Skip to content

California Policy Lab at the 2020 APPAM Fall Conference

Catch California Policy Lab’s Staff, Graduate Research Assistants, and Affiliated Experts at these sessions during the 2020 Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management fall research conference.

* = CPL Staff
** = CPL Graduate Research Fellows
*** = CPL Affiliated Expert

Wednesday

Panel – Program Design, Diffusion, and Implications: A Look at the Development and Outcomes of Subsidized Housing Programs
(Housing, Community Development, and Urban Policy)
8:00 AM – 8:55 AM
APPAM Virtual Fall Research Conference – Room 15
Panel Chair: Michael Lens, University of California, Los Angeles***
Discussants: Mary Cunningham, Urban Institute; Todd M. Richardson, US Department of Housing and Urban Development
Panel *Names in bold indicate Presenter

ID# 37206 PANEL Policy Developments in Affordable Housing: State Housing Trust Funds
Carla Flink1, Rebecca Walter2 and Xiaoyang Xu1, (1)American University, (2)University of Washington
ID# 37208 PANEL Resident Outcomes in Low Income Housing Tax Credit Developments: Teasing out the Role of Neighborhood and Market Conditions
Carolina Reid, University of California, Berkeley
ID# 37210 PANEL Ready to Rent: Housing Authorities and the Making of Market-Ready Citizens
Brian McCabe, Georgetown University
ID# 37213 PANEL Housing Choice Vouchers: A Long Road to an Uncertain Outcome
Vincent Reina and Joshua Davidson, University of Pennsylvania

 

Panel – EITC and TANF Participation Among Diverse Families and across Geography
(Poverty and Income Policy)
8:00 AM – 8:55 AM
APPAM Virtual Fall Research Conference – Room 24
Panel Chair: Lisa Gennetian, Duke University
Discussants: Sarah Verbiest, University of North Carolina; Pamela Joshi, Brandeis University
Panel *Names in bold indicate Presenter

ID# 38321 PANEL What Happens When TANF Recipients Go to Work?
Elaine Maag and Kevin Werner, Urban Institute
ID# 38323 PANEL An Equity Analysis of Applying for Welfare in New Jersey: TANF Application and Denial Reasons By Individual, Case, and County Characteristics
Andrea Hetling1, Stephanie Holcomb2 and David Seith2, (1)Rutgers University, New Brunswick, (2)Rutgers University
ID# 38326 PANEL Predicting Uptake of the Earned Income Tax Credit Among Hispanic Families with Young Children
Yiyu Chen1, Dana Thomson1 and Lisa Gennetian2, (1)Child Trends, (2)Duke University
ID# 38330 PANEL Exploring Perceptions and Use of EITC in California
Lia Fernald, University of California, Berkeley, Wendi Gosliner, University of California and Rita Hamad, University of California, San Francisco***

 

Panel – Improving the Trajectory of Young Adults with Barriers to Employment
(Employment and Training Programs)
10:00 AM – 10:55 AM
APPAM Virtual Fall Research Conference – Room 11
Panel Chair: Jessica Lohmann, US Department of Labor
Discussant: Johanna Lacoe, California Policy Lab*
Panel *Names in bold indicate Presenter

ID# 38385 PANEL Evaluation of the National Guard Youth Challenge/Job Challenge Program
Jillian Berk1, Jillian Stein1, Christian Geckeler2, Ariella Kahn-Lang1 and Megan Millenky3, (1)Mathematica, (2)Social Policy Research Associates, (3)MDRC
ID# 38397 PANEL New Insights into the Back on Track Model’s Effects on Opportunity Youth Outcomes: Evaluation of Opportunity Works
Theresa Anderson, Breno Braga and H. Elizabeth Peters, Urban Institute
ID# 38407 PANEL Assessing the Implementation Fidelity and Impact of Roca’s CBT Curriculum on Program Engagement, Employment Attainment, and Recidivism for High Risk Young Men
Walter Campbell, Holly Swan, Yvonne Christy, Claudia Masters and Elyse Yarmosky, Abt Associates, Inc.

 

Panel – Health Insurance Enrollment: Learning What Works from Randomized Evaluations with Federal and State Agencies
(Health)
10:00 AM – 10:55 AM
APPAM Virtual Fall Research Conference – Room 31
Panel Chair: Hannah Reuter, Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab J-PAL North America
Discussants: Crystal Hall, University of Washington; Jesse Gubb, Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab J-PAL North America
Panel *Names in bold indicate Presenter

ID# 36642 PANEL Using Email Outreach to Increase Enrollment in Veteran Health Benefits
Elana Safran1, Jessica Leight2,3, Andrew Tyler4 and Serita Rogers4, (1)Office of Evaluation Sciences, U.S. General Services Administration, (2)International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), (3)US General Services Administration, (4)Veterans Health Administration
ID# 36660 PANEL Using Personalized Telephone Outreach to Increase Health Insurance Take-up: Experimental Evidence from Covered California
Isaac Menashe1, Andrew Feher1, Wes Yin2***, Nicholas Tilipman3 and Rebecca Myerson4, (1)Covered California, (2)University of California, Los Angeles, (3)University of Illinois, Chicago, (4)University of Wisconsin, Madison
ID# 36651 PANEL Using Emails and Letters to Reduce Choice Errors: Experimental Evidence from Covered California
Andrew Feher and Isaac Menashe, Covered California
ID# 36656 PANEL Nudging Take-up of Subsidized Insurance: Evidence from Massachusetts
Timothy J. Layton1, Keith Ericson2, Adrianna McIntyre1 and Adam Sacarny3, (1)Harvard University, (2)Boston University, (3)Columbia University

 

Opening Plenary: Racial Justice and the Policy Lifecycle: What Have We Learned from the Policy Response to Racial Inequities in the United States over Time?
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
APPAM Virtual Fall Research Conference – Room 1
Moderator: Sherry Glied, New York University
Speakers: Bradley Hardy, American University; Rucker Johnson, University of California, Berkeley***; David Konisky, Indiana University; Javier Rodriguez, Claremont Graduate University

Over the past half century, there have been multiple policy efforts to address racial inequities across education, housing, environmental quality, health, income support, and other areas of social policy.  The design, implementation, and effects of these policies have been a regular subject of policy analysis.  In this plenary roundtable, speakers will assess what we have learned about what has and has not worked to promote racial justice across these areas.  They will describe how (or whether) the lessons of prior policy analyses have informed subsequent policy development and discuss what lessons those analyses offer for the future of initiatives to address racial justice.

 

Thursday

Panel – The Effects of Income Policies on Child Health and Well-Being
(Poverty and Income Policy)
8:00 AM – 8:55 AM
APPAM Virtual Fall Research Conference – Room 25
Panel Chair: Lisa Dubay, Urban Institute
Discussant: Breno Brago, Urban Institute
Panel *Names in bold indicate Presenter

ID# 37428 PANEL Can the Earned Income Tax Credit Boost Short-Term Child Health?
Rita Hamad*** and Akansha Batra, University of California San Francisco
ID# 37426 PANEL Effects of the Minimum Wage on Child Health
George L. Wehby1, Robert Kaestner2, Wei Lyu1 and Dhaval Dave3, (1)University of Iowa, (2)University of Chicago, (3)Bentley University
ID# 37455 PANEL The Effects of Supplemental Security Income on Children’s Health: Evidence from New York State Medicaid
Hansoo Ko, Renata Howland and Sherry Glied, New York University

 

Panel – Impacts of Criminal Prosecution and Diversion
(Crime, Justice, and Drugs)
10:00 AM – 10:55 AM
APPAM Virtual Fall Research Conference – Room 3
Panel Chair: Johanna Lacoe*, California Policy Lab
Discussants: Steven Raphael, University of California, Berkeley*** and Sara Wakefield, Rutgers University
Panel *Names in bold indicate Presenter

ID# 38029 PANEL Impacts of San Francisco’s Pretrial Diversion Programs
Elsa Augustine1*, Alissa Skog1*, Johanna Lacoe1* and Steven Raphael2***, (1)California Policy Lab, (2)University of California, Berkeley
ID# 38033 PANEL Los Angeles County Office of Diversion and Reentry’s Supportive Housing Program
Sarah Hunter and Adam Scherling, RAND Corporation
ID# 38038 PANEL Diversion Decision-Making
Aurelie Ouss, University of Pennsylvania
ID# 38035 PANEL Misdemeanor Prosecution
Amanda Agan, Rutgers University, Jennifer Doleac, Texas A&M University, Anna Harvey, New York University and JJ Prescott, University of Michigan

 

Panel – New Houses: How Do We Get More of Them, and Can Their Production be Made Equitable?
(Housing, Community Development, and Urban Policy)
10:00 AM – 10:55 AM
APPAM Virtual Fall Research Conference – Room 16
Panel Chair: Jaclene Begley, Fannie Mae
Discussants: Vincent Reina, University of Pennsylvania; Michael Lens, University of California, Los Angeles***
Panel *Names in bold indicate Presenter

ID# 37268 PANEL Are Downtowns Full?
Lyndsey A Rolheiser, Ryerson University and Devin Michelle Bunten, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
ID# 38070 PANEL New Housing, Gentrification, and Access to Credit
Jose Loya and Paavo Monkkonen, University of California, Los Angeles
ID# 37272 PANEL Could Statewide Pre-Emption of Local Zoning Improve Housing Affordability in Greater Boston?
Jenny Schuetz and Sarah Crump, Brookings Institution
ID# 37271 PANEL Superintending Local Constraints on Housing Development: How California Can Do It Better
Paavo Monkkonen1, Christopher Elmendorf2, Eric Biber3 and Moira O’Neill3, (1)University of California, Los Angeles, (2)University of California, Davis, (3)University of California, Berkeley

 

Panel – Analyses of COVID-19 Impacts: Methodological Challenges and Opportunities
(Methods and Tools of Analysis)
10:00 AM – 10:55 AM
APPAM Virtual Fall Research Conference – Room 18
Panel Chair: Sarah Kabourek, NORC at University of Chicago
Discussant: Daniel Litwok, Abt Associates, Inc.
Panel *Names in bold indicate Presenter

ID# 36987 PANEL Planning Analyses of (Comparative) Interrupted Times Series Data That Accounts for Temporal Autocorrelation
Eric Hedberg, NORC at University of Chicago
ID# 36992 PANEL Accounting for Missing Data and Differential History Threats: Cits in the Time of COVID-19
Kelly Hallberg1, Ryan T. Williams2 and Andrew P. Swanlund2, (1)University of Chicago, (2)American Institutes for Research
ID# 36995 PANEL Considerations for Using Panel Data Methods to Estimate the Impact of COVID-19 Anti-Contagion Policies
Eli Ben-Michael1, Avi Feller1*** and Elizabeth Stuart2, (1)University of California, Berkeley, (2)Johns Hopkins University

 

Friday

Panel – Improving Police Behavior
(Crime, Justice, and Drugs)
8:00 AM – 8:55 AM
APPAM Virtual Fall Research Conference – Room 3
Panel Chair: Elizabeth Luh, University of Michigan
Discussant: Andrea M. Headley, Georgetown University
Panel *Names in bold indicate Presenter

ID# 36017 PANEL A Behavioral Assessment of Bureaucratic Accountability: An Unintended Consequence of Body-Worn Camera in the New Orleans Police Department
Inkyu Kang, Rutgers University, Newark
ID# 36132 PANEL Intensified Scrutiny and Bureaucratic Effort: Evidence from Policing and Crime after High-Profile, Officer-Involved Fatalities
Deepak Premkumar, Public Policy Institute of California
ID# 36707 PANEL Understanding the Whats, Whens, and Whys behind Civilian Assessment of Police
Ajenai S. Clemmons, Duke University
ID# 36954 PANEL The Impact of Disciplinary Investigations on the Behavior of Patrol Officers
Bocar Ba, University of Pennsylvania; Felipe Goncalves, University of California, Los Angeles;*** Nayoung Rim, US Naval Academy; Roman G. Rivera, Columbia University and Maria Micaela Sviatschi, Princeton University

 

Panel – Technology, Housing, and Opportunity
(Housing, Community Development, and Urban Policy)
9:00 AM – 9:55 AM
APPAM Virtual Fall Research Conference – Room 15
Panel Chair: Ingrid Gould Ellen, New York University
Discussants: Andrey Fradkin, Boston University; Michael Lens, University of California, Los Angeles***
Panel *Names in bold indicate Presenter

ID# 36590 PANEL Using Natural Language Processing to Construct a National Zoning and Land Use Database
Matthew Mleczko1,2 and Matthew Desmond1,2, (1)Princeton University, (2)The Eviction Lab
ID# 37462 PANEL Housing Search Frictions: Evidence from Detailed Search Data and a Field Experiment
Eric W. Chan, Babson College
ID# 37479 PANEL Can Information Help Low-Income Families Access Opportunity? Combining Neighborhood and Transit Information in the Echolocator Search Tool
Nicholas Kelly, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
ID# 37469 PANEL Expanding Access to Opportunity through Housing Mobility Programs: A New Search Tool
Pete Cimbolic, Baltimore Regional Housing Partnership

 

Panel – Maintaining Consistent Food Assistance for Children and Young Adults
(Poverty and Income Policy)
9:00 AM – 9:55 AM
APPAM Virtual Fall Research Conference – Room 24
Panel Chair: Krista Ruffini, University of California, Berkeley**
Discussants: Christian Gregory, US Department of Agriculture; Elaine Waxman, Urban Institute
Panel *Names in bold indicate Presenter

ID# 36636 PANEL Effects of School Meals on Nutrition: Evidence from the Start and End of the School Year
Marianne P. Bitler, University of California, Davis, Hilary Hoynes,*** University of California, Berkeley, Janet Currie, National Bureau of Economic Research; Lisa Schulkind, University of North Carolina, Charlotte and Barton Willage, Louisiana State University
ID# 36637 PANEL School Wide Free Lunches, Demand for Third Party Services and Food Insecurity
Orgul Ozturk, University of South Carolina and Krista Ruffini, University of California, Berkeley**
ID# 36638 PANEL Keeping the ‘great Equalizer’ Fed: SNAP Access and Young Adults’ Educational Engagement
Sarah Hamersma, Center for Policy Research, Matthew Kim, University of St. Thomas and Warren Brown, Cornell University
ID# 36639 PANEL Think of the Children? the Effect of Children on Public Support for SNAP
Saied Toossi, Center for Policy Research

 

Roundtable – Nudging to Scale: Lessons from Behavioral Science Research in Government
(Public and Non-Profit Management and Finance)
10:00 AM – 10:55 AM
APPAM Virtual Fall Research Conference – Room 27
Moderator: Lindsay Moore, The Behavioral Insights Team
Speakers: Kelly Bidwell, General Services Administration; Elizabeth Linos, University of California, Berkeley***; Michael Hallsworth, The Behavioral Insights Team

 

Panel – Effects of School Resources on Student Outcomes: Accountability, Expenditure Types, and Institutional Funding Constraints
(Education)
11:00 AM – 11:55 AM
APPAM Virtual Fall Research Conference – Room 8
Panel Chair: Jesse Rothstein, University of California, Berkeley***
Discussants: Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Northwestern University and Tomas Monarrez, Urban Institute
Panel *Names in bold indicate Presenter

ID# 37728 PANEL School Spending and Student Outcomes: Evidence from Revenue Limit Elections in Wisconsin
E. Jason Baron, Florida State University
ID# 37777 PANEL School Capital Expenditure Rules, Student Outcomes, and Real Estate Capitalization
Barbara Biasi, Yale University, Julien Lafortune, Public Policy Institute of California and David Schönholzer, Stockholm University
ID# 37784 PANEL School District Revenue Shocks, Resource Allocations, and Student Achievement: Evidence from the Universe of U.S. Wind Energy Installations
Joshua Hyman, Amherst College, Ben Hoen, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Eric Brunner, University of Connecticut
ID# 37780 PANEL Test-Based Accountability and the Effectiveness of School Finance Reforms
John Singelton1, Christian Buerger2 and Seung Hyeong Lee1, (1)University of Rochester, (2)Indiana University, Purdue University, Indianapolis

Stay Informed