California Policy Lab at the Fall 2021 APPAM Conference
California Policy Lab staff and affiliated experts will present on several topics during the Fall 2021 APPAM (Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management) Conference, taking place in Austin, Texas, from March 27-29th, 2022.
The theme this year is: “The Power of Inclusion: Incorporating Diverse Voices in Public Policy Analysis and Management.”
Scroll down to see presentations by CPL staff and affiliated experts on policy linkages between K-12 schooling and housing, linking administrative data, predicting homelessness in order to prevent it in Los Angeles, the relationship between pretrial release and case outcomes in San Francisco, the relationship between school finance reforms and education completion and earnings, innovative pretrial reform approaches in three California counties, how policy choices and community attributes are associated with disparities in access to unemployment insurance during the COVID-19 pandemic, and policing reforms. And, join in the conversation on social media with #2021APPAM
Note: Presentation times are given in CDT.
Presenters are in bold
* = CPL Staff
** = CPL Graduate Research Fellows
*** = CPL Affiliated Expert
Sunday, March 27th
Panel – Hybrid – Linking Housing, Neighborhood Change, and Education: Policy Consequences across Domains
Panel chair: Sarah A. Cordes, Temple University
Discussant: Ann Owens, University of Southern California
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM (CDT)
3rd Floor- Room 311
ID# 40682 PANEL PAPER School Closures and the Gentrification of the Black Metropolis
Francis Pearman and Danielle Greene, Stanford University
ID# 40683 PANEL PAPER A Lever for Improving Student Success? the Causal Effect of Lihtc on Underserved Students
Tasminda K. Dhaliwal, Michigan State University
ID# 40687 PANEL PAPER Affordable Housing Development and School Diversity: Evidence from the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit
Elise Dizon-Ross*, University of California, Berkeley
Panel Paper – Advances in the Practice of Record Linkage in Applied Social Science Research: Advancements, Innovations, and Practical Lessons – Linking Administrative Data without Using Personally Identifiable Information: Innovations from a Large-Scale Study
Evan White, California Policy Lab*
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM (CDT)
JW Marriott Austin – 208
Panel Paper – New Approaches for Understanding and Preventing Homelessness – Predicting Family Homelessness for Prevention: Promises and Pitfalls
Robert Santillano, California Policy Lab*, Brian Blackwell, California Policy Lab*, Maya Buenaventura, California Policy Lab*, Molly Moran, Optum
1:45 PM – 3:15PM (CDT)
JW Marriott Austin – 202
Panel Paper – Pretrial Reforms and Interventions in California – The Effect of Pretrial Release on Case Outcomes and Subsequent Arrests: Evidence from the Implementation of in Re Humphrey in San Francisco
Johanna Lacoe, California Policy Lab*, Alissa Skog, California Policy Lab*, Mia Bird, University of California, Berkeley***
1:45 PM – 3:15PM (CDT)
JW Marriott Austin – 303
Panel Paper – Addressing Open Questions in the School Spending Literature: Existing Evidence, Diminishing Returns, and Positive Externalities – Does Money Still Matter? Attainment and Earnings Effects of Post-1990 School
Jesse Rothstein, University of California, Berkeley*, Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Northwestern University
1:45 PM – 3:15PM (CDT)
JW Marriott Austin – 302
Panel – In-Person- Pretrial Reforms and Interventions in California (Crime, Justice, and Drugs)
Panel Chair: Mia Bird, University of California, Berkeley***,
Discussants: Steven Raphael, University of California, Berkeley***, Shawn Watts, Shasta County Superior Court
1:45 PM – 3:15PM (CDT)
JW Marriott Austin – 303
ID# 39632 PANEL PAPER The Effect of Pretrial Release on Case Outcomes and Subsequent Arrests: Evidence from the Implementation of in Re Humphrey in San Francisco
Johanna Lacoe, California Policy Lab*, Alissa Skog, California Policy Lab*, and Mia Bird, University of California, Berkeley***
ID# 39636 PANEL PAPER Improving Court Outcomes for People Experiencing Housing Instability in Shasta County, California
Emily Owens, University of California, Irvine***, and CarlyWill Sloan, Claremont Graduate University
ID# 39637 PANEL PAPER Learning to be Fair: A Consequentialist Approach to Equitable Decision-Making
Alex Chohlas-Wood1, Madison Coots1, Henry Zhu1, Emma Brunskill1, Joe Nudell1 and Sharad Goel2, (1)Stanford University, (2)Harvard University
ID# 40277 PANEL PAPER Measuring Intergenerational Exposure to the U.S. Justice System: Evidence from Longitudinal Links between Survey and Administrative Data
Keith Finlay, U.S. Census Bureau, Michael Mueller-Smith, University of Michigan and Brittany Street, University of Missouri
Monday, March 28th
Panel Paper – Equity and Efficiency in Unemployment Insurance – Disparities in Access to Unemployment Insurance During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons from U.S. and California Claims Data
Till von Watcher, California Policy Lab*, Alex Bell, California Policy Lab*, Thomas J. Hedin, University of California, Los Angeles**, Peter Mannino, California Policy Lab*, Roozbeh Moghadam, University of California, Davis**, Geoffrey Schnorr, California Employment Development Department*
8:30 AM – 10:00AM (CDT)
JW Marriott Austin – 310
Tuesday, March 29th
Super Session Paper – Policing Effectiveness and Reform – Do Police Make Too Many Arrests?
Sungwoo Cho, University of California, Los Angeles, Felipe Goncalves***, University of California, Los Angeles, Emily Weisburst***, University of California, Los Angeles.
1:45 PM – 3:15 PM (CDT)
3rd Floor – Room Lone Star D