Northwestern University INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INTERDISCIPLINARY • NONPARTISAN • POLICY RELEVANT 2013 YEAR IN REVIEW READ MORE ... EVENTS IN THE NEWS HIGHLIGHTS RESEARCH Cecilia Rouse Discusses Balancing Presidential Priorities and Parenting Jonathan Guryan, Lisa Barrow, and Zachary Seeskin chat with Princeton’s Rouse (rt.), a former Obama adviser. Katherine Baicker Talks Healthcare, Her Time in the White House David Figlio walks Harvard’s Baicker, former economist to George W. Bush, across campus before her lecture. TABLE OF CONTENTS MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR 2 HIGHLIGHTS OF 2013 3 IPR SUMMER UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PROGRAM 6 IPR RESEARCH PROGRAMS 8 Child, Adolescent, and Family Studies 8 Poverty, Race, and Inequality 12 Social Disparities and Health 17 Education Policy 28 Performance Measurement and Rewards 35 Politics, Institutions, and Public Policy 40 Quantitative Methods for Policy Research 49 Urban Policy and Community Development 55 IPR PROJECT CROSS-REFERENCE INDEX 58 IPR PUBLICATIONS AND EVENTS 62 Published Articles and Chapters 62 IPR Working Papers 68 Recent Faculty Books 69 Colloquia and Events 72 IPR FACULTY RECOGNITION 75 Faculty in the Media–Selected Mentions 75 Awards, Honors, and Presentations of Note 76 IPR COMMUNITY OF SCHOLARS AND STAFF 78 Faculty Fellows 78 Faculty Associates 78 Executive Committee 80 Administration, Staff, and Postdoctoral Fellows 80 Graduate Research Assistants 85 Summer Undergraduate Research Assistants 85 IPR FUNDING ORGANIZATIONS AND PROJECTS 86 IPR RESOURCES AND SNAPSHOT 88 INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH 1 MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR which launched an informal faculty workshop this year to promote dialogue on research in its earliest stages. IPR is a leader in social policy research, and we aspire to build on this strength by establishing complementary strengths in related policy areas, ranging from energy and environmental policy to tax and regulation policy. Social problems are common around the world, and this is why our faculty are collaborating with scholars and policymakers on six continents on research projects. In our own backyard, we work closely with our “hometown” communities—of Evanston, Chicago, and the state of Illinois—in addition to working to bridge our two Chicagoland campuses. One example is our joint work with different Northwestern schools, such as the School of Law most recently, in recruiting exceptional faculty to join us in our enterprise. Yet IPR is more than a locus of great research. It also exists as an open and inquisitive community of faculty experts David Figlio, IPR Director and students—both graduates and undergraduates— and the public. Bringing these sometimes distinct sides together is why we expend a great amount of IPR is a special place, full of remarkable and innovative effort each year organizing events and colloquia to scholars who are truly spanning boundaries. This is encourage dialogue. Our conception of community evidenced by our senior scholars, who continue to win is also why we invest in long-standing programs to U.S. and international awards for their superb work enhance undergraduate and graduate students’ research conducted over the course of their careers to date, such experiences (see pp. 6–7, 82–83, and 85). as statistician Larry Hedges and psychobiologist Emma Adam, and by our junior scholars, whose immense These are exciting times at IPR and Northwestern. promise is recognized by prizes, such as economist Lori The University’s recent launch of its five-year capital Beaman’s CAREER award (see pp. 3–4 and 76–77). campaign, “We Will,” is going to take our University, and along with it our Institute, in new and energizing Despite our many successes over the years and particularly directions. All of the campaign goals—discovery and in 2013, we recognize that providing evidence-based creativity, student experience, global connections, and research for selecting the best solutions to our nation’s campus and community—are embedded in IPR’s DNA. and our communities’ social problems requires a steadfast commitment to produce rigorous, top-notch research. If you have not caught up with IPR lately, I invite you to To this end, we are not resting on our laurels. We are be a part of our community: Visit our recently revamped building upon our recognized success in quantitative website at www.ipr.northwestern.edu, join us for one of methodologies by establishing IPR as a national hub for the our events, or learn more about our research and our use of big data in policy-relevant research. We hosted an community by reading our working papers, articles, and inaugural meeting in October for scholars, administrators, publications. and policymakers to begin discussing the best way forward. We continue to train scholars in how best to conduct experiments in education research. We are starting new research programs that operate at the intersection of David Figlio, IPR Director and Fellow disciplines, and we are building innovative institutions Orrington Lunt Professor of Social Policy and Education like our Center on Social Disparities and Health, or C2S, and of Economics 2 HIGHLIGHTS OF 2013 Inaugural Meeting of NSF Big Data Network for Research and Policy From left: Duke’s Kenneth Dodge, Illinois Education Superintendent Christopher Koch, and policy experts Aimee Guidera, Patricia Levesque, and Russ Whitehurst help launch the network. Building a National Data Network Major Awards and Honors Supported by the National Science Foundation, a new national IPR developmental economist Lori Beaman won a National network of scholars, policymakers, and administrators gathered Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development at Northwestern in the fall for its inaugural meeting. Co-led (CAREER) Award, which she will use to investigate how social by IPR Director David Figlio and Duke University’s Kenneth networks affect economic behavior in developing countries. IPR Dodge, the meeting welcomed some of the nation’s top policy- associate Daniel Diermeier, professor of managerial economics makers and education experts, such as Stanford’s Eric Hanushek, and decision sciences, was elected a fellow of the American Harvard's Raj Chetty, and Duke’s Helen Ladd. Discussions Academy of Arts and Sciences. In September, IPR develop- centered on constructing next-generation data sets, which link mental psychologist Lindsay Chase-Lansdale became North- administrative data, such as welfare and school records, to pop- western’s Associate Provost for Faculty. She, IPR social psychol- ulation data, such as births and labor data. The workshop was ogist Jennifer Richeson, and communications studies researcher designed to provide a springboard for national conversations and IPR associate Eszter Hargittai received chairs during the and increased collaboration between research and practitioner year. IPR education researcher and statistician Larry Hedges communities. Several IPR fellows participated, including Diane was named “Statistician of the Year.” IPR psychologist Alice Eagly Whitmore Schanzenbach, Jonathan Guryan, Morton Schapiro, received the 2013 Leadership Legacy Life Achievement Award. and Quincy Thomas Stewart, among others (see p. 52). IPR psychobiologist Emma Adam received the Curt Richter Award from the International Society of Psychoneuroendocri- nology. IPR sociologist and African American studies researcher Lectures by Presidential Advisers Celeste Watkins-Hayes was named the inaugural recipient of the Jacquelyne Johnson Jackson Early Career Scholar Award IPR hosted two Distinguished Public Policy Lectures in 2013, by the Association of Black Sociologists. IPR economist Diane welcoming Princeton University’s Cecilia Rouse on April 8 Whitmore Schanzenbach was awarded the 2013 Vernon and Katherine Baicker of Harvard University on October 28. Memorial Award by the Association for Public Policy Analysis Rouse, who served on President Barack Obama’s Council of and Management for co-authoring the best research article Economic Advisers and is now dean of the Woodrow Wilson published in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. IPR School, discussed her experiences working in the White House sociologist Lincoln Quillian’s American Sociological Review article and the challenges of maintaining a work-family balance. Baicker, “Segregation and Poverty Concentration: The Role of Three who was a former presidential economic adviser to George Segregations,” won three awards from the American Socio- W. Bush, spoke about the Affordable Care Act and her work logical Association (ASA). IPR sociologist Monica Prasad’s book as co-principal investigator of the Oregon Health Insurance The Land of Too Much: American Abundance and the Paradox Experiment, the first randomized evaluation of Medicaid. of Poverty (Harvard University Press) also won three awards INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH 3 HIGHLIGHTS OF 2013 from the ASA. IPR political scientist James Druckman also won several paper awards from the American Political Science Asso- Newest IPR Fellow, Sandra Waxman ciation, one of which he shared with IPR social policy expert Fay Lomax Cook (see pp. 76–77). IPR welcomed a new faculty fellow this fall— Sandra Waxman, a Death Penalty Research Called “Flawed” cognitive psychologist who holds the Louis W. During a January 9–10 program co-sponsored by IPR and Menk Chair in Psychol- Northwestern School of Law’s Searle Center, Carnegie Mellon ogy. An expert on the criminologist Daniel Nagin, chair of the National Research interface between early Council (NRC) Committee on Deterrence