2013-2014 ISPS Graduate Policy Fellows Projects

Did Obamacare make more young people entrepreneurs? Are demands for redistribution driven by self-interest? Is trust in government eroded when a military base leaves a rural community? How does work-life balance affect who runs for public office? These are just a few of the projects our current outgoing Graduate Fellows have spent their year working on at ISPS.

The ISPS Graduate Policy Fellows Program provides students from across the university one-year support for research that focuses on U.S. domestic policy. This year’s projects represent a remarkable diversity of subjects and methodological approaches to their work. Many of the projects directly speak to a number of pressing contemporary policy issues.

Yousef AbuGharbieh, “Did Obamacare Make More Young People Entrereneurs?”

Vivekinan L. Ashok, “Are Demands for Redistribution Driven by Self-Interest or Aversion to Inequality?”

Charles Decker, “ ‘We Wish to Instill Fear’: Mandatory Sentencing, Gun Control and the Bartley-Fox Law”

Nicolas S. Downing, “Promoting Innovation in Drug Development: Understanding the Current Regulatory Environment”

Michele Grisé, “Rethinking Opportunity: Younger Abstention, The Civil Rights Improvements Act, and a Way Forward for Civil Contempt”

Martin Hackmann, “The Welfare Effects on Provider Reimbursement Rates: Evidence from the Nursing Home Industry”

Craig Lapriece Holloway, “Paternal Constructs and Social Life among Urban Black Men”

Alison Kanosky, “When the Government Leaves Town: Perceptions of Government Stability in the Wake of Military Downsizing and Prison Expansion”

Jamie Luguri, “Construing Categories: Abstract (vs. Concrete) Thinking Leads to Greater Genetic Essentialism”

Gabe Scheffler, “The Labor Market Impacts of the Nurse Licensure Compact”

Rachel Silbermann, “Career Plans and Career Politicians: Gender, Work-Life Balance, and Political Ambition”