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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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- 'Mothers' and 'Fathers' Investments in Children (11/06/2008, 13:45)
- Academic Career Trajectories: Race, Ethnicity, and Pathways to Success in the Social Sciences (11/07/2008, 09:30)
- Academic Enrichment during After-School Hours (11/08/2008, 10:30)
- Accountability as Incentives: Understanding the Effects of Accountability Regimes (11/08/2008, 13:15)
- Affordable Housing: Location and Policy Considerations (11/08/2008, 15:00)
- Aging and Long Term Care Issues (11/08/2008, 13:15)
- Aging and Retirement: A Look at the Real Issues (11/07/2008, 11:15)
- Allocation of Resources in Healthcare (11/07/2008, 09:30)
- An Examination of the Effectiveness of Teacher Training (11/06/2008, 13:45)
- Anticipation, Redundancy, and Preparedness: Public Sector Planning for Emergencies (11/07/2008, 14:45)
- Barriers to Employment (11/08/2008, 10:30)
- Beyond Health Insurance Expansions: Building a Better Health System (11/06/2008, 15:30)
- Budgets, Ballots and the Challenge of Policy Making in California (11/07/2008, 14:45)
- Business, Labor Issues and Migration (11/07/2008, 13:00)
- Can Struggling Adolescent Readers Close the Achievement Gap? A Sneak Peak at Results from 3 Randomized Trials (11/08/2008, 13:15)
- Challenges and Opportunities in Addressing Next-Decade Prekindergarten Policy Issues (11/07/2008, 09:30)
- Characteristics of Migrants (11/08/2008, 13:15)
- China’s Environmental Challenges and Policy Response (11/06/2008, 13:45)
- Climate Change and Technology Policy (11/07/2008, 11:15)
- Climate Policy and Personal Accountability (11/06/2008, 12:00)
- Climate Policy Design (11/08/2008, 08:45)
- Collaborative and Social Networks in Science (11/08/2008, 15:00)
- Comparative Perspectives on Decentralization (11/06/2008, 12:00)
- Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: Are They Effective? (11/08/2008, 10:30)
- Confronting the Public Policy Challenge: Addressing the Needs of Disconnected Youth (11/06/2008, 12:00)
- Constraints and Opportunities: What does the Future Hold for Public Sector Retirement Benefits? (11/07/2008, 09:30)
- Coping Strategies of Low-Income Working Families (11/06/2008, 13:45)
- Designing Evaluations of Educator Pay for Performance Programs to Better Inform Educational Policy and Practice (11/07/2008, 13:00)
- Determinants of Crime (11/08/2008, 08:45)
- Developing and Analyzing Policy for Ethically-Contentious Scientific Research: The Case of Human Embryonic Stem Cells (11/08/2008, 10:30)
- Disability Policy and Employment (11/08/2008, 15:00)
- Disciplinary Diversity in the Policy and Management Schools: Can We, and Should We, Seek to Enhance It? (11/06/2008, 15:30)
- Distributional Role of Government (11/07/2008, 11:15)
- Does Collaborative Governance Improve Environmental Performance? (11/07/2008, 13:00)
- E-Government: Implementation and Organizational Transformation (11/08/2008, 10:30)
- Early Childhood Education (11/08/2008, 13:15)
- East Asian Solutions to the Challenges of Long-term Care (11/08/2008, 10:30)
- Economic and Social Implications of the New U.S. Immigration Regime (11/07/2008, 11:15)
- Education Policies and Disadvantaged Students (11/08/2008, 10:30)
- Education Throughout the Lifecycle (11/07/2008, 09:30)
- Effectiveness of Economic Development Vehicles (11/08/2008, 08:45)
- Effects of Child Care Subsidies (11/08/2008, 15:00)
- Ensuring the Well-Being of China’s Aging Population (11/07/2008, 09:30)
- Environmental Federalism (11/08/2008, 15:00)
- Environmental Justice: Moving from Finding Evidence to Evaluating Policy (11/06/2008, 15:30)
- Environmental Policy Challenges: The Next Decade (11/08/2008, 10:30)
- Expanding Understandings of Market-Based Instruments: A Comparative Perspective (11/08/2008, 13:15)
- Experimental Findings on Approaches to Increasing the Earnings of Hard-to-Employ Welfare Recipients (11/08/2008, 08:45)
- Exploring Scientists’ Perceptions about their Research and Work Environment (11/06/2008, 12:00)
- Federally-Subsidized Child Care and Head Start (11/08/2008, 08:45)
- Findings from Recent Impact Evaluations of Youth Programs (11/07/2008, 13:00)
- Flowing, Slowing, or Clogged? Pipelines in Higher Education (11/06/2008, 13:45)
- Food Insecurity, Food Stamps, and Child Outcomes (11/08/2008, 10:30)
- Funding Local Governments: the Property Tax and Its Alternatives (11/08/2008, 10:30)
- Gender Disparities in Scientific Research (11/06/2008, 15:30)
- Healthcare Disparities: Driving Factors, Promising Solutions (11/07/2008, 11:15)
- High Stakes: Empirical and Theoretical Investigations of High School Exit Exams (11/07/2008, 11:15)
- Homeownership: Some Chinks in the Armor? (11/07/2008, 09:30)
- How Large is the Racial Divide in Retirement Savings? (11/07/2008, 13:00)
- How to Improve Access to Health Care for Persons with Disabilities (11/07/2008, 13:00)
- Illness and Retirement (11/08/2008, 13:15)
- Implementing Reform in Welfare Services (11/08/2008, 15:00)
- Income Diversification and Neighborhood Change: Strategies, Resident Perspectives, and Metrics (11/07/2008, 13:00)
- Increasing the Supply of Affordable Housing in a Federal Policy Vacuum: The Impacts and Potential of Inclusionary Zoning (11/08/2008, 10:30)
- Informing Homeownership Policies: Considerations and Implications for Sustainability (11/06/2008, 13:45)
- Informing the S&T Policy Process (11/08/2008, 13:15)
- Infrastructure Investments (11/06/2008, 17:15)
- Intervening in High School to Increase Postsecondary Attainment (11/07/2008, 13:00)
- Kershaw Award Lecture: School Accountabiliity and Student Acheivement (11/06/2008, 17:15)
- Lessons from Covering Kids and Families for State Comprehensive Coverage Initiatives (11/06/2008, 13:45)
- Managing Regions through Networks and Collaboration (11/06/2008, 12:00)
- Maternal Employment, Child Care and Children's Health (11/07/2008, 11:15)
- Measuring Achievement on the Poverty Fronts: A Cross-National Perspective (11/07/2008, 09:30)
- Measuring Educator Performance in Pay for Performance Systems: Issues of Design and Implementation (11/06/2008, 12:00)
- Messy Policy Areas (11/07/2008, 11:15)
- Methodological Advances In Social Policy Evaluations Using Experimental and Nonexperimental Designs (11/06/2008, 13:45)
- Methods for Analyzing Crime (11/08/2008, 10:30)
- Migration and Policy (11/08/2008, 08:45)
- Moving Regulatory Development from Skill to Profession (11/06/2008, 12:00)
- Navigating the Challenges of Contract Management (11/07/2008, 11:15)
- Neighborhood Characteristics and Effects on Urban Outcomes (11/06/2008, 12:00)
- Network Structure and Performance (11/08/2008, 13:15)
- New Empirical Research on Sexual Orientation and Public Policy (11/06/2008, 15:30)
- New Models of Service Delivery (11/06/2008, 15:30)
- New Orleans: Template for the Urban Challenges of the Next Decade (11/07/2008, 09:30)
- New Perspectives on Community Colleges and Proprietary Schools (11/08/2008, 08:45)
- New Strategies for Helping Foster Children Succeed (11/08/2008, 13:15)
- Nonprofit Governance, Accountability and Policy Entrepreneurship (11/08/2008, 10:30)
- Obesity and Physical Activity: Determinants and Consequences (11/06/2008, 13:45)
- Obesity and Public Policies (11/08/2008, 15:00)
- Opportunities and Tensions Surrounding Public Partnerships with Faith-Based and Community Organizations (11/08/2008, 08:45)
- Organizational Decision Making: Causes and Consequences (11/06/2008, 13:45)
- Organizational Performance: Stat and Standards (11/07/2008, 09:30)
- Paid Leave: Who Has It, Who Uses It, and What Are the Costs and Benefits? (11/06/2008, 15:30)
- Parenting and Child Wellbeing in Complex Families (11/07/2008, 11:15)
- Pension Reform: Why It Is Happening and What It Means for Boomers (11/06/2008, 12:00)
- Policing Strategies (11/06/2008, 15:30)
- Policy in Practice: How Organizations Matter to Poverty Policy and Poverty Politics (11/07/2008, 13:00)
- Poster Sessions (11/08/2008, 12:00)
- Poverty and Social Policies in East Asian Countries (11/06/2008, 15:30)
- Prisoner Re-Entry and Other Effects of Incarceration (11/08/2008, 13:15)
- Public Health Challenges in Developing Countries with Global Implications (11/08/2008, 08:45)
- Public-Private Partnerships to Improve Public Health Surveillance in the States (11/06/2008, 12:00)
- Racial Disparity in Child Welfare (11/06/2008, 15:30)
- Recent Evidence on the Operations and Effectiveness of Workforce Services (11/07/2008, 09:30)
- Results from Prisoner Reentry Evaluations (11/07/2008, 11:15)
- Retaining Effective Teachers (11/07/2008, 09:30)
- Retirement: Issues of Work, Saving, and Volunteering (11/08/2008, 08:45)
- School Vouchers: The Latest Evidence from the Field (11/07/2008, 11:15)
- School-Based Interventions for Struggling Adolescent Readers: Findings from Research and Insights from Practice (11/08/2008, 08:45)
- Science and Innovation Policies: What Are the Next Decade Challenges for State Governments and Universities? (11/07/2008, 09:30)
- Science and Technology: Policy Input and Outcome (11/08/2008, 08:45)
- Science in Society: Methodological Approaches to Identifying Mediating Pathways of Influence Using Experimental Data (11/08/2008, 08:45)
- Single Mothers’ Well-Being: Implications for Policy (11/08/2008, 10:30)
- Smoking (11/06/2008, 12:00)
- Social Equity and Public Policy (11/06/2008, 12:00)
- Social Security and Medicare – Can We Preserve Their Mission? A Session in Memory of Robert Ball (11/07/2008, 14:45)
- Social Security in the Future (11/06/2008, 15:30)
- State Science and Innovation Policy: The Impact of Industrial, Economic, and Political Factors (11/06/2008, 13:45)
- Student Achievement and Racial/Ethnic Segregation (11/08/2008, 15:00)
- Tax and Expeniture Limitations (11/08/2008, 15:00)
- Teacher Certification and Teacher Quality (11/07/2008, 13:00)
- Teacher Labor Markets (11/08/2008, 10:30)
- The Anti-Jeffersonians: What Drives the Demand for Additional Local Land Use Regulation and Public Goods? (11/07/2008, 13:00)
- The Challenge of Reconciling Public Policy with the Realities of Low-Wage Jobs: Evidence from the U.S. and Canada (11/07/2008, 13:00)
- The Cross-Atlantic Convergence of Welfare to Work Strategies - - Work Activation Policy on the March (11/07/2008, 11:15)
- The Design of Intergovernmental Grants (11/08/2008, 08:45)
- The Effect of Reproductive Policy on Demographic and Social Outcomes (11/08/2008, 08:45)
- The EITC in the Lives of the Working Poor (11/07/2008, 13:00)
- The Evolving Research Enterprise (11/07/2008, 13:00)
- The Future of the Unemployment Insurance Program (11/06/2008, 15:30)
- The Multiple Meanings of Race and Ethnicity (11/07/2008, 09:30)
- The National Academy of Sciences Report on the Research Plan of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) (11/06/2008, 15:30)
- The Next Decade in Environmental Policy: Voluntary Programs for Urban Regeneration and Environmental Protection (11/06/2008, 15:30)
- The Price of Motherhood (11/06/2008, 13:45)
- The Subprime Mortgage Crisis (11/07/2008, 11:15)
- The U.S. Social Safety Net in an Era of Economic Uncertainty (11/07/2008, 09:30)
- U.S. Armed Forces: Health and Labor Challenges of Prolonged Conflicts (11/06/2008, 15:30)
- U.S. STEM Faculty Diversity: The Impact of Legal and Political Environments on the Pursuit of Equity (11/07/2008, 11:15)
- Understanding Challenges in School Finance: From Policy Implementation to Strategic Resource Allocation (11/08/2008, 13:15)
- Urban Governance and Local Participation (11/07/2008, 11:15)
- Urban Policy in the 21st Century: Growth and Regulatory Legacies (11/08/2008, 13:15)
- Using Administrative Data to Study the Education and Workforce Development System (11/06/2008, 15:30)
- Using Financial Incentives to Fight Poverty (11/06/2008, 13:45)
- Using Sub-National Program Differences To Evaluate Food Stamp Program Issues (11/08/2008, 13:15)
- Water as One of the Biggest Policy Challenges in the Western United States over the Next Decade: Toward an Action and Research Agenda (11/07/2008, 11:15)
- Welfare Rules, Recipient Characteristics and Caseload Dynamics (11/06/2008, 12:00)
- Welfare to Work - The New Name of the Game Is to Shift Risk and Aggressively Contract (11/06/2008, 15:30)
- What Affects Organizational Performance? Turnover, Goal Ambiguity, Public Value, Diversity (11/08/2008, 08:45)
- What Affects Public Employee Attitudes and Performance? (11/06/2008, 13:45)
- What can Federal Reformers Learn from State Initiatives on Health Care Access and Cost Control? (11/07/2008, 13:00)
- Whither the Safety-Net? Examining Institutions Supporting Low-Income Families (11/08/2008, 13:15)
- Who Participates in Voluntary Programs? (11/07/2008, 09:30)
- Work Curricula and the Urban Employment Crisis (11/06/2008, 13:45)
- Work/Family Balance: Policies and Practices Determining Female Labor Force Participation (11/07/2008, 13:00)
- Workers’ Compensation: Crafting More Efficient Policies on Occupational Disability (11/08/2008, 13:15)
- Young, Gifted and Disconnected (11/08/2008, 10:30)
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