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作者：Bell, Elizabeth; Jilke, Sebastian
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Georgetown University
摘要：Administrative burden represents political choices embedded in policy design that affect how people perceive and experience government. While policymakers frequently invoke fraud prevention to justify imposing burdens in welfare programs, this rhetoric embodies an unacknowledged normative judgment about the relative costs of fraud and abuse versus program exclusion for eligible beneficiaries. This study quantifies this access-fraud trade-off in means-tested social welfare programs through a co...
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作者：Muniz-Fernandez, Alvaro
作者单位：University of Oviedo
摘要：Despite governments' efforts to raise fertility through family-support policies, birth rates continue to decline in high- and middle-income countries. Some policies designed for other purposes, however, may function as implicit childcare subsidies. This article examines the impact of reducing such support on fertility by exploiting a large-scale reform in Spain that shortened the elementary school day, shifting from full-day to morning-only sessions. Using provincial-level data from 1981 to 20...
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作者：Blazar, David; Gao, Wenjing; Gershenson, Seth; Goings, Ramon; Lagos, Francisco
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; American University; IZA Institute Labor Economics; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland Baltimore County; Inter-American Development Bank
摘要：Recruiting teachers via grow-your-own (GYO) programs is a popular, yet rarely evaluated, strategy for addressing local workforce shortages and ensuring that incoming teachers resemble, understand, and have strong connections to their communities. We provide novel evidence on the impacts of one such GYO program by exploiting the staggered rollout of the Teacher Academy of Maryland (TAM) Career and Technical Education (CTE) program across public high schools. Exposed students were more likely to...
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作者：Watson, Tara
作者单位：Brookings Institution
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作者：Ellen, Ingrid Gould
作者单位：New York University
摘要：In their early years, schools of public policy focused on federal policies and programs, as did APPAM and its journal, the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. While this federal bias has diminished over time, it hasn't entirely gone away. This essay makes the case for more attention to local government policies and programs. It argues that studying local government policies and management can deliver unique value. First local governments perform essential, and salient functions that sha...
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作者：Baron, E. Jason; Doyle Jr, Joseph J.; Emanuel, Natalia; Hull, Peter
作者单位：Duke University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - New York; Brown University
摘要：Black children in the U.S. are twice as likely as white children to spend time in foster care. Such racial disparities raise concerns of discrimination, but might also reflect differences in the underlying need for intervention. This paper estimates unwarranted disparities (UDs)-racial differences in placement rates for children with the same potential for future maltreatment-in national data. We use non-parametric bounds on the potential for future maltreatment that rely on weak and transpare...
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作者：Darling-Aduana, Jennifer; Heinrich, Carolyn J.; Noonan, Jeremy; Wu, Jialing; Enriquez, Kathryn
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia State University; Vanderbilt University; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要：Technology-facilitated courses, completed online for the purpose of credit recovery (OCR), are the most common means through which US high school students retake courses required for high school graduation. Yet a growing body of research has raised concerns regarding student learning in these courses, with low-quality assessments posited as a limiting factor. As course assessments are fundamental to evaluating student mastery and supporting student learning, we investigate this concern by syst...
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作者：Holzer, Harry J.
作者单位：Georgetown University
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作者：Cabral, Sandro; Da Costa, Marcelo Marchesini; Firpo, Sergio; Monteiro, Joana; Viotti, Leonardo T.
作者单位：Insper; Getulio Vargas Foundation; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh
摘要：Governments worldwide are increasingly applying management principles to policing, including performance management systems and financial incentives. We study whether eligibility for performance-based bonuses tied to crime reduction improves police outcomes. Using a quasi-experimental design and administrative data from Brazil, we evaluate an incentive-based compensation program that conditioned bonuses on reductions in violent deaths, vehicle robberies, and street robberies. Our results show ...
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作者：Herbst, Chris M.
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Downtown Phoenix
摘要：This paper uses the random assignment of poor families to treatment and control conditions in the Comprehensive Child Development Program (CCDP) to estimate the effects of center-based child care enrollment on child well-being. Implemented in the early-1990s, the CCDP aimed to improve child development and family functioning by offering those in the treatment group 5 years of high-quality child care along with case management. As a result, treated children were substantially more likely to be ...
