Journal of Policy Analysis and Management

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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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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 that must be satisfied in order to progress in an administrative process—have disproportionate negative effects in excluding the public from receiving public services. Mandatory interviews are one such checkpoint. Based on consultation with safety net clients and caseworkers, we designed a field experiment (N = 1,554) to minimize the exclusionary effects of mandatory interviews for SNAP applicants. Compared to a control group that received a traditional mailer reminder, SNAP applicants who also received texts reminding them of the interview and communicating flexible “interview anytime” scheduling options had a higher interview completion rate by 10 percentage points, a higher benefit-approval rate by 6 to 7 percentage points, and also completed interviews 3 to 4 days sooner. Follow-up surveys show that the text reminders reduced learning costs about the interview requirement and increased applicant confidence about their ability to manage the process.

New in @jpam-dc.bsky.social: required interviews are an administrative checkpoint that reduces SNAP participation. Communicating flexible interview policies increases take-up. W @jaeyeonkim.bsky.social @sebjilke.bsky.social @pamherd.bsky.social
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On the margin: Who receives a juvenile referral in school and what effect does it have? Involvement with the juvenile justice system carries immense consequences both to detained youth and to society more broadly. Extant research on the “school-to-prison pipeline” has often focused on s...

Early view from JPAM: "On the margin: Who receives a juvenile referral in school and what effect does it have?" by Lucy Sorensen, Andrea Headley, and Stephen Holt.
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Citizenship question effects on household survey response Differential coverage across demographic groups in a census or survey can reduce the accuracy and representativeness of the resulting statistics. Researchers traditionally have used community-level m....

Early view from JPAM: "Citizenship question effects on household survey response" by David Brown and Misty Heggeness.
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Dague, L., & Ukert, B. (2024). Pandemic‐era changes to medicaid enrollment and funding: Implications for future policy and research. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 43(4), 1229-1259.

Hopkins, V., & Dorion, J. (2024). Nudging increases take‐up of employment services: Evidence from a large field experiment. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 43(4), 1209-1228.

Akanni, L., Lenhart, O., & Morton, A. (2024). Conflicting economic policies and mental health: Evidence from the UK national living wage and benefits freeze. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 43(4), 1185-1208.

Wu, J., Nie, X., & Wang, H. (2024). Are policy mixes in energy regulation effective in curbing carbon emissions? Insights from China's energy regulation policies. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 43(4), 1152-1184.

Slopen, M. (2024). The impact of paid sick leave mandates on women's employment and economic security. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 43(4), 1129-1151.

Phillips, D. C., & Sullivan, J. X. (2024). Personalizing homelessness prevention: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 43(4), 1101-1128.