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Non‐monetary sanctions as tax enforcement tools: Evaluating California's top 500 program J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 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 3.917) 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 3.917) 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 3.917) 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 3.917) 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 3.917) 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 3.917) 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 3.917) 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 3.917) 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 3.917) 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 3.917) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 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 3.917) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 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 3.917) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Maria Cancian, Robert Doar
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Infant safe havens J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) 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 3.917) 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 3.917) 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 3.917) 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 3.917) 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 3.917) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 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 3.917) 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 3.917) 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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Are algorithms biased in education? Exploring racial bias in predicting community college student success J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) 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 3.917) 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 3.917) 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,
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Self-service bans and gasoline prices: The effect of allowing consumers to pump their own gas J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Vitor Melo
Most of the world's population lives in countries that ban the self-service sale of gasoline. Causal effects of this regulation can hardly be assessed in these countries due to a lack of policy changes, but a recent quasi-experiment in the state of Oregon allows us to analyze the impact of the ban. From 1992 to 2017, the state of Oregon was one of two U.S. states that banned self-service at gasoline
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The impact of right-to-work laws on long hours and work schedules J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Rania Gihleb, Osea Giuntella, Jian Qi Tan
Unions play a crucial role in determining wages and employment outcomes. However, union bargaining power may also have important effects on non-pecuniary working conditions. We study the effects of right-to-work laws, which removed agency shop protection and weakened union powers on long hours and non-standard work schedules that may adversely affect workers’ health and safety. We exploit variation
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Selective exercise of discretion in disability insurance awards J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Pilar Garcia-Gomez, Pierre Koning, Owen O'Donnell, Carlos Riumalló-Herl
Variation in assessor stringency in awarding benefits leaves applicants exposed to uninsured risk that could be systematic if discretion were exercised selectively. Using administrative data on disability insurance (DI) applications in the Netherlands, we show that even in one of the most rule-based DI programs, there is still between assessor variation in awards, and there is systematic variation
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Did the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid eligibility expansions crowd out private health insurance coverage? J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Conor Lennon
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) provided funding to help states expand Medicaid eligibility to those earning up to 138% of the Federal Poverty Level. Such expansions in Medicaid eligibility, however, could “crowd out” private insurance coverage, including changes in coverage relating to other ACA provisions. To estimate the extent of such crowd out, I use a difference-in-differences empirical approach
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Grads on the go: Measuring college-specific labor markets for graduates J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Johnathan G. Conzelmann, Steven W. Hemelt, Brad J. Hershbein, Shawn Martin, Andrew Simon, Kevin M. Stange
This paper introduces a new measure of the labor markets served by colleges and universities across the United States. About 50% of recent college graduates are living and working in the metro area nearest the institution they attended, with this figure climbing to 67% in-state. The geographic dispersion of alumni is more than twice as great for highly selective 4-year institutions as for 2-year institutions
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Drinking water contaminant concentrations and birth outcomes J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Richard W. DiSalvo, Elaine L. Hill
Previous research in the U.S. has found negative health effects of contamination when it triggers regulatory violations. An important question is whether levels of contamination that do not trigger a health-based violation impact health. We study the impact of drinking water contamination in community water systems on birth outcomes using drinking water sampling results data in Pennsylvania. We focus
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Medicaid generosity and food hardship among children J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2023-12-03 Nicholas Moellman, Cody N. Vaughn
We explore the role of the largest means-tested transfer program, Medicaid, on multiple measures of food hardship among households with children, including measures that capture hardship explicitly experienced by children. Using data from the 2001 to 2020 waves of the December Current Population Survey, we identify the effect of having a Medicaid-eligible child on household food hardship by exploiting
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Habit and skill retention in recycling J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Dylan Brewer, Samantha Cameron
From 2002 to 2004, New York City ceased collecting residential glass and plastic recycling due to city budgetary pressure. We use data on recycling rates in New York City, New Jersey, and Massachusetts in a difference-in-differences (DID) research design to determine whether this exogenous pause weakened previously formed recycling habits. Despite a 50% decline in the overall recycling rate in 2003
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Assessment frequency and equity of the property tax: Latest evidence from Philadelphia J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Yilin Hou, Lei Ding, David J. Schwegman, Alaina G. Barca
Philadelphia's Actual Valuation Initiative adopted in 2013 creates a unique opportunity for us to test whether improved reassessments at short intervals to true market value improve property tax equity. Based on a difference-in-differences framework using parcel-level data matched with transactions in Philadelphia and 15 comparable cities, this study finds positive evidence on equity outcomes from
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Personalizing homelessness prevention: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 David C. Phillips, James X. Sullivan
Through a randomized controlled trial, we test whether providing personalized case management alongside emergency financial assistance more effectively prevents homelessness than financial assistance alone. For a sample of young adults and families with children who are at risk of homelessness, our results indicate that participants assigned to case management and financial assistance are more likely
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The limits of awards for anti-corruption: Experimental and ethnographic evidence from Uganda J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Mark T. Buntaine, Alex Bagabo, Tanner Bangerter, Paul Bukuluki, Brigham Daniels
Conventional anti-corruption approaches focus on detecting and punishing the misuse of public office. These approaches are often ineffective in settings where social norms do not support reporting and punishing corruption. Attempting to build anti-corruption norms, we conducted a field experiment in Uganda that offered elected, local leaders the chance to earn awards for overseeing development projects
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The racial wealth gap, financial aid, and college access J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Phillip B. Levine, Dubravka Ritter
We examine how the racial wealth gap interacts with financial aid in American higher education to generate a disparate impact on college access and outcomes. Retirement savings and home equity are excluded from the formula used to estimate the amount a family can afford to pay. All else equal, omitting those assets mechanically increases the financial aid available to families that hold them. White
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The impacts of COVID-19 on racial inequality in business earnings J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Robert Fairlie
Many small businesses closed in the pandemic, but were economic losses disproportionately felt by businesses owned by people of color? This paper provides the first study of the impacts of COVID-19 on racial inequality in business earnings. Pandemic-induced losses to business earnings in 2020 were 16% to 19% for all business owners. Racial inequality increased in the pandemic: Black business owners
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Pandemic-era changes to medicaid enrollment and funding: Implications for future policy and research J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2023-10-21 Laura Dague, Benjamin Ukert
The COVID-19 public health emergency led to federal legislation that changed the landscape of Medicaid coverage for low-income people in the United States. Policy responses led to a surge in Medicaid caseloads due to new rules preventing Medicaid disenrollment, and total Medicaid enrollment increased more from 2020 to 2023 than the net increase in insurance coverage from 2013 to 2017 following the
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Long-term impacts of primary school scholarships: Evidence from Cambodia J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Andreas de Barros, Deon Filmer
This randomized trial investigates the long-term effects of a primary school scholarship program in rural Cambodia. We estimate impacts—9 years after program inception—on educational attainment, cognitive skills, socio-emotional outcomes, labor market outcomes, and well-being. Our results point to systematic improvements in educational attainment but no average impacts on long-term cognitive or socio-emotional
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The crime effect of refugees J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Naci Mocan, Semih Tumen, Belgi Turan
We analyze the impact on crime of millions of refugees who entered and stayed in Turkey as a result of the civil war in Syria. Using a novel administrative data source on the flow of offense records to prosecutors’ offices in 81 provinces of the country each year, and utilizing the staggered movement of refugees across provinces over time, we estimate instrumental variables models that address potential
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Fiscal transfers, local government, and entrepreneurship J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Piotr Danisewicz, Steven Ongena
Can local government spending spur entrepreneurial activity? To answer this question, we study a setting where, around multiple pre-determined and non-manipulable thresholds, municipalities with lower tax revenues receive direct and different monetary grants from the national budget. Employing a fuzzy regression discontinuity design, we find a positive impact of fiscal transfers on the number of firms
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Public policy toward professional sports stadiums: A review J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 John Charles Bradbury, Dennis Coates, Brad R. Humphreys
This article informs public policy toward professional sports stadiums, which state and local governments routinely subsidize. Our analysis provides a history of stadium construction and funding in the U.S., documenting trends that portend a forthcoming new wave of stadiums. Despite robust evidence that stadiums are not economic development catalysts and confer limited social benefits, public outlays
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Unemployment Insurance benefit reduction and food hardship J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Chandra Dhakal, Yufeng Luo, Shaonan Wang, Chen Zhen
We leverage the sharp drop in unemployment insurance (UI) benefits following the expiration of the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation program to estimate the consumption smoothing effect of UI. The $600/week decline in supplemental UI benefits is estimated to reduce total food spending by 9.7% and the odds of having food sufficiency by 6.0%. The estimate for food spending translates to a marginal
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Forecasts for a post-Roe America: The effects of increased travel distance on abortions and births J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Caitlin Myers
I compile novel data measuring county-level travel distances to abortion facilities and resident abortion rates from 2009 through 2020. Using these data, I implement a difference-in-difference research design measuring the effects of driving distance to the nearest abortion facility on abortions and births. The results indicate large but diminishing effects: an increase from 0 to 100 miles is estimated
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The re-emerging suicide crisis in the U.S.: Patterns, causes and solutions J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Dave E. Marcotte, Benjamin Hansen
The suicide rate in the United States has risen nearly 40% since 2000. This increase is puzzling because suicide rates had been falling for decades at the end of the 20th century. In this paper, we review important facts about the changing rate of suicide. General trends do not tell the story of important differences across groups—suicide rates rose substantially among middle-aged persons between 2005
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Does visitation in prison reduce recidivism? J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Yuki Otsu
Visitation in prison is associated with a low recidivism rate after release, but the causality is not clear. This paper tries to estimate the effect of visitation experience on the recidivism outcome of state prisoners in Missouri, using an instrumental variable approach. The instrumental variable used for identification is the distance from a prison to an address before incarceration. The results
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Quasi-experimental evidence on the employment effects of the 2021 fully refundable monthly child tax credit J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Jessica Pac, Lawrence M. Berger
In this paper, we estimate the impact on employment of the 2021 Child Tax Credit (CTC) expansion, which increased the size of the benefit, made it fully refundable, and allowed for monthly receipt. We harness exogenous variation in monthly CTC eligibility by comparing employment among caregivers to that of childless workers before and after monthly payments commenced on July 15, 2021, using event study
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The nature, detection, and avoidance of harmful discrimination in criminal justice J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Brendan O'Flaherty, Rajiv Sethi, Morgan Williams
We provide a selective survey of the literature on discrimination by criminal justice agents, and argue for a taxonomy of harms that differs from conventional approaches. Discrimination can be self-defeating if it reduces welfare among targets of discrimination while serving no legitimate purpose for the discriminating party. Even if a legitimate purpose is served, discrimination can be deliberative
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State-mandated school-based BMI assessments and self-reported adolescent health behaviors J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2023-08-27 Brandyn F. Churchill
I provide novel evidence on the role of imperfect information in shaping childhood obesity. Between 2003 and 2017, 24 states began requiring schools to perform Body Mass Index assessments on students. Using the 1991 to 2017 National and State Youth Risk Behavior Surveys and a stacked difference-in-differences identification strategy, I show that these state-mandated school-based BMI assessments were
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Counterpoint – Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 C. Kirabo Jackson, Claudia Persico
We would like to highlight the significant overlap between Josh McGee's views and our own. It is refreshing that the public conversation has moved beyond the debate of whether money matters in education, and has shifted focus to the more substantive conversation of how much it matters and in which contexts its impact is more pronounced. We all actually agree on the fact that the effect of school spending
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Point column on school spending: Money matters J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 C. Kirabo Jackson, Claudia Persico
Here, we will make our best guess, based on the highest-quality evidence available, of what the effect would be of a policy that increases school spending on student outcomes. First, we establish a few key empirical facts about the historical relationship between school spending and student outcomes and also what the existing older literature found about this relationship.
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Evictions and psychiatric treatment J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Ashley C. Bradford, Johanna Catherine Maclean
Stable housing is critical for health, employment, education, and other social outcomes. Evictions reflect a form of housing instability that is experienced by millions of Americans each year. Inadequately treated psychiatric disorders have the potential to influence evictions in several ways. For example, these disorders may impede labor market performance and thus the ability to pay rent, or increase
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Labor mobility and the Affordable Care Act: Heterogeneous impacts of the preexisting conditions provision J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2023-08-20 Laura Connolly, Matt Hampton, Otto Lenhart
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) preexisting conditions provision ensures that insurance companies can no longer deny coverage, charge higher premiums, or exclude coverage due to a preexisting health condition. In this paper, we evaluate the impact of the provision on labor mobility. We use data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics for years 2009 through 2019 and estimate di
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Smoking, information, and education: The Royal College of Physicians and the new public health movement J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Jonathan James
On March 7, 1962 the Royal College of Physicians published a report entitled Smoking and Health that made the causal link between smoking and lung cancer clear and explicit. Using a historical data set that contains information on smoking from 1958 to 1965, I find a decrease in smoking for those with more schooling after the report's publication. I do not find a difference in the effect for those with
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Nurse practitioner scope of practice and patient harm: Evidence from medical malpractice payouts and adverse action reports J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Sara Markowitz, Andrew J. D. Smith
Many states have recently changed their scope of practice laws and granted full practice authority to nurse practitioners, allowing them to practice without oversight from physicians. Physician groups have argued against this change, citing patient safety concerns. In this paper, we use a ratio-in-ratio approach to evaluate whether the transition to full practice authority results in harm to patients
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Can text messages reduce incarceration in rural and vulnerable populations? J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Emily Owens, CarlyWill Sloan
Reducing failures to appear (FTA) in court is a top priority for criminal justice practitioners and advocates. However, existing work on reducing FTAs through text message reminders focuses on large urban jurisdictions and defendants who are housed. Using a field study in Shasta County, California, we evaluate whether text message outreach can increase court appearances for housed and unhoused populations
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Non-monetary obstacles to medical care: Evidence from postpartum contraceptives J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Barton Willage, Marisa Carlos, Kevin Callison
We use changes to Medicaid immediate postpartum policy to test whether non-monetary costs are meaningful obstacles to health care. Medicaid in several states currently covers long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs, including IUDs and implants) immediately following delivery of a child, eliminating much of the time-cost and stress associated with obtaining a LARC. Postpartum LARCs can reduce unintended