Journal of Policy Analysis and Management

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Volume 30, issue 4, 2011

Notes from the Editor pp. 701-701

Maureen A. Pirog

Introduction to the research articles pp. 702-707

Maureen A. Pirog

The impact of changing financial work incentives on the earnings of Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) beneficiaries pp. 708-728

Robert R. Weathers and Jeffrey Hemmeter

The long‐term effects on children and adolescents of a policy providing work supports for low‐income parents pp. 729-754

Aletha C. Huston, Anjali E. Gupta, Jessica Thornton Walker, Chantelle J. Dowsett, Sylvia R. Epps, Amy E. Imes and Vonnie C. McLoyd

Reducing child support debt and its consequences: Can forgiveness benefit all? pp. 755-774

Carolyn Heinrich, Brett C. Burkhardt and Hilary M. Shager

Regulating abortion: Impact on patients and providers in Texas pp. 775-797

Silvie Colman and Ted Joyce

Do blue laws save lives? The effect of Sunday alcohol sales bans on fatal vehicle accidents pp. 798-820

Michael Lovenheim and Daniel P. Steefel

Do vehicle recalls reduce the number of accidents? The case of the U.S. car market pp. 821-862

Yong-Kyun Bae and Hugo Benítez‐Silva

The transformation of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program pp. 863-888

Jacob Alex Klerman and Caroline Danielson

Policy attribute framing: A comparison between three policy instruments for personal emissions reduction pp. 889-905

Yael Parag, Stuart Capstick and Wouter Poortinga

Ten years of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA): Interpreting the research on WIA and related programs pp. 906-926

Paul T. Decker and Jillian A. Berk

Point/Counterpoint pp. 927-927

Kenneth Couch

Medicare and the federal budget: Misdiagnosed problems, inadequate solutions pp. 928-934

Theodore Marmor, Jonathan Oberlander and Joseph White

Medicare reform and fiscal reality pp. 934-942

Joseph Antos

Medicare's reality is not what it seems: Response to Joseph Antos pp. 942-944

Theodore Marmor, Jonathan Oberlander and Joseph White

Top‐down controls not the solution: Response to Marmor, Oberlander, and White pp. 945-946

Joseph Antos

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood, by James Gleick, New York: Pantheon Books, 2011, 526 pp., $29.95 hardcover. Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age, by Viktor Mayer‐Schönberger, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009, 235 pp., $24.95, hardcover pp. 947-956

Eugene B. McGregor

Volume 30, issue 3, 2011

Introduction to the research articles pp. 413-417

Maureen A. Pirog

The impact of no Child Left Behind on student achievement pp. 418-446

Thomas Dee and Brian Jacob

Making a difference? The effects of Teach For America in high school pp. 447-469

Zeyu Xu, Jane Hannaway and Colin Taylor

Weighted student funding in the Netherlands: A model for the U.S.? pp. 470-498

Helen Ladd and Edward B. Fiske

Increase in the length of incarceration and the subsequent labor market outcomes: Evidence from men released from Illinois state prisons pp. 499-533

Haeil Jung

Encryption and the loss of patient data pp. 534-556

Amalia Miller and Catherine E. Tucker

A supervisor like me: Race, representation, and the satisfaction and turnover decisions of public sector employees pp. 557-580

Jason A. Grissom and Lael R. Keiser

Searching for contracting patterns over time: Do prime contractor and subcontractor relations follow similar patterns for professional services provision? pp. 581-597

Branco Ponomariov, Gordon Kingsley and Craig Boardman

The social cost of trading: Measuring the increased damages from sulfur dioxide trading in the United States pp. 598-612

David D. Henry, Nicholas Muller and Robert Mendelsohn

The methodology of normative policy analysis pp. 613-643

Christopher Robert and Richard Zeckhauser

Introduction: Health policy and sugar‐sweetened beverages pp. 644-644

Kenneth Couch

Sugar‐sweetened beverages and obesity: The potential impact of public policies pp. 645-655

Frank J. Chaloupka, Lisa M. Powell and Jamie F. Chriqui

Are soft drink taxes an effective mechanism for reducing obesity? pp. 655-662

Jason Fletcher, David Frisvold and Nathan Tefft

Sugar‐sweetened beverages and obesity prevention: Policy recommendations pp. 662-664

Frank J. Chaloupka, Lisa M. Powell and Jamie F. Chriqui

The proof is in the pudding: Response to Chaloupka, Powell, and Chriqui pp. 664-665

Jason Fletcher, David Frisvold and Nathan Tefft

Repairing the U.S. Social Safety Net, by Martha R. Burt and Demetra Smith Nightingale. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute Press, 2010, 273 pp., $29.50, paperback. Making the Work‐Based Safety Net Work Better, by Carolyn J. Heinrich and John Karl Scholz, Editors. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2009, 348 pp., $47.50, hardcover pp. 666-668

Eugene B. McGregor and Kristin S. Seefeldt

The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education, by Diane Ravitch. New York: Basic Books, 2010, 296 pp., $15.72, hardcover. Spin Cycle: How Research Is Used in Policy Debates, by Jeffrey Henig. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2008, 312 pp., $32.50, hardcover. The Ordeal of Equality: Did Federal Regulation Fix the Schools? by David K. Cohen and Susan L. Moffitt. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 336 pp., $27.82, hardcover pp. 669-674

Eugene B. McGregor and James P. Spillane

Saving Schools: From Horace Mann to Virtual Learning, by Paul E. Peterson. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010, 320 pp., $25.95 hardcover pp. 674-676

Eugene B. McGregor and Ashlyn Aiko Nelson

Volume 30, issue 2, 2011

Notes from the Editor pp. 199-200

Maureen A. Pirog

Introduction to the research articles pp. 201-204

Maureen A. Pirog

Presidential address: Evaluating the questions that alternative policy success measures answer pp. 205-215

Richard Burkhauser

State mortgage foreclosure policies and lender interventions: Impacts on borrower behavior in default pp. 216-232

J. Michael Collins, Ken Lam and Christopher E. Herbert

The benefits and costs of the Section 8 housing subsidy program: A framework and estimates of first‐year effects pp. 233-255

Deven Carlson, Robert Haveman, Thomas Kaplan and Barbara Wolfe

Do data breach disclosure laws reduce identity theft? pp. 256-286

Sasha Romanosky, Rahul Telang and Alessandro Acquisti

The effect of attending full‐day kindergarten on English learner students pp. 287-309

Jill S. Cannon, Alison Jacknowitz and Gary Painter

Getting a job is only half the battle: Maternal job loss and child classroom behavior in low‐income families pp. 310-333

Heather D. Hill, Pamela A. Morris, Nina Castells and Jessica Thornton Walker

Multilevel analysis of the effects of antidiscrimination policies on earnings by sexual orientation pp. 334-358

Marieka Klawitter

Exploring the dynamics of policy interaction: Feedback among and impacts from multiple, concurrently applied policy approaches for promoting collaboration pp. 359-380

Boyd W. Fuller and Khuong Vu

The foreclosure crisis: Causes and consequences pp. 381-382

Kenneth A. Couch and Ashlyn Aiko Nelson

Understanding the foreclosure crisis pp. 382-388

Kristopher Gerardi, Stephen Ross and Paul Willen

Decoding the foreclosure crisis: Causes, responses, and consequences pp. 388-396

Vicki Been, Sewin Chan, Ingrid Gould Ellen and Josiah R. Madar

Decoding misperceptions: The role of underwriting and appropriate policy responses pp. 396-398

Kristopher Gerardi, Stephen Ross and Paul Willen

Negative equity, yes, but not the whole story pp. 398-400

Vicki Been, Sewin Chan, Ingrid Gould Ellen and Josiah R. Madar

Subprime nation: American power, global capital, and the housing bubble, by Herman M. Schwartz, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009, 258 pp., $24.95 paperback. Animal spirits: How human psychology drives the economy, and why it matters for global capitalism, by George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009, 230 pp., $24.95 hardcover pp. 401-404

Eugene B. McGregor and Ashlyn Aiko Nelson

Creating an opportunity society, by Ron Haskins and Isabel Sawhill. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2009, 347 pp., $28.95, paperback pp. 404-408

Timothy Smeeding

Volume 30, issue 1, 2011

Notes from the editor pp. 1-1

Maureen A. Pirog

Introduction to the research articles pp. 2-5

Maureen A. Pirog

Changes in U.S. hospitalization and mortality rates following smoking bans pp. 6-28

Kanaka D. Shetty, Thomas DeLeire, Chapin White and Jayanta Bhattacharya

A cure for crime? Psycho‐pharmaceuticals and crime trends pp. 29-56

Dave Marcotte and Sara Markowitz

Teacher career paths, teacher quality, and persistence in the classroom: Are public schools keeping their best? pp. 57-87

Dan Goldhaber, Betheny Gross and Daniel Player

The role of teacher quality in retention and hiring: Using applications to transfer to uncover preferences of teachers and schools pp. 88-110

Don Boyd, Hamp Lankford, Susanna Loeb, Matthew Ronfeldt and James Wyckoff

Growing exports by signaling product quality: Trade competition and the cross‐national diffusion of ISO 9000 quality standards pp. 111-135

Xun Cao and Aseem Prakash

Does more federal environmental funding increase or decrease states' efforts? pp. 136-152

Benjamin Y. Clark and Andrew B. Whitford

An economic view of food deserts in the united states pp. 153-176

Douglas J. Besharov, Marianne Bitler and Steven Haider

What can Massachusetts teach us about national health insurance reform? pp. 177-178

Kenneth Couch and Theodore J. Joyce

Does Massachusetts's health care reform point to success with national reform? pp. 178-184

Douglas Holtz‐Eakin

Massachusetts points the way to successful health care reform pp. 184-192

Jonathan Gruber

Right analysis, wrong conclusions: Response to Jonathan Gruber pp. 192-194

Douglas Holtz‐Eakin

The facts from Massachusetts speak clearly: Response to Douglas Holtz‐Eakin pp. 194-195

Jonathan Gruber