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作者:Cancian, Maria
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作者:Badgett, M. V. Lee; Carpenter, Christopher S.; Lee, Maxine J.; Sansone, Dario
作者单位:University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Amherst; Vanderbilt University; California State University System; San Francisco State University; University of Exeter
摘要:On June 26, 2015, the United States Supreme Court extended nationwide legal access to same-sex marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges, following a series of court cases and legislative activities at the state and district levels. Similar policies have diffused throughout other countries, especially in western Europe and the Americas. Researchers have used the staggered rollout of legal same-sex marriage and related policies in the U.S. and elsewhere, along with improved data on lesbian, gay, and bis...
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作者:Coupet, Jason
作者单位:University System of Georgia; Georgia State University
摘要:Many public service organizations engage in commercialization, or market-oriented strategies designed to generate non-public revenue for the organization. Managers and policymakers sometimes choose to buy these commercialization strategies by setting up separate organizations, ostensibly to avoid inefficiencies associated with coordinating market activity within an organization designed for public service. Using a synthetic control approach, this study measures the effect on efficiency of a co...
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作者:Larrimore, Jeff
作者单位:Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve System Board of Governors
摘要:A central aspect of poverty measurement is identifying the people and places experiencing financial hardships. This paper explores this relationship using the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Financial Well-Being Scale, which reflects individuals' self-assessments of financial challenges. Using this measure, for every 1 percentage point increase in a state's official poverty rate for working-age adults, there is a 0.59 percentage point increase in the share with low financial well-being....
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作者:Fusaro, Vincent A.
作者单位:Boston College
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作者:Barr, Andrew C.; Bird, Kelli A.; Castleman, Benjamin L.; Skimmyhorn, William L.
作者单位:Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; University of Virginia; University of Virginia; William & Mary
摘要:Despite generous financial aid, military veterans have high rates of undermatch and generally poor postsecondary outcomes. We conducted a large-scale, multi-arm field experiment with the U.S. Army to investigate whether personalized information about postsecondary options and access to advising affects service members' postsecondary choices and outcomes. We find no impact of the intervention on whether or where veterans enroll in college or on their college persistence. These results suggest t...