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JPAM is a leading journal in the fields of public policy and public management. It is also the official publication of @appam.bsky.social. Editor-in-Chief: @erdaltekin.bsky.social
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Journal of Policy Analysis and Management @jpam-dc.bsky.social · Jul 15
🎧 New Episode (#35) of JPAM’s Closer Look Podcast!
Host Seth Gershenson (@au-spa.bsky.social)speaks with Eric Taylor (Harvard Graduate School of Education) about how teachers improve early in their careers. tinyurl.com/55vfdrvd (1/3)
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Come chat with the JPAM editor at the @appam.bsky.social booth today at 9:30am or 3:30pm!
November 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Recently published at JPAM: "Loopholes and the Incidence of Public Services: Evidence From Funding Career and Technical Education" by Thomas Goldring, Brian Jacob, Daniel Kreisman, & Michael David Ricks.
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Loopholes and the Incidence of Public Services: Evidence From Funding Career and Technical Education
In 2015, Michigan increased its Career and Technical Education (CTE) funding and changed its funding formula to reimburse programs based on student progression through program curricula. Although thi...
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November 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Don't miss the #2025APPAM Point/Counterpoint Panel: The Future of the US Dept of Ed: Reform, Reinvention, or Retrenchment with Erdal Tekin, Amy Ellen Schwartz, Michael Alan Shires, & James Kvaal. Seating is first-come, first-served, so don't be late! Learn more: https://ow.ly/HevO50Xhyku
October 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Recently published in JPAM: "Beyond borders: Does firm-level exposure to state and local paid sick leave mandates lead to intra-firm spillovers" by Daniel Schneider and Kristen Harknett.
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Beyond borders: Does firm‐level exposure to state and local paid sick leave mandates lead to intra‐firm spillovers?
States and localities have passed labor standards to raise the floor on job quality, including mandating employer provision of paid sick leave (PSL). However, contemporary political polarization make....
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October 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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🎧 New Episode (#37) of JPAM’s Closer Look Podcast!
Host Seth Gershenson (@au-spa.bsky.social) talks to Chris Herbst (@asupubaffairs.bsky.social) about an experimental evaluation of the Comprehensive Child Development Program.
Listen here: tinyurl.com/3f3pfzs4 (1/3)
37. Effects of Center Based Child Care on Disadvantaged Children | JPAM's Closer Look
Join our Host Seth Gershenson as he speaks to Dr. Chris Herbst, Professor of Public Affairs at Arizona State University, about an experimental evaluation of the Comprehensive Child Development Program...
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October 21, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Early view from JPAM: "Shifting tax incidence: Evidence from the Washington State cannabis market" by Benjamin Hansen, Kendall Houghton, Keaton Miller, & Caroline Weber.
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Shifting tax incidence: Evidence from the Washington State cannabis market
We study how prices respond when a 25% gross receipts tax remitted by cannabis manufacturers was eliminated in Washington state and the retail excise tax was simultaneously increased from 25% to 37%.....
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October 19, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Early view from JPAM: "Measuring the effects of Obergefell v. Hodges: Revisiting same-sex marriage legalization and mortgage demand" by Nir Eilam and Hasan Shahid.
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Measuring the effects of Obergefell v. Hodges: Revisiting same‐sex marriage legalization and mortgage demand
The U.S. Supreme Court's 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges made same-sex marriage legal in all states. We estimate the effect of this landmark ruling on the mortgage demand of same-sex couples. Usi...
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October 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Early view from JPAM: "Have U.S. gun buyback programs misfired?" by Toshio Ferrazares, Joseph Sabia, & Mark Anderson.
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Have U.S. gun buyback programs misfired?
Gun buyback programs (GBPs), which use public funds to purchase civilians' privately-owned firearms, aim to reduce gun violence. However, next to nothing is known about their effects on firearm-relat...
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September 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Policy Insights JPAM:"Puzzling over declining academic achievement" by Jim Wyckoff.
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Puzzling over declining academic achievement
Many are concerned about the large decline in K–12 student achievement since 2019. And rightly so, given what it signals about student learning and later life outcomes. Less noted is the pre-pandemic....
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September 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Early view from JPAM: "The effect of compliance assistance on pollution discharges and violations of environmental regulations" by Paul Ferraro and Jay Shimshack.
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The effect of compliance assistance on pollution discharges and violations of environmental regulations
Researchers and policymakers assert competing behavioral models of polluters. One model portrays polluters as best approximated by the perfectly informed, rational actor from economics textbooks. Ano...
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September 6, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Early view from JPAM: "The intersection of prenatal substance exposure and child protection: Evidence from Pennsylvania" by Sarah Font, Christian Connell, Ezra Goldstein, and Dylan Jones.
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The intersection of prenatal substance exposure and child protection: Evidence from Pennsylvania
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 s...
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August 27, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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🎧 New Episode (#35) of JPAM’s Closer Look Podcast!
Host Seth Gershenson (@au-spa.bsky.social)speaks with Eric Taylor (Harvard Graduate School of Education) about how teachers improve early in their careers. tinyurl.com/55vfdrvd (1/3)
July 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Early view from JPAM: "Relaxing electoral constraints in local education funding" by Michel Grosz & Ross Milton.
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Relaxing electoral constraints in local education funding
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May 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Now in Early View from @jpam-dc.bsky.social: Administrative Checkpoints, Burdens, and Human-Centered Design: Increasing Interview Access to Raise SNAP Participation. Read more: ow.ly/JvEL50VGGY1
Administrative checkpoints, burdens, and human‐centered design: Increasing interview access to raise SNAP participation
In this study we describe the potential of human-centered design principles to identify burdens, reducing the effects of administrative checkpoints. Administrative checkpoints—mandatory requirements ...
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April 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Early view from JPAM: "How effective are behavioral interventions to increase the take-up of social benefits? A systematic review of field experiments" Pierre-Marc Daigneault, Mathieu Ouimet, Alexandre Fortier-Chouinard, Eriole Zita Nonki Tadida, and Antoine Baby-Bouchard.
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How effective are behavioral interventions to increase the take‐up of social benefits? A systematic review of field experiments
Non-take-up of social benefits is a significant policy issue caused by factors such as lack of awareness, compliance costs, and stigma. While public information campaigns, default options, and in-per....
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May 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Early view from JPAM: "Time to baccalaureate degree in the labor market: Evidence from a field experiment" by Michael Bloem (@mike-bloem.bsky.social) from College Board (@collegeboardpress.bsky.social).
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Time to baccalaureate degree in the labor market: Evidence from a field experiment
I study whether the amount of time students take to complete their bachelor's degree affects labor outcomes after graduation using a resume-based field experiment. I randomly assign a time to degree ...
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April 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Early view from JPAM: "Breastfeeding and the return to work after childbirth of new mothers: Evidence from a baby formula scare" by Limor Hatsor and Ity Shurtz.

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Breastfeeding and the return to work after childbirth of new mothers: Evidence from a baby formula scare
We use a baby formula “food scare” in Israel in 2003 as a plausible natural experiment to study the causal relationship between breastfeeding and mothers’ return to work after childbirth. Analysis of...
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April 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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New in @jpam-dc.bsky.social: required interviews are an administrative checkpoint that reduces SNAP participation. Communicating flexible interview policies increases take-up. W @jaeyeonkim.bsky.social @sebjilke.bsky.social @pamherd.bsky.social
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In this study we describe the potential of human-centered design principles to identify burdens, reducing the effects of administrative checkpoints. Administrative checkpoints—mandatory requirements that must be satisfied in order to progress in an administrative process—have disproportionate negative effects in excluding the public from receiving public services. Mandatory interviews are one such checkpoint. Based on consultation with safety net clients and caseworkers, we designed a field experiment (N = 1,554) to minimize the exclusionary effects of mandatory interviews for SNAP applicants. Compared to a control group that received a traditional mailer reminder, SNAP applicants who also received texts reminding them of the interview and communicating flexible “interview anytime” scheduling options had a higher interview completion rate by 10 percentage points, a higher benefit-approval rate by 6 to 7 percentage points, and also completed interviews 3 to 4 days sooner. Follow-up surveys show that the text reminders reduced learning costs about the interview requirement and increased applicant confidence about their ability to manage the process.
April 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Early view from JPAM: "On the margin: Who receives a juvenile referral in school and what effect does it have?" by Lucy Sorensen, Andrea Headley, and Stephen Holt.
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On the margin: Who receives a juvenile referral in school and what effect does it have?
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 s...
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April 1, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Early view from JPAM: "Citizenship question effects on household survey response" by David Brown and Misty Heggeness.
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Citizenship question effects on household survey response
Differential coverage across demographic groups in a census or survey can reduce the accuracy and representativeness of the resulting statistics. Researchers traditionally have used community-level m....
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April 1, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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"JPAM at a Glance" features one-page summaries of research articles from each JPAM issue. Here’s a look at Vol. 43, No. 4. You can also read the full issue here: 🔗
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Journal of Policy Analysis and Management: Vol 43, No 4
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March 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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JPAM is pleased to publish the APPAM Presidential Address by @donmoyn.bsky.social: "Rescuing State Capacity: Proceduralism, the New Politicization, and Public Policy."

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Rescuing state capacity: Proceduralism, the new politicization, and public policy
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 la...
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March 5, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Early view from JPAM: "Strengthening police oversight: The impacts of misconduct investigators on police officer behavior" by Andrew Jordan & Taeho Kim. Read more: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Strengthening police oversight: The impacts of misconduct investigators on police officer behavior
We study how civilian complaint investigators affect officer behavior in Chicago. We exploit quasi-random assignment of complaints to supervising investigators and use variation in whether supervisor...
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March 5, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Early view from JPAM: "Strengthening police oversight: The impacts of misconduct investigators on police officer behavior" by Andrew Jordan & Taeho Kim.
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Strengthening police oversight: The impacts of misconduct investigators on police officer behavior
We study how civilian complaint investigators affect officer behavior in Chicago. We exploit quasi-random assignment of complaints to supervising investigators and use variation in whether supervisor...
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March 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Early view from JPAM: "Does not-for-profit corporatization of local public services improve performance?" by José M. Alonso & Rhys Andrews.
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Does not‐for‐profit corporatization of local public services improve performance?
The corporatization of local public services is an increasingly common public management reform worldwide. This study investigates whether a shift from in-house to not-for-profit corporatized service...
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February 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM