shocks and the Take-up of Social Programs

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David Figlio, Director, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University

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Hold Your Fire: Did the 1996 Federal Gun Control Act Expansion Reduce Domestic Homicides?

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Kerri M. Raissian, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Policy, University of Connecticut

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What Do Right-to-Work Laws Do? Evidence from a Synthetic Control Method Analysis

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Ozkan Eren, Assistant Professor of Economics, Louisiana State University and Serkan Ozbeklik, Associate Professor of Economics, Claremont McKenna College

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Low-Income Housing Development, Poverty Concentration, and Neighborhood Inequality

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Matthew Freedman, Associate Professor of Economics, Drexel University and Tamara McGavock, Ph.D. candidate, economics, Cornell University

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Identifying Mechanisms Behind Policy Interventions Via Causal Mediation Analysis

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Luke Keele, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Penn State University, Dustin Tingley,Ph.D., Paul Sack Associate Professor of Political Economy, Government Department, Harvard University & Teppei Yamamoto, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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The Persistence of Poverty in the Context of Financial Instability: A Behavioral Perspective

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Lisa A. Gennetian and Eldar Shafir

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The Impact of Home-Based Child Care Provider Unionization on the Cost, Type and Availability of Subsidized Child Care In Illinois

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Todd Grindal, Ph.D., Associate, Abt Associates

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INTERPOL's Surveillance Network in Curbing Transnational Terrorism

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Javier Gardeazabal, Professor of Economics, University of the Basque Country & Todd Sandler, Vibhooti Shukla Chair in Economics and Political Economy, University of Texas at Dallas

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The War on Poverty: Measurement, Trends, and Policy

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• Robert Haveman, Professor Emeritus of Economics and Public Affairs and Research Associate at the Institute for Research on Poverty, Adjunct Professor of Economics at University of Melbourne (AU)
• Rebecca M. Blank, Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Professor, La Follette School of Public Affairs and the Department of Economics
• Robert A Moffitt, Department Chair, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Economics, Johns Hopkins University
• Timothy Smeeding, Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs and Economics, La Follette School of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Geoffrey Wallace, Associate Professor of Public Affairs and Economics, Faculty Affiliate, Institute for Research on Poverty, La Follette School of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Does Collaboration Make any Difference? Linking Collaborative Governance to Environmental Outcomes

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Tyler Scott, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, School of Public and International Affairs, University of Georgia

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Prevention, Use of Health Services, and Genes: Implications of Genetics for Policy Formation

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George Wehby, Benjamin W. Domingue & Jason D. Boardman

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Fifty Years Later: The Legacy of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

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Joni Hersch, Professor of Law and Economics, Co-Director, Ph.D. Program in Law and Economics, Vanderbilt Law School & Jennifer Shinall, Ph.D., J.D., Assistant Professor of Law, Vanderbilt Law School

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Incentives, Selection, and Teacher Performance: Evidence from IMPACT

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Thomas S. Dee, Ph.D., Professor, Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education & Jim Wyckoff, Curry Memorial Professor of Education and Policy, and Director of Ed Policy Works, University of Virginia

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Can Genetics Predict Response to Complex Behaviorial Interventions? Evidence from a Genetic Analysis of the Fast Track Randomized Control Trial

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Dustin Albert, Daniel W. Belsky, D. Max Crowley, Shawn J. Latendresse, Fazil Aliev, Brien Riley, Danielle M. Dick and Kenneth A. Dodge

Click here to listen to a podcast of Dustin Albert, describing the research, http://bit.ly/1tJA2xt.