Journal of Policy Analysis and Management

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Volume 33, issue 4, 2014

Notes from the Editor pp. 885-886

Kenneth Couch

Introduction to the Research Articles pp. 887-890

Kenneth Couch

What Is a Summer Job Worth? The Impact of Summer Youth Employment on Academic Outcomes pp. 891-911

Jacob Leos‐Urbel

The Impact of Subnational Fiscal Policies on Economic Growth: A Dynamic Analysis Approach pp. 912-928

Arwiphawee Srithongrung and Kenneth A. Kriz

EMPIRICAL STRATEGIES IN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH: AN INTRODUCTION pp. 929-931

Victor Menaldo and Aseem Prakash

DO GROUP DYNAMICS INFLUENCE SOCIAL CAPITAL GAINS AMONG MICROFINANCE CLIENTS? EVIDENCE FROM A RANDOMIZED EXPERIMENT IN URBAN INDIA pp. 932-949

Benjamin Feigenberg, Erica Field, Rohini Pande, Natalia Rigol and Shayak Sarkar

IMPROVING EARLY‐GRADE LITERACY IN EAST AFRICA: EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE FROM KENYA AND UGANDA pp. 950-976

Adrienne Lucas, Patrick McEwan, Moses Ngware and Moses Oketch

CORPORATE TAX CUTS AND FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT pp. 977-1006

Leonardo Baccini, Quan Li and Irina Mirkina

ELECTORAL GENDER QUOTAS AND ATTITUDES TOWARD TRADITIONAL LEADERS: A POLICY EXPERIMENT IN LESOTHO pp. 1007-1026

Amanda Clayton

Point/Counterpoint pp. 1027-1027

Richard Burkhauser

MINIMUM WAGES: AN ANTIQUATED AND INEFFECTIVE ANTIPOVERTY TOOL pp. 1028-1036

Joseph J. Sabia

THE MINIMUM WAGE: A CRUCIAL LABOR STANDARD THAT IS WELL TARGETED TO LOW‐ AND MODERATE‐INCOME HOUSEHOLDS pp. 1036-1043

Jared Bernstein and Heidi Shierholz

THE MINIMUM WAGE: NO FEATURE, ALL BUGS pp. 1043-1046

Joseph J. Sabia

A RESPONSE TO JOSEPH J. SABIA pp. 1047-1049

Jared Bernstein and Heidi Shierholz

Volume 33, issue 3, 2014

Notes from the Editor pp. 559-560

Maureen A. Pirog

Introduction to the Research Articles pp. 561-565

Maureen A. Pirog

Did Age Discrimination Protections Help Older Workers Weather the Great Recession? pp. 566-601

David Neumark and Patrick Button

The Effects of Contraception on Female Poverty pp. 602-622

Stephanie P. Browne and Sara LaLumia

The Impact of Rehabilitation and Counseling Services on the Labor Market Activity of Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) Beneficiaries pp. 623-648

Robert R. Weathers and Michelle Stegman Bailey

Property Rights and Forest Commons pp. 649-668

Eric A. Coleman and Scott S. Liebertz

The Effect of Providing Breakfast in Class on Student Performance pp. 669-699

Scott Imberman and Adriana Kugler

Recent Trends in U.S. Income and Expenditure Poverty pp. 700-718

Richard Bavier

The Use and Efficacy of Capacity‐Building Assistance for Low‐Performing Districts: The Case of California's District Assistance and Intervention Teams pp. 719-751

Katharine O. Strunk, Andrew McEachin and Theresa N. Westover

WHAT WORKS BEST AND WHEN: ACCOUNTING FOR MULTIPLE SOURCES OF PURESELECTION BIAS IN PROGRAM EVALUATIONS pp. 752-777

Haeil Jung and Maureen A. Pirog

A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR STUDYING THE SOURCES OF VARIATION IN PROGRAM EFFECTS pp. 778-808

Michael J. Weiss, Howard S. Bloom and Thomas Brock

THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT PERMITS GREATER FINANCIAL REWARDS FOR WEIGHT LOSS: A GOOD IDEA IN PRINCIPLE, BUT MANY PRACTICAL CONCERNS REMAIN pp. 810-820

John Cawley

THE DOCTOR IS IN CHARGE: HOW THE ACA PUTS THE EMPLOYEE'S PHYSICIAN IN CHARGE OF THE WELLNESS PROGRAM pp. 820-826

Morgan Downey

INCENTIVES FOR WELLNESS: TACKLING ISSUES OF EFFECTIVENESS, BIOLOGY, SCOPE, AND COST SHIFTING pp. 826-832

John Cawley

RESPONSE TO DR. CAWLEY pp. 832-834

Morgan Downey

COLLABORATION AMONG GOVERNMENT, MARKET, AND SOCIETY: FORGING PARTNERSHIPS AND ENCOURAGING COMPETITION pp. 835-842

Yijia Jing and Douglas J. Besharov

THE ART AND SCIENCE OF SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING pp. 843-853

Maureen A. Pirog

Recognizing Public Value, by Mark H. Moore, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013, 473 pp., $40.27, hardback pp. 854-860

Eugene B. McGregor

Volume 33, issue 2, 2014

Introduction to the Research Articles pp. 245-251

Maureen A. Pirog

Presidential Address: False Choices, Policy Framing, and the Promise of “Big Data” pp. 252-262

Paul T. Decker

Revisiting the Income Tax Effects of Legalizing Same‐Sex Marriages pp. 263-289

James Alm, J. Sebastian Leguizamon and Susane Leguizamon

Can Small High Schools of Choice Improve Educational Prospects for Disadvantaged Students? pp. 290-319

Howard S. Bloom and Rebecca Unterman

The Forgotten Summer: Does the Offer of College Counseling After High School Mitigate Summer Melt Among College‐Intending, Low‐Income High School Graduates? pp. 320-344

Ben Castleman, Lindsay C. Page and Korynn Schooley

Special Symposium on Qualitative and Mixed‐Methods for Policy Analysis pp. 345-349

Kathryn Edin and Maureen A. Pirog

“Living Here has Changed My Whole Perspective”: How Escaping Inner‐City Poverty Shapes Neighborhood and Housing Choice pp. 350-384

Jennifer Darrah and Stefanie DeLuca

Partnering and Parenting in Poverty: A Qualitative Analysis of a Relationship Skills Program for Low‐Income, Unmarried Families pp. 385-412

Jennifer M. Randles

Tax Code Knowledge and Behavioral Responses Among EITC Recipients: Policy Insights from Qualitative Data pp. 413-439

Katharine Edin, Laura Tach and Sarah Halpern‐Meekin

Making Ends Meet After Prison pp. 440-470

David J. Harding, Jessica J. B. Wyse, Cheyney Dobson and Jeffrey D. Morenoff

Improving the Implementation and Effectiveness of Out‐of‐School‐Time Tutoring pp. 471-494

Carolyn Heinrich, Patricia Burch, Annalee Good, Rudy Acosta, Huiping Cheng, Marcus Dillender, Christi Kirshbaum, Hiren Nisar and Mary Stewart

When Do Regression‐Adjusted Performance Measures Track Longer‐Term Program Impacts? A Case Study for Job Corps pp. 495-525

Peter Z. Schochet and Jane Fortson

Point/Counterpoint pp. 526-526

Kenneth Couch

GENERALIZING CAUSAL KNOWLEDGE IN THE POLICY SCIENCES: EXTERNAL VALIDITY AS A TASK OF BOTH MULTIATTRIBUTE REPRESENTATION AND MULTIATTRIBUTE EXTRAPOLATION pp. 527-536

Thomas D. Cook

DATA WILL DRIVE INNOVATION IN PUBLIC POLICY AND MANAGEMENT RESEARCH IN THE NEXT DECADE pp. 537-543

Maureen A. Pirog

“BIG DATA” IN RESEARCH ON SOCIAL POLICY pp. 544-547

Thomas D. Cook

INTERNAL VERSUS EXTERNAL VALIDITY: WHERE ARE POLICY ANALYSTS GOING? pp. 548-550

Maureen A. Pirog

America's Poor and the Great Recession, by Kristin S. Seefeldt and John D. Graham, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2013, 158 pp., $21.00, paperback pp. 551-554

Eugene B. McGregor, Jr. and Eric Apaydin

Volume 33, issue 1, 2014

Introduction to the Research Articles pp. 1-6

Maureen A. Pirog

The Impact of Earnings Disregards on the Behavior of Low‐Income Families pp. 7-35

Jordan Matsudaira and Rebecca Blank

Does Universal Coverage Improve Health? The Massachusetts Experience pp. 36-69

Charles Courtemanche and Daniela Zapata

What Happens the Morning After? The Costs and Benefits of Expanding Access to Emergency Contraception pp. 70-93

Tal Gross, Jeanne Lafortune and Corinne Low

Interactive Learning Online at Public Universities: Evidence from a Six‐Campus Randomized Trial pp. 94-111

William G. Bowen, Matthew M. Chingos, Kelly A. Lack and Thomas I. Nygren

Strategic Involuntary Teacher Transfers and Teacher Performance: Examining Equity and Efficiency pp. 112-140

Jason A. Grissom, Susanna Loeb and Nathaniel A. Nakashima

The Effect of Mandatory Seat Belt Laws on Seat Belt Use by Socioeconomic Position pp. 141-161

Sam Harper, Erin Strumpf, Scott Burris, George Davey Smith and John Lynch

From Birth to School: Early Childhood Initiatives and Third‐Grade Outcomes in North Carolina pp. 162-187

Helen Ladd, Clara G. Muschkin and Kenneth A. Dodge

An Application of Unconditional Quantile Regression to Cigarette Taxes pp. 188-210

Johanna Maclean, Douglas Webber and Joachim Marti

Point/Counterpoint pp. 211-211

Kenneth Couch

Marijuana Liberalization Policies: Why We Can't Learn Much from Policy Still in Motion pp. 212-221

Rosalie Pacula and Eric L. Sevigny

The Legalization of Recreational Marijuana: How Likely Is the Worst‐Case Scenario? pp. 221-232

D. Mark Anderson and Daniel Rees

Natural Experiments in a Complex and Dynamic Environment: The Need for a Measured Assessment of the Evidence pp. 232-235

Rosalie Pacula and Eric L. Sevigny

The Role of Dispensaries: The Devil is in the Details pp. 235-240

D. Mark Anderson and Daniel Rees

The Politics and Civics of National Service: Lessons From the Civilian Conservation Corps, VISTA, and AmeriCorps, by Melissa Bass, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2013, 304 pp., $32.95, hardback pp. 241-244

Eugene B. McGregor, Jr. and Leslie Lenkowsky