Journal of Policy Analysis and Management

Increasing Take‐Up of Social Benefits: A Meta‐Analysis of Field Experiments Can reducing administrative burdens increase the take-up of social benefits? This meta-analysis reviews 51 field experimental studies reporting 187 treatment effect sizes. Using the administrative bu...

Recently published at JPAM: "Increasing Take‐Up of Social Benefits: A Meta‐Analysis of Field Experiments" by Karl-Emil Bendtsen at Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen.
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CloserLook is JPAM’s podcast series highlighting cutting-edge policy research in education, health, criminal justice, housing, immigration, abortion, and more.
Explore all episodes: jpamscloserlook.podbean.com (3/3)

Shifting tax incidence: Evidence from the Washington State cannabis market We study how prices respond when a 25% gross receipts tax remitted by cannabis manufacturers was eliminated in Washington state and the retail excise tax was simultaneously increased from 25% to 37%.....

The episode draws on a recent JPAM article by
Benjamin Hansen, Kendall Houghton, Keaton Miller, & Caroline Weber: “Shifting tax incidence: Evidence from the Washington State cannabis market.”
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New Episode (#39) of JPAM’s A Closer Look podcast! 🎙️ Host Seth Gershenson (@au-spa.bsky.social) speaks with Caroline Weber about her recent JPAM article on the unintended consequences of cannabis tax reform for prices and welfare.
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Can Machine Learning Target Health Care Fraud? Evidence From Medicare Hospitalizations The United States spends more than $4 trillion per year on health care, largely conducted by private providers and reimbursed by insurers. A major concern in this system is overbilling and fraud by h...

Recently published at JPAM: "Can Machine Learning Target Health Care Fraud? Evidence From Medicare Hospitalizations" by Shubhranshu Shekhar, Jetson Leder-Luis, & Leman Akoglu.
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Closer Look is JPAM’s podcast series highlighting cutting-edge policy research in education, health, criminal justice, housing, immigration, abortion, and more. Explore all episodes here: jpamscloserlook.podbean.com
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Selective exercise of discretion in disability insurance awards 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 disab...

The episode draws on a recent JPAM article by Pilar Garcia-Gomez, Pierre Koning, Owen O'Donnell, and Carlos Riumalló-Herl: “Selective exercise of discretion in disability insurance awards.”
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New Episode (#38) of JPAM’s Closer Look Podcast!
Host Seth Gershenson (@AU_SPA) speaks with Pierre Koning and Carlos Riumalló-Herl, recipients of the 2025 Vernon Memorial Award, about their article “Selective exercise of discretion in disability insurance awards.”
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Broad‐Based Categorical Eligibility Policy and SNAP Participation The broad-based categorical eligibility (BBCE) policy allows states to bypass federal gross income and asset tests for supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP) eligibility. Policymakers often...

Recently published at JPAM: "Broad-Based Categorical Eligibility Policy and SNAP Participation" by Xingguo Wang, Pourya Valizadeh, Rodolfo Nayga Jr., Henry Bryant, & Bart Fischer.
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Loopholes and the Incidence of Public Services: Evidence From Funding Career and Technical Education In 2015, Michigan increased its Career and Technical Education (CTE) funding and changed its funding formula to reimburse programs based on student progression through program curricula. Although thi...

Recently published at JPAM: "Loopholes and the Incidence of Public Services: Evidence From Funding Career and Technical Education" by Thomas Goldring, Brian Jacob, Daniel Kreisman, & Michael David Ricks.
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Don't miss the #2025APPAM Point/Counterpoint Panel: The Future of the US Dept of Ed: Reform, Reinvention, or Retrenchment with Erdal Tekin, Amy Ellen Schwartz, Michael Alan Shires, & James Kvaal. Seating is first-come, first-served, so don't be late! Learn more: https://ow.ly/HevO50Xhyku

Beyond borders: Does firm‐level exposure to state and local paid sick leave mandates lead to intra‐firm spillovers? States and localities have passed labor standards to raise the floor on job quality, including mandating employer provision of paid sick leave (PSL). However, contemporary political polarization make....

Recently published in JPAM: "Beyond borders: Does firm-level exposure to state and local paid sick leave mandates lead to intra-firm spillovers" by Daniel Schneider and Kristen Harknett.
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🎙️ Closer Look is JPAM’s podcast series on policy research across education, health, criminal justice, housing, immigration, abortion, and more.

Catch all episodes here: jpamscloserlook.podbean.com (3/3)

Effects of center‐based child care on disadvantaged children: Evidence from a randomized research design This paper uses the random assignment of poor families to treatment and control conditions in the Comprehensive Child Development Program (CCDP) to estimate the effects of center-based child care enr....

📄 The episode draws on a recent JPAM article by Herbst entitled "Effects of center-based child care on disadvantaged children: Evidence from a randomized research design."
Read it here: doi.org/10.1002/pam.... (2/3)

🎧 New Episode (#37) of JPAM’s Closer Look Podcast!
Host Seth Gershenson (@au-spa.bsky.social) talks to Chris Herbst (@asupubaffairs.bsky.social) about an experimental evaluation of the Comprehensive Child Development Program.
Listen here: tinyurl.com/3f3pfzs4 (1/3)

Shifting tax incidence: Evidence from the Washington State cannabis market We study how prices respond when a 25% gross receipts tax remitted by cannabis manufacturers was eliminated in Washington state and the retail excise tax was simultaneously increased from 25% to 37%.....

Early view from JPAM: "Shifting tax incidence: Evidence from the Washington State cannabis market" by Benjamin Hansen, Kendall Houghton, Keaton Miller, & Caroline Weber.
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Measuring the effects of Obergefell v. Hodges: Revisiting same‐sex marriage legalization and mortgage demand The U.S. Supreme Court's 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges made same-sex marriage legal in all states. We estimate the effect of this landmark ruling on the mortgage demand of same-sex couples. Usi...

Early view from JPAM: "Measuring the effects of Obergefell v. Hodges: Revisiting same-sex marriage legalization and mortgage demand" by Nir Eilam and Hasan Shahid.
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Have U.S. gun buyback programs misfired? Gun buyback programs (GBPs), which use public funds to purchase civilians' privately-owned firearms, aim to reduce gun violence. However, next to nothing is known about their effects on firearm-relat...

Early view from JPAM: "Have U.S. gun buyback programs misfired?" by Toshio Ferrazares, Joseph Sabia, & Mark Anderson.
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Puzzling over declining academic achievement Many are concerned about the large decline in K–12 student achievement since 2019. And rightly so, given what it signals about student learning and later life outcomes. Less noted is the pre-pandemic....

Policy Insights JPAM:"Puzzling over declining academic achievement" by Jim Wyckoff.
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The effect of compliance assistance on pollution discharges and violations of environmental regulations Researchers and policymakers assert competing behavioral models of polluters. One model portrays polluters as best approximated by the perfectly informed, rational actor from economics textbooks. Ano...

Early view from JPAM: "The effect of compliance assistance on pollution discharges and violations of environmental regulations" by Paul Ferraro and Jay Shimshack.
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The intersection of prenatal substance exposure and child protection: Evidence from Pennsylvania Current U.S. law mandates notification of substance-affected infants to state child welfare systems (CWS) for the purpose of assessment and service connections. Yet, CWS appears to identify a small s...

Early view from JPAM: "The intersection of prenatal substance exposure and child protection: Evidence from Pennsylvania" by Sarah Font, Christian Connell, Ezra Goldstein, and Dylan Jones.
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🎙️ Closer Look is JPAM’s podcast series on policy research across education, health, criminal justice, housing, immigration, abortion, and more.
Catch all episodes here: jpamscloserlook.podbean.com (3/3)

📄 The episode draws on a recent JPAM article by Courtney Bell, Jessalynn James, Eric Taylor, and James Wyckoff:
"Measuring returns to experience using supervisor ratings of observed performance" doi.org/10.1002/pam.... (2/3)

🎧 New Episode (#35) of JPAM’s Closer Look Podcast!
Host Seth Gershenson (@au-spa.bsky.social)speaks with Eric Taylor (Harvard Graduate School of Education) about how teachers improve early in their careers. tinyurl.com/55vfdrvd (1/3)

Relaxing electoral constraints in local education funding Click on the article title to read more.

Early view from JPAM: "Relaxing electoral constraints in local education funding" by Michel Grosz & Ross Milton.
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Administrative checkpoints, burdens, and human‐centered design: Increasing interview access to raise SNAP participation In this study we describe the potential of human-centered design principles to identify burdens, reducing the effects of administrative checkpoints. Administrative checkpoints—mandatory requirements ...

Now in Early View from @jpam-dc.bsky.social: Administrative Checkpoints, Burdens, and Human-Centered Design: Increasing Interview Access to Raise SNAP Participation. Read more: ow.ly/JvEL50VGGY1

How effective are behavioral interventions to increase the take‐up of social benefits? A systematic review of field experiments Non-take-up of social benefits is a significant policy issue caused by factors such as lack of awareness, compliance costs, and stigma. While public information campaigns, default options, and in-per....

Early view from JPAM: "How effective are behavioral interventions to increase the take-up of social benefits? A systematic review of field experiments" Pierre-Marc Daigneault, Mathieu Ouimet, Alexandre Fortier-Chouinard, Eriole Zita Nonki Tadida, and Antoine Baby-Bouchard.
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Time to baccalaureate degree in the labor market: Evidence from a field experiment I study whether the amount of time students take to complete their bachelor's degree affects labor outcomes after graduation using a resume-based field experiment. I randomly assign a time to degree ...

Early view from JPAM: "Time to baccalaureate degree in the labor market: Evidence from a field experiment" by Michael Bloem (@mike-bloem.bsky.social) from College Board (@collegeboardpress.bsky.social).
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Breastfeeding and the return to work after childbirth of new mothers: Evidence from a baby formula scare We use a baby formula “food scare” in Israel in 2003 as a plausible natural experiment to study the causal relationship between breastfeeding and mothers’ return to work after childbirth. Analysis of...

Early view from JPAM: "Breastfeeding and the return to work after childbirth of new mothers: Evidence from a baby formula scare" by Limor Hatsor and Ity Shurtz.

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