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Maxwell School 2024-25 Faculty Promotions Include Four Tenure Appointments

Edwin Ackerman, Marc Garcia, Timur Hammond and Alex Rothenberg have been promoted to associate professor.

August 1, 2024

Participating in Childcare Subsidy Programs Increases Employment and Annual Earnings for Parents

William Clay Fannin, Colleen Heflin, Taryn Morrissey, Siobhan O’Keefe
This brief describes associations between childcare subsidy program participation and household employment and earnings outcomes among low-income families in Virginia. 
July 31, 2024

Pains of privacy: Mapping carceral practices onto electronic monitoring

Gabriela Kirk-Werner

“Pains of privacy: Mapping carceral practices onto electronic monitoring,” authored by Assistant Professor of Sociology Gabriela Kirk-Werner, was published in Theoretical Criminology.

July 17, 2024

See related: Crime & Violence

Getting the Right Tail Right: Modeling Tails of Health Expenditure Distributions

Martin Karlsson, Yulong Wang, Nicolas R. Ziebarth

“Getting the Right Tail Right: Modeling Tails of Health Expenditure Distributions,” co-authored by Associate Professor of Economics Yulong Wang, was published in the Journal of Health Economics.

July 15, 2024

See related: Research Methods

Rural and Small-Town America: Context, Composition, and Complexities

Shannon M. Monnat, Tim Slack

Professor of sociology and Lerner Chair in Public Health Promotion and Population Health, Shannon M. Monnat, and co-author Tim Slack, professor of sociology at Louisiana State University, share lessons offered from rural society and confront common myths and misunderstandings about rural people and places. Their main premise—rural America is not monolithic.

July 3, 2024

See related: Rural Issues, United States

Characteristics Associated with COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Among US Working-Age Adults

Xue Zhang, Shannon M. Monnat

“Watchful, skeptics, and system distrusters: Characteristics associated with different types of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among U.S. working-age adults,” co-authored by Professor of Sociology Shannon Monnat, was published in Vaccine.

July 2, 2024

Earnings and Employment Patterns Following Child-Care Subsidy Receipt

W. Clay Fannin, Colleen Heflin, Taryn Morrissey
“Earnings and Employment Patterns Following Child-Care Subsidy Receipt,” co-authored by Colleen Heflin, professor of public administration and international affairs, and Ph.D. student W. Clay Fannin, was published in Social Service Review.
July 1, 2024

Understanding the Emergence of Computational Institutional Science

Nicholas Oesterling, Graham Ambrose, Jiho Kim
"Understanding the Emergence of Computational Institutional Science: A Review of Computational Modeling of Institutions and Institutional Dynamics," co-authored by Nicholas Oesterling, Graduate Research Associate for the Center for Policy Design and Governance and the Center for Policy Research, Graham Ambrose, Graduate Research Associate for the Center for Policy Design and Governance and the Center for Policy Research, and Jiho Kim, Graduate Research Associate for the Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration, was published in the International Journal of the Commons.
June 21, 2024

See related: Research Methods

Fairchild Receives Mellon Foundation Grant for Project Focused on Pandemic Backlash, Public Health

The educational and research resource will create “new, urgently needed, accessible opportunities for the humanities to speak to public health and broaden access to humanities higher learning opportunities,” says Professor Amy Fairchild, who is principal investigator (PI).

June 12, 2024

Ying Shi Named William T. Grant Scholar for Research on School Victimization

The Maxwell School assistant professor will conduct two studies on school victimization and hate crimes toward Asian American and Pacific Islander students.

June 10, 2024

Evaluating conflict in collaborative environmental governance

Graham Ambrose, Jangmin Kim, Saba Siddiki
"Evaluating conflict in collaborative environmental governance: A study of environmental justice councils," co-authored by Graham Ambrose, Graduate Research Associate for the Center for Policy Design and Governance and the Center for Policy Research, and Saba Siddiki, director of the Center for Policy Design and Governance, was published in the Review of Policy Research.
June 6, 2024

See related: Environment, United States

Understanding policy evolution using institutional grammar

Graham Ambrose, Myriam Gregoire-Zawilski, Saba Siddiki, Nicholas Oesterling
"Understanding policy evolution using institutional grammar: net metering policies in the United States," co-authored by Graham Ambrose, Graduate Research Associate for the Center for Policy Design and Governance and the Center for Policy Research, Myriam Gregoire-Zawilski, Graduate Research Associate for the Center for Policy Research, Saba Siddiki, director of the Center for Policy Design and Governance, and Nicholas Oesterling, Graduate Research Associate for the Center for Policy Design and Governance and the Center for Policy Research, was published in Policy Design and Practice.
June 6, 2024

See related: Energy, United States

A policy design perspective on electricity rates

Nicholas Oesterling
"A policy design perspective on electricity rates," authored by Nicholas Oesterling, Graduate Research Associate for the Center for Policy Design and Governance and the Center for Policy Research, was published in Policy Design and Practice.
June 6, 2024

See related: Energy, United States

Assessing Drivers of Sustained Engagement in Collaborative Governance Arrangements

Graham Ambrose, Saba Siddiki
"Assessing Drivers of Sustained Engagement in Collaborative Governance Arrangements," co-authored by Saba Siddiki, director of the Center for Policy Design and Governance, and Graham Ambrose, Graduate Research Associate for the Center for Policy Design and Governance and the Center for Policy Research, was published in the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.
June 6, 2024

See related: Environment, United States

Evaluating Use of Evidence in U.S. State Governments: A Conjoint Analysis

Chengxin Xu, Yuan (Daniel) Cheng, Shuping Wang, Weston Merrick, Patrick Carter
"Evaluating Use of Evidence in U.S. State Governments: A Conjoint Analysis," co-authored by Shuping Wang, a Graduate Research Associate in the Center for Policy Design and Governance and Center for Policy Research, was published in SSRN.
June 6, 2024

State COVID-19 Policies and Drug Overdose Mortality Among Working-Age Adults in the US, 2020

Douglas A. Wolf, Shannon M. Monnat, Emily E. Wiemers, Yue Sun, Xue Zhang, Elyse R. Grossman, Jennifer Karas Montez

“State COVID-19 Policies and Drug Overdose Mortality Among Working-Age Adults in the United States, 2020,” co-authored by Maxwell faculty members Douglas Wolf, Shannon Monnat, Emily Weimers and Jennifer Karas Montez, was published in the American Journal of Public Health.

May 20, 2024

States’ COVID-19 Restrictions were Associated with Increases in Drug Overdose Deaths in 2020

Douglas A. Wolf, Shannon M. Monnat, Jennifer Karas Montez, Emily Wiemers, and Elyse Grossman
This brief summarizes the findings of a paper that used national data to identify how states’ COVID-19 policies affected drug overdose rates among U.S. adults ages 25-64 during the first year of the pandemic.
May 15, 2024

Testing Limited Overlap

Xinwei Ma, Yuya Sasaki, Yulong Wang

“Testing Limited Overlap,” co-authored by Associate Professor of Economics Yulong Wang, was published in Econometric Theory.

May 13, 2024

See related: Research Methods

Differences in Teachers' Assessments of Students by English Learner Status

Maria Zhu

“Differences in Teachers' Assessments of Students by English Learner Status,” authored by Assistant Professor of Economics Maria Zhu, was published in AEA Papers and Proceedings. 

May 1, 2024

See related: Education, United States

Pay-to-Stay as Stategraft

Gabriela Kirk-Werner, April D. Fernandes. Brittany Friedman

“Pay-to-Stay as Stategraft,” co-authored by Assistant Professor of Sociology Gabriela Kirk-Werner, was published in the Wisconsin Law Review.

April 18, 2024

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CPR Seminar Series: Elizabeth Linos

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Elizabeth Linos (UC Berkeley) will present, "It's Not Your Fault: Reducing Stigma," as part of the CPR Seminar Series. For more information please contact Emily Minnoe at erminnoe@syr.edu


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