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Should electric vehicle purchase subsidies be linked with scrappage requirements? J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-04 Kevin Ankney, Benjamin Leard
We build a vehicle purchase and disposal model to analyze a policy that links a new electric vehicle (EV) purchase subsidy with a used gasoline vehicle scrappage requirement. We evaluate the policy based on changes in sales, scrappage, subsidy dollars spent, and emissions reductions. We find that linking a purchase subsidy with a scrappage requirement is expected to result in fewer new EV sales and
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Intermarriage amid immigration status uncertainty: Evidence from DACA J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-04 Catalina Amuedo‐Dorantes, Chunbei Wang
In 2012, the Obama administration issued the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program by executive order. Since then, more than 800,000 undocumented immigrants who arrived as children have benefited from renewable 2‐year reprieves from deportation and work permits. In 2017, the Trump administration announced it would end DACA—an announcement immediately followed by court challenges. We
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Should public policy promote marriage to improve well‐being? J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-19
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Public policy for family equality J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 Paula Fomby
W. Bradford Wilcox and Alan Hawkins (hereafter, WH) introduce a marriage paradox: in the United States, the benefits to marriage are increasing and its social value remains high, but people are increasingly disinclined to get married. Why? My response is that the gains to marriage are uneven and uncertain, and for today's adults, getting and staying married is largely predicated on costly prior personal
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Bridge the marriage divide, don't accept it J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 W. Bradford Wilcox, Alan J. Hawkins
There is no longer any question that men, women, children, and even communities are better off, on average, when marriage grounds and guides the context of family life (Kearney, 2023; Wilcox, 2024). In communities and households where marriage is the norm, for instance, the American Dream is stronger (Chetty et al. 2014; Wilcox, 2024), rates of child poverty are lower and college graduation higher
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Evaluating the effects of geographic adjustments on poverty measures using self‐reported financial well‐being J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 Jeff Larrimore
A central aspect of poverty measurement is identifying the people and places experiencing financial hardships. This paper explores this relationship using the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Financial Well‐Being Scale, which reflects individuals’ self‐assessments of financial challenges. Using this measure, for every 1 percentage point increase in a state's official poverty rate for working‐age
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Prioritize families, not marriage J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 Paula Fomby
Does marriage improve well-being for parents and children? It can certainly appear that way. In the contemporary United States, children who grow up with married parents perform better in school, enjoy better physical and emotional health, more often begin and finish college, and enter stable employment at higher rates compared to peers who grow up in other family arrangements (Brown, 2010). Married
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The Marriage Paradox: Understanding and remedying the paradoxical place of marriage in America J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 W. Bradford Wilcox, Alan J. Hawkins
Marriage has fallen upon hard times in the United States in the last 6 decades. Demographically, in the wake of the divorce revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, and the ongoing decline in the marriage rate, this social institution has lost significant ground as the anchor of adulthood and foundation of family life (Cherlin, 2009; Wilcox, 2024). Culturally, support for the values and virtues that sustain
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Poverty in the Pandemic: Policy Lessons From COVID‐19 by ZacharyParolin. New York: Russell Sage, 2023, 288 pp., $42.50 (paperback). J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-18 Vincent A. Fusaro
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Are public housing projects good for kids after all? J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-18 Jeehee Han, Amy Ellen Schwartz
Is public housing bad for children? The net effect of moving into public housing on children's academic outcomes is theoretically ambiguous and likely to depend on changes to neighborhood and school characteristics. Drawing on detailed individual‐level longitudinal data on New York City public school students, we exploit plausibly random variation in the precise timing of entry into public housing
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Deliberative Democracy, Public Policy, and Local Government by JoannaPodgórska‐Rykała. London: Routledge, 2024, 220 pp., $55.79 (eBook). ISBN 978–1032670799. J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-05 Anshar Syukur, Husain Syam, Haedar Akib
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Agents and Structures in Cross‐Border Governance: North American and European Perspectives by BrunoDupeyron, AndreaNoferini, and TonyPayan (Eds.). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023, 400 pp., $85.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 978–1487502881. J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-05 Yuzhu Zeng
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Police reform from the top down: Experimental evidence on police executive support for civilian oversight J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-02 Ian T. Adams, Joshua McCrain, Daniel S. Schiff, Kaylyn Jackson Schiff, Scott M. Mourtgos
The accountability of police to the public is imperative for a functioning democracy. The opinions of police executives—pivotal actors for implementing oversight policies—are an understudied, critical component of successful reform efforts. We use a pre‐registered survey experiment administered to all U.S. municipal police chiefs and county sheriffs to assess whether police executives’ attitudes towards
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Course grades as a signal of student achievement: Evidence of grade inflation before and after COVID-19 J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-21 Dan Goldhaber, Maia Goodman Young
There is widespread speculation and some evidence that grades and grading standards changed during the pandemic, making higher grades relatively easier to achieve. In this paper we use longitudinal data from students in Washington State to investigate middle and high school grades in math, science, and English pre- and post-pandemic. Our descriptive analysis of the data reveals that—in accordance with
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For‐profit milk in nonprofit cartons? The case of nonprofit charter schools subcontracting with for‐profit education management organizations J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-21 Stephane Lavertu, Long Tran
There is growing concern that some public service providers may be nonprofit in name but not in fact. We consider this issue in the context of nonprofit charter schools, which sometimes subcontract their daily operations to for‐profit management organizations. We use unique data from Ohio to study how nonprofit charters’ reliance on for‐profit operators affects student achievement and attendance. The
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Nudging increases take-up of employment services: Evidence from a large field experiment J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-29 Vince Hopkins, Jeff Dorion
When people lose their job, labor market programs help them get back to work. But administrative burdens can hinder enrollment in such programs. We report results from a mixed-method project to increase enrollment in employment services during the first 3 months of the COVID-19 pandemic. First, we interviewed jobseekers and frontline staff to uncover administrative burdens. Second we worked with staff
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Better off by risk adjustment? Socioeconomic disparities in care utilization in Sweden following a payment reform J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Anders Anell, Margareta Dackehag, Jens Dietrichson, Lina Maria Ellegård, Gustav Kjellsson
Reducing socioeconomic health inequalities is a key goal of most health systems. A challenge in this regard is that healthcare providers may have incentives to avoid or undertreat patients who are relatively costly to treat. Due to the socioeconomic gradient in health, individuals with low socioeconomic status (SES) are especially likely to be negatively affected by such attempts. To counter these
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The long‐run effects of temporary protection from deportation J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Jorgen M. Harris, Rhiannon Jerch
This paper estimates the effect of Temporary Protected Status (TPS), a temporary legalization policy, on the incomes and property ownership of Salvadoran recipients over 20 years. We compare likely undocumented Salvadoran immigrants eligible for TPS to a control group of likely undocumented immigrants ineligible for TPS in an event study design that allows us to observe the policy's effects over 2
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More doctors in town now? Evidence from Medicaid expansions J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Jason Huh, Jianjing Lin
We examine how physicians’ practice locations are affected by Medicaid expansions. We focus on the dramatic Medicaid eligibility expansions for pregnant women that took place between the early 1980s and the early 1990s. Following a recently‐developed estimation strategy, we identify the change in OB/GYN supply due to the expansions in an event‐study framework. We find that OB/GYN counts per capita
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The effects of a newcomer program on the academic achievement of English Learners J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Camila Morales, Monica Mogollon
School districts serving newcomer English Learners (ELs) generally offer short-term intensive English programs designed to teach foundational language skills and guide students’ integration into the U.S. school system. Despite the growing popularity of newcomer programs, however, there is limited rigorous evidence of their efficacy. In this paper, we present evidence on the causal effect of an intensive
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Which direction should we head to get to our North Star? J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Jason Furman
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Building blocks for U.S. health insurance policy J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-01
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A blueprint for U.S. health insurance policy J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein
There is no shortage of proposals for U.S. health insurance reform. In our recent book, We've Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care (Einav & Finkelstein, 2023), we offered one more. It grew out of our internal debates over healthcare reform, between two academic economists who work (often together) on U.S. health policy but have not yet been involved in making that policy. We started by trying
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Response to Jason Furman J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein
We are pleased that Jason Furman responded to our proposal by recommending that the book (on which we base the proposal) should be “required reading by specialists and non-specialists alike” and noting that he “would be perfectly happy if [our] proposal were adopted.” Both comments are extremely gratifying to receive from a skilled and insightful economist, and particularly from someone who was involved—at
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Expanding access to identification cards and social programs: Experimental evidence from Panamá J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Ángela María Reyes, Benjamin Roseth, Diego Vera‐Cossio
We experimentally analyze the effects of an intervention to induce the renewal of identification cards on access to a government social program in Panamá. On‐time renewals and access to government transfers increased by 10 and 3.6 percentage points, respectively. Simple reminders about expiration dates generated larger effects than also enabling individuals to renew their documents through an online
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Policy‐Making As Designing: The Added Value of Design Thinking for Public Administration and Public Policy by ArwinvanBuuren, Jenny M.Lewis, and B.Guy Peters, Eds. Policy Press, an imprint of Bristol University Press, 2023, 244 pp., $149.95 (hardcover). ISBN 978–1447365938. J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Adrianus Aprilius, Albertus Yosep Maturan, Fransiskus Wuniyu, Putri Inggrid Maria Risamasu
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Non-monetary sanctions as tax enforcement tools: Evaluating California's top 500 program J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Chad Angaretis, Brian Galle, Paul R. Organ, Allen Prohofsky
Many U.S. states and countries around the world use non-monetary sanctions, including public disclosure, license suspension, and withholding of other government-provided benefits or privileges, to encourage tax compliance. Little is known about the effectiveness of these programs. Using administrative tax microdata from California's “Top 500” program, we study whether notices warning of the imminent
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Burdens on the gateway to the state: Administrative burdens in the registration of people experiencing homelessness in Belgium and the Netherlands J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Laure-lise Robben, Rik Peeters, Arjan Widlak
Population registries are the gateway to public services, benefits, and rights. However, despite clear formal rules and procedures, people eligible for registration may still face administrative burdens in obtaining access. In this article, we study the case of the municipal registration of people who experience homelessness in Belgium and the Netherlands—a group that typically suffers from administrative
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Do government performance signals affect citizen satisfaction? J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Weijie Wang, Taek Kyu Kim
Previous studies have confirmed the causal effect of performance information on citizen satisfaction, but they were primarily conducted in survey experimental settings that featured hypothetical and abstract scenarios and primed respondents to look at certain aspects of performance information. Whether the causal effects hold in the real world, which is a much more complex information environment,
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Response to Diane W. Schanzenbach J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Richard Reeves
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The case for helping boys and men in education J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Richard Reeves
When feminist scholars cite a “gendered injustice,” it was once a safe bet that they would be referring to inequities disfavoring girls or women. No longer. The feminist philosopher Cordelia Fine, for example, now uses the term to describe the wide gaps in U.S. education where, as a group, boys and men are lagging behind their female peers (Fine, 2023). To say that the male–female education differences
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Help boys, but first do no harm J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Diane W. Schanzenbach
In his recent book, Richard Reeves (2022) brought to the fore the important challenges faced by men and boys. The rapidly changing economy and evolving social norms have been particularly hard on men, resulting in too many of them—one in nine prime-age men in 2022—not in the labor force. This in turn influences a range of additional social maladies including fewer marriages (and fewer children living
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Minding the (achievement) gap J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Diane W. Schanzenbach
Fundamentally, Reeves and I agree about the importance of boys’ educational under-achievement and the need to openly discuss and address it. I emphasize that when boys fail to thrive in school, it has downstream consequences not only for their own lives but for our nation's economic growth. Further, boys’ success need not come at the expense of girls’ success. This is not zero-sum; we all benefit when
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Conflicting economic policies and mental health: Evidence from the UK national living wage and benefits freeze J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-07 Lateef Akanni, Otto Lenhart, Alec Morton
This study evaluates the mental health effects of two simultaneously implemented but conflicting policies in the UK: the National Living Wage and the benefits freeze policy. We employed the Callaway and Sant'Anna (2021) DID estimator to evaluate the heterogeneous policy effects, and we found that NLW leads to positive improvements in mental health. Also, we find the negative impact of the benefits
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Does one plus one always equal two? Examining complementarities in educational interventions J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-06 Umut Özek
Public policies targeting individuals based on need often impose disproportionate burden on communities that lack the resources to implement these policies effectively. In an elementary school setting, I examine whether community‐level interventions focusing on similar needs and providing resources to build capacity in these communities could improve outcomes by improving the effectiveness of individual‐level
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A review of the effects of legal access to same‐sex marriage J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-24 M. V. Lee Badgett, Christopher S. Carpenter, Maxine J. Lee, Dario Sansone
On June 26, 2015, the United States Supreme Court extended nationwide legal access to same‐sex marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges, following a series of court cases and legislative activities at the state and district levels. Similar policies have diffused throughout other countries, especially in western Europe and the Americas. Researchers have used the staggered rollout of legal same‐sex marriage
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Policy research institutes’ role in the development of evidence for evidence-based policymaking in the United States J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Richard V. Burkhauser, Susan V. Burkhauser
Policy research institutes in the United States play an important role in the creation of evidence for evidence-based policymaking. This is the case with respect to their advocacy for the gathering and broad dissemination of “Big Data” and in the publication of policy analysis in the academic literature using these data. But they play a much more significant role, via non-refereed working papers, in
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Teacher salaries, a policy brief J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Jim Wyckoff
Many schools are experiencing troubling numbers of vacant teaching positions, with student achievement substantially below pre-pandemic levels. At the same time many states and districts are discussing substantial across-the-board increases in teacher salaries, often aspiring to some arbitrary benchmark. General increases in teacher salaries may well be warranted in some, or even many, districts. However
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Child support policy: Areas of emerging agreement and ongoing debate J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Maria Cancian, Robert Doar
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Infant safe havens J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Lindsey Rose Bullinger
I estimate whether the ability to anonymously surrender an infant to a safe haven site such as a hospital, police station, or fire station in the United States affects child well-being. By analyzing variation in state safe haven policies, I find safe haven laws significantly increase infant foster care entrance. I further find suggestive evidence of safe havens reducing infant deaths. The mortality
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Measuring returns to experience using supervisor ratings of observed performance: The case of classroom teachers J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Courtney Bell, Jessalynn James, Eric S. Taylor, James Wyckoff
We study the returns to experience in teaching, estimated using supervisor ratings from classroom observations. We describe the assumptions required to interpret changes in observation ratings over time as the causal effect of experience on performance. We compare two difference‐in‐differences strategies: the two‐way fixed effects estimator common in the literature, and an alternative which avoids
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Monthly unconditional income supplements starting at birth: Experiences among mothers of young children with low incomes in the U.S. J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Sarah Halpern-Meekin, Lisa A. Gennetian, Jill Hoiting, Laura Stilwell, Lauren Meyer
Recently, U.S. advocates and funders have supported direct cash transfers for individuals and families as an efficient, immediate, and non-paternalistic path to poverty alleviation. Open questions remain, however, about their implementation. We address these using data from debit card transactions, customer service call-line logs, and in-depth interviews from a randomized control study of a monthly
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Effect of vaccine recommendations on consumer and firm behavior J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Brandyn F. Churchill, Laura E. Henkhaus, Emily C. Lawler
We provide novel evidence on how firms and patients respond to vaccine recommendations. In 2014, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommended that elderly adults receive the pneumococcal vaccine Prevnar 13. Using a difference‐in‐differences strategy, we first show that, following the recommendation, the manufacturer (Pfizer) increased direct‐to‐consumer advertising. We then document
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The consequences of high-fatality school shootings for surviving students J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Phillip B. Levine, Robin McKnight
This paper examines the impact of high-fatality school shootings on the subsequent outcomes of the survivors of those events. We focus specifically on the shootings at Columbine High School (Littleton, CO), Sandy Hook Elementary (Newtown, CT), and Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School (Parkland, FL). We assess the subsequent educational record, including attendance and test scores, and the long-term
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The impact of parental benefits on disadvantaged households J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Nathalie Havet, Guy Lacroix, Morgane Plantier
Over the past 25 years, the Government of Quebec (Canada) has introduced a number of relatively novel policies aimed at fighting poverty such as the Universal Child Care Program (UCCP) in 1997 and the Quebec Parental Insurance Program (QPIP) in 2006. Since its inception, the QPIP has provided a means-tested supplementary benefits scheme for disadvantaged households. The scheme yields a well-defined
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The impact of paid sick leave mandates on women's employment and economic security J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Meredith Slopen
The United States does not guarantee job-protected paid leave to workers when they or a family member are ill or need to seek medical care. Prior research shows that women are less likely to have access to paid sick leave (PSL) through their employers. I examine the impacts of three recent state-level paid sick leave policies in California, Massachusetts, and Oregon on women's employment and economic
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Can information and advising affect postsecondary participation and attainment for military personnel? Evidence from a large-scale experiment with the U.S. Army J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Andrew C. Barr, Kelli A. Bird, Benjamin L. Castleman, William L. Skimmyhorn
Despite generous financial aid, military veterans have high rates of undermatch and generally poor postsecondary outcomes. We conducted a large-scale, multi-arm field experiment with the U.S. Army to investigate whether personalized information about postsecondary options and access to advising affects service members’ postsecondary choices and outcomes. We find no impact of the intervention on whether
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Minimum quality regulations and the demand for childcare labor J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Umair Ali, Chris M. Herbst, Christos A. Makridis
Minimum quality regulations are often justified in the childcare market because of the presence of information frictions between parents and providers. However, regulations can also have unintended consequences for the quantity and quality of services provided. In this paper, we merge new data on states’ childcare regulations for maximum classroom group sizes and child-to-staff ratios with the universe
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Are algorithms biased in education? Exploring racial bias in predicting community college student success J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Kelli A. Bird, Benjamin L. Castleman, Yifeng Song
Predictive analytics are increasingly pervasive in higher education. However, algorithmic bias has the potential to reinforce racial inequities in postsecondary success. We provide a comprehensive and translational investigation of algorithmic bias in two separate prediction models—one predicting course completion, the second predicting degree completion. We show that if either model were used to target
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Waivers for the public service loan forgiveness program: Who could benefit from take-up? J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Diego A. Briones, Nathaniel Ruby, Sarah Turner
For workers employed in the public and nonprofit sectors, the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program offers the potential for full forgiveness of federal student loans for those with 10 years of full-time work experience. A year-long waiver issued by the Department of Education in 2021 to address administrative problems in program access provided a new path to PSLF relief for many borrowers
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Matching it up: Non-standard work and job satisfaction J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Katarzyna Bech-Wysocka, Magdalena Smyk, Joanna Tyrowicz, Lucas van der Velde
We study the link between working arrangements and job satisfaction and provide novel insights on the (mis)match between preferred and actual working arrangements. We propose an empirical strategy to identify this mismatch at an individual level and apply this approach to data from the European Working Conditions Survey. We demonstrate that the extent of mismatch differs across European countries,