Journal of Policy Analysis and Management

1982 - 2025

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Volume 25, issue 4, 2006

Does sex education affect adolescent sexual behaviors and health? pp. 783-802

Joseph J. Sabia

Does early adolescent sex cause depressive symptoms? pp. 803-825

Joseph J. Sabia

Job sprawl, spatial mismatch, and black employment disadvantage pp. 827-854

Michael Stoll

Curbside recycling: Waste resource or waste of resources? pp. 855-874

David Aadland and Arthur Caplan

Downsizing, competition, and organizational change in government: Is necessity the mother of invention? pp. 875-895

Steven Kelman

A re-examination of welfare states and inequality in rich nations: How in-kind transfers and indirect taxes change the story pp. 897-919

Irwin Garfinkel, Lee Rainwater and Timothy M. Smeeding

State-level predictors of food insecurity among households with children pp. 921-942

Judi Bartfeld and Rachel Dunifon

Child support enforcement: Programs and policies, impacts and questions pp. 943-990

Maureen A. Pirog and Kathleen M. Ziol-Guest

Can we say no: The challenge of rationing health care, by Henry J. Aaron and William B. Schwartz, with Melissa Cox pp. 991-992

Jan Blustein

Managing welfare reform in New York City, edited by E. S. Savas pp. 993-995

Andrew R. Feldman

Illicit: How smugglers, traffickers, and copycats are hijacking the global economy, by Moisés Naím pp. 995-999

Samuel Nunn

Digital government technology and public sector performance, by Darrell M. West pp. 999-1001

Craig L. Johnson

Volume 25, issue 3, 2006

Notes from the editor pp. 515-515

Maureen A. Pirog

Do experimental and nonexperimental evaluations give different answers about the effectiveness of government-funded training programs? pp. 523-552

David Greenberg, Charles Michalopoulos and Philip K. Robin

Why triggers fail (and what to do about it): An examination of the unemployment insurance extended benefits program pp. 553-575

Jeffrey B. Wenger and Matthew J. Walters

School choice in Chile: Is it class or the classroom? pp. 577-601

Mark Schneider, Gregory Elacqua and Jack Buckley

Has the Food Stamp program become more accessible? Impacts of recent changes in reporting requirements and asset eligibility limits pp. 603-621

Maria J. Hanratty

Changes in the welfare caseload and the health of low-educated mothers pp. 623-643

Robert Kaestner and Elizabeth Tarlov

Reducing traffic fatalities in the American States by upgrading seat belt use laws to primary enforcement pp. 645-659

David J. Houston and Lilliard E. Richardson, Jr.

Do speed cameras produce net benefits? Evidence from British Columbia, Canada pp. 661-678

Greg Chen and Rebecca N. Warburton

Would private accounts improve Social Security? pp. 679-680

Richard P. Nathan

Would private accounts improve Social Security? Affirmative: Private accounts would improve Social Security pp. 680-683

Jeffrey Brown

Would private accounts improve Social Security? Negative: Private accounts would not improve Social Security pp. 684-688

Kenneth S. Apfel

Response to Kenneth S. Apfel pp. 689-689

Jeffrey Brown

Response to Jeffrey R. Brown pp. 690-690

Kenneth S. Apfel

Aiming for evidence-based gun policy pp. 691-735

Philip J Cook and Jens Ludwig

Unleashing change: A study of organizational renewal in government pp. 737-741

Carolyn J. Hill

The flight of the creative class: The new global competition for talent; The new division of labor: How computers are creating the next job market; The state of working America pp. 741-752

Eugene B. McGregor, Jr.

Volume 25, issue 2, 2006

Attracting private investment to contaminated properties: The value of public interventions pp. 247-369

Kris Wernstedt, Peter B. Meyer and Anna Alberini

Presidential address: Evidence-based decision making: What will it take for the decision makers to care? pp. 249-265

Rebecca A. Maynard

Notes from the editor pp. 267-268

Maureen A. Pirog

Did welfare reform influence the fertility of young teens? pp. 275-298

Leonard M. Lopoo and Thomas DeLeire

Is full better than half? Examining the longitudinal effects of full-day kindergarten attendance pp. 299-321

Jill S. Cannon, Alison Jacknowitz and Gary Painter

Contracting for management: Assessing management capacity under alternative service delivery arrangements pp. 323-346

Trevor Brown and Matt Potoski

Public management reform and organizational performance: An empirical assessment of the U.K. Labour government's public service improvement strategy pp. 371-393

Richard M. Walker and George A. Boyne

The efficacy and effect of racial profiling: A mathematical simulation approach pp. 395-416

Jack Glaser

The role of earnings and financial risk in distributional analyses of Social Security reform measures pp. 417-438

Thomas L. Hungerford

Does a more centralized urban form raise housing prices? pp. 439-462

Robert Wassmer and Michelle C. Baass

Affirmative action: What do we know? pp. 463-490

Harry Holzer and David Neumark

Sustaining nonprofit performance pp. 491-493

Peter Frumkin

The world is flat: A brief history of the twenty-first century; Three billion new capitalists: The great shift of wealth and power to the east pp. 494-499

Jeffrey A. Hart

The four pillars of high performance: How robust organizations achieve extraordinary results; High-performance government: Structure, leadership, incentives pp. 499-503

Carolyn Heinrich

Government performance: Why management matters; Government matters: Welfare reform in Wisconsin; How management matters: Street-level bureaucrats and welfare reform pp. 503-510

Donald F. Kettl

Volume 25, issue 1, 2006

Notes from the editor pp. 1-2

Maureen A. Pirog

Five-year effects of an anti-poverty program on marriage among never-married mothers pp. 11-30

Anna Gassman-Pines and Hirokazu Yoshikawa

Nonprofit housing and neighborhood spillovers pp. 31-52

Ingrid Gould Ellen and Ioan Voicu

Does agency competition improve the quality of policy analysis? Evidence from OMB and CBO fiscal projections pp. 53-74

George A. Krause and James W. Douglas

Alternative routes to teaching: The impacts of Teach for America on student achievement and other outcomes pp. 75-96

Steven Glazerman, Daniel Mayer and Paul Decker

Competition in the sandbox: A test of the effects of preschool competition on educational outcomes pp. 97-127

Gary T. Henry and Craig S. Gordon

The impact of kindergarten entrance age policies on the childcare needs of families pp. 129-153

Ashlesha Datar

The effectiveness of regulatory disclosure policies pp. 155-181

David Weil, Archon Fung, Mary Graham and Elena Fagotto

Did Ontario's Zero Tolerance & Graduated Licensing Law reduce youth drunk driving? pp. 183-195

Christopher Carpenter

A cure for crime: Can mental health treatment diversion reduce crime among youth? pp. 197-214

Alison Evans Cuellar, Larkin S. McReynolds and Gail A. Wasserman

Contexts, multiple methods, and values in the study of common-pool resources pp. 215-227

Matthew Auer

Governance as leadership: Reframing the work of nonprofit boards pp. 229-231

Michael Bisesi

Governing by network: The new shape of the public sector pp. 232-235

Steven Cohen

The price of government: Getting the results we need in an age of permanent fiscal crisis pp. 235-238

William Eimicke

Standards deviation: How schools misunderstand education policy pp. 238-241

Richard F. Elmore

Limits to growth: The 30-year update pp. 241-245

J. I. Mills and P. C. Emmi