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Thirtieth Annual APPAM Research Conference
6-8 November, 2008 - Wilshire Grand Hotel - Los Angeles, CA
The Next Decade - What Are the Big Policy Challenges?

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2008 Fall Conference Panel and Poster Papers

Title: "And Then Things Got Worst?" Food Insecurity in Households Approaching the Beginning of a Food Stamp Spell
Author: Mark Nord,Anne Marie Golla
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Title: A Longitudinal Study of School Readiness in the San Joaquin Valley
Author: Paul Harder,Kristi Koumjian
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Title: A Theoretical and Empirical Treatment of Functional Decentralization? A Cross-Country Study of Organizational Setting in Public Secondary Education
Author: Naomi Aoki
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Title: Aging, Poverty, and Hospital Choice in China's New Cooperative Medical System
Author: Philip Brown,Alan de Brauw
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Title: An Agenda for Action and Research in the Management of Western Water
Author: William Blomquist
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Title: An Empirical Analysis of EPA Brownfields Program Support? Land Recycling, Community Revitalization, and Distributive Politics
Author: Matthew Dull,Matthew Dull
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Title: An Outcomes Evaluation of the Spirituality for Kids Program
Author: Sarah Gaillot,Nicole Maestas
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Title: An Update on the Defined Benefit Pension System
Author: Pamela Perun
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Title: Anatomy of a One-Stop Career Center? A Study of Process and Function in Three One-stop Career Centers
Author: Peter Mueser,David Stevens
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Title: Are Mexican Migrants to the US Adversely Selected on Ability?
Author: Eric Jensen,Sarah Gale,Paul Charpentier
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Title: Arizona’s Extracurricular Activity Tax Credit? Toward an Equitable Solution
Author: Leigh Hersey
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Title: Assessing the Performance of Pay for Performance in the U.S. Federal Government
Author: Laura Langbein
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Title: Benefits and Costs of Intensive Foster Care Service? The Casey Family Program Compared to State Services
Author: Robert Plotnick,Richard Zerbe
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Title: Bilingual versus English Immersion Educatio? Using Proposition 227 as a Natural Experiment
Author: Maria Perez,Miguel Socias
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Title: Bilingualism and Academic Development
Author: Wen-Jui Han
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Title: Building Assets over the Prime Working Year? Differences across Time and Family Characteristics
Author: Sheila Zedlewski,Gordon Mermin,Desmond Toohey
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Title: Calculating Long-Run Impacts in Social Experiments That Release the Control Group into the Intervention Prior to the End of Follow-Up
Author: Stephen Bell,M. C. Bradley
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Title: Can an Intensive, Comprehensive Program Help At-Risk Youth to Succeed? Final Impacts of the Quantum Opportunity Program Demonstration
Author: Allison McKie,Allen Schirm,Elizabeth Stuart
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Title: Can College-Preparatory Programming in High School as Part of the AVID Program Increase Access to Post-Secondary Education?
Author: Reuben Ford
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Title: Can Inclusionary Zoning be a Successful Policy? Evidence from Los Angeles and Orange Counties
Author: Vinit Mukhija
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Title: Can Marriage Destroy Marriage? Lessons from the Netherlands
Author: Mircea Trandafir
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Title: Can School Leadership Affect Teachers' Decisions to Switch Schools?
Author: Gary Henry,Doug Lauen,Charles Thompson
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Title: Casino Revenue And Indian Healt? The Link Between Tribal Gaming And Health Status, Health Care Access And Health Related Behaviors Of American Indians
Author: Barbara Wolfe,Robert Haveman,Jessica Jakubowski,Hannah Goble,Marissa Courey
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Title: Child Care Costs and the Work Decisions of Teachers
Author: Jason Grissom,Michelle Reininger
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Title: CKF Influences on SCHIP and Medicaid Policies and Procedures
Author: Eileen Ellis
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Title: Collaboration, Hierarchy, Politics and Technology: How One Metropolitan Area Tackles Congestion
Author: Melissa Stone,John Bryson,Barbara Crosby
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Title: Coming Clean and Cleaning U? Voluntary Disclosure as a Signal of Effective Self-Policing
Author: MICHAEL W. TOFFEL,JODI SHORT
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Title: Comparing Poverty in the US and the U? Survey Design and Outcomes
Author: Michael Wiseman
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Title: Conditional Cash Transfers for Attacking Present and Future Poverty
Author: Norbert Schady,Ariel Fiszbein
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Title: Coverage Advocacy Can be Sustained after the Funding Ends
Author: Beth Stevens,Sheila Hoag
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Title: Creating Employment Opportunity for Older Workers: Unacknowledged Differences among Objectives and Stakeholders
Author: Martin Greller
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Title: Credit Quality and Refinancing Behavior among Low-Income Homeowners
Author: Jonathan Spader
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Title: Cross Policies Learning? Drawing Lessons for Personal Carbon Allowances Policy from Water and Food Policies
Author: Yael Parag
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Title: Designing State Aid Formula? The Case of a New Formula for Distributing Municipal Aid in Massachusetts
Author: Bo Zhao,Katharine Bradbury
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Title: Developing a Framework to Analyze the Potential Effectiveness of an Inclusionary Zoning Program
Author: Dustin Read,Sonye Randolph
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Title: Development of a Work-Based School and its Effect on Increasing Re-Enrollment of Dropouts
Author: Victor Mays
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Title: Differences in the Implications of Retirement on Depressive Symptoms by Gender
Author: Michelle Silver
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Title: Do Children’s Behavior Problems Limit Poor Women’s Labor Market Success?
Author: Rebekah Levine Coley,Bethany Medeiros,David Ribar,Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal
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Title: Do Hispanic Children Benefit More from Preschool? Examining the role of differential selection processes in explaining the effects of early childhood interventions across racial and ethnic groups.
Author: Dapha Bassok
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Title: Do Relationships Matter? Comparing the Performance of Relational and Classic Contracts
Author: Anna Amirkhanyan,Hyun Joon Kim,Kristina Lambright
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Title: Do Self-Reported Employment Barriers Translate into TANF Exemptions?
Author: Rebecca London,Jane Mauldon
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Title: Do Tax and Expenditure Limitations Affect Municipal Reliance on User Charges?
Author: Rui Sun
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Title: Does Chief Executive Turnover Affect Public Service Performance?
Author: Nicolai Petrovsky,George A. Boyne,Oliver James,Peter John
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Title: Does Collaborative Governance Work? Examining the Policy Outcomes of Collaboration in U.S. Watersheds
Author: Rachel Fleishman
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Title: Does Maternal Imprisonment Hurt Children's Educational Performance?
Author: Rosa Cho
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Title: Domestic Violence Among Unmarried Mother? Prevalence, Determinants, and Implications for Marriage Promotion Policies
Author: Chien-Chung Huang
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Title: Early Childhood Intervention and Life-Cycle Skill Developmen? Evidence from Head Start
Author: David Deming
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Title: Economic Incentive Approaches to Accelerate the Replacement of Environmentally Unfriendly Consumer Durables
Author: Maria Damon
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Title: Effectiveness of State Tobacco Control From 1990 to 2006
Author: Michael Givel
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Title: Effects of the California High School Exit Exam on Student Graduation and Achievement
Author: Michal Kurlaender,Sean Reardon
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Title: Emerging Models of Work-Based Secondary Education
Author: John Gardner
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Title: Engaging and Supporting New Parent? A Longitudinal Study Of Service Use In Palm Beach County, FL
Author: Julie Spielberger,Lauren Rich
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Title: Environmental Justice and Regulatory Enforcemen? A Facility-Level Analysis
Author: David Konisky,Tyler Schario
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Title: Environmental Regulation and Plant Location Decisions
Author: Scott Holladay
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Title: Evaluating the Impact of the Teacher Advancement Program Using Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Methods
Author: Steven Glazerman,Allison McKie
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Title: Evaluating the Impacts of Supplemental Educational Services under the No Child Left Behind Act
Author: Brian Gill,John Deke
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Title: Evaluating the Performance of Collaborative Environmental Governance
Author: Craig Thomas,Tomas Koontz
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Title: Evaluation of Jamaica’s PATH Program
Author: Dan Levy,Jim Ohls
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Title: Evaluation of the DC Opportunity Scholarship Progra? Summary of Experimental Impacts After Two Years
Author: Patrick Wolf,Babette Gutmann,Michael Puma,Brian Kisida,Lou Rizzo
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Title: Examining the job satisfaction patterns of foreign-born scientists and engineers in the academ? A comparison with U.S. born faculty
Author: Meghna Sabharwal
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Title: Examining the Role of Regulatory Impact Assessments and Environmental Impact Assessments in Integrating EJ into Federal Policies and Programs
Author: Shalini Vajjhala,Amanda Van Epps
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Title: Examining Variation in School-Based Budgeting Practices and Strategic Resource Allocation in California
Author: Ashlyn Nelson,Susanna Loeb
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Title: Excise Tax Avoidance: The Case of State Cigarette Taxes
Author: Donald Kenkel,Phil DeCicca,Feng Liu
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Title: Experimentation and Collaboration to Enhance Employment for Persons with Disabilitie? Assessing the Wisconsin Pathways Projects' Efforts to Explore System Change
Author: Barry Delin,Cayte Anderson
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Title: Exploring Effects of School Racial Composition on Student Achievement in NCLB Era- A Comparison of Linear Regression and Propensity Score Analysis
Author: Ning Rui
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Title: Firm Behavior, Bounded Rationality, and Instrument Desig? Early Lessons From Climate Change Policy
Author: Daniel Matisoff
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Title: Food Stamp Participation among Adult-Only Households
Author: David Ribar,Qiduan Liu,Marilyn Edelhoch
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Title: Governing a New Welfare Mi? Long-term Care in Britain and Korea
Author: Jooha Lee
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Title: Health, Cognition, and Behavio? Specificity of Child Care Quality
Author: Rachel Gordon,Robert Kaestner,Sanders Korenman
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Title: Home Investmen? Comparing the Benefits and Costs of a Home Visitation Program for Hard-to-Employ TANF Recipients
Author: Andrew Burwick,Alicia Meckstroth,Quinn Moore
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Title: Homeowner Property Tax Burdens Are Growing Rapidl? Fact or Fiction?
Author: Andrew Reschovsky,Rebecca Boldt, Ph.d.,Bradley Caruth
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Title: How Do Disadvantaged Business Enterprises Measure Up in Government Contracting?
Author: Christopher Weible,Gordon Kingsley,Jennifer Chirico
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Title: Human Capital in the Inner City
Author: Dionissi Aliprantis
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Title: Immigrants as Marginal Workers? Evidence from the Minimum Wage
Author: Brian Cadena
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Title: Immigration, Minority Businesses, and Spatial Mismatch in HUD Renewal Communities, Empowerment Zones, and Enterprise Communities
Author: Richard Smith,Julian Chow
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Title: Impact of Restaurant Smoking Bans on Demand for Smoking and Restaurant Food
Author: Hua Wang,Donald Kenkel
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Title: Impacts from Workforce Investment Act Services for Adults and Dislocated Worker? Quasi-experimental Results in Seven States
Author: Christopher King,Kevin Hollenbech,Daniel Schroeder,Wei-Jang Huang
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Title: Impacts of Comprehensive Teacher Induction on Student and Teacher Outcome? Results from a Large Scale Randomized Experiment
Author: Steven Glazerman,Sarah Dolfin,Amy Johnson,Martha Bleeker,Eric Isenberg
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Title: Impacts of Two Approaches to Assisting Foster Youth Aging out of Care
Author: mark courtney,Andy Zinn,Matthew Stagner
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Title: Implementing Mandated Paid Sick Leave in San Francisc? The Employer Perspective
Author: Shelley Waters Boots,Karin Martinson,Anna Danziger
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Title: Inter-Jurisdictional Competition in Fiscal and Environmental Policy
Author: Alexander Alexeev,David Good,Kerry Krutilla
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Title: Is the Craze Over Regression Discontinuity Designs in Program Evaluations Justifiable? The Issue of Statistical Power
Author: Peter Schochet
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Title: Labor Force Attachment Among Highly Educated Mothers
Author: Jane Leber Herr ,Catherine Wolfram
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Title: Linking Cost Containment in Climate Policy to Public Investment in Technology Development and Adaptation
Author: Gregory Nemet
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Title: Local Governments in a Comparative Perspective
Author: Thomas Pallesen
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Title: Longitudinal Effects of Intervention for Alzheimer’s Caregiver
Author: Hyun Joon Kim,Yoona Chin,Byungtae Seo
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Title: Long-term Effects of Career Academies on Youth Labor Market Prospects
Author: James Kemple
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Title: Making a Difference? The Effect of Teach for America on Student Performance in High School
Author: Zeyu Xu,Jane Hannaway,Colin Taylor
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Title: Marketing and Education Strategies of Originating Mortgage Lenders: Borrower Effects & Policy Implications
Author: Stephanie Moulton
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Title: More than Just a Safety Ne? Social Policy and the Working Poor in the United States and Canada
Author: Daniyal Zuberi
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Title: Nonresident Fathers' Involvement and Children's Material Hardship
Author: Lenna Nepomnyaschy,Irwin Garfinkel
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Title: On Money and Motivation: A Quasi-Experimental Analysis of Financial Incentives for College Achievement
Author: Judith Scott-Clayton
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Title: One Standard Fits All? The Pros and Cons of Performance Standard Adjustments
Author: Burt Barnow,Carolyn Heinrich
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Title: Organizations and Exclusio? Access to Welfare and Bureaucratic Proceduralism
Author: Evelyn Brodkin,Malay Majmundar
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Title: Over-utilization, Under-utilization… How would one spot an excessive health care treatment if it walked by?
Author: Dahlia Remler,Kamiar Khajavi
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Title: Perceptions and Strategic Response? Government Contract Managers and the Challenge of Weak Vendor Competition
Author: Jocelyn Johnston,Amanda Girth
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Title: Performance Assessment at the ‘Edge of Influence? A Case Study in Central Government Holding Local Authorities to Account for a ‘Thriving Third Sector’ in the UK
Author: Tony Bovaird
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Title: Performance-Based Contracting in New York Cit? A Nonprofit Perspective
Author: James Krauskopf,Bin Chen
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Title: Performance-Based Scholarships for Community College Student? The Louisiana Opening Doors Experiment
Author: Thomas Brock,Lashawn Richburg-Hayes
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Title: Policy Diffusion and the Sub-national Adoption of Climate Change Mitigation Initiatives
Author: Rachel Krause
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Title: Price Signals and Consumers’ Energy Conservation Behavio? The Case of Responsiveness in Residential HVAC Technologies from 1990-2003
Author: Douglas Noonan,Brett Baden
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Title: Private Management of Public Schools
Author: Laura Hamilton,Brian Gill,Ron Zimmer
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Title: Privatization in Child Welfare Services
Author: Elizabeth Lee,Karl Ensign
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Title: Program Types, Goal Ambiguity, and Performance in the U.S. Federal Government
Author: Chansu Jung,Soo-Young Lee
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Title: Promoting Self-Sustainability? An Evaluation of Ohio’s TANF Demonstration Projects
Author: Sunny Munn,Young Woon Kim,Theresa Heintze,Anand Desai,Marlene Costigan
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Title: Public Spending on Children from a Life-Cycle Perspective
Author: Julia Isaacs
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Title: Pushed, Pulled and Sorte? School Choice, School Quality, and Segregation in Chicago
Author: Douglas Lauen
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Title: Race and the Work of Leadership in Social Change Organizations
Author: Sonia Ospina,Celina Su
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Title: Redistributing Healt? Using the Tax Code to Improve Public Health Outcomes.
Author: Larri Fish,Rosarie Tucci
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Title: Retaining diversity in the legal profession
Author: Jewlya Lynn,Denise McHugh,Lyn Kathlene
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Title: Retaining Effective Teacher? Towards More Nuanced Retention Policies
Author: Jim Wyckoff,Don Boyd,Pam Grossman,Hamp Lankford,susanna Loeb
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Title: Running to the store? The relationship between neighborhood characteristics and the risk of obesity
Author: Cathleen Zick,Lori Kowaleski-Jones,Jessie Fan,Ken Smith,Barbara Brown
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Title: Scientists Engaged in Emerging Technology Researc? The Nature of Scientific Networks and Collaborative Groups
Author: Julia Melkers,Fang Xiao
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Title: Self-Employment at Older Age? Financial Liquidity, Household Wealth and Retirement Assets
Author: Qian Gu,Julie Zissimopoulos ,Lynn Karoly
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Title: Shifting the Operations and Financial Risks of Running a Large Urban Welfare System
Author: Jason Turner
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Title: Social Equity & Government Wage? Evaluating the Public Sector’s Role as a ‘Model Employer’
Author: Jared Llorens
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Title: Social Security Reform for Long-term Sustainabilit? The Use of Notional (Non-Financial) Defined Contribution Model
Author: JungWook Seo,HyoSang Min
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Title: State Legislated Use of Workforce System Net Impact Estimates and Rates of Return
Author: Kevin Hollenbeck
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Title: State Renewable Energy Electricity Policie? An Empirical Evaluation of Effectiveness
Author: Sanya Carley
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Title: Study on the Income Trend of Children in Female-Headed Families
Author: Ji-Young Yoo,Younghee Lim
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Title: Teacher Quality, Teacher Licensure Exams, and Student Achievement
Author: Richard Buddin,Gema Zamarro
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Title: The "Transformational Effect" of Web 2.0 Technologies on Government
Author: Ines Mergel,Jane Fountain,Charlie Schweik
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Title: The “Effect” of Parental Choice on Student Outcome? Methodological Approaches in a New Longitudinal Study of School Vouchers in Milwaukee
Author: Patrick Wolf,John Witte,Joshua Cowen,David Fleming
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Title: The Consequences of High School Exit Examinations for Struggling Urban Student? Evidence from Massachusetts
Author: John Papay,Richard Murnane,John Willett
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Title: The Diffusion of IT and the Increased Propensity of Teams to Transcend Institutional Boundaries
Author: Paula Stephan,Anne Winkler,Sharon Levin,Wolfgang Glanzel
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Title: The Distribution of Top Incomes in Five Anglo-Saxon Countries over the Twentieth Century
Author: Andrew Leigh,Anthony Atkinson
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Title: The Effect of Milwaukee’s Voucher Program on Public School Student Achievement
Author: Jay Greene,Ryan Marsh
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Title: The Effect of Private Governments on the Local Revenue Structure
Author: Ron Cheung
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Title: The Effect of Public Subsidies on Private Support? Evidence from Colombia
Author: Sandra Garcia,Irwin Garfinkel
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Title: The Effects of Density Regulation on Metropolitan Housing Markets
Author: Jonathan T Rothwell
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Title: The Effects of Enhanced Foster Care on the Long-Term Physical and Mental Health Functioning of Alumni
Author: Peter Pecora,Ronald Kessler,Jason Williams,Eva Hiripi,Kirk O'Brien,Diana English,James White,A. Chris Downs,Irving Hwang,Nancy Sampson
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Title: The Effects of Fiscal Incentives in Special Educatio? Evidence from Finance Reform
Author: Stephen Lipscomb,Elizabeth Dhuey
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Title: The Effects of Foreclosure Policies on Mortgage Borrower Outcomes
Author: J. Michael Collins,Christopher Herbert,Ken Lam
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Title: The Effects of Increased Maternal Education on Children’s Achievemen? Evidence from the ECLS-K
Author: Hilary Shager,Katherine Magnuson
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Title: The Effects of Local Option Sales Tax on School Facilities Fundin? Evidence from North Carolina
Author: Wen Wang,Zhirong (Jerry) Zhao
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Title: The Effects of Maternal Employment on the Health of School-Age Children
Author: Melinda Sandler Morrill
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Title: The Effects of Time in Prison on the Earnings and Employment of Male Ex-Prisoners
Author: Haeil Jung
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Title: The Impact of Child Care Subsidies on Child Development
Author: Chris Herbst,Erdal Tekin
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Title: The Impact of Maternal Labor Supply on Children’s School Meal Participation
Author: Ashlesha Datar,Nancy Nicosia
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Title: The Impact of Tax Incentives on the Purchase of Long-Term Care Insurance
Author: Gopi Shah Goda
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Title: The Impact of Two Early Reading Interventions on Teacher and Student Outcomes in High Poverty Schools
Author: Michael Garet,Stephanie Cronen,Anja Kurki,Marian Eaton,Pei Zhu
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Title: The Next Big Policy Challenge: Improving Employment Outcomes for Men
Author: Swati Desai,Angela Sheehan,Li-Chung Wang
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Title: The Organization of Discipline? Performance Management and Sanctioning Behavior at the Frontlines of Welfare Reform
Author: Joe Soss,Richard Fording,Sanford Schram
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Title: The Pill vs. Abortion? Effects on the Marginal Child