INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH

Collaboration Induces Debt-Motivated Altruism (WP-23-01)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Selection Effects and COVID-19 Mortality Risk After Pfizer vs. Moderna Vaccination: Evidence from Linked Mortality and Vaccination Records (WP-23-02)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

The Effects of Competition on Physician Prescribing (WP-23-03)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Correcting Exaggerated Meta-Perceptions Reduces American Legislators’ Support for Undemocratic Practices (WP-23-04)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Intangible Capital, Non-Rivalry, and Growth (WP-23-05)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Improving Smallholder Agriculture via Video-Based Group Extension (WP-23-06)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

The Electoral Challenge of Balancing Primary and General Electorates (WP-23-07)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Liberals Engage With More Diverse Policy Topics and Toxic Content Than Do Conservatives on Social Media (WP-23-08)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Government Audits (WP-23-09)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Loose Knots: Strong Versus Weak Commitments to Save for Education in Uganda (WP-23-10)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Diversity, Networks, and Innovation: A Text Analytic Approach to Measuring Expertise Diversity (WP-23-11)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards

The Major Questions Doctrine’s Upside for Combatting Climate Change (WP-23-12)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

The Multiplicity of Factions: Multi-Dimensional Ideal Points for Interest Groups & Members of Congress (WP-23-13)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

The Fading Treatment Effects of a Multi-Faceted Asset-Transfer Program in Ethiopia (WP-23-14)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

How to Study Democratic Backsliding (WP-23-15)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

How Does Living Under Left-Wing Authoritarianism Affect Refugees Who Settle in Democracies? Evidence From Soviet Refugees (WP-23-16)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

Opportunities in Political Psychology: Heterogeneities in Theory, Methodologies, and the Production of Knowledge (WP-23-17)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Trends in the School Lunch Program: Changes in Selection, Nutrition & Health (WP-23-18)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Social Disparities and Health

Using Limited Trial Evidence to Credibly Choose Treatment Dosage When Efficacy and Adverse Effects Weakly Increase With Dose (WP-23-19)

Research Area: Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

Maintaining Systems of Care in the Midst of Shock (WP-23-20)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Optimal Paternalism in a Population With Bounded Rationality (WP-23-21)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Severe Depressive Symptoms Exacerbate the Relationship Between Conspiracy Beliefs and Voting for Election Doubters (WP-23-22)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Self-, Peer-, and Teacher Perceptions Under School Tracking (WP-23-23)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Education Policy

What Is the University-Student Contract? (WP-23-24)

Research Area: Education Policy, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Limiting “Garbage Can” Bias: Time and Not Resources Affects Research Perseverance (WP-23-25)

Research Area: Education Policy, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Law-Abiding Immigrants: The Incarceration Gap Between Immigrants and the U.S.-Born, 1870–2020 (WP-23-26)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality, Urban Policy and Community Development

Credible Social Planning Under Uncertainty (WP-23-27)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Teams in the Digital Workplace: Technology’s Role for Communication, Collaboration, and Performance (WP-23-28)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

The Social Media Discourse of Engaged Partisans Is Toxic Even When Politics Are Irrelevant (WP-23-29)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

The Expansionary and Contractionary Supply-Side Effects of Health Insurance (WP-23-30)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Persuasive Political Targeting: A Remarkably Understudied Dynamic (WP-23-31)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Raising State Minimum Wages, Lowering Community College Enrollment (WP-23-32)

Research Area: Education Policy, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Can Norm-Based Information Campaigns Reduce Corruption? (WP-23-33)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

The Public Claim on Private Property (WP-23-34)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Pivots or Partisans? Proposal-Making Strategy and Status Quo Selection in Congress (WP-23-35)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

The Refugee Advantage: English-Language Attainment in the Early Twentieth Century (WP-23-36)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Need for Chaos and Dehumanization Are Robustly Associated with Support for Partisan Violence (WP-23-37)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Estimating Impact With Surveys Versus Digital Traces: Evidence From Randomized Cash Transfers in Togo (WP-23-38)

Research Area: Poverty, Race and Inequality, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

Lagged-Price Reimbursement Contracts: The Impact of Medicare Part B on Pharmaceutical Price Growth (WP-23-39)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

State-Level Immigrant Policies and Ideal Family Size in the United States (WP-23-40)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

The Political Consequences of Depression: How Conspiracy Beliefs, Self-Efficacy, and Depression Affect Support for Political Violence (WP-22-01)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Effects of Short-Term Air Pollution Exposure on U.S. COVID-19 Mortality (WP-22-02)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

The COVID-19 Pandemic, Years of Life Lost, and Life Expectancy: Decomposition Using Individual-Level Mortality Data (WP-22-03)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Limited Supply and Lagging Enrollment: Production Technologies and Enrollment Changes at Community Colleges During the Pandemic (WP-22-04)

Research Area: Education Policy, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Clubs and Networks in Economics Reviewing (WP-22-05)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Gendered Impacts of COVID-19 in Developing Countries (WP-22-06)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Myths of Censorship: The Realities and Misperceptions of “Cancel Culture” (WP-22-07)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

The Impact of Jury Instructions on Heat of Passion Manslaughter Determinations (WP-22-08)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Minimax-Regret Climate Policy With Deep Uncertainty in Climate Modeling and Intergenerational Discounting (WP-22-09)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Elderly: Population Fatality Rates, COVID Mortality Percentage, and Life Expectancy Loss (22-10)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Improving Willingness-to-Pay Elicitation by Including a Benchmark Good (WP-22-11)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

Exposure to Gun Violence Among the Population of Chicago Community Violence Interventionists (WP-22-12)

Research Area: Urban Policy and Community Development

Social Disruption, Gun Buying, and Anti-System Beliefs (WP-22-13)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Reinsuring the Insurers of Last Resort (WP-22-14)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards

Does Entry Remedy Collusion? Evidence from the Generic Prescription Drug Cartel (WP-22-15)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards

Dads and Daughters: Disentangling Altruism and Investment Motives for Spending on Children (WP-22-16)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Beyond Network Effectiveness: The Case for Network Efficiency and Accuracy (WP-22-17)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

The Economics of Fertility: A New Era (WP-22-18)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Educational Inequality (WP-22-19)

Research Area: Education Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

The Inherent Trade-Off Between the Environmental and Anti-Poverty Goals of Payments for Ecosystem Services (WP-22-20)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

The Dynamic Impact of Market Integration: Evidence from Renewable Energy Expansion in Chile (WP-22-21)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Depressive Symptoms and Conspiracy Beliefs (WP-22-22)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Social Disparities and Health

The Distributional Impacts of Real-Time Pricing (WP-22-23)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

The Influence of Psychotic-Like Experiences on Intent to Seek Treatment: Findings From a Multisite Community Survey of Mental Health Experiences (WP-22-24)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Trends in Hiring Discrimination Against Racial and Ethnic Minorities in Six Western Countries (WP-22-25)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Structural Racism in School Contexts and Adolescent Depression: Development of New Indices for the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health and Beyond (WP-22-26)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Education Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research, Social Disparities and Health

Promises Kept, Promises Broken, and Those Caught in the Middle (WP-22-27)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Selective Bribery: When Do Citizens Engage in Corruption? (WP-22-28)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Economic vs. Epidemiological Approaches to Measuring the Human Capital Impacts of Infectious Disease Elimination (WP-22-29)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

Identificational Orientations Among Three Generations of Migrants in France (WP-22-30)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

COVID Excess Mortality Percentage, Racial/Ethnic Disparities in COVID Mortality, and Vaccine Effectiveness: Evidence from Linked Mortality and Vaccination Records (WP-22-31)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

The Moderating Role of Democratic Governance in the Association Between Personal Values and Political Ideologies (WP-22-32)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Bringing Them In or Pushing Them Out? The Labor Market Effects of Pro-Cyclical Unemployment Assistance Changes (WP-22-33)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Social Protection and Social Distancing During the Pandemic: Mobile Money Transfers in Ghana (WP-22-34)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Does the Invisible Hand Efficiently Guide Entry and Exit? Evidence from a Vegetable Market Experiment in India (WP-22-35)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

A Model of Intangible Capital (WP-22-36)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Guns and Democracy: Anti-System Attitudes, Protest, and Support for Violence Among Pandemic Gun-Buyers (WP-22-37)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Megastudy Identifying Successful Interventions to Strengthen Americans’ Democratic Attitudes (WP-22-38)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Replication and Adaptation of Incentivized Peer Outreach: From Tuberculosis in India to COVID-19 in Zambia (WP-22-39)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Social Disparities and Health

Partial Identification of Personalized Treatment Response with Trial-Reported Analyses of Binary Subgroups (WP-22-40)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

A Framework for Economic Growth with Capital-Embodied Technical Change (WP-22-41)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Multidimensional Screening and Menu Design in Health Insurance Markets (WP-22-42)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards

The COVID-19 Baby Bump: The Unexpected Increase in U.S. Fertility Rates in Response to the Pandemic (WP-22-43)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Understanding COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness Against Death Using a Novel Measure: COVID Excess Mortality Percentage (WP-22-44)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

The COVID Excess Mortality Percentage and Racial-Ethnic Disparities in COVID Mortality: Evidence from Indiana and Wisconsin (WP-22-45)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Misperceptions, Competition, and Support for Democracy: Are Meta-Perception Corrections Effective? (WP-22-46)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Using Measures of Race to Make Clinical Predictions: Decision Making, Patient Health, and Fairness (WP-22-47)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

From Lapdogs to Watchdogs: Random Auditor Assignment and Municipal Fiscal Performance (WP-22-48)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Administrative Burdens and Child Medicaid Enrollments (WP-22-49)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Artificial Intelligence, the Evolution of the Healthcare Value Chain, and the Future of the Physician (WP-22-50)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Measuring the Impact of Wind Power and Intermittency (WP-22-51)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Give Me a Pass: Flexible Credit for Entrepreneurs in Colombia (WP-22-52)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Smiles in Profiles: Improving Fairness and Efficiency Using Estimates of User Preferences in Online Marketplaces (WP-22-53)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

The Family Origin of the Math Gender Gap is a White Affluent Phenomenon (WP-21-01)

Research Area: Education Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

A Call for Structured Ethics Appendices in Social Science Papers (WP-21-02)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

Scope Challenges to Social Impact (WP-21-03)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

The Effects of Negative Equity on Children’s Educational Outcomes (WP-21-04)

Research Area: Education Policy, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Vaccination Planning Under Uncertainty, with Application to Covid-19 (WP-21-05)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

Addressing Partial Identification in Climate Modeling and Policy Analysis (WP-21-06)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

Getting the Price Right? The Impact of Competitive Bidding in the Medicare Program (WP-21-07)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Are Bipartisan Lawmakers More Effective? (WP-21-08)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Wage Theft in a Recession: Unemployment, Labor Violations, and Enforcement Strategies for Difficult Times (WP-21-09)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Symptoms of COVID-19 Infection and Magnitude of Antibody Response in a Large Community-Based Study (WP-21-10)

Research Area: Social Disparities and Health

A Surrogate Virus Neutralization Test to Quantify Antibody-Mediated Inhibition of SARS-Cov-2 in Finger Stick Dried Blood Spot Samples (WP-21-11)

Research Area: Social Disparities and Health

Not Too Late: Improving Academic Outcomes Among Adolescents (WP-21-12)

Research Area: Education Policy

Comparison of IgG and Neutralizing Antibody Responses After One or Two Doses of COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine in Previously Infected and Uninfected Persons (WP-21-13)

Research Area: Social Disparities and Health

A Soul’s View of the Optimal Population Problem (WP-21-14)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

The Distribution of School Spending Impacts (WP-21-15)

Research Area: Education Policy

How Intergroup Contact Can Change Policy Views (WP-21-16)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Developmental Plasticity, Epigenetics, and Race: Historical Lessons and Contemporary Considerations (WP-21-17)

Research Area: Poverty, Race and Inequality, Social Disparities and Health

Geographic Disparities in COVID-19 Case Rates Are Not Reflected in Seropositivity Rates Using a Neighborhood Survey in Chicago (WP-21-18)

Research Area: Social Disparities and Health

Diversity in Schools: Immigrants and the Educational Performance of U.S. Born Students (WP-21-19)

Research Area: Education Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Exposure to SARS-CoV-2 Within the Household Is Associated with Greater Symptom Severity and Stronger Antibody Responses in a Community-Based Sample of Seropositive Adults (WP-21-20)

Research Area: Social Disparities and Health

Low Levels of Protective Humoral Immunity Following Mild or Asymptomatic Infection with SARS-CoV-2 in a Community-Based Serological Study (WP-21-21)

Research Area: Social Disparities and Health

From Mancession to Shecession: Women’s Employment in Regular and Pandemic Recessions (WP-21-22)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Using Machine Learning and Qualitative Interviews to Design a Five-Question Women's Agency Index (WP-21-23)

Research Area: Poverty, Race and Inequality, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

Career Spillovers in Internal Labor Markets (WP-21-24)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Science as a Public Good: Public Use and Funding of Science (WP-21-25)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Which Markets (Don't) Drive Pharmaceutical Innovation? Evidence From U.S. Medicaid Expansions (WP-21-26)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Affective Polarization in the American Public (WP-21-27)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

A Framework for the Study of Persuasion (WP-21-28)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

The Dynamics and Spillovers of Management Interventions: Evidence from the Training Within Industry Program (WP-21-29)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Private and Social Returns to R&D: Drug Development and Demographics (WP-21-30)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Regulatory Approval and Expanded Market Size (WP-21-31)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

When Do Refugees Return Home? Evidence from Syrian Displacement in Mashreq (WP-21-32)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Heterogeneity in the Impact of Privatizing Social Health Insurance: Evidence from California's Medicaid Program (WP-21-33)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Bias in Higher Education Disability Accommodation Services (WP-21-34)

Research Area: Education Policy, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Network Effectiveness in Context (WP-21-35)

Research Area: Education Policy, Performance Measurement and Rewards, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Does Money Still Matter? Attainment and Earnings Effects of Post-1990 School Finance Reforms (WP-21-36)

Research Area: Education Policy, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

How Economic Development Influences the Environment (WP-21-37)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Inequality in Mortality between Black and White Americans by Age, Place, and Cause, and in Comparison to Europe, 1990-2018 (WP-21-38)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality, Social Disparities and Health

Studying Science Inequities: How to Use Surveys to Study Diverse Populations (WP-21-39)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

Does Education Prevent Job Loss During Downturns? Evidence from Exogenous School Assignments and COVID-19 in Barbados (WP-21-40)

Research Area: Education Policy, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Energy and Environmental Markets, Industrial Organization, and Regulation (WP-21-41)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Islands of Labor: Reservation Labor Markets and American Indian Well-Being (WP-21-42)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Life Course Effects of The Lanham Preschools: What the First Government Preschool Effort Can Tell Us About Universal Early Care and Education Today (WP-21-43)

Research Area: Education Policy, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Big Loans to Small Businesses: Predicting Winners and Losers in an Entrepreneurial Lending Experiment (WP-21-44)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Using General Messages to Persuade on a Politicized Scientific Issue (WP-21-45)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Probabilistic Prediction for Binary Treatment Choice: With Focus on Personalized Medicine (WP-21-46)

Research Area: Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

Mental Health Therapy as a Core Strategy for Increasing Human Capital: Evidence from Ghana (WP-21-47)

Research Area: Poverty, Race and Inequality, Social Disparities and Health

“Potential Capital,” Working From Home, and Economic Resilience (WP-21-48)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

The Economics of Medical Procedure Innovation (WP-21-49)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards

Headstrong Girls and Dependent Boys: Gender Differences in the Labor Market Returns to Child Behavior (WP-21-50)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Studying Science Inequities: How to Use Surveys to Study Diverse Populations (WP-21-51)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Threats to Science: Politicization, Misinformation, and Inequalities (WP-21-52)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Germs in the Family: The Long-Term Consequences of Intra-Household Endemic Respiratory Disease Spread (WP-21-53)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Social Disparities and Health

Reconstruction Aid, Public Infrastructure, and Economic Development: The Case of the Marshall Plan in Italy (WP-21-54)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

The Effects of Fiscal Decentralization on Publicly Provided Services and Labor Markets (WP-21-55)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Randomization for Causality, Ethnography for Mechanisms: Illiquid Savings for Liquor in an Autarkic Society (WP-21-56)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

COVID‐19 Vaccine Efficacy and the Evidence on Boosters (WP-21-57)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Econometrics for Decision Making: Building Foundations Sketched by Haavelmo and Wald (WP-20-01)

Research Area: Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

Socioeconomic Decline and Death: Midlife Impacts of Graduating in a Recession (WP-20-02)

Research Area: Social Disparities and Health

Microentrepreneurship in Developing Countries (WP-20-03)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

The Cost of Being Too Patient (WP-20-04)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Performance Measurement and Rewards

Effects of Scaling Up Private School Choice Programs on Public School Students (WP-20-05)

Research Area: Education Policy

School Effects on Socio-emotional Development, School-Based Arrests, and Educational Attainment (WP-20-06)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Education Policy

Sign Language Promotes Object Categorization in Young Hearing Infants (WP-20-07)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies

Developmental Changes in Auditory-Evoked Alpha Activity Underlie the Increasing Precision With Which Infants Link Language and Cognition (WP-20-08)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies

Point of Reference: A Multi-sited Exploration of African Migration and Fertility in France (WP-20-09)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies

Does Affective Polarization Undermine Support for Democratic Norms? (WP-20-10)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Using Social and Behavioral Science to Support COVID-19 Pandemic Response (WP-20-11)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

From Cells to Society and Back Again (WP-20-12)

Research Area: Social Disparities and Health

The Impact of COVID-19 on Gender Equality (WP-20-13)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Estimating the COVID-19 Infection Rate: Anatomy of an Inference Problem (WP-20-14)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

It Takes a Village: The Economics of Parenting with Neighborhood and Peer Effects (WP-20-15)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Expected Profits and the Scientific Novelty of Innovation (WP-20-16)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

How Do Partisans Navigate Elite Intra-group Dissent? Leadership, Partisanship, and the Limits of Democratic Accountability (WP-20-17)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Party Domination and Base Mobilization: Donald Trump and Republican Party Building in a Polarized Era (WP-20-18)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Parental Monitoring and Children's Internet Use: The Role of Information, Control, and Cues (WP-20-19)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Education Policy

Bounding the Predictive Values of COVID-19 Antibody Tests (WP-20-20)

Research Area: Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

A Public Health Framework for COVID-19 Business Liability (WP-20-21)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Males at the Tails: How Socioeconomic Status Shapes the Gender Gap (WP-20-22)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Education Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Why Didn’t the College Premium Rise Everywhere? Employment Protection and On-the-Job Investment in Skills (WP-20-23)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

High Seroprevalence for SARS-CoV-2 Among Household Members of Essential Workers Detected Using a Dried Blood Spot Assay (WP-20-24)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards, Social Disparities and Health

Statistical Decision Properties of Imprecise Trials Assessing COVID-19 Drugs (WP-20-25)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

Civic Capital and Social Distancing During the Covid-19 Pandemic (WP-20-26)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Measuring Racial Disparity in Local and County Police Arrests (WP-20-27)

Research Area: Poverty, Race and Inequality, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research, Urban Policy and Community Development

Racial Disparity in Arrests Increased as Crime Rates Declined (WP-20-28)

Research Area: Poverty, Race and Inequality, Urban Policy and Community Development

Salience and Taxation with Imperfect Competition (WP-20-29)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

How Affective Polarization Shapes Americans’ Political Beliefs: A Study of Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic (WP-20-30)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Social Norms as a Barrier to Women's Employment in Developing Countries (WP-20-31)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Endogenous Quality Investments in the U.S. Hospital Market (WP-20-32)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Parallel Inverse Aggregate Demand Curves in Discrete Choice Models (WP-20-33)

Research Area: Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

Public Opinion, Crisis, and Vulnerable Populations: The Case of Title IX and COVID-19 (WP-20-34)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Affective Polarization, Local Contexts, and Public Opinion in America (WP-20-35)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

The Opioid Epidemic Was Not Caused by Economic Distress But by Factors That Could Be More Rapidly Addressed (WP-20-36)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Social Disparities and Health

Mortality Effects and Choice Across Private Health Insurance Plans (WP-20-37)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

The Role of Race, Religion, and Partisanship in Misinformation About COVID-19 (WP-20-38)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

This Time It's Different: The Role of Women's Employment in a Pandemic Recession (WP-20-39)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

The Effect of Mentoring on School Attendance and Academic Outcomes: A Randomized Evaluation of the Check & Connect Program (WP-20-40)

Research Area: Education Policy

Early Origins of Socioeconomic Inequalities in Chronic Inflammation: Evaluating the Contributions of Low Birth Weight and Short Breastfeeding (WP-20-41)

Research Area: Social Disparities and Health

Who Profits From Amateurism? Rent-Sharing in Modern College Sports (WP-20-42)

Research Area: Education Policy, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

The Social Safety Net in the Wake of COVID-19 (WP-20-43)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

The Human Microbiome and Health Inequities (WP-20-44)

Research Area: Social Disparities and Health

Immigration and Entrepreneurship in the United States (WP-20-45)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Comparative Perspectives on Racial Discrimination in Hiring: The Rise of Field Experiments (WP-20-46)

Research Area: Poverty, Race and Inequality, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

Addressing the Challenges to Educational Research Posed by COVID-19 (WP-20-47)

Research Area: Education Policy, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

A Calculation of the Social Returns to Innovation (WP-20-48)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Public Perceptions of Black Women and Girls and Their Punitive Consequences (WP-20-49)

Research Area: Education Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality, Urban Policy and Community Development

Market-Based Opportunities in Local News Innovation: Drafting a Theoretical Framework (WP-20-50)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Urban Policy and Community Development

Affective Polarization Did Not Increase During the Coronavirus Pandemic (WP-20-51)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Employment Effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit: Taking the Long View (WP-20-52)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

The Effect of Computer-Assisted Learning on Students' Long-Term Development (WP-20-53)

Research Area: Education Policy

Who Benefits from Attending Effective Schools? Examining Heterogeneity in High School Impacts (WP-20-54)

Research Area: Education Policy

Identifying and Measuring Conditional Policy Preferences: The Case of Opening Schools During a Pandemic (WP-20-55)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

When the Great Equalizer Shuts Down: Schools, Peers, and Parents in Pandemic Times (WP-20-56)

Research Area: Education Policy, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Racial Bias in Perceptions of Disease and Policy (WP-20-57)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Trauma at School: The Impacts of Shootings on Students’ Human Capital and Economic Outcomes (WP-20-58)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Education Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality, Social Disparities and Health

Labor's Legacy: The Construction of Subnational Work Regulation (WP-19-01)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Does School Spending Matter? The New Literature on an Old Question (WP-19-02)

Research Area: Education Policy

An Extra Year to Learn English? Early Grade Retention and the Human Capital Development of English Learners (WP-19-03)

Research Area: Education Policy

Why Replications Do Not Fix the Reproducibility Crisis: A Model and Evidence from a Large-Scale Vignette Experiment (WP-19-04)

Research Area: Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

Meta-Analysis for Medical Decisions (WP-19-05)

Research Area: Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

Is the Energy Demand of the Developing Brain Related to Lifetime Obesity Risk? (WP-19-06)

Research Area: Social Disparities and Health

Born in the Family: Preferences for Boys and the Gender Gap in Math (WP-19-07)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Education Policy

Reshaping Adolescents' Gender Attitudes: Evidence From a School-Based Experiment in India (WP-19-08)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Education Policy

Inexpensive Heating Reduces Winter Mortality (WP-19-09)

Research Area: Poverty, Race and Inequality

Female Disadvantage in Under-Five Mortality in India: Measuring Explicit Gender Discrimination Using Data on Twins (WP-19-10)

Research Area: Poverty, Race and Inequality, Social Disparities and Health

The Effects of Growing-Season Drought on Young Adult Women’s Life Course Transitions: Evidence From Malawi (WP-19-11)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies

The Political Effects of Policy Drift: Policy Stalemate and American Political Development (WP-19-12)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

School Segregation and Racial Gaps in Special Education Identification (WP-19-13)

Research Area: Education Policy

The Role of Neonatal Health in the Incidence of Childhood Disability (WP-19-14)

Research Area: Social Disparities and Health

Self-Selection into Corrupt Judiciaries (WP-19-15)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Public Service Motivation as a Predictor of Altruism, Dishonesty, and Corruption (WP-19-16)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

The Impact of Car Pollution on Infant and Child Health: Evidence from Emissions Cheating (WP-19-17)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Social Disparities and Health

From Personal to Partisan: Abortion, Party, and Religion in the California State Assembly, 1967-1996 (WP-19-18)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

The Federal Reserve’s Current Framework for Monetary Policy: A Review and Assessment (WP-19-19)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Does Vocational Education Work? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Mongolia (WP-19-20)

Research Area: Education Policy

Precise or Imprecise Probabilities? Evidence From Survey Response on Late-Onset Dementia (WP-19-21)

Research Area: Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

How Institutions and Social Identity Affect Policy Change: The Case of College Sports (WP-19-22)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

The Impacts of Physician Payments on Patient Access, Use, and Health (WP-19-23)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

The Economic Consequences of Bankruptcy Reform (WP-19-24)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

(Mis-)Estimating Affective Polarization (WP-19-25)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

All Medicaid Expansions Are Not Created Equal: The Geography and Targeting of the Affordable Care Act (WP-19-26)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

The Convenience of Large Urban School Districts: A Study of Recruitment Practices in 37 Randomized Trials (WP-19-27)

Research Area: Education Policy, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

A Research Agenda for Climate Change Communication and Public Opinion: The Role of Consensus Messaging and Beyond (WP-19-28)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Candidate-Gender Bias and the Partisan Gender-Gap in Office (WP-19-29)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Local Exposure to School Shootings and Youth Antidepressant Use (WP-19-30)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Social Disparities and Health

Social Norms as a Barrier to Women's Employment in Developing Countries (WP-19-31)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Environmental Externalities and Free-Riding in the Household (WP-18-01)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards

Do School Spending Cuts Matter? Evidence from the Great Recession (WP-18-02)

Research Area: Education Policy

The Effects of Information and Application Assistance on Take-up, Targeting, and Welfare: Experimental Evidence from SNAP (WP-18-03)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Unpacking a Multi-Faceted Program to Build Sustainable Income for the Very Poor (WP-18-04)

Research Area: Poverty, Race and Inequality

Debt Traps? Market Vendors and Moneylender Debt in India and the Philippines (WP-18-05)

Research Area: Poverty, Race and Inequality

The Effect of Education on Mortality and Health: Evidence from a Schooling Expansion in Romania (WP-18-06)

Research Area: Education Policy

Measuring the Equilibrium Impacts of Credit: Evidence from the Indian Microfinance Crisis (WP-18-07)

Research Area: Poverty, Race and Inequality

Randomizing Religion: The Impact of Protestant Evangelism on Economic Outcomes (WP-18-08)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Dangers of a Double-Bottom Line: A Poverty Targeting Experiment Misses Both Targets (WP-18-09)

Research Area: Poverty, Race and Inequality

Balancing 2020 Census Cost and Accuracy: Consequences for Congressional Apportionment and Fund Allocations (WP-18-10)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Age and High-Growth Entrepreneurship (WP-18-11)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

What Do We Measure When We Measure Affective Partisanship? (WP-18-12)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Do Private Politics Undermine Democratic Responsiveness? (WP-18-13)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

From Labor Law to Employment Law: The Changing Politics of Workers' Rights (WP-18-14)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Fetal Shock or Selection? The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and Human Capital Development (WP-18-15)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Social Disparities and Health

The Limits of Policy Feedback as a Party-Building Tool (WP-18-16)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Guns and Violence: The Enduring Impact of Crack Cocaine Markets on Young Black Males (WP-18-17)

Research Area: Urban Policy and Community Development

Do Parents Know Best? The Short and Long-Run Effects of Attending the Schools that Parents Prefer (WP-18-18)

Research Area: Education Policy

The Effects of Sexism on American Women: The Role of Norms vs. Discrimination (WP-18-19)

Research Area: Poverty, Race and Inequality

The Lure of Incredible Certitude (WP-18-20)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards

Good Cop, Bad Cop: Using Civilian Allegations to Predict Police Misconduct (WP-18-21)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Urban Policy and Community Development

The Evidence for Motivated Reasoning in Climate Change Preference Formation (WP-18-22)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

The Intersection of Racial and Partisan Discrimination: Evidence from a Correspondence Study of Four-Year Colleges (WP-18-23)

Research Area: Education Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Unlucky Cohorts: Estimating the Long-Term Effects of Entering the Labor Market in a Recession in Large Cross-Sectional Data Sets (WP-18-24)

Research Area: Poverty, Race and Inequality

Safety Net Investments in Children (WP-18-25)

Research Area: Poverty, Race and Inequality

Can Network Theory-Based Targeting Increase Technology Adoption? (WP-18-26)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Preferred Pharmacy Networks and Drug Costs (WP-18-27)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards

Meta-Analysis of Field Experiments Shows Significantly More Racial Discrimination in Job Offers than in Callbacks (WP-18-28)

Research Area: Poverty, Race and Inequality

Long-Time Out: Unemployment and Joblessness in Canada and the United States (WP-18-29)

Research Area: Poverty, Race and Inequality

Do Children Benefit from Internet Access? Experimental Evidence from Peru (WP-18-30)

Research Area: Education Policy

Testing, Stress, and Performance: How Students Respond Physiologically to High-Stakes Testing (WP-18-31)

Research Area: Education Policy, Social Disparities and Health

What is a Good School and Can Parents Tell? Evidence on the Multidimensionality of School Output (WP-18-32)

Research Area: Education Policy

Consistent and Cautious: Congressional Campaigning on the Web in 2016 (WP-17-01)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Birth Order and Delinquency: Evidence from Denmark and Florida (WP-17-02)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies

University Innovation and the Professor's Privilege (WP-17-03)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards

Sibling Spillovers (WP-17-04)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies

The Evolution of Political Behavior Research, 1980–2009 (WP-17-05)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Unbiased?: Race, Gender, and Sport Effects in University Medical Staff's Perceptions of Injured Student-Athletes (WP-17-06)

Research Area: Poverty, Race and Inequality

How Incivility on Partisan Media (De-)Polarizes the Electorate (WP-17-07)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Racial Bias in Sport Medical Staff's Perceptions of Others' Pain (WP-17-08)

Research Area: Poverty, Race and Inequality

Reducing Inequality Through Dynamic Complementarity: Evidence from Head Start and Public School Spending (WP-17-09)

Research Area: Education Policy

Survey Measurement of Probabilistic Macroeconomic Expectations: Progress and Promise (WP-17-10)

Research Area: Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

Political Protesting, Race, and College Athletics: Why Diversity Among Coaches Matters (WP-17-11)

Research Area: Poverty, Race and Inequality

Unwelcome Guests? The Effects of Refugees on the Educational Outcomes of Incumbent Students (WP-17-12)

Research Area: Education Policy, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Gender Policy Feedback: Perceptions of Sex Equity, Title IX, and Political Mobilization Among College Athletes (WP-17-13)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Passing the Buck in Congress: The Extent and Effectiveness of Blaming Others for Inaction (WP-17-14)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

What Does (Formal) Health Insurance Do, and For Whom? (WP-17-15)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

School Starting Age and Cognitive Development (WP-17-16)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Education Policy

Group Identification and the Collaboration Effect (WP-17-17)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Electoral Campaigns and the Incumbency Advantage: How Institutions Generate Competitive Inequities (WP-17-18)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

The Effect of Court-Ordered Hiring Guidelines on Teacher Composition and Student Achievement (WP-17-19)

Research Area: Education Policy

Reducing Bureaucratic Corruption: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on What Works (WP-17-20)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Reasonable Patient Care Under Uncertainty (WP-17-21)

Research Area: Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

The Economics of Scale-Up (WP-17-22)

Research Area: Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

Escaping the Abdication Trap When Cooperative Federalism Fails: Legal Reform After Flint (WP-17-23)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Scientific Education and Innovation: From Technical Diplomas to University STEM Degrees (WP-17-24)

Research Area: Education Policy, Performance Measurement and Rewards

School Quality and the Gender Gap in Educational Achievement (WP-16-01)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Education Policy

Government Old-Age Support and Labor Supply: Evidence from the Old Age Assistance Program (WP-16-02)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

What Do Test Scores Miss? The Importance of Teacher Effects on Non-Test Score Outcomes (WP-16-03)

Research Area: Education Policy

School Finance Reform and the Distribution of Student Achievement (WP-16-04)

Research Area: Education Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

The Price Effects of Cross-Market Hospital Mergers (WP-16-05)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Inequality Before Birth: The Developmental Consequences of Environmental Toxicants (WP-16-06)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Social Disparities and Health

Using Frames to Make Scientific Communication Effective (WP-16-07)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Stop-and-Frisk and Trust in Police in Chicago (WP-16-08)

Research Area: Urban Policy and Community Development

Insurance and the High Prices of Pharmaceuticals (WP-16-09)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Cross-Generational Differences in Educational Outcomes in the Second Great Wave of Immigration (WP-16-10)

Research Area: Education Policy, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Simplifying Teaching: A Field Experiment with "Off-the-Shelf" Lessons (WP-16-11)

Research Area: Education Policy

Long-Term Orientation and Educational Performance (WP-16-12)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Education Policy

Equilibrium Impacts of Credit: Evidence from the Indian Microfinance Crisis (WP-16-13)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Motivated Responses to Political Communications: Framing, Party Cues, and Science Information (WP-16-14)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Do Grandparents and Great-Grandparents Matter? Multigenerational Mobility in the U.S., 1910-2013 (WP-16-15)

Research Area: Poverty, Race and Inequality

Do Disagreeable Political Discussion Networks Undermine Attitude Strength? (WP-16-16)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Long-run Consequences of Exposure to Natural Disasters (WP-16-17)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies

The Effect of Mentoring on School Attendance and Academic Outcomes: A Randomized Evaluation of the Check & Connect Program (WP-16-18)

Research Area: Education Policy

Credible Ecological Inference for Personalized Medicine: Formalizing Clinical Judgment (WP-16-19)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

The Marginal Propensity to Consume Over the Business Cycle (WP-16-20)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Partisan Group Identity and Belief in Human-Caused Climate Change (WP-16-21)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

The Causes and Consequences of Increased Female Education and Labor Force Participation in Developing Countries (WP-16-22)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

The Effect of Single-Sex Education on Academic Outcomes and Crime: Fresh Evidence from Low-Performing Schools in Trinidad and Tobago (WP-16-23)

Research Area: Education Policy

The Economic Consequences of Hospital Admissions (WP-16-24)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Cash for Carbon: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Payments for Ecosystem Services to Reduce Deforestation (WP-16-25)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Accelerator or Brake? Cash for Clunkers, Household Liquidity, and Aggregate Demand (WP-16-26)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Not Too Late: Improving Academic Outcomes for Disadvantaged Youth (WP-15-01)

Research Area: Education Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

The Effect of Hospital Acquisitions of Physician Practices on Prices and Spending (WP-15-02)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards

Who Gets to Look Nice and Who Gets to Play? Effects of Child Gender on Household Expenditure (WP-15-03)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies

Does Medical Malpractice Law Improve Healthcare Quality? (WP-15-04)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards

Effects of Census Accuracy on Apportionment of Congress and Allocations of Federal Funds (WP-15-05)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

Cost-Benefit Analysis for a Quinquennial Census: The 2016 Population Census of South Africa (WP-15-06)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Hospitals as Insurers of Last Resort (WP-15-07)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Deterring "Wage Theft": Alt-Labor, State Politics, and the Policy Determinants of Minimum Wage Compliance (WP-15-08)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Limits and Opportunities of Campaigning on the Web (WP-15-09)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

The Emergence of Forensic Objectivity (WP-15-10)

Research Area: Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

Access to Migration for Rural Households (WP-15-11)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

No Need to Watch: How the Effects of Partisan Media can Spread via Inter-Personal Discussions (WP-15-12)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Education Research and Administrative Data (WP-15-13)

Research Area: Education Policy, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

The Political Relevance of Irrelevant Events (WP-15-14)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Can a Scaffolded Summer Reading Intervention Reduce Socioeconomic Gaps in Children’s Reading Comprehension Ability and Home Book Access? Results from a Randomized Experiment (WP-15-15)

Research Area: Education Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Family Disadvantage and the Gender Gap in Behavioral and Educational Outcomes (WP-15-16)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Poverty, Race and Inequality

How Do Right-To-Carry Laws Affect Crime Rates? Coping with Ambiguity Using Bounded-Variation Assumptions (WP-15-17)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

The Effect of Wealth on Individual and Household Labor Supply: Evidence from Swedish Lotteries (WP-15-18)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

The Effects of School Spending on Educational and Economic Outcomes: Evidence from School Finance Reforms (WP-15-19)

Research Area: Education Policy, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Why Are Indian Children So Short? The Role of Birth Order and Son Preference (WP-15-20)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Poverty, Race and Inequality, Social Disparities and Health

U.S. Food and Nutrition Programs (WP-15-21)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Friendship at Work: Can Peer Effects Catalyze Female Entrepreneurship? (WP-15-22)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Housing Booms and Busts, Labor Market Opportunities, and College Attendance (WP-15-23)

Research Area: Education Policy, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Motivation and Incentives in Education: Evidence from a Summer Reading Experiment (WP-15-24)

Research Area: Education Policy

Beyond Income: What Else Predicts Very Low Food Security Among Children? (WP-15-25)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Attitudes: Evidence from India (WP-15-26)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Thinking, Fast and Slow? Some Field Experiments to Reduce Crime and Dropout in Chicago (WP-15-27)

Research Area: Education Policy, Urban Policy and Community Development

First in the Class? Age and the Education Production Function (WP-15-28)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Education Policy

The Impacts of Expanding Access to High-Quality Preschool Education (WP-14-01)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Education Policy

Party Nomination Rules and Campaign Participation (WP-14-02)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

The (Surprising) Efficacy of Academic and Behavioral Intervention with Disadvantaged Youth from a Randomized Experiment in Chicago (WP-14-03)

Research Area: Education Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

The Role of Immigrant Children in Their Parents' Assimilation in the U.S., 1850-2010 (WP-14-04)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies

What Do U. S. Billionaires Want from Government? (WP-14-05)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Reducing Moral Hazard in Employment Relationships: Experimental Evidence on Managerial Control and Performance Pay? (WP-14-06)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards

Shocking Behavior: Random Wealth in Antebellum Georgia and Human Capital Across Generations (WP-14-07)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies

Communicating Uncertainty in Official Economic Statistics (WP-14-08)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

Patterns of Neighborhood Relocation in a Longitudinal HOPE VI Natural Experiment: The Genes, Environment, and Neighborhood Initiative (GENI) Study (WP-14-09)

Research Area: Urban Policy and Community Development

Measuring Drug and Alcohol Use Among College Student-Athletes (WP-14-10)

Research Area: Education Policy, Performance Measurement and Rewards, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

Differential Fertility as a Determinant of Trends in Public Opinion about Abortion in the United States (WP-14-11)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Investment Subsidies and the Adoption of Electronic Medical Records in Hospitals (WP-14-12)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards

Metrics for Assessing Earthquake Hazard Map Performance (WP-14-13)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards

Bayes and BOGSAT: Issues in When and How to Revise Earthquake Hazard Maps (IPR-WP-14-14)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards

Saving for a (not so) Rainy Day: A Randomized Evaluation of Savings Groups in Mali (WP-14-15)

Research Area: Poverty, Race and Inequality

Early Life Environment and Racial Inequality in Education and Earnings in the United States (WP-14-16)

Research Area: Poverty, Race and Inequality

Citizens', Scientists', and Policy Advisors' Beliefs about Global Warming (WP-14-17)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Developmental Histories of Perceived Racial/Ethnic Discrimination and Diurnal Cortisol Profiles in Adulthood: A 20-year Prospective Study (WP-14-18)

Research Area: Poverty, Race and Inequality, Social Disparities and Health

The Generalizability of Survey Experiments (WP-14-19)

Research Area: Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

Competition over the Politicization of Science (WP-14-20)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Legislative Holdouts (WP-14-21)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Does Reading During the Summer Build Reading Skills? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in 463 Classrooms (WP-14-22)

Research Area: Education Policy

The Influence of Race on Attitudes about College Athletics (WP-14-23)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

State Legislative Institutions, Party Leaders, and Legislators’ Weighted Preferences (WP-14-24)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Long-Term Unemployment and the Great Recession: The Role of Composition, Duration Dependence, and Non-Participation (WP-14-25)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Eliminating the Local Warming Effect (WP-14-26)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Gendered Incentives for Legislative Compromise (WP-14-27)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Expanding the School Breakfast Program: Impacts on Children’s Consumption, Nutrition, and Health (WP-14-28)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Education Policy

Vaccine Approvals and Mandates Under Uncertainty: Some Simple Analytics (WP-14-29)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

Compromise vs. Compromises: Conceptions of Bipartisanship in the American Electorate (WP-13-01)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

The Policy Consequences of Motivated Information Processing Among the Partisan Elite (WP-13-02)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Political Participation by Wealthy Americans (WP-13-03)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Resilience in the Rust Belt: Michigan Democrats and the UAW (WP-13-04)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Novice School Principals' Sense of Ultimate Responsibility: Problems of Practice in Transitioning to the Principal's Office (WP-13-05)

Research Area: Education Policy

Public Reporting of Hospital Infection Rates: Ranking the States on Report and Website Content, Credibility, and Usability (WP-13-06)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards

Public Reporting of Hospital Infection Rates: Not All Change is Progress (WP-13-07)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards

The Effects of Poor Neonatal Health on Children's Cognitive Development (WP-13-08)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Education Policy

Variation in the Heritability of Educational Attainment: An International Meta-Analysis (WP-13-09)

Research Area: Education Policy

Communication and Collective Actions: Motivating Energy Conservation in the U.S. (WP-13-10)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

The Politicization of Science and Support for Scientific Innovations (WP-13-11)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Mobilizing Group Membership: The Impact of Personalization and Social Pressure E-mails (WP-13-12)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Long-Term Effects of Birth Weight and Breast-Feeding Duration on Inflammation in Early Adulthood (WP-13-13)

Research Area: Social Disparities and Health

How Party Experience and Consistency Shape Partisanship and Vote Choice (WP-13-14)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

The Scope of the Partisan 'Perceptual Screen' (WP-13-15)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Using Elicited Choice Probabilities in Hypothetical Elections to Study Decisions to Vote (WP-13-16)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

Do Lottery Payments Induce Savings Behavior? Evidence from the Lab (WP-13-17)

Research Area: Poverty, Race and Inequality

Are Tenure Track Professors Better Teachers? (WP-13-18)

Research Area: Education Policy

Randomizing Regulatory Approval for Diversification and Deterrence (WP-13-19)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

The Impact of Chicago’s Small High School Initiative (WP-13-20)

Research Area: Education Policy

Pathologies of Studying Public Opinion, Political Communication, and Democratic Responsiveness (WP-13-21)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Presidents as Agents of Change (WP-13-22)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

The Great Divide: Elite and Mass Opinion about Social Security (WP-13-23)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Socio-Economic Segregation in Large Cities in France and the United States (WP-13-24)

Research Area: Poverty, Race and Inequality, Urban Policy and Community Development

'Dying From' to 'Living With': Framing Institutions and the Coping Processes of African American Women Living with HIV/AIDS (WP-12-01)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Identification of Preferences and Evaluation of Income Tax Policy (WP-12-02)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Childhood Investments on Postsecondary Attainment and Degree Completion (WP-12-03)

Research Area: Education Policy

Adequate (or Adipose?) Yearly Progress: Assessing the Effect of “No Child Left Behind” on Children’s Obesity (WP-12-04)

Research Area: Education Policy, Performance Measurement and Rewards

Is Being in School Better? The Impact of School on Children’s BMI When Starting Is Endogenous (WP-12-05)

Research Area: Education Policy

Is Public Opinion Stable? Resolving the Micro-Macro Disconnect in Studies of Public Opinion (WP-12-06)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

A Source of Bias in Public Opinion Stability (WP-12-07)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Studying Discrimination: Fundamental Challenges and Recent Progress (WP-12-08)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Do High School Teachers Really Matter? (WP-12-09)

Research Area: Education Policy

Motivating Action on Energy in the U.S. (WP-12-10)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Educational "Goodwill": Measuring the Intangible Assets at Highly Selective Private Colleges and Universities (WP-12-11)

Research Area: Education Policy

Do College-Prep Programs Improve Long-Term Outcomes? (WP-12-12)

Research Area: Education Policy

Political Dynamics of Framing (WP-12-13)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

How Elite Partisan Polarization Affects Public Opinion Formation (WP-12-14)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Epigenetic Embodiment of Health and Disease: A Framework for Nutritional Intervention (WP-12-15)

Research Area: Social Disparities and Health

Choosing Size of Government Under Ambiguity: Infrastructure Spending and Income Taxation (WP-12-16)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

Long-Run Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net (WP-12-17)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Non-Cognitive Ability, Test Scores, and Teacher Quality: Evidence from 9th Grade Teachers in North Carolina (WP-12-18)

Research Area: Education Policy

Do Job Networks Disadvantage Women? Evidence from a Recruitment Experiment in Malawi (WP-12-19)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

The Prevalence of Smartphone Use Among a Wired Group of Young Adults (WP-11-01)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Overwhelmed and Underinformed? How Americans Keep Up with Current Events in the Age of Social Media (WP-11-02)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

How Do the Elderly Fare in Medical Malpractice Litigation, Before and After Tort Reform? Evidence from Texas, 1988–2007 (WP-11-03)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Information Is Not Enough: Cultural Capital, Cultural Capital Translators, and College Access for Disadvantaged Students (WP-11-04)

Research Area: Education Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Candidate Preferences and Expectations of Election Outcomes: Evidence from the American Life Panel (WP-11-05)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

Can High Schools Reduce College Enrollment Gaps with a New Counseling Model? (WP-11-06)

Research Area: Education Policy

Interviewing Wealthy Americans (WP-11-07)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

What Affluent Americans Want from Politics (WP-11-08)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Learning More from Political Communication Experiments: The Importance of Pretreatment Effects (WP-11-09)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Counter-Framing Effects (WP-11-10)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Congressional Campaign Communications in an Internet Age (WP-11-11)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Deterrence and the Death Penalty: Partial Identification Analysis Using Repeated Cross Sections (WP-11-12)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

Wealthy Americans, Philanthropy, and the Common Good (WP-11-13)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Instructional Advice and Information Seeking Behavior in Elementary Schools: Exploring Tie Formation as a Building Block in Social Capital Development (WP-11-14)

Research Area: Education Policy

Lawyers in National Policymaking (WP-10-01)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Analyzing Regression-Discontinuity Designs with Multiple Assignment Variables: A Comparative Study of Four Estimation Methods (WP-10-02)

Research Area: Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

Competitive Effects of Means-Tested School Vouchers (WP-10-03)

Research Area: Education Policy

School Finance Reform and the Progressivity of State Taxes (WP-10-04)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Tobin Meets Oates: Solidarity and the Optimal Fiscal Federal Structure (WP-10-05)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

School Accountability and Teacher Mobility (WP-10-06)

Research Area: Education Policy

Policy Analysis with Incredible Certitude (WP-10-07)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Paint the White House Black: Black Media in the Obama Era (WP-10-08)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Genes, Eyeglasses, and Social Policy (WP-10-09)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Bias in Political Communication Experiments (WP-10-10)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Congressional Agenda Control and the Decline of Bipartisan Cooperation (WP-10-11)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Does Changing Neighborhoods Change Lives? The Chicago Gautreaux Housing Program and Recent Mobility Programs (WP-09-01)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Urban Policy and Community Development

Diversified Policy Choice with Partial Knowledge of Policy Effectiveness (WP-09-02)

Research Area: Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

Framing, Motivated Reasoning, and Opinions about Emergent Technologies (WP-09-03)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

Coupling Administrative Practice with the Technical Core and External Regulation: The Role of Organizational Routines (WP-09-04)

Research Area: Education Policy

Students as Experimental Participants: A Defense of the "Narrow Data Base" (WP-09-05)

Research Area: Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

Timeless Strategy Meets New Medium: Going Negative on Congressional Campaign Websites, 2002-2006 (WP-09-06)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

Issue Engagement on Congressional Candidate Websites (2002-2006) (WP-09-07)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Public Sector Performance Measurement and Stakeholder Support (WP-09-08)

Research Area: Education Policy, Performance Measurement and Rewards

Probabilistic Polling and Voting in the 2008 Presidential Election: Evidence from the American Life Panel (WP-09-09)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

Comment on "Tests of Certain Types of Ignorable Nonresponse in Surveys Subject to Item Nonresponse or Attrition" (WP-09-10)

Research Area: Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

No Child Left Behind: An Interim Evaluation of Its Effects on Learning Using Two Interrupted Time Series Each With Its Own Non-Equivalent Comparison Series (WP-09-11)

Research Area: Education Policy, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

The Embodiment of Race: Health Disparities in the Age of Epigenetics (WP-08-01)

Research Area: Poverty, Race and Inequality, Social Disparities and Health

Measuring Change in the Markets for Brand-Name and Generic Drugs, 1970-2004 (WP-08-02)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards

Public Opinion and Social Insurance: The American Experience (WP-08-03)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Donations and the Pursuit of Mission in Higher Education (WP-08-04)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards

Labor-Market Fluctuations and On-The-Job Search (WP-08-05)

The Social and Economic Context of Black Women Living with HIV/AIDS in the US: Implications for Research (WP-08-06)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Permeability and Transparency in the High School-College Transition (WP-08-07)

Can Electoral Laws Increase Women's Representation? (WP-08-08)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Public-Goods Provision in the Hospital Industry: Does Ownership Form Affect Provision of Charity Care, Research, and Education? (WP-08-09)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards

When Do Latent Class Models Overstate Accuracy for Binary Classifiers?: With Applications to Jury Accuracy, Survey Response Error, and Diagnostic Error (WP-08-10)

Research Area: Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

Competitive Lending with Partial Knowledge of Loan Repayment (WP-08-11)

Research Area: Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

The Correlates of Work in a Post-AFDC World: The Results from a Longitudinal State-Level Analysis (WP-07-01)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Empirical Tests of the Validity of the Regression Discontinuity Design (WP-07-02)

Research Area: Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

"Waiting for Life to Arrive": A History of the Regression-Discontinuity Design in Psychology, Statistics, and Economics (WP-07-03)

Research Area: Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

Computing Power of Tests for the Variability of Treatment Effects in Designs with Two Levels of Nesting (WP-07-04)

Research Area: Education Policy, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

The Power of the Test in Three-Level Designs (WP-07-05)

Research Area: Education Policy, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

The Racial Geography of State "Child Protection" (WP-07-06)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Poverty, Race and Inequality, Urban Policy and Community Development

Public Opinion on Energy Policy, 1974-2006 (WP-07-07)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Adaptive Partial Drug Approval (WP-07-08)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

The Technological Development of Candidate Websites: How and Why Candidates Use Web Innovations (WP-07-09)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Segmented Representation: The Reagan White House and Disproportionate Responsiveness (WP-07-10)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Going Negative in a New Media Age: Congressional Campaign Websites, 2002-2006 (WP-07-11)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

How Long Do Teacher Effects Persist? (WP-07-12)

Research Area: Education Policy, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

Effect Sizes in Three Level Cluster Randomized Experiments (WP-07-13)

Research Area: Education Policy, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

Correcting a Significance Test for Clustering in Designs With Two Levels of Nesting (WP-07-14)

Research Area: Education Policy, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

Constructing a More Powerful Test in Three-Level Cluster Randomized Designs (WP-07-15)

Research Area: Education Policy, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

Estimation and Identification of Merger Effects: An Application to Hospital Mergers (WP-06-01)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

Do Report Cards Tell Consumers Anything They Don’t Already Know? The Case of Medicare HMOs (WP-06-02)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards

In Search of Killer Amendments in the Modern Congress (WP-06-03)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Agency, Monitoring, and Electoral Institutions: The 17th Amendment and Representation in the Senate (WP-06-04)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Estimating the Accuracy of Jury Verdicts (WP-06-05)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

The Diffusion of the Internet and the Geography of the Digital Divide in the United States (WP-06-06)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Lawyers of the Right: Networks and Organization (WP-06-07)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Job Access and Reverse Commute Programs in the Chicago and San Francisco Metropolitan Regions (WP-06-08)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Urban Policy and Community Development

Childcare Choices and Children’s Cognitive Achievement: The Case of Single Mothers (WP-06-09)

A Disconnect Between Foreign Policymakers and the Public? (WP-06-10)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Correcting a Significance Test for Clustering (WP-06-11)

Research Area: Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

Intraclass Correlation Values for Planning Group Randomized Trials in Education (WP-06-12)

Research Area: Education Policy, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

Effect Sizes in Cluster-Randomized Designs (WP-06-13)

Research Area: Education Policy, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

The Multicultural Metropolis: Neighborhood Diversity and Segregation Patterns in the City of Chicago, 1990-2000 (WP-06-14)

Research Area: Poverty, Race and Inequality, Urban Policy and Community Development

State TANF Policy Trends and the Emerging Geography of Vulnerability (WP-06-15)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

What a Drop Can Do: Dried Blood Spots as a Minimally-Invasive Method for Integrating Biomarkers into Population-Based Research (WP-06-16)

Research Area: Quantitative Methods for Policy Research, Social Disparities and Health

It’s Not Just About the Money: Governmentality and Resistance in Post-Reform Welfare Offices (WP-06-17)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Sleep Timing and Quantity in Ecological and Family Context: A Nationally Representative Time-Diary Study (WP-06-18)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Poverty, Race and Inequality, Social Disparities and Health

The Contributions of Hard Skills and Socio-emotional Behavior to School Readiness (WP-05-01)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Education Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

Professional Community or Communities? School Subject Matter and Elementary School Teachers’ Work Environments (WP-05-02)

Research Area: Education Policy, Urban Policy and Community Development

Labor-Market Linkages Among Two-Year College Faculty and Their Impact on Student Perceptions, Efforts, and College Persistence (WP-05-03)

Research Area: Education Policy, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

How Large an Effect Can We Expect from School Reforms? (WP-05-04)

Research Area: Education Policy, Performance Measurement and Rewards, Poverty, Race and Inequality, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

Search Profiling with Partial Knowledge of Deterrence (WP-05-05)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research, Urban Policy and Community Development

Welfare State Persistence in OECD Democracies (WP-05-06)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Who Should Govern Congress? The Salary Grab of 1873 and the Coalition of Reform (WP-05-07)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Who Deliberates? Discursive Participation in America (WP-05-08)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Actual versus Perceived Online Abilities: The Difference Gender Makes (WP-05-09)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Farewell to Maternalism? State Policies and Mothers’ Employment (WP-05-10)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Examining Gender Gaps in Sociopolitical Attitudes: It’s Not Mars and Venus (WP-05-11)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Of Men, Women, and Motivation: A Role Congruity Account (WP-05-12)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Do Nonprofit and For-profit Organizations Respond Differently to Incentives? Behavior in the Mixed Hospice Industry (WP-05-13)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards

“Chain Enrollment” and College “Enclaves”: Benefits and Drawbacks for Latino College Students (WP-04-01)

Research Area: Education Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Welfare Reform and Economic Freedom: Low-Income Mothers’ Decisions About Work at Home and in the Market (WP-04-02)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Education Policy, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Punishment and Democracy: The Significance of the Disenfranchisement of Nonincarcerated Felons and Ex-Felons (WP-04-03)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Partisanship and Contested Election Cases in the House of Representatives, 1789-2002 (WP-04-04)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Who Influences U.S. Foreign Policy? (WP-04-05)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

Family Planning Policy and Development Discourse in Trinidad & Tobago: A Case Study in Nationalism and Women’s Equality (WP-04-06)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Social Provision and Regulation: Theories of States, Social Policies, and Modernity (WP-04-07)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Why Private Firms, Governmental Agencies, and Nonprofit Organizations Behave Both Alike and Differently: Application to the Hospital Industry (WP-04-08)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards

The Effect of State Policies on the Market for Private Nongroup Health Insurance (WP-04-09)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards

Momentary Emotions and Physiological Stress Levels in the Everyday Lives of Working Parents (WP-03-01)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Social Disparities and Health

Cleaning Up Their Act: The Impacts of Marriage and Cohabitation on Licit and Illicit Drug Use (WP-03-02)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies

Employment and Child Care Decisions of Mothers and the Well-Being of Their Children (WP-03-03)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Policy, Administration, and Instructional Practice: "Loose Coupling" Revisited (WP-03-04)

Research Area: Education Policy

Empathy or Antipathy? The Consequences of Racially and Socially Diverse Peers on Attitudes and Behaviors (WP-03-05)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Education Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Women's Employment Among Blacks, Whites, and Three Groups of Latinas: Do More Privileged Women Have Higher Employment? (WP-03-06)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Education Policy, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Unemployment Insurance Tax Burdens and Benefits: Funding Family Leave and Reforming the Payroll Tax (WP-03-07)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Parties as Procedural Coalitions in Congress: Evidence from a Natural Experiment (WP-03-08)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Framing the Growth Debate (WP-03-09)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

How Should We Measure Consumer Confidence (Sentiment)?: Evidence from the Michigan Survey of Consumers (WP-03-10)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

Differentiation Strategy and Market Deregulation: Local Telecommunication Entry in the Late 1990s (WP-03-11)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Why Are Some Academic Fields Tipping Toward Female? The Sex Composition of U.S. Fields of Doctoral Degree Receipt, 1971-1998 (WP-03-12)

Research Area: Education Policy, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Toward Gender Equality: Progress and Bottlenecks (WP-03-13)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Gender and Economic Sociology (WP-03-14)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Gender Gaps in Sociopolitical Attitudes: A Social Psychological Analysis (WP-03-15)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Entry Deterrence in Hospital Procedure Markets: A Simple Model of Learning-by-Doing (WP-03-16)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards

How Do Hospitals Respond to Price Changes? (WP-03-17)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards

Identity, Work, and Welfare Reform: A Qualitative Analysis (WP-02-01)

Research Area: Poverty, Race and Inequality

Social Security Expectations and Retirement Savings Decisions (WP-02-02)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

Covenants & Conventions (WP-02-03)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Labor Supply at the Extensive and Intensive Margins: The EITC, Welfare, and Hours Worked (WP-02-04)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Labor Supply Effects of Social Insurance (WP-02-05)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Borrowing During Unemployment: Unsecured Debt as a Safety Net (WP-02-06)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Wages of Virtue: The Relative Pay of Care Work (WP-02-07)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Welfare Reform and Families in the Child Welfare System (WP-02-08)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Moving and Changing: How Places Change People Who Move Into Them (WP-02-09)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality, Urban Policy and Community Development

Objective Functions and Compensation Structures in Nonprofit and For-Profit Organizations: Evidence from the "Mixed" Hospital Industry (WP-02-10)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards

The Price of Doing Good: Executive Compensation in Nonprofit Organizations (WP-02-11)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards

Globalization and Energy Policy: The Critical Role of the State and Its Constituencies (WP-02-12)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

The Political Paradox of Gender: The Attitudes of Women and Men Toward Socially Compassionate and Morally Traditional Policies, 1973-1998 (WP-02-13)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Measuring the Well-Being of the Poor Using Income and Consumption (WP-02-14)

Research Area: Poverty, Race and Inequality, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

Alone in the City? An Intellectual History of Social Isolation (WP-02-15)

Research Area: Poverty, Race and Inequality, Urban Policy and Community Development

Unemployment and Workers' Compensation Programs: Rationale, Design, Labor Supply, and Income Support (WP-02-16)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

The Apple Does Not Fall Far From the Tree (WP-02-17)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Poverty, Race and Inequality, Social Disparities and Health

Private and Social Incentives for Fertility: Israeli Puzzles (WP-02-18)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

Randomized Experiments in Education: Why Are They So Rare? (WP-02-19)

Research Area: Education Policy, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

Organizational Effects on Learning: A Conceptual Model and Research Review (WP-02-20)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Education Policy, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Two Revolutions in Educational Attainment Research: Their Impact on Public Understanding and Social Policy (WP-02-21)

Research Area: Education Policy, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

High Stakes Accountability in Urban Elementary Schools: Challenging or Reproducing Inequality? (WP-02-22)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Education Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Lawyers for Conservative Causes: Clients, Ideology, and Social Distance (WP-02-23)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Antitrust Policy and Hospital Mergers: Recommendations for a New Approach (WP-02-24)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

The Relationship Between Pricing Behavior and Ownership Type in the Wisconsin Nursing Home Industry, 1984-1995 (WP-02-25)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards

An Examination of the Presence of Ownership Effects in Mixed Markets (WP-02-26)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards

Social Movements, Field Frames, and Industry Emergence: A Cultural-Political Perspective on U.S. Recycling (WP-02-27)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

If Low-Income Blacks Are Given a Chance to Live in White Neighborhoods, Will They Stay? Examining Mobility Patterns with Quasi-Experimental Data (WP-02-28)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality, Urban Policy and Community Development

An Evaluation of Instrumental Variable Strategies for Estimating the Effects of Catholic Schooling (WP-02-29)

Research Area: Education Policy, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

The Social Prerequisites of Success: Can College Structure Reduce the Need for Social Know-How? (WP-02-30)

Research Area: Education Policy

The Black-White Other Test Score Gap: Academic Achievement Among Mixed Race Adolescents (WP-02-31)

Research Area: Education Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Violence in Intimate Relationships as Women Transition from Welfare to Work (WP-02-32)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

The Impact of Welfare Reform on Academic Outcomes: Does Parental Work Boost Grades? (WP-02-33)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Education Policy, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

When Does Gender Trump Money? Bargaining and Time in Household Work (WP-02-34)

Research Area: Child, Adolescent and Family Studies, Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality

Entry and Firm Location in Mixed Industries: Examining the Impact of Ownership Type on Entry Decisions in Long-Term Care (WP-02-35)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards

Nonprofit Organization Behavior in For-Profit Markets (WP-02-36)

Research Area: Performance Measurement and Rewards

The Mark of a Criminal Record (WP-02-37)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality, Urban Policy and Community Development

Trusting What You Know: Information, Knowledge, and Confidence in Social Security (WP-02-38)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Quantitative Methods for Policy Research

"Civil Death" or Civil Rights? Public Attitudes Towards Felon Disfranchisement in the United States (WP-02-39)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality, Urban Policy and Community Development

Ballot Manipulation and the “Menace of Negro Domination”: Racial Threat and Felon Disfranchisement in the United States, 1850-2000 (WP-02-40)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy, Poverty, Race and Inequality, Urban Policy and Community Development

Government Redistribution in the Shadow of Legislative Elections: A Study of the Illinois Member Initiative Grants Program (WP-02-41)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Alternatives Within the White House Public Opinion Apparatus: Lyndon Johnson, Vietnam, and “Hawkish” Opinion Mail (WP-02-42)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Privacy as Property: News and the Right of Publicity (WP-02-43)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Digital Dispersion: An Industrial and Geographic Census of Commercial Internet Use (WP-02-44)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy

Global Policy Fields: Conflicts and Settlements in the Emergence of Organized International Attention to Official Statistics, 1853-1947 (WP-02-45)

Research Area: Politics, Institutions and Public Policy