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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?

Conference Sessions - Alphabetic Index

• '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)