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NK receptor signaling lowers the TCR activation threshold: role in selective recognition of cancer cells, but not healthy tissues, by TAA-specific CTLs 2687 Open
Description CD28-driven costimulatory signal 2 allows naïve CD8+ T cells to selectively respond to tumor-associated antigens (TAA) presented by dendritic cells (DC), but not by non-professional antigen-presenting cells. In a sharp contrast…
View article: Local minimum wage laws, boundary discontinuity methods, and policy spillovers
Local minimum wage laws, boundary discontinuity methods, and policy spillovers Open
We use geographically precise longitudinal employment data documenting worker job-to-job mobility to study policy spillovers in the context of three local minimum wage increases. Estimated spillover impacts on wages and hours are statistic…
Regression(s) discontinuity: Using bootstrap aggregation to yield estimates of RD treatment effects Open
Following Efron (2014), we propose an algorithm for estimating treatment effects for use by researchers employing a regression-discontinuity (RD) design. This algorithm generates a set of estimates of the treatment effect from bootstrapped…
Constructing monthly residential locations of adults using merged state administrative data Open
In any month, administrative data collected by government agencies contain a fraction of the polity’s adults, namely those persons who have had interactions with government agencies in that month. For researchers and policymakers who want …
Measuring Students’ Ability to Engage in Scientific Inquiry: A New Instrument to Assess Data Analysis, Explanation, and Argumentation Open
We describe the conceptualization, design, development, validation, and testing of a summative instrument that measures high school students' ability to analyze and evaluate data, construct scientific explanations, and formulate scientific…
Life on the Frontier of AP Expansion: Can Schools in Less-Resourced Communities Successfully Implement Advanced Placement Science Courses? Open
The Advanced Placement (AP) program has undergone two major reforms in recent decades: the first aimed at increasing access and the second at increasing relevance. Both initiatives are partially designed to increase the number of high scho…
Sign Me Up: The Factors Predicting Students’ Enrollment in an Early-Commitment Scholarship Program Open
We investigate factors influencing student sign-ups for Washington State’s College Bound Scholarship program and consider whether there is scope for the program to change college enrollment expectations. We find that student characteristic…
The Impact of a City-Level Minimum Wage Policy on Supermarket Food Prices by Food Quality Metrics: A Two-Year Follow Up Study Open
Objective: To examine the effects of increasing minimum wage on supermarket food prices in Seattle over 2 years of policy implementation, overall and differentially across food quality metrics. Methods: Prices for the UW Center for Public …
The Washington State Merged Longitudinal Administrative Database Open
This paper describes a uniquely comprehensive database constructed from merged state administrative data. State Unemployment Insurance (UI) systems provide an important source of data for understanding employment effects of policy interven…
View article: Minimum Wage Increases and Individual Employment Trajectories
Minimum Wage Increases and Individual Employment Trajectories Open
Using administrative employment data from the state of Washington, we use short-duration longitudinal panels to study the impact of Seattle's minimum wage ordinance on individuals employed in low-wage jobs immediately before a wage increas…
Linking Administrative Data to Understand Effects of Seattle’s $15 Minimum Wage Ordinance Open
This manuscript describes how the University of Washington Minimum Wage Study plans to use merged data from multiple state administrative sources to examine policy and social science questions about the implementation and impact of the Sea…
Seattle’s minimum wage ordinance did not affect supermarket food prices by food processing category Open
Objective To examine the impacts of Seattle’s minimum wage ordinance on food prices by food processing category. Design Supermarket food prices were collected for 106 items using a University of Washington Center for Public Health Nutritio…
The Impact of a City-Level Minimum-Wage Policy on Supermarket Food Prices in Seattle-King County Open
Background: Many states and localities throughout the U.S. have adopted higher minimum wages. Higher labor costs among low-wage food system workers could result in higher food prices. Methods: Using a market basket of 106 foods, food price…
Altruism by age and social proximity Open
This study evaluates the extent to which an individual's stated altruistic sentiments can be influenced by context-most importantly, by the age and social proximity of the other person and by the nature of what is being sacrificed. We meas…
View article: Minimum Wage Increases, Wages, and Low-Wage Employment: Evidence from Seattle
Minimum Wage Increases, Wages, and Low-Wage Employment: Evidence from Seattle Open
This paper evaluates the wage, employment, and hours effects of the first and second phase-in of the Seattle Minimum Wage Ordinance, which raised the minimum wage from $9.47 to as much as $11 in 2015 and to as much as $13 in 2016.Using a v…
Estimating an Altruism Adjusted Measure of the Value of a Statistical Life Open
Many public policies impact citizens’ longevity. In regulatory analyses of these policies, benefit-cost analysts are asked to estimate whether the benefits of these policies outweigh their costs. This requires estimation of the value of a …
View article: Minimum Wage Increases, Wages, and Low-Wage Employment: Evidence from Seattle
Minimum Wage Increases, Wages, and Low-Wage Employment: Evidence from Seattle Open
This paper evaluates the wage, employment, and hours effects of the first and second phase-in of the Seattle Minimum Wage Ordinance, which raised the minimum wage from $9.47 to as much as $11 in 2015 and to as much as $13 in 2016. Using a …
The Promise and Peril for Universities Using Correlates of Race in Admissions in Response to the Grutter and Fisher Decisions Open
The Promise and Peril for Universities Using Correlates of Race in Admissions in Response to the Grutter and Fisher Decisions Mark Long University of Washington