The Washington State Merged Longitudinal Administrative Database

Developing an Integrated Administrative Database

Some Reflections on the Use of Administrative Data to Estimate the Net Impacts of Workforce Programs in Washington State

The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the results, methodology, and processes used in a series of net labor market impact studies done for the State of Washington over the past six years. All of the studies relied on administrative data and used a technique referred to as quasiexperimental evaluation. The program interventions were the federaland state-funded workforce development programs...

A Study of the Impact of Statewide Database Licensing on Information Provision in Washington State

The Statewide Database Licensing (SDL) Project brought ProQuest, full-text periodicals and newspapers databases from Bell & Howell, to nearly every library in Washington State. The research presented here investigates the impact of statewide database licensing on the users of public, school and community college libraries. The study was conducted in two stages. At first, transaction log data fr...

Minimalism and Experimentalism in the Administrative State

Minimalism is our name for the dominant liberal perspective on public policy implementation in contemporary legal scholarship. Minimalism emphasizes public interventions that incorporate market concepts and practices and that centralize and minimize administrative discretion. This essay appraises Minimalism in relation to a competing liberal view of the administrative state. Experimentalism emp...

A longitudinal study of administrative segregation.

The use of administrative segregation for inmates with and without mental illness has generated considerable criticism. Segregated inmates are locked in single cells for 23 hours per day, are subjected to rigorous security procedures, and have restricted access to programs. In this study, we examined whether inmates in segregation would show greater deterioration over time on psychological symp...