{"title":"Titans of Industrial Agriculture: How a Few Giant Corporations Came to Dominate the Farm Sector and Why It Matters","authors":"Nadine Lehrer","doi":"10.1002/pam.70127","DOIUrl":"10.1002/pam.70127","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48105,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Policy Analysis and Management","volume":"45 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148809844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Referee Acknowledgments","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/pam.70126","DOIUrl":"10.1002/pam.70126","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48105,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Policy Analysis and Management","volume":"45 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148809841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jumping the Gun: The Effects of Permitless Concealed Carry Laws on Crime","authors":"Susan T. Parker","doi":"10.1002/pam.70123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/pam.70123","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the last decade, one of the most substantial changes to firearm policy is the widespread adoption of permitless concealed carry laws. Since 2015, more than 20 states have adopted a permitless carry law. Permitless carry laws allow firearm owners to carry a concealed handgun in public without first obtaining a license and undergoing a background check. This article estimates the causal impact of permitless carry laws on crime using stacked event study estimators. I find that violent crime increases by 7% in the 12 months following the law's adoption, with increases beginning shortly after passage, or several months before the law formally takes effect. I find no evidence of offsetting deterrence in property crime. The rise in violence is driven by a 12% increase in aggravated assaults involving firearms. These effects are accompanied by a 22% decline in police enforcement of weapons law violations and modest increases in reports of stolen firearms.</p>","PeriodicalId":48105,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Policy Analysis and Management","volume":"45 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2026-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/pam.70123","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148534376","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Fertility Effects of Reducing Implicit Childcare Subsidies: The Case of School Schedules","authors":"Álvaro Muñiz-Fernández","doi":"10.1002/pam.70124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/pam.70124","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Despite governments’ efforts to raise fertility through family-support policies, birth rates continue to decline in high- and middle-income countries. Some policies designed for other purposes, however, may function as implicit childcare subsidies. This article examines the impact of reducing such support on fertility by exploiting a large-scale reform in Spain that shortened the elementary school day, shifting from full-day to morning-only sessions. Using provincial-level data from 1981 to 2016 and a synthetic difference-in-differences identification strategy, I find that the reform reduced the total fertility rate by 0.12 children per woman and delayed maternal age at first birth by approximately 4 months. The delay is significantly larger in provinces with weaker pre-reform female labor market integration, although fertility declines are similar across labor market contexts. These findings suggest that removing an implicit childcare subsidy increased the cost of childbearing, with fertility timing particularly sensitive to local labor market conditions.</p>","PeriodicalId":48105,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Policy Analysis and Management","volume":"45 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2026-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/pam.70124","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148534022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Algorithms, Humans, and Racial Disparities in Child Protection Systems: Evidence From the Allegheny Family Screening Tool","authors":"Katherine Rittenhouse, Emily Putnam-Hornstein, Rhema Vaithianathan","doi":"10.1002/pam.70121","DOIUrl":"10.1002/pam.70121","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Equity concerns are a primary constraint in the adoption of algorithms across various settings. We ask how providing decision-makers with a predictive risk model affects racial disparities in the context of the child protection system. We exploit the implementation of the Allegheny Family Screening Tool (AFST), a tool that aims to help child protection workers decide which allegations of maltreatment to screen in for investigation. We find that the AFST reduced disparities in screening decisions and home removal rates for referrals involving Black versus White children. An analysis of false positive and false negative rates suggests that this reduction in disparities was achieved while improving welfare among both Black and White children.</p>","PeriodicalId":48105,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Policy Analysis and Management","volume":"45 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2026-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/pam.70121","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148415505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Immigrants’ Effects on Government Budgets","authors":"David J. Bier","doi":"10.1002/pam.70114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/pam.70114","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48105,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Policy Analysis and Management","volume":"45 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2026-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148282520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Response to Bier","authors":"Tara Watson","doi":"10.1002/pam.70116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/pam.70116","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48105,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Policy Analysis and Management","volume":"45 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2026-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148282518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jennifer Darling-Aduana, Carolyn J. Heinrich, Jeremy Noonan, Jialing Wu, Kathryn Enriquez
{"title":"Failing to Learn From Failure in Online Credit Recovery Assessments","authors":"Jennifer Darling-Aduana, Carolyn J. Heinrich, Jeremy Noonan, Jialing Wu, Kathryn Enriquez","doi":"10.1002/pam.70120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/pam.70120","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Technology-facilitated courses, completed online for the purpose of credit recovery (OCR), are the most common means through which US high school students retake courses required for high school graduation. Yet a growing body of research has raised concerns regarding student learning in these courses, with low-quality assessments posited as a limiting factor. As course assessments are fundamental to evaluating student mastery and supporting student learning, we investigate this concern by systematically reviewing every assessment item in the most widely used OCR course, Algebra 1. We also examine pathways for passing the course mastery tests that allow students to bypass learning the content. In addition, we identify policy options and practices that state and local agencies are implementing or could adopt to regulate and improve OCR. We find that OCR assessments as executed lack rigor and validity, and that answers to most assessment items are readily available across multiple websites or platforms. We offer recommendations to improve rigor, close pathways that call into question the validity of results, strengthen implementation procedures, and increase state-level oversight of OCR providers.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48105,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Policy Analysis and Management","volume":"45 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2026-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148282552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"City Nuisance Ordinances and Overdose Mortality","authors":"Ashley C. Bradford","doi":"10.1002/pam.70112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/pam.70112","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Nuisance ordinances are a class of municipal law that are framed as a way to reduce both police burden and unwanted behaviors such as repeated calls to 911, drug-related activity, and disorderly conduct. This study explores the effect of nuisance ordinances on drug-related mortality rates in Ohio and surrounding commuting zones from 1999 to 2017. Using a modern difference-in-differences framework, I find that these laws cause an increase in opioid-, alcohol-, and cocaine-related overdose mortality. I test for two mechanisms: 911 hesitancy and the eviction process. These results highlight that substance users are being harmed by the presence of nuisance ordinances.</p>","PeriodicalId":48105,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Policy Analysis and Management","volume":"45 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2026-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/pam.70112","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148282519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Fiscal Consequences of Immigration: Editor's Introduction","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/pam.70113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/pam.70113","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48105,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Policy Analysis and Management","volume":"45 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2026-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148282517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}