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Learn more Published Research Education The Impact of the National School Lunch Program on Child Health: A Nonparametric Bounds Analysis Authors: John Pepper, Craig Gunderson, Brent Kreider Children in households reporting the receipt of free or reduced-price school meals through the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) are more likely to have negative health outcomes than observationally similar nonparticipants. Assessing causal effects of the program is made difficult, however, by missing counterfactuals and systematic underreporting of program participation. Learn more Published Research How the Past Shapes the Present: Five Ways in Which History Affects China’s Contemporary Foreign Relations Authors: Harry Harding Learn more Published Research Ethics Identification of Expected Outcomes in a Data Error Mixing Model with Multiplicative Mean Authors: John Pepper, Brent Kreider We consider the problem of identifying a mean outcome in corrupt sampling where the observed outcome is drawn from a mixture of the distribution of interest and another distribution. Relaxing the contaminated sampling assumption that the outcome is statistically independent of the mixing process, we assess the identifying power of an assumption that the conditional means of the distributions differ by a factor of proportionality. Learn more Published Research Leadership A Government Out of Sight: The Mystery of National Authority in Nineteenth-Century America Authors: Brian Balogh While it is obvious that America’s state and local governments were consistently active during the nineteenth century, a period dominated by laissez-faire, political historians of twentieth-century America have assumed that the national government did very little during this period. A Government Out of Sight challenges this premise, chronicling the ways in which the national government intervened powerfully in the lives of nineteenth-century Americans through the law, subsidies, and the use of third parties (including state and local governments), while avoiding bureaucracy. Learn more Published Research Leadership 'Keep Your Government Hands Off My Medicare:' A Prescription that Progressives Should Fill Authors: Brian Balough The state has consistently been displaced by individual initiative and market mechanisms in personal and collective memory and, more often than not, scholarly interpretations as well. Progressives, however, would do well to embrace rather than deride this pattern. Learn more Published Research The Mechanisms of Policy Diffusion Authors: Craig Volden, Charles R. Shipan Local policy adoptions provide an excellent opportunity to test among potential mechanisms of policy diffusion. By examining three types of antismoking policy choices by the 675 largest U.S. cities between 1975 and 2000, we uncover robust patterns of policy diffusion, yielding three key findings. Learn more Published Research Teacher Preparation and Student Achievement Authors: James H. Wyckoff, Donald Boyd, Pamela Grossman, Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb There are fierce debates over the best way to prepare teachers. Some argue that easing entry into teaching is necessary to attract strong candidates, while others argue that investing in high quality teacher preparation is the most promising approach. Learn more Published Research A Formal Model of Learning and Policy Diffusion Authors: Craig Volden, Michael M. Ting, Daniel P. Carpenter We present a model of learning and policy choice across governments. Governments choose policies with known ideological positions but initially unknown valence benefits, possibly learning about those benefits between the model’s two periods. Learn more Published Research Education Turning around Chronically Low-Performing Schools: A Practice Guide Authors: T. Dee, R. Herman, P. Dawson, J. Greene, S. Redding, M. Darwin This guide identifies practices that can improve the performance of chronically low-performing schools — a process commonly referred to as creating “turnaround schools.” The four recommendations in this guide work together to help failing schools make adequate yearly progress. Learn more Published Research National Security Why Spy: Espionage in an Age of Uncertainty Authors: Frederick P. Hitz What motivates someone to risk his or her life in the shadowy, often dangerous world of espionage? What are the needs and opportunities for spying amid the “war on terrorism”? And how can the United States recruit spies to inform its struggle with Islamic fundamentalists’ acts of anti-Western jihad? Learn more Pagination Previous page ‹ Previous Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Current page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Next page Next ›
Published Research Social Psychology You’re having fun when time flies: The hedonic consequences of subjective time progression Authors: Benjamin Converse, A.M. Sackett, T. Meyvis, L.D. Nelson, A.L. Sackett Learn more
Published Research Economics Marriage, Divorce, and Asymmetric Information Authors: Leora Friedberg, Steven Stern In answers to unique questions from the National Survey of Families and Households, spouses reveal information about the value of their options outside of marriage as well as their beliefs about the value of their spouses’ outside options. We use this data to demonstrate several features of household bargaining. Learn more
Published Research Education The Impact of the National School Lunch Program on Child Health: A Nonparametric Bounds Analysis Authors: John Pepper, Craig Gunderson, Brent Kreider Children in households reporting the receipt of free or reduced-price school meals through the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) are more likely to have negative health outcomes than observationally similar nonparticipants. Assessing causal effects of the program is made difficult, however, by missing counterfactuals and systematic underreporting of program participation. Learn more
Published Research How the Past Shapes the Present: Five Ways in Which History Affects China’s Contemporary Foreign Relations Authors: Harry Harding Learn more
Published Research Ethics Identification of Expected Outcomes in a Data Error Mixing Model with Multiplicative Mean Authors: John Pepper, Brent Kreider We consider the problem of identifying a mean outcome in corrupt sampling where the observed outcome is drawn from a mixture of the distribution of interest and another distribution. Relaxing the contaminated sampling assumption that the outcome is statistically independent of the mixing process, we assess the identifying power of an assumption that the conditional means of the distributions differ by a factor of proportionality. Learn more
Published Research Leadership A Government Out of Sight: The Mystery of National Authority in Nineteenth-Century America Authors: Brian Balogh While it is obvious that America’s state and local governments were consistently active during the nineteenth century, a period dominated by laissez-faire, political historians of twentieth-century America have assumed that the national government did very little during this period. A Government Out of Sight challenges this premise, chronicling the ways in which the national government intervened powerfully in the lives of nineteenth-century Americans through the law, subsidies, and the use of third parties (including state and local governments), while avoiding bureaucracy. Learn more
Published Research Leadership 'Keep Your Government Hands Off My Medicare:' A Prescription that Progressives Should Fill Authors: Brian Balough The state has consistently been displaced by individual initiative and market mechanisms in personal and collective memory and, more often than not, scholarly interpretations as well. Progressives, however, would do well to embrace rather than deride this pattern. Learn more
Published Research The Mechanisms of Policy Diffusion Authors: Craig Volden, Charles R. Shipan Local policy adoptions provide an excellent opportunity to test among potential mechanisms of policy diffusion. By examining three types of antismoking policy choices by the 675 largest U.S. cities between 1975 and 2000, we uncover robust patterns of policy diffusion, yielding three key findings. Learn more
Published Research Teacher Preparation and Student Achievement Authors: James H. Wyckoff, Donald Boyd, Pamela Grossman, Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb There are fierce debates over the best way to prepare teachers. Some argue that easing entry into teaching is necessary to attract strong candidates, while others argue that investing in high quality teacher preparation is the most promising approach. Learn more
Published Research A Formal Model of Learning and Policy Diffusion Authors: Craig Volden, Michael M. Ting, Daniel P. Carpenter We present a model of learning and policy choice across governments. Governments choose policies with known ideological positions but initially unknown valence benefits, possibly learning about those benefits between the model’s two periods. Learn more
Published Research Education Turning around Chronically Low-Performing Schools: A Practice Guide Authors: T. Dee, R. Herman, P. Dawson, J. Greene, S. Redding, M. Darwin This guide identifies practices that can improve the performance of chronically low-performing schools — a process commonly referred to as creating “turnaround schools.” The four recommendations in this guide work together to help failing schools make adequate yearly progress. Learn more
Published Research National Security Why Spy: Espionage in an Age of Uncertainty Authors: Frederick P. Hitz What motivates someone to risk his or her life in the shadowy, often dangerous world of espionage? What are the needs and opportunities for spying amid the “war on terrorism”? And how can the United States recruit spies to inform its struggle with Islamic fundamentalists’ acts of anti-Western jihad? Learn more