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Learn more Published Research Back to School: Federal Student Aid Policy and Adult College Enrollment Authors: Sarah Turner, Neil S. Seftor Much of the research examining the question of how federal financial aid affects decisions to enroll in college has focused on the behavior of students in the relatively narrow range immediately following high school graduation, leaving unanswered the question of how changes in the availability of aid affect the behavior of older students. Learn more Published Research Health Policy Napsterizing Pharmaceuticals: Access, Innovation, and Welfare Authors: James W. Hughes, Michael J. Moore, Edward A. Snyder We analyze the effects on consumers of an extreme policy experiment – Napsterizing’ pharmaceuticals – whereby all patent rights on branded prescription drugs are eliminated for both existing and future prescription drugs without compensation to the patent holders. The question of whether this policy maximizes consumer welfare cannot be resolved on an a priori basis due to an obvious tradeoff: While accelerating generic entry will yield substantial gains in consumer surplus associated with greater access to the current stock of pharmaceuticals, future consumers will be harmed by reducing the flow of new pharmaceuticals to the market. Learn more Published Research The Role of Policy Attributes in the Diffusion of Innovations Authors: Craig Volden, Todd Makse Studies of policy diffusion have given insufficient attention to the role that characteristics of the policies themselves play in determining the speed of policy diffusion and the mechanisms through which diffusion occurs. We adopt Everett Rogers’ (1983, 2004) attribute typology from the diffusion of innovations literature and apply it to a sample of 27 policy innovations from the sphere of criminal justice policy in the U.S. states between 1973 and 2002. Learn more Published Research Coalitional Politics and Logrolling in Legislative Institutions Authors: Craig Volden, Clifford J. Carrubba We examine how a foresighted legislative chamber will design its institutions in response to ex ante incentives for universalism and ex post incentives for minimum winning coalitions and what coalitions will form as a result. To do so, we develop a model of vote trading with an endogenous voting rule and coalition formation process. Learn more Published Research Asymmetric Effects of Intergovernmental Grants: Analysis and Implications for U.S. Welfare Policy Authors: Craig Volden Theories of federal grants to states and localities suggest that these grants have a stimulative effect on spending, causing recipient governments to expand and contract programs along with changes in the grants. However, policymakers may respond differently to grant decreases than to grant increases because they face political and bureaucratic pressures to expand programs. Learn more Published Research Sophisticated Voting in Supermajoritarian Settings Authors: Craig Volden Empirical support for sophisticated voting in the legislative setting has been sparse. This is due to a number of factors, including the difficulty of identifying the ideal points of legislators in multidimensional spaces. Learn more Pagination Previous page ‹ Previous Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Current page 28
Published Research Going to War and Going to College: Did World War II and the G.I. Bill Increase Educational Attainment for Returning Veterans? Authors: Sarah Turner, John Bound The end of World War II brought a flood of returning veterans to America’s colleges and universities. Yet, despite widespread rhetoric about the democratization’ of higher education that came with this large pool of students, there is little evidence about the question of whether military service, combined with the availability of post-war educational benefits, led these men to increase their investments in education - particularly at the college and university level. Learn more
Published Research Back to School: Federal Student Aid Policy and Adult College Enrollment Authors: Sarah Turner, Neil S. Seftor Much of the research examining the question of how federal financial aid affects decisions to enroll in college has focused on the behavior of students in the relatively narrow range immediately following high school graduation, leaving unanswered the question of how changes in the availability of aid affect the behavior of older students. Learn more
Published Research Health Policy Napsterizing Pharmaceuticals: Access, Innovation, and Welfare Authors: James W. Hughes, Michael J. Moore, Edward A. Snyder We analyze the effects on consumers of an extreme policy experiment – Napsterizing’ pharmaceuticals – whereby all patent rights on branded prescription drugs are eliminated for both existing and future prescription drugs without compensation to the patent holders. The question of whether this policy maximizes consumer welfare cannot be resolved on an a priori basis due to an obvious tradeoff: While accelerating generic entry will yield substantial gains in consumer surplus associated with greater access to the current stock of pharmaceuticals, future consumers will be harmed by reducing the flow of new pharmaceuticals to the market. Learn more
Published Research The Role of Policy Attributes in the Diffusion of Innovations Authors: Craig Volden, Todd Makse Studies of policy diffusion have given insufficient attention to the role that characteristics of the policies themselves play in determining the speed of policy diffusion and the mechanisms through which diffusion occurs. We adopt Everett Rogers’ (1983, 2004) attribute typology from the diffusion of innovations literature and apply it to a sample of 27 policy innovations from the sphere of criminal justice policy in the U.S. states between 1973 and 2002. Learn more
Published Research Coalitional Politics and Logrolling in Legislative Institutions Authors: Craig Volden, Clifford J. Carrubba We examine how a foresighted legislative chamber will design its institutions in response to ex ante incentives for universalism and ex post incentives for minimum winning coalitions and what coalitions will form as a result. To do so, we develop a model of vote trading with an endogenous voting rule and coalition formation process. Learn more
Published Research Asymmetric Effects of Intergovernmental Grants: Analysis and Implications for U.S. Welfare Policy Authors: Craig Volden Theories of federal grants to states and localities suggest that these grants have a stimulative effect on spending, causing recipient governments to expand and contract programs along with changes in the grants. However, policymakers may respond differently to grant decreases than to grant increases because they face political and bureaucratic pressures to expand programs. Learn more
Published Research Sophisticated Voting in Supermajoritarian Settings Authors: Craig Volden Empirical support for sophisticated voting in the legislative setting has been sparse. This is due to a number of factors, including the difficulty of identifying the ideal points of legislators in multidimensional spaces. Learn more