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作者：Gamper-Rabindran, Shanti; Campbell, Heather E.; Eckerd, Adam; Kim, Yushim
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh
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作者：Moynihan, Donald P.
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：The administrative capacity of a government matters enormously to public policy design and implementation. But it is usually taken for granted in public policy settings, a background variable left largely unconsidered. This essay argues that the fields of public policy and public management need to more directly consider threats to state capacity. A creeping threat is a tendency towards proceduralism that layers in rules, veto points, and delay that constrains state actors from achieving criti...
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作者：Smetters, Kent
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; University of Pennsylvania
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作者：Berger, Lawrence M.; Harden, Brenda Jones
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; Columbia University
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作者：Edwards, Frank
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University Newark
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作者：Sheiner, Louise
作者单位：Brookings Institution
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作者：Font, Sarah; Connell, Christian M.; Goldstein, Ezra G.; Jones, Dylan
作者单位：Washington University (WUSTL); Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
摘要：Current U.S. law mandates notification of substance-affected infants to state child welfare systems (CWS) for the purpose of assessment and service connections. Yet, CWS appears to identify a small share of substance-affected infants at birth, potentially reflecting inconsistent diagnosis of prenatal substance exposure (PSE) and emerging efforts to limit toxicology testing. This study uses linked maternal and child administrative records (2015 to 2021) for Pennsylvania Medicaid-covered births ...
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作者：Sorensen, Lucy C.; Headley, Andrea M.; Holt, Stephen B.
作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Albany, SUNY; Georgetown University
摘要：Involvement with the juvenile justice system carries immense consequences both to detained youth and to society more broadly. Extant research on the school-to-prison pipeline has often focused on school disciplinary practices such as suspension with less attention on understanding the impact of school referrals to the juvenile justice system on students. Using novel administrative data from North Carolina, we link 3 years of individual educational and disciplinary infraction records to juvenil...
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作者：Hu, Caiwen; Wang, Zhenyu
作者单位：Tongji University
摘要：This study examines how officials' heterogeneous preferences, particularly shaped by traumatic childhood experiences, impact government policy decisions. Leveraging China's Great Famine as a natural experiment, we apply a cohort difference-in-differences (DID) approach to analyze the effect of officials' exposure to famine on government objectives in their jurisdictions. Results show that famine-exposed officials, particularly those aged five or older during the crisis (a formative period for ...
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作者：Gilbert, Joshua B.; Himmelsbach, Zachary; Soland, James; Joshi, Mridul; Domingue, Benjamin W.
作者单位：Harvard University; Harvard University; Harvard University Medical Affiliates; Massachusetts General Hospital; University of Virginia
摘要：Analyses of heterogeneous treatment effects (HTE) are common in applied causal inference research. However, when outcomes are latent variables assessed via psychometric instruments such as educational tests, standard methods ignore the potential HTE that may exist among the individual items of the outcome measure. Failing to account for item-level HTE (IL-HTE) can lead to both underestimated standard errors and identification challenges in the estimation of treatment-by-covariate interaction e...
