Full access to our paper🎉 available here:
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'Corrects egregious Executive branch overreach and disallows future unelected bureaucrats from arbitrarily increasing or decimating SNAP benefits.'

Please read: brookings.edu/articles/a-hea…

🚨Happy to share our new paper at PSJ (with Nissim Cohen & Gabriela Lotta 🇧🇷)! Using survey data, we assess if bureaucrat-politician interactions are associated with policy entrepreneurship attitudes among bureaucrats. We also investigate their motivations in this regard (+)

As a foundation that supports studies on reducing inequality, we encourage equity and inclusion in the research process, especially in how a team is constructed.

Read the blog post on how applicants think about positionality in their research teams:
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🗣️🗣️New research alert!

Despite child poverty ⬇️, racial & ethnic child poverty gaps ↔️ remain. CPSP w/ Institute for Child, Youth & Family Policy diversitydatakids finds safety net does most for White children & least for Latino children who face barriers to eligibility & access. bit.ly/3xxifWX

👇🏾 More important work highlighting the legacy of slavery. Matthew Ward finds that White populations enjoy carceral advantage in higher slave-dependent locales, and 'this advantage is generated through the advantageous shaping of White social and economic outcomes.'

New #openaccess in PAR: It takes (at least) two to tango: Investigating interactional dynamics between clients and caseworkers in public encounters by Matthias Döring, Nicolas Drathschmidt, and Stine Piilgaard Porner Nielsen: buff.ly/3U4QMUg

🎉 Yay! Heather O'Connell & I have a #TopCitedArticle ! 😊 Our 2022 article on structural racism, family structure, & racial inequality is among the top 10 most cited & top 10% downloaded articles in @[email protected] last year! Thank you all who have read our work!🙏🏾❤️ UNC Sociology

Open access: Paola Cantarelli, Nicola Belle', Pamela Herd 🐀 & Don Moynihan find that COVID-19 vaccination intention is +vely impacted by reducing #AdministrativeBurden - findings especially relevant for those 64+ and with neutral or high vaccination intention tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

🚨 New research alert! 📄 'Burdens, Bribes, and Bureaucrats: The Political Economy of Petty Corruption and Administrative Burdens' by Rik Peeters, Gabriela Lotta 🇧🇷, and me. We study how admin burdens embedded in bureaucratic encounters foster petty corruption

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This year's Brownlow Award for the best article by practitioners in PAR goes to Rik Peeters and Arjan Widlak for their article 'Administrative exclusion in the infrastructure-level bureaucracy: The case of the Dutch daycare benefit scandal' 1/🧵

🚨 New PAR article alert🚨 Governance by artifacts: Theory and evidence on materiality of administrative burdens by Muhammad Azfar Nisar and Ayesha Masood: buff.ly/3QeJTyy

Very proud of the work we’ve done! publicpolicy.unc.edu/iheoma-iruka-d…

Some good news :) The first e-mail I read today was an announcement that I earned the CU Denver SPA Best Dissertation Award! 🎉 So honored and grateful.

'Research can contribute to better child outcomes, but waiting for ideas and findings from research to make their way onto the desks of decision-makers is a flawed approach. We need strategies that ... support the use of research evidence.'
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#CheckOutMyFriend Michelle’s newest article. Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Levin College of Public Affairs and Education

🚨'Improving Delivery of the Social Safety Net: The Role of Stigma,' by Jessica Lasky-Fink and Elizabeth Linos, utilizes an administrative burden framework to assess how reducing learning costs and stigma influences demand for rental assistance. The article finds that framing…

🚨'Decentralization and Corruption in Public Service Delivery: Local Institutional Arrangements That Can Help Reduce Governance Risks” by Alan Zarychta, Michelle E Benedum, Emily Sanchez, & Krister P Andersson highlights the importance of considering reform features and local…

4/25: Join McCourt School Assistant Professor Andrea M. Headley, PhD for a discussion on the making of 'Lethal Restraint: Documenting Police Use of Force,' featuring reporters from The Associated Press, The Howard Center for Investigative Journalism and FRONTLINE.

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