Journal of Policy Analysis and Management

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Volume 26, issue 4, 2007

Notes from the editor pp. 729-730

Maureen A. Pirog

Introduction to research articles pp. 731-736

Maureen A. Pirog

The implications of differences between employer and worker employment|earnings reports for policy evaluation pp. 737-754

Geoffrey L. Wallace and Robert Haveman

Canada's voluntary ARET program: Limited success despite industry cosponsorship pp. 755-774

Werner Antweiler and Kathryn Harrison

The stigma of public programs: Does a separate S-CHIP program reduce it? pp. 775-790

Patricia Ketsche, E. Kathleen Adams, Karen Minyard and Rebecca Kellenberg

Child support enforcement policy and unmarried fathers' employment in the underground and regular economies pp. 791-810

Lauren M. Rich, Irwin Garfinkel and Qin Gao

Redlining or risk? A spatial analysis of auto insurance rates in Los Angeles pp. 811-830

Paul M. Ong and Michael Stoll

Public housing, health, and health behaviors: Is there a connection? pp. 831-860

Angela R. Fertig and David A. Reingold

The impact of child SSI enrollment on household outcomes pp. 861-886

Mark Duggan and Melissa Kearney

Child care quality in different state policy contexts pp. 887-908

Elizabeth Rigby, Rebecca M. Ryan and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

Teacher performance pay: A review pp. 909-950

Michael Podgursky and Matthew Springer

Should government promote marriage? pp. 951-951

Sara McLanahan

Strengthening marriage is an appropriate social policy goal pp. 952-955

Paul R. Amato

Should government promote marriage? pp. 956-960

Frank F. Furstenberg

Response to Furstenberg pp. 961-962

Paul R. Amato

Response to Amato pp. 963-964

Frank F. Furstenberg

Strategic Giving: The Art and Science of Philanthropy, by Peter Frumkin (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006), 458 pp., $39 cloth pp. 965-967

Kirsten A. Grønbjerg

Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, by Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmstead Teisberg, Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2006, 506 pp., $35 hardback pp. 968-970

James M. Verdier

The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook, Second Edition, edited by Walter W. Powell and Richard Steinberg, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006, 672 pp., $65.00 cloth pp. 971-974

Lee Harper and Michael Bisesi

Work over Welfare: The Inside Story of the 1996 Welfare Reform Law, by Ron Haskins. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 2006, 450 pp., $32.95 hardcover pp. 975-980

Michael Wisemanx

Volume 26, issue 3, 2007

Notes from the editor pp. 449-449

Maureen A. Pirog

Introduction to research articles pp. 451-454

Maureen A. Pirog

How close is close enough? Evaluating propensity score matching using data from a class size reduction experiment pp. 455-477

Elizabeth Wilde and Robinson Hollister

A “politically robust” experimental design for public policy evaluation, with application to the Mexican Universal Health Insurance program pp. 479-506

Gary King, Emmanuela Gakidou, Nirmala Ravishankar, Ryan T. Moore, Jason Lakin, Manett Vargas, Martha María Téllez-Rojo, Juan Eugenio Hernández Ávila, Mauricio Hernández Ávila and Héctor Hernández Llamas

Uncertain policy for an uncertain world: The case of social security pp. 507-525

John Sabelhaus and Julie Topoleski

The social security earnings test and work incentives pp. 527-555

Hugo Benitez-Silva and Frank Heiland

The performance of charter schools in Wisconsin pp. 557-573

John Witte, David Weimer, Arnold Shober and Paul Schlomer

Welfare and child support program knowledge gaps reduce program effectiveness pp. 575-598

Daniel R. Meyer, Maria Cancian and Kisun Nam

Income tax policy and charitable giving pp. 599-612

Arthur C. Brooks

Nonpoor children in head start: Explanations and implications pp. 613-631

Douglas J. Besharov and Jeffrey S. Morrow

Early childhood care and education: Lessons and puzzles pp. 633-671

William T. Gormley

How should we read the evidence about head start? three views pp. 673-674

Richard P. Nathan

Revving up head start: Lessons from recent research pp. 674-677

W. Barnett

Head start: Mend it, don't expand it (yet) pp. 678-681

Douglas J. Besharov and Caeli A. Higney

How should we interpret the evidence about head start? pp. 681-684

Janet Currie

Surprising agreement on head start: Compli|ementing Currie and Besharov pp. 685-686

W. Barnett

Response to Barnett and Currie pp. 686-688

J. Besharov and Caeli A. Higney

Response to Besharov|Higney and Barnett pp. 688-689

Janet Currie

An Academic Odyssey: Natural Science to Social Sciences & Policy Analysis, by Duncan MacRae Jr., Xlibris Publishers (www.Xlibris.com), 2005, 284 pp., $28.79 hardcover pp. 691-693

Dale Whittington

Learning More from Social Experiments: Evolving Analytic Approaches, edited by Howard S. Bloom, New York: Russell Sage, 2005, 246 pp., $35 hardcover, $19.95 paperback pp. 694-700

Gary Burtless

Volume 26, issue 2, 2007

Presidential address medical governance: Are we ready to prescribe? pp. 217-229

David Weimer

Notes from the editor pp. 231-232

Maureen A. Pirog

Introduction to research articles pp. 233-236

Maureen A. Pirog

The impact of the introduction of premiums into a SCHIP program pp. 237-255

James Marton

Does federally subsidized rental housing depress neighborhood property values? pp. 257-280

Ingrid Gould Ellen, Amy Schwartz, Ioan Voicu and Michael H. Schill

False or fitting recognition? The use of high performance bonuses in motivating organizational achievements pp. 281-304

Carolyn Heinrich

Should you turn yourself in? The consequences of environmental self-policing pp. 305-326

Sarah L. Stafford

Are management-based regulations effective? Evidence from state pollution prevention programs pp. 327-348

Lori Snyder Bennear

Citizen groups and scientific decisionmaking: Does public participation influence environmental outcomes? pp. 349-368

Dorothy M. Daley

Welfare reform after ten years: Strengths and weaknesses pp. 369-369

Richard P. Nathan

Why welfare reform succeeded pp. 370-374

Lawrence M. Mead

Tanf's results are more mixed than is often understood pp. 374-381

Sharon Parrott and Arloc Sherman

Response to Parrott and Sherman pp. 381-383

Lawrence M. Mead

Response to Mead pp. 383-385

Sharon Parrot and Arloc Sherman

Economic influences on marriage and divorce pp. 387-429

Nancy R. Burstein

Book reviews pp. 431-442

Eugene B. McGregor, Jr.

Volume 26, issue 1, 2007

Disentangling the racial test score gap: Probing the evidence in a large urban school district pp. 7-30

Leanna Stiefel, Amy Schwartz and Ingrid Gould Ellen

School choice, racial segregation, and test-score gaps: Evidence from North Carolina's charter school program&ast pp. 31-56

Robert Bifulco and Helen Ladd

Employment, privatization, and managerial choice: Does contracting out reduce public sector employment? pp. 57-77

Sergio Fernandez, Craig R. Smith and Jeffrey B. Wenger

The impact of child support enforcement policy on nonmarital childbearing pp. 79-98

Robert D. Plotnick, Irwin Garfinkel, Sara S. McLanahan and Inhoe Ku

Decentralized governance and environmental change: Local institutional moderation of deforestation in Bolivia pp. 99-123

Krister Andersson and Clark C. Gibson

Earned income credit utilization by welfare recipients: A case study of Minnesota's earned income credit program pp. 125-148

Donald P. Hirasuna and Thomas Stinson

The effects of state policy design features on take-up and crowd-out rates for the state children's health insurance program pp. 149-175

Cynthia Bansak and Steven Raphael

Expanding health care coverage: National versus state leadership pp. 177-177

Richard P. Nathan

The worst system of health care reform-except for all the others: A Federalist approach to health care reform pp. 178-181

Henry Aaron

The right to medical care is national pp. 181-184

Paul H. O'Neill

Response pp. 184-186

Henry Aaron

Response pp. 187-187

Paul H. O'Neill

Increasing the transparency of stated choice studies for policy analysis: Designing experiments to produce raw response graphs pp. 189-199

Dipika Sur, Joseph Cook, Susmita Chatterjee, Jacqueline Deen and Dale Whittington

The Oxford handbook of public management pp. 201-204

Fred Thompson

Players in the public policy process: Nonprofits as social capital and agents pp. 204-207

Eva Witesman

Reconnecting disadvantaged young men pp. 208-214

Samuel L. Myers, Jr.

Holzer, Harry J., and Neumark, David (2006). Affirmative action: What do we know? The Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 26(2), 463-490 pp. 215-215

Harry Holzer and David Neumark