Journal of Policy Analysis and Management

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Volume 28, issue 4, 2009

Notes from the editor pp. 549-550

Maureen A. Pirog

Introduction to the research articles pp. 551-554

Maureen A. Pirog

Explaining race, poverty, and gender disparities in advanced course-taking pp. 555-576

Dylan Conger, Mark Long and Patrice Iatarola

The effects of welfare reform on the academic performance of children in low-income households pp. 577-599

Amalia Miller and Lei Zhang

Ethnic enclave residence, employment, and commuting of Latino workers pp. 600-625

Cathy Liu

A comparative cost analysis of commodity foods from the U.S. Department of Agriculture in the National School Lunch Program pp. 626-654

Cora Peterson

Voter-weighted environmental preferences pp. 655-671

Jason Bell, Joel Huber and W Viscusi

Collusion in auctions for emission permits: An experimental analysis pp. 672-691

Dallas Burtraw, Jacob Goeree, Charles Holt, Erica Myers, Karen Palmer and William Shobe

Should “value-added” models be used to evaluate teachers? pp. 692-693

Allison Armour-Garb

Teacher value-added: Don't end the search before it starts pp. 693-699

Douglas Harris

Evaluating value-added models: A validity argument approach pp. 700-709

Heather C. Hill

Response to Heather C. Hill pp. 709-711

Douglas Harris

Response to Douglas N. Harris pp. 711-712

Heather C. Hill

European measures of income, poverty, and social exclusion: Recent developments and lessons for U.S. poverty measurement pp. 713-715

Douglas J. Besharov and Kenneth Couch

Deconstructing European poverty measures: What relative and absolute scales measure pp. 715-725

Richard Burkhauser

Impressionistic realism: The Europeans focus the U.S. on measurement pp. 725-731

David S. Johnson

Europe's other poverty measures: Absolute thresholds underlying social assistance pp. 732-738

Richard Bavier

European measures of poverty and “social exclusion”: Material deprivation, consumption, and life satisfaction pp. 738-744

Neil Gilbert

New comparative measures of income, material deprivation, and well-being pp. 745-752

Timothy M. Smeeding

The Politics of Presidential Appointments: Political Control and Bureaucratic Performance, by David E. Lewis, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006, 293 pp., $60.00 hardcover, $24.95 paperback pp. 753-757

Evan J. Ringquist

Europe's Role in Nation-Building: From the Balkans to the Congo, by James Dobbins, Seth G. Jones, Keith Crane, Christopher S. Chivvis, Andrew Radin, F. Stephen Larrabee, Nora Bensahel, Brooke K. Stearns, and Benjamin W. Goldsmith. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, October, 2008, 295 pp., $35.00, paperback pp. 757-760

Jason D. Klein

Work-Life Policies, Edited by Ann C. Crouter and Allen Booth. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute Press, 2009, 372 pp., $32.50 paperback pp. 760-763

Sunny L. Munn

Volume 28, issue 3, 2009

Notes from the Editor pp. 335-335

Maureen A. Pirog

Introduction to the research articles pp. 336-339

Maureen A. Pirog

Policy incentives and the extension of mortgage credit: Increasing market discipline for subprime lending pp. 340-365

Xudong An and Raphael Bostic

Harming the best: How schools affect the black-white achievement gap pp. 366-393

Eric Hanushek and Steven Rivkin

Inside national service: AmeriCorps' impact on participants pp. 394-416

Peter Frumkin, JoAnn Jastrzab, Margaret Vaaler, Adam Greeney, Robert T. Grimm, Kevin Cramer and Nathan Dietz

Marriage: Cause or mere indicator of future earnings growth? pp. 417-439

Ronald Mincy, Jennifer Hill and Marilyn Sinkewicz

The nonprofit advantage: Producing quality in thick and thin child care markets pp. 440-462

Gordon Cleveland and Michael Krashinsky

A better budget rule pp. 463-478

Michael Dothan and Fred Thompson

NSF's Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR): Subsidizing academic research or state budgets? pp. 479-495

Yonghong Wu

Introduction pp. 496-496

Richard P. Nathan

Making management count: A case for theory- and evidence-based public management pp. 497-505

Dennis C. Smith

What can we expect from performance measurement activities? pp. 505-512

Beryl A. Radin

What can we expect from performance management activities that we cannot expect from performance measurement? pp. 512-514

Dennis C. Smith

Response to Dennis Smith pp. 514-516

Beryl Radin

The search for social entrepreneurship, by Paul C. Light. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2008, 296 pp., $26.95, paperback pp. 517-520

Leslie Lenkowsky

The warping of government work, by John D. Donahue. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008, 213 pp., $35.00, hardback pp. 521-523

Eugene B. Mcgregor

Volume 28, issue 2, 2009

Notes from the Editor pp. 195-195

Maureen A. Pirog

Introduction to the research articles pp. 196-198

Maureen A. Pirog

Presidential address: From the Great Society to continuous improvement government: Shifting from “does it work?” to “what would make it better?” pp. 199-220

Douglas J. Besharov

Information asymmetries as trade barriers: ISO 9000 increases international commerce pp. 221-238

Matthew Potoski and Aseem Prakash

The effects of tougher enforcement on the job prospects of recent Latin American immigrants pp. 239-257

Pia Orrenius and Madeline Zavodny

Understanding commenter influence during agency rule development pp. 258-277

Keith Naughton, Celeste Schmid, Susan Webb Yackee and Xueyong Zhan

Designing state aid formulas pp. 278-295

Bo Zhao and Katharine Bradbury

No renters in my suburban backyard: Land use regulation and rental housing pp. 296-320

Jenny Schuetz

Award given by the Vernon Prize Committee for Volume 26 of JPAM pp. 328-328

Mark Duggan and Melissa Kearney

Erratum pp. 333-333

David A. Reingold

Volume 28, issue 1, 2009

Notes from the Editor pp. 1-1

Maureen A. Pirog

Introduction to research articles pp. 2-5

Maureen A. Pirog

Using private demand studies to calculate socially optimal vaccine subsidies in developing countries pp. 6-28

Joseph Cook, Marc Jeuland, Brian Maskery, Donald Lauria, Dipika Sur, John Clemens and Dale Whittington

Parental leave policies and parents' employment and leave-taking pp. 29-54

Wen-Jui Han, Christopher Ruhm and Jane Waldfogel

The effects of NBPTS-certified teachers on student achievement pp. 55-80

Douglas Harris and Tim Sass

The long-term effects of housing assistance on work and welfare pp. 81-101

Sandra Newman, C. Scott Holupka and Joseph Harkness

Inequities in enforcement? Environmental justice and government performance pp. 102-121

David M. Konisky

Institutional factors affecting biophysical outcomes in forest management pp. 122-146

Eric A. Coleman

The effect of recent tax changes on taxable income: Evidence from a new panel of tax returns pp. 147-163

Bradley Heim

The role of random assignment in social policy research pp. 164-165

Maureen A. Pirog

Some empirically viable alternatives to random assignment pp. 165-166

Thomas D. Cook and Peter M. Steiner

Managing applied research in federal employment policy pp. 166-168

David E. Balducchi and Stephen A. Wandner

Comment on random assignment in policy research pp. 168-169

James Q. Wilson

Are the alternatives to randomized assignment nearly as good? Statistical corrections to nonrandomized evaluations pp. 169-172

Maureen A. Pirog, Anne L. Buffardi, Colleen K. Chrisinger, Pradeep Singh and John Briney

Beyond random assignment for internal validity and beyond social research for random assignment pp. 173-174

Laura Langbein

The crowding out hypothesis pp. 174-175

David Greenberg

Get the question right, then choose the method pp. 175-176

Gordon Berlin and Robert Solow

Is random assignment good enough? pp. 176-178

Eunsu Ju

Reply comments pp. 178-180

Rob Hollister

Reply comments pp. 180-181

Richard P. Nathan

Managing the Skies: Public Policy, Organization, and Financing of Air Traffic Management, by Clinton V. Oster and John Strong, Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2007, 221 pp., $89.95 hardback pp. 182-185

David Z. Plavin

Toward Excellence with Equity: An Emerging Vision for Closing the Achievement Gap, by Ronald F. Ferguson. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007, 375 pp., $60.66, paperback| Categorically Unequal: The American Stratification System, by Douglas S. Massey. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2007, 319 pp.,$21.45, hardback| Segregation: The Rising Costs of America, by James H. Carr and Nandinee K. Kutty, Eds. New York: Routledge, 2008, 352 pp., $33.25, paperback pp. 185-192

Eugene B. McGregor

Erratum pp. 193-193

David A. Reingold