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The State of Healthcare Matching Administrative Data to Inform Policy Fall 2013 Vol. 35, No. 2 The State of Healthcare Matching Administrative Data to Inform Policy Former Bush adviser New network sets goals, begins to build community discusses research, policy At a time when healthcare has been Reese P. high on the public’s radar, more than 90 people turned out to hear Harvard’s Katherine Baicker, a former eco- nomic adviser to President George W. Bush, discuss the topic as IPR’s Fall 2013 Distinguished Public Policy Lecturer. J. Ziv J. From left: UW–Madison’s Katherine Magnuson, Harvard’s Raj Chetty, IPR’s Quincy Stewart, and the University of Chicago’s Jens Ludwig discuss the long-term impacts of teachers. The federal government has spent In October, more than 50 academics, Katherine Baicker tells David Figlio what more than half a billion dollars so far policymakers, and practitioners gath- her study might indicate about the ACA. on building longitudinal, state-level data ered at Northwestern for an inau- sets around the nation. While viewed gural meeting to establish an interdis- The Oregon Experiment as a national priority, states’ data col- ciplinary network, with support from Event moderator and IPR Director lection efforts are still in their infancy, the National Science Foundation, and David Figlio began by asking Baicker with little in the way of best practices connect these three groups around about the “whiplash” that he experi- or minimum guidelines to optimize building state-level matched data sets. enced when listening to media coverage data collection or use. (Continued on page 16) about the first findings from Oregon’s Medicaid experiment, the evaluation of which Baicker co-led, and what these Hometown Solutions for A CAREER-Enhancing results might indicate for the Affordable National Issues Award for IPR Economist Care Act (ACA). The Oregon Health Insurance Experi- Lori Beaman, an ment is the first randomized controlled IPR developmental Reese P. evaluation of Medicaid in the United Semark E. economist, received States. Baicker and her colleagues got in a National Science at the ground level to design the study Foundation Faculty (Continued on page 19) Early Career Devel- opment (CAREER) Inside this Issue Award in March. Evanston Township High School The highly competi- Faculty News, Honors, Grants, Media … 2–3 Lori Beaman Pre-K Ratings • Tenure, Teachers, Students … 4 IPR faculty lead and conduct policy- tive award program Breast-Fed Benefits • Politicizing Science … 5 relevant research in sites throughout recognizes promising young scholars Faculty Spotlight: Adam, Jackson, Galvin … 6–8 the United States and abroad, but they with a demonstrated talent for inte- War on Hunger • New Health Center … 10–11 also work on innovative projects that grating their research with educational Recent Books • Working Papers … 12–15 test and evaluate important social activities. Summer Undergraduate Researchers … 20 policies for their home community of Beaman joined IPR and Northwestern A “Know” Vote • Neighborhood Effects … 21, 24 Evanston, Illinois. in 2009 following her postdoctoral (Continued on page 18) (Continued on page 9) 101096A_NEWS.indd 1 12/4/13 2:39 PM 2 Faculty Recognition Emma Adam, a developmental psy- chologist, received the Curt Richter Hedges named 2013–14 M. Hanlon M. Award in August from the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology for Statistician of the Year her contributions to the field and work Larry Hedges was on stress biology and health (see p. 6). Lee V. named Statistician of Political scientist and IPR Associate the Year for 2013–14 by Director James Druckman received the Chicago chapter of three 2013 American Political Science the American Statistical Association (APSA) awards in August for Emma Adam Association. The October two papers: “When and How Partisan 24 award ceremony fea- Identification Works,” co-authored by former IPR graduate tured a talk by Hedges, research assistant Toby Bolsen, now at Georgia State Univer- an education researcher sity, and social policy researcher Fay Lomax Cook, won Chicago ASA President Mary and statistician, on the the Franklin L. Burdette/Pi Sigma Alpha Award. “How Elite Kwasny and Larry Hedges consequences of big data Partisan Polarization Affects Public Opinion Formation,” co- for science, society, and the statistical profession. Some authored by former IPR undergraduate research assistant notable past winners of the award include William Erik Peterson and Rune Slothuus of Aarhus University in Cochran, Bradley Efron, James Heckman, and Donald Denmark, won best paper awards from APSA’s political com- Rubin. Nominees are selected by a special committee munication and political psychology sections. chaired by the past president of the chapter and voted Education economist and IPR Director David Figlio was on by past awardees. Hedges is Board of Trustees Pro- appointed to the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on the fessor of Statistics and Education & Social Policy. Science of Children Birth to Age 8: Deepening and Broaden- ing the Foundation for Success in October. Sociologist Jeremy Freese was named as the Ethel and “Segregation and Poverty Concentration: The Role of Three John Lindgren Professor by Northwestern University’s Board Segregations,” published in the American Sociological Review, of Trustees in September. won the Award for Distinguished Contribution to Scholar- Political scientist Daniel Galvin was named an AT&T ship in Population, as well as outstanding article awards from Research Fellow for 2013–15 in September. the mathematical sociology section and the inequality, pov- Sociologists Monica Prasad and Lincoln Quillian erty, and mobility section of the ASA. each won three 2013 American Sociological Association In November, Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, an (ASA) awards. For her 2012 book The Land of Too Much: economist, was awarded the 2013 Vernon Memorial Award American Abundance and the Paradox of Poverty (Harvard Uni- by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, versity Press), Prasad received the Distinguished Contribu- for co-authoring the best research article published in the tion to Scholarship Award from the political sociology section, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. plus awards from the comparative and historical sociology Sociologist and African American studies researcher section and the economic sociology section. Quillian’s paper Celeste Watkins-Hayes was named the inaugural recip- ient of the Jacquelyne Johnson Jackson Early Career Scholar Chase-Lansdale Appointed Award by the Association of Black Sociologists in August. Associate Provost for Faculty Recent Grants Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, a de- velopmental psychologist, became Developmental economist Lori Beaman received a K. McElroy K. Northwestern’s Associate Provost CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation in for Faculty in September. To recog- March, which will allow her to continue her research on nize her outstanding teaching and social networks, labor markets, and the adoption of agricul- scholarship, she was also appointed tural technology in developing countries (see p. 1). the Frances Willard Professor of A grant from Ascend at the Aspen Institute will support an Human Development and Social innovative two-generation education initiative for low-income Policy. She specializes in multidisci- parents and their children, as well as an accompanying research plinary research on issues affecting study of the program led by Lindsay Chase-Lansdale Lindsay Chase-Lansdale families and the development of chil- (see p. 18). She also received a grant from the Administration dren and youth—especially those for Children and Families in the U.S. Department of Health who are economically disadvantaged. and Human Services, in collaboration with the Community (Continued on page 3) 101096A_NEWS.indd 2 12/4/13 2:39 PM 3 IPR Welcomes Esteemed Cognitive Psychologist Waxman studies language formation and cognitive development IPR welcomed cognitive psychologist Sandra Waxman, In another complementary line who holds the Louis W. Menk Chair in Psychology, as a faculty of work, Waxman examines how Reese P. fellow this fall. An expert on the interface between early lan- children’s notions of the natural guage and cognition, Waxman focuses on how language and world unfold in diverse cultural cognition “come together” in the mind. She examines the ori- and linguistic communities. To- gin and unfolding of these links—across development, across gether with colleagues, she is co- cultures, and across languages. Her work showcases the pow- principal investigator of Living in erful relation between our innate endowments and the shap- Relations, a project that aims to ing role of experience. According to Waxman, “Nature and identify the contribution of cul- nurture are not opposing forces, but are instead twin engines ture in the development of scien- of development, working together intricately and naturally.” tific knowledge and reasoning in Waxman is the principal investigator of research examining both Native American and non- the relationship between language and concepts in the first Native American communities. Sandra Waxman visit www.ipr.northwestern.edu. information, more For years of life. This work, conducted in the United States and Waxman directs Northwestern University’s Project on abroad, considers acquisition in several different languages. Child Development, a research center in Evanston welcoming One recent study focused on word learning in infants infants, children, and their families who take part
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