2006 Working Papers

Philanthropy and Nonprofit Organizations

WP-06-01
Estimation and Identification of Merger Effects: An Application to Hospital Mergers
Leemore Dafny

WP-06-02
Do Report Cards Tell Consumers Anything They Don't Already Know? The Case of Medicare HMOs
Leemore Dafny and David Dranove

Politics, Institutions, and Public Policy

WP-06-03
In Search of Killer Amendments in the Modern Congress
Charles J. Finocchiaro and Jeffery A. Jenkins

WP-06-04
Agency, Monitoring, and Electoral Institutions: The 17th Amendment and Representation in the Senate
Sean Gailmard and Jeffery A. Jenkins

Communications, Media, and Public Opinion

WP-06-06
The Diffusion of the Internet and the Geography of the Digital Divide in the United States
Shane Greenstein and Jeff Prince

WP-06-10
A Disconnect Between Foreign Policymakers and the Public?
Benjamin I. Page and Lawrence R. Jacobs

Law and Justice Studies

WP-06-05
Estimating the Accuracy of Jury Verdicts
Bruce D. Spencer

WP-06-07
Lawyers of the Right: Networks and Organization
Anthony Paik, Ann Southworth, and John P. Heinz

Urban Policy and Community Development

WP-06-08
Analyzing Job Access and Reverse Commute Programs in the Chicago and San Francisco Metropolitan Regions
Juan Onésimo Sandoval

Child, Adolescent, and Family Studies

WP-06-09
Child Care Choices and Children's Cognitive Achievement: The Case of Single Mothers
Raquel Bernal and Michael P. Keane

WP-06-15
State TANF Policy Trends and the Emerging Geography of Vulnerability
Juan Onésimo Sandoval

Center for Improving Methods for Quantitative Policy Research (Q-Center)

WP-06-11
Correcting a Significance Test for Clustering
Larry V. Hedges

WP-06-12
Intraclass Correlation Values for Planning Group Randomized Trials in Education
Larry V. Hedges and Eric C. Hedberg

WP-06-13
Effect Sizes in Cluster-Randomized Designs
Larry V. Hedges

Poverty, Race, and Inequality

WP-06-14
The Multicultural Metropolis: Neighborhood Diversity and Segregation Patterns in the City of Chicago, 1990-2000
Juan Onésimo Sandoval and Su Li

WP-06-17
It's Not Just About the Money: Governmentality and Resistance in Post-Reform Welfare Offices
Celeste Watkins

Social Disparities and Health

WP-06-16
What a Drop Can Do: Dried Blood Spots as a Minimally-Invasive Method for Integrating Biomarkers into Population-Based Research
Thomas W. McDade, Sharon Williams, and J. Josh Snodgrass

WP-06-18
Sleep Timing and Quantity in Ecological and Family Context: A Nationally Representative Time-Diary Study
Emma K. Adam, Emily K. Snell, and Patricia Pendry