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Pennock Gerald Higginbotham Jazmin Brown-Iannuzzi Jennifer Lawless Michele Claibourn Noah Myung Philip Potter Facet People - Research EdPolicyWorks: Center for Education Policy and Workforce Competitiveness Center for Effective Lawmaking UVA Humanitarian Collaborative National Security Policy Center Facet UVA Partner - Research Published Research Strengthening the European Commission’s Budgetary and Economic Surveillance Capacity Since Greece and the Euro Crisis: A Study of Five Directorates-General Authors: James Savage, Amy Verdun Learn more Published Research Entrepreneurial Politics, Policy Gridlock, and Legislative Effectiveness Authors: Craig Volden, Alan E. Wiseman Learn more Published Research Failures: Diffusion, Learning, and Policy Abandonment Authors: Craig Volden Studies of the diffusion of policies tend to focus on innovations that successfully spread across governments. Implicit in such diffusion is the abandonment of the previous policy. Learn more Published Research The Administrative Costs of Congressional Earmarking: The Case of the Office of Naval Research Authors: James Savage Discussions about congressional earmarking often focus on their direct costs in the federal government’s appropriations bills. This article shows that this conventional view neglects the administrative costs of earmarking by examining the extensive transaction and opportunity costs that come with the political, budgetary, and programmatic management of these earmarked projects in Congress and in the Office of Naval Research. Learn more Published Research Technology & Society: Building our Sociotechnical Future Authors: D.G. Johnson, J. M. Wetmore (eds) An anthology of writings by thinkers ranging from Freeman Dyson to Bruno Latour that focuses on the interconnections of technology, society, and values and how these may affect the future. Learn more Published Research Health Policy Identifying the Effects of Food Stamps on the Nutritional Health of Children when Program participation is Misreported Authors: John Pepper, Craig Gundersen, Dean Jolliffe, Brent Kreider The literature assessing the efficacy of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as the Food Stamp Program, has long puzzled over positive associations between SNAP receipt and various undesirable health outcomes such as food insecurity. Assessing the causal impacts of SNAP, however, is hampered by two key identification problems: endogenous selection into participation and extensive systematic underreporting of participation status.Using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), we extend partial identification bounding methods to account for these two identification problems in a single unifying framework. Learn more Published Research Social Psychology What Is Good Isn't Always Fair: On the Unintended Effects of Framing Diversity as Good Authors: Sophie Trawalter, Sara Driskell, Martin Davidson Many proponents of diversity stress that diversity is good—good for universities to further their educational missions and good for businesses, for hiring talent and generating financial returns to shareholders. In this work, we examined costs of framing diversity as good for organizations vs. fair; specifically, we examined whether framing diversity as good for organizations broadens people’s definitions of diversity and increases racial bias. Learn more Published Research Environmental Policy The Economic Impacts of Positive Feedbacks Resulting from Deforestation Authors: William Shobe, C.W. Runyan, P. D'Odorico Forests can affect environmental conditions in ways that enhance their survival. This effect may contribute to a positive feedback whereby deforestation could degrade environmental conditions and inhibit forest re-establishment. Learn more Published Research Under the Cover of Darkness: How Ambient Light Influences Criminal Activity Authors: Jennifer Doleac, Nicholas J. Sanders We exploit daylight saving time (DST) as an exogenous shock to daylight, using both the discontinuous nature of the policy and the 2007 extension of DST, to consider the impact of light on criminal activity. Regression discontinuity estimates show a 7% decrease in robberies following the shift to DST. Learn more Published Research Social Entrepreneurship Using Strategic CSR to Achieve the Hybrid Middle Ground in Social Entrepreneurship: The Case of Telenor Hungary Authors: Bala Mulloth, Peter Hardi To be considered a socially entrepreneurial organization today requires achieving what can be termed a “hybrid middle ground” equilibrium, comprising of economic as well as social sustainability. This middle ground requires some blend of both business and social commitments. Learn more Published Research Has U.S. China Policy Failed? Authors: Harry Harding The United States is immersed in its most intense China policy debate in decades, which will almost certainly get more heated and public in 2016. For a variety of reasons, reviewed here, dissatisfaction with China’s domestic and international evolution has become widespread as has pessimism about the future of U.S.–China relations, leading to a growing debate over three broad ways to revise U.S. policy. Learn more Published Research Education Jump-starting early childhood education at home: Early learning, parent motivation, and public policy. Authors: Benjamin Converse, Chloe Gibbs, E.A. Mahoney, S.C. Levine, S.L. Beilock By the time children begin formal schooling, their experiences at home have already contributed to large variations in their math and language development, and once school begins, academic achievement continues to depend strongly on influences outside of school. It is thus essential that educational reform strategies involve primary caregivers. Learn more Pagination Previous page ‹ Previous Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Current page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Next page Next ›
Published Research Strengthening the European Commission’s Budgetary and Economic Surveillance Capacity Since Greece and the Euro Crisis: A Study of Five Directorates-General Authors: James Savage, Amy Verdun Learn more
Published Research Entrepreneurial Politics, Policy Gridlock, and Legislative Effectiveness Authors: Craig Volden, Alan E. Wiseman Learn more
Published Research Failures: Diffusion, Learning, and Policy Abandonment Authors: Craig Volden Studies of the diffusion of policies tend to focus on innovations that successfully spread across governments. Implicit in such diffusion is the abandonment of the previous policy. Learn more
Published Research The Administrative Costs of Congressional Earmarking: The Case of the Office of Naval Research Authors: James Savage Discussions about congressional earmarking often focus on their direct costs in the federal government’s appropriations bills. This article shows that this conventional view neglects the administrative costs of earmarking by examining the extensive transaction and opportunity costs that come with the political, budgetary, and programmatic management of these earmarked projects in Congress and in the Office of Naval Research. Learn more
Published Research Technology & Society: Building our Sociotechnical Future Authors: D.G. Johnson, J. M. Wetmore (eds) An anthology of writings by thinkers ranging from Freeman Dyson to Bruno Latour that focuses on the interconnections of technology, society, and values and how these may affect the future. Learn more
Published Research Health Policy Identifying the Effects of Food Stamps on the Nutritional Health of Children when Program participation is Misreported Authors: John Pepper, Craig Gundersen, Dean Jolliffe, Brent Kreider The literature assessing the efficacy of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as the Food Stamp Program, has long puzzled over positive associations between SNAP receipt and various undesirable health outcomes such as food insecurity. Assessing the causal impacts of SNAP, however, is hampered by two key identification problems: endogenous selection into participation and extensive systematic underreporting of participation status.Using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), we extend partial identification bounding methods to account for these two identification problems in a single unifying framework. Learn more
Published Research Social Psychology What Is Good Isn't Always Fair: On the Unintended Effects of Framing Diversity as Good Authors: Sophie Trawalter, Sara Driskell, Martin Davidson Many proponents of diversity stress that diversity is good—good for universities to further their educational missions and good for businesses, for hiring talent and generating financial returns to shareholders. In this work, we examined costs of framing diversity as good for organizations vs. fair; specifically, we examined whether framing diversity as good for organizations broadens people’s definitions of diversity and increases racial bias. Learn more
Published Research Environmental Policy The Economic Impacts of Positive Feedbacks Resulting from Deforestation Authors: William Shobe, C.W. Runyan, P. D'Odorico Forests can affect environmental conditions in ways that enhance their survival. This effect may contribute to a positive feedback whereby deforestation could degrade environmental conditions and inhibit forest re-establishment. Learn more
Published Research Under the Cover of Darkness: How Ambient Light Influences Criminal Activity Authors: Jennifer Doleac, Nicholas J. Sanders We exploit daylight saving time (DST) as an exogenous shock to daylight, using both the discontinuous nature of the policy and the 2007 extension of DST, to consider the impact of light on criminal activity. Regression discontinuity estimates show a 7% decrease in robberies following the shift to DST. Learn more
Published Research Social Entrepreneurship Using Strategic CSR to Achieve the Hybrid Middle Ground in Social Entrepreneurship: The Case of Telenor Hungary Authors: Bala Mulloth, Peter Hardi To be considered a socially entrepreneurial organization today requires achieving what can be termed a “hybrid middle ground” equilibrium, comprising of economic as well as social sustainability. This middle ground requires some blend of both business and social commitments. Learn more
Published Research Has U.S. China Policy Failed? Authors: Harry Harding The United States is immersed in its most intense China policy debate in decades, which will almost certainly get more heated and public in 2016. For a variety of reasons, reviewed here, dissatisfaction with China’s domestic and international evolution has become widespread as has pessimism about the future of U.S.–China relations, leading to a growing debate over three broad ways to revise U.S. policy. Learn more
Published Research Education Jump-starting early childhood education at home: Early learning, parent motivation, and public policy. Authors: Benjamin Converse, Chloe Gibbs, E.A. Mahoney, S.C. Levine, S.L. Beilock By the time children begin formal schooling, their experiences at home have already contributed to large variations in their math and language development, and once school begins, academic achievement continues to depend strongly on influences outside of school. It is thus essential that educational reform strategies involve primary caregivers. Learn more