November 2 - 4, 2017  | Hyatt Regency |  Chicago, IL

 

The APPAM Fall Research Conference is a multi-disciplinary annual research conference that attracts the highest quality research on a wide variety of important current and emerging policy and management issues. The 39th APPAM Fall Research Conference focused on the importance of data and measurement, and celebrated the government staff who work to improve the measures we use every day. It is more essential than ever, in light of recent criticism of government data and statistics, to demonstrate the importance of both.

The online program for the 2017 Fall Research Conference can be found here.

The program for the 2017 Fall Research Conference Pre-Conference Workshops can be found here.

Coverage

Full Conference Photo Gallery

 

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Wednesday, November 1

Blog: Pre-Conference Workshop
          Policy Engagement: Building Relationships and Partnerships for Long-Term Impact

Daily Wrap-Up: Wednesday

 

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Thursday, November 2

Blogs: 

• Concurrent Sympoisium: The Report on the Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking
  Watch the symposium recording! If you registered ahead of time, simply enter your email to access the recording. If not, fill out the registration form and you will be emailed an access link. Confirm your email via that link to be redirected to the recording.
   

• Concurrent Symposium: The Vital Role of Government Statistics
  Watch the symposium recording! If you registered ahead of time, simply enter your email to access the recording. If not, fill out the registration form and you will be emailed an access link. Confirm your email via that link to be redirected to the recording.
   

Interviews:

Thank you to the IMPAQ International team for producing this interview series
about "Better Data for Better Decisions."

Poster Winners: 

First Place Does Initiating Tobacco Use with Flavored Products Predict Current Smoking Status? An Examination by Race, Gender, and Sexual Identity Shannon Lea Watkins and Wendy Max, University of California, San Francisco
Second Place Measuring Risk and Variation in Household Social Determinants of Health Michele Abbott, Gery Ryan, RAND Corporation; Luther Brewster, Florida International University
Third Place Providing In-Kind Food Transfers to Low-Income Households in Urban India: Results from an Evaluation of the Public Distribution System (PDS) in Chhattisgarh Raghav Puri, Syracuse University

 

Daily Wrap-Up: Thursday

 

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Friday, November 3

Blogs: 

• APPAM 2018 Policy Council Nominees

• Spencer Foundation Lecture | Education and Economic Mobility: What Have We Learned?

• 2017 APPAM Presidential Address

 

Interviews:

Thank you to the IMPAQ International team for producing this interview series
about "Better Data for Better Decisions."

Poster Winners: 

First Gender Discrimination in the Decision to Convict Mark Hoekstra and Brittany Street, Texas A&M University
Second Race and Reporting: A New Approach to Estimating the Effect of Student-Teacher Race Congruence on Disciplinary Infractions David Woo and Erica Harbatkin, Vanderbilt University
Third Modern Disintegration: The Effects of School Resegregation on Neighborhood Property Values and Foreclosure Rates Rayven Plaza, Columbia University

 

Daily Wrap-Up: Friday

 

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Saturday, November 4

Interviews:

 

Thank you to the IMPAQ International team for producing this interview series about "Better Data for Better Decisions."

Poster Winners: 

First Is Socioeconomic Status a Barrier to Nonresidential Father’s Involvement with Their Children? Evidence from Survey and Administrative Data Angela Maria Guarin Aristizabal, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Second Real-World Challenges to Randomization and Their Solutions Kenya Heard, J-PAL North America, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Third Ready for Kindergarten? School Readiness Measurement and Outcomes Kirby A. Chow, SRI International

 

Daily Wrap-Up: Saturday