Carolyn Heinrich
Economist and educational policy researcher
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- Bachelors Economics University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Carolyn J. Heinrich is the Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of Public Policy, Education and Economics at Vanderbilt University. Career Prior to her appointment at Vanderbilt University, she was the Sid Richardson Professor of Public Affairs, affiliated Professor of Economics, and Director of the Center for Health and Social Policy at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin. She continues as a Research Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. She has also held professorships at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she served as the Director of the La Follette School of Public Affairs, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received her Ph.D. under the Nobel Laureate James Heckman at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and her undergraduate degree from Beloit College. She is currently researching a wide breadth of topics, focusing on education, workforce development, social welfare policy, program evaluation, and public management and performance management, allowing her to collaborate with federal, state, and local governments on policy design and program effectiveness. Heinrich received her Bachelor of Arts in International Relations, Economics, and Management from Beloit College in Wisconsin. She earned her Master of Arts in Public Policy at the University of Chicago, where she also earned her Doctor of Philosophy. In 2004, she received the David N. Kershaw Award for distinguished contributions to public policy analysis and management for a person under age 40, and in 2011, she was elected to the National Academy of Public Administration.
Carolyn Heinrich's Published Works
Published Works
- Outcomes–Based Performance Management in the Public Sector: Implications for Government Accountability and Effectiveness (2002) (485)
- Studying Governance and Public Management: Challenges and Prospects (2000) (401)
- Incentives and their dynamics in public sector performance management systems (2010) (254)
- A Primer for Applying Propensity-Score Matching (2010) (250)
- Governance and Performance: New Perspectives (2001) (178)
- Assessing the Performance of Performance Standards in Public Bureaucracies (1997) (161)
- Do Government Bureaucrats Make Effective Use of Performance Management Information (1999) (160)
- Means and Ends: A Comparative Study of Empirical Methods For Investigating Governance and Performance (2001) (125)
- Performance-Based Contracting in Social Welfare Programs (2007) (123)
- A Primer for Applying Propensity-Score Matching Impact-Evaluation Guidelines (2010) (119)
- Dimensions of publicness and performance in substance abuse treatment organizations. (2004) (109)
- Evidence-Based Policy and Performance Management (2007) (107)
- Measuring public sector performance and effectiveness (2013) (100)
- False or fitting recognition? The use of high performance bonuses in motivating organizational achievements (2007) (96)
- The Bite of Administrative Burden: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation (2016) (96)
- Cream Skimming, Parking, and Other Intended and Unintended Effects of High-Powered, Performance-Based Contracts (2013) (93)
- Generating jobs: How to increase demand for less-skilled workers (1999) (90)
- Welfare to Temporary Work: Implications for Labor Market Outcomes (2002) (89)
- A state of agents? Sharpening the debate and evidence over the extent and impact of the transformation of governance (2010) (88)
- Organizational form and performance: An empirical investigation of nonprofit and for‐profit job‐training service providers (2000) (87)
- Parents’ Employment and Children’s Wellbeing (2015) (84)
- The Effects of Welfare‐to‐Work Program Activities on Labor Market Outcomes (2005) (84)
- Supplemental Education Services Under No Child Left Behind (2009) (76)
- Studying Governance and Public Management: Why? How? (1999) (72)
- How Credible Is the Evidence, and Does It Matter? An Analysis of the Program Assessment Rating Tool (2012) (71)
- Do Public Employment and Training Programs Work? (2013) (69)
- Demand and Supply-Side Determinants of Conditional Cash Transfer Program Effectiveness (2007) (63)
- New Estimates of Public Employment and Training Program Net Impacts: A Nonexperimental Evaluation of the Workforce Investment Act Program (2009) (53)
- Presidential Address: “A Thousand Petty Fortresses”: Administrative Burden in U.S. Immigration Policies and Its Consequences (2018) (50)
- Improving the Organization, Management, and Outcomes of Substance Abuse Treatment Programs (2002) (47)
- Corrigendum to “Discouraging Disadvantaged Fathers’ Employment: An Unintended Consequence of Policies Designed to Support Families” (2013) (47)
- Third-Party Governance under No Child Left Behind: Accountability and Performance Management Challenges (2010) (43)
- The Role of Temporary Help Employment in Low-Wage Worker Advancement (2007) (42)
- One nation, underprivileged:Why American poverty affects us all (2006) (39)
- The role of teacher capacity and instructional practice in the integration of educational technology for emergent bilingual students (2018) (38)
- Role of state policies in the adoption of naltrexone for substance abuse treatment. (2007) (38)
- Improving Education and Employment for Disadvantaged Young Men: Proven and Promising Strategies (2010) (37)
- Setting the Standard in Performance Measurement Systems (2005) (37)
- Mixed Methods for Policy Research and Program Evaluation (2015) (36)
- One Standard Fits All? The Pros and Cons of Performance Standard Adjustments (2010) (35)
- Reducing Adolescent Risky Behaviors in a High-Risk Context: The Effects of Unconditional Cash Transfers in South Africa (2017) (33)
- Improving the Implementation and Effectiveness of Out‐of‐School‐Time Tutoring (2014) (31)
- A Look Inside Online Educational Settings in High School: Promise and Pitfalls for Improving Educational Opportunities and Outcomes (2019) (31)
- Cream-Skimming, Parking and Other Intended and Unintended Effects of Performance-Based Contracting in Social Welfare Services (2010) (28)
- Reducing child support debt and its consequences: Can forgiveness benefit all? (2011) (27)
- Effects of Live Animal Demonstrations on Zoo Visitors' Retention of Information (1992) (27)
- Making the Work-Based Safety Net Work Better (2009) (27)
- Stopped in the Name of the Law: Administrative Burden and its Implications for Cash Transfer Program Effectiveness (2015) (26)
- Governance And Performance: The Influence of Program Structure and Management on Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) Program Outcomes (1999) (25)
- Adoption and diffusion of evidence-based addiction medications in substance abuse treatment. (2014) (24)
- Health insurance reform and part-time work: Evidence from Massachusetts (2016) (21)
- Modeling Trajectories in Social Program Outcomes for Performance Accountability (2004) (19)
- Does Community Participation Produce Dividends in Social Investment Fund Projects (2009) (19)
- Temporary Help Work: Earnings, Wages, and Multiple Job Holding (2014) (18)
- The Efficacy of Private Sector Providers in Improving Public Educational Outcomes (2013) (18)
- How Effective Are Workforce Development Programs? Implications for U.S. Workforce Policies (2012) (18)
- Pay‐for‐Success Development in the United States: Feasible or Failing to Launch? (2019) (14)
- Improving Access to, Quality, and the Effectiveness of Digital Tutoring in K–12 Education (2016) (13)
- Instruction Matters: Lessons from a Mixed-Method Evaluation of Out-Of-School Time Tutoring under No Child Left Behind (2014) (12)
- Returns To Education and Training for the Highly Disadvantaged (1998) (12)
- Instruments of Policy and Administration for Improving Substance Abuse Treatment Practice and Program Outcomes (2005) (12)
- Aiding Welfare-to-work Transitions: Lessons from JTPA on the Cost-effectiveness of Education and Training Services (1998) (11)
- The Impact of South Africa’s Child Support Grant on Schooling and Learning (2012) (11)
- Temporary Help Work: Compensating Differentials and Multiple Job-Holding (2012) (11)
- Training Program Impacts and the Onset of the Great Recession (2014) (11)
- Advancing public sector performance analysis (2008) (11)
- A Nonexperimental Evaluation of WIA Programs (2011) (10)
- Temporary employment experiences of women on welfare (2005) (10)
- Demand and Supply-Side Determinants of Conditional Cash Transfer Program Effectiveness: Improving the First-Generation Programs (2005) (10)
- Does Debt Discourage Employment and Payment of Child Support? Evidence from a Natural Experiment (2009) (10)
- The potential and prerequisites of effective tablet integration in rural Kenya (2020) (8)
- Mapping the Inequity Implications of Help-Seeking in Online Credit-Recovery Classrooms (2019) (8)
- The Design and Dynamics of Performance Measurement Systems in the Public Sector (2008) (8)
- Do Short-run performance measures predict long-run impacts? (2011) (7)
- Does Online Course-Taking Increase High School Completion and Open Pathways to Postsecondary Education Opportunities? (2021) (6)
- Consequences of Administrative Burden for Social Safety Nets that Support the Healthy Development of Children (2021) (6)
- The Economic Contributions of James J. Heckman and Daniel L. McFadden (2002) (5)
- Policy responses to the recent poor performance of the U.S. labor market (2012) (5)
- A fine predicament: Conditioning, compliance and consequences in a labeled cash transfer program (2020) (5)
- Research-informed practice improvements: exploring linkages between school district use of research evidence and educational outcomes over time (2018) (5)
- Setting the Standards: Performance Targets and Benchmarks (2011) (4)
- U.S. Employment and training programs and performance standards system design (2011) (4)
- Multilevel Methods in the Study of Bureaucracy (2010) (4)
- The potential of a couples approach to employment assistance: results of a nonexperimental evaluation (2009) (4)
- DRAFT The Implementation and Effectiveness of Supplemental Educational Services (SES): A Review and Recommendations for Program Improvement (2011) (3)
- The Empiricist Goose Has Not Been Cooked! (2008) (3)
- Temporary Help Work: Multiple Job-Holding and Compensating Differentials (2010) (3)
- The Effects of Welfare-to-Work Program Activities on Labor Market Outcomes (2005) (3)
- An Impact Evaluation of the National Student Scholarship Program in Argentina (2005) (3)
- Does Online Credit Recovery in High School Support or Stymie Later Labor Market Success? (2022) (3)
- The Potential of Telepresence for Increasing Advanced Course Access in High Schools (2020) (3)
- Understanding Demographic Data on Zoo Visitors (1991) (3)
- Governance Matters: The Influence of Program Structure and Management on Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) Performance (1999) (2)
- Designing Incentive-Compatible Policies to Promote Human Capital Development (2011) (2)
- Improving Education and Employment for Disadvantaged Young Men: Proven and Promising Strategies. National Poverty Center Working Paper Series #10-04. (2010) (2)
- Temporary help employment and disadvantaged workers (2004) (2)
- An audit test evaluation of state practices for supporting access to and promoting Covid-19 vaccinations (2022) (2)
- A Formal Model of a Performance Incentive System (2011) (2)
- Dedication and Thanks (2010) (2)
- The Implementation and Effectiveness of Supplemental Educational Services (2011) (2)
- One Standard Fits All ? Th e Pros and Cons of Performance Standard Adjustments Current Trends in Public Personnel (2009) (1)
- Lessons for Advancing Future Performance Standards Systems (2011) (1)
- A state of agents ? Third-party governance and implications for human services and their delivery (2008) (1)
- Driver’s Licenses for Unauthorized Immigrants and Auto Insurance * (2020) (1)
- Conceptualizing Mixed Methods Research (2016) (1)
- Response to Professor Lowery (2002) (1)
- The Impact of a Promise Realized (2016) (1)
- Local Responses to Performance Incentives and Implications for Program Outcomes (2011) (1)
- Climbing out of a deep hole: Which path up? (2012) (0)
- Gender, Bias, and Academia (2019) (0)
- The four pillars of high performance: How robust organizations achieve extraordinary results; High‐performance government: Structure, leadership, incentives (2006) (0)
- Educational Outcomes of Immigrants (2019) (0)
- Earning to Learn: Working While Enrolled in Tennessee Colleges and Universities (2023) (0)
- Improving the Quality of and Access to Federally Funded, Digital Out of School Time Tutoring. (2013) (0)
- A Formative Evaluation of Habitat Africa!'s Thirsty Animal Trail Prototype Series (1992) (0)
- Pathways to Self Sufficiency for Low-income Families (2008) (0)
- Mixed Methods Research in an International Context (2016) (0)
- Publications Received (2011) (0)
- Fully Integrated Mixed Methods Research in K-12 and Higher Education in the United States (2016) (0)
- Family and Work Support Innovations for the U.S.: Supporting Self-Sufficiency and Access to Basic Material Needs (2016) (0)
- About the Authors (2002) (0)
- Employment Research, Vol. 25, No. 1, January 2018 (2019) (0)
- On the Future of Fully Integrated Mixed Methods Research: Context and Common Lessons From the Cases for the Field (2016) (0)
- Delivering on the Promise: The Role of Supplemental Promise Programs in Reducing Barriers to College Success (2023) (0)
- Online Instruction and Outcomes over Time in High School: Implications for Equity and Achievement (2018) (0)
- An Application of Fully Integrated Mixed Methods in Program Development and Evaluation (2016) (0)
- Parental Primary Language and Developmental Delays in Preterm Neonates (2021) (0)
- Is a Family-focused Program Effective in Helping Low-Income Parents Enter the Workforce? Insights from a Multimethod Evaluation of the Jobs for Youth/Chicago Full Family Partnership Demonstration (2002) (0)
- Practical Tools for Integrated Mixed Methods Studies of Policy Implementation (2016) (0)
- Repercussions of a Raid: Education and Health Outcomes of Children Entangled in Immigration Enforcement (2022) (0)
- Employment Research, Vol. 12, No. 3, July 2005 (2015) (0)
- Immigration Enforcement and Education (2018) (0)
- National Poverty Center Working Paper Series # 1004 April 2010 Improving Education and Employment for Disadvantaged Young Men : Proven Promising Strategies (2010) (0)
- The Role of State Governance in the Adoption of Pharmaceutical Technologies in Substance Abuse Treatment (2007) (0)
- Repercussions of a Raid: Health and Education Outcomes of Children Entangled in Immigration Enforcement (2022) (0)
- The Equity and Effectiveness of a Market-based Intervention for Increasing Student Achievement under No Child Left Behind (2012) (0)
- Migration and Health (2016) (0)
- Designing and Implementing Fully Integrated Mixed Methods Research (2016) (0)
- in this People's History, one can do so through the actually lived and powerfully voiced reality of what it means to be poor in the United States. (2016) (0)
- Consequences of Intensified Immigration Policy Enforcement for the Well-Being of Children of Immigrants (2017) (0)
- The Implementation and Effectiveness of Supplemental Educational Services: A Review and Recommendations for Program Improvement. (Tightening Up Title I) (2012) (0)
- The Future of Social Impact Bonds/Pay for Success: A Cross-National Conversation on Emerging Models, Challenges and Prospects (2019) (0)
- Does the Labor Market Give Credit for Learning Online? Online Credit Recovery in High School and Later Labor Market Outcomes (2021) (0)
- Performance management in federal employment and training programs (2004) (0)
- The Influence of Common Core on Classroom and Student Outcomes (2018) (0)
- Introduction: The Demand for and Value of Fully Integrated Qualitative and Quantitative Research (2016) (0)
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