Jim Landers

From Disciplinary Depth to Interdisciplinary Breadth: The Case of Public Administration

The American Review of Public Administration

2025

This article examines the evolution and academic status of Public Administration (PA) as a field of study.

2024

Noah Dormady's study of Ohio’s retail electricity markets finds majority of retail electric supply offers don't save customers money.

How to track the economic impact of public investments in AI

Nature

2024

National statistics systems should recognize the researchers whose ideas drive artificial-intelligence applications, not just machines and factory outputs.

Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities

2024

This study investigates how adversities like racism, loss, and adverse police contact affect psychological and physical health, while examining the moderating roles of economic, social, and spiritual capital and revealing racial differences in health impacts and coping benefits.

Thomas B. Fordham Institute

2024

For too long, Ohio underfunded its public charter schools. That policy was unfair to charter school students—many economically disadvantaged—whose educations received less taxpayer support simply by virtue of their choice of schools.

The impacts of New York's balance billing regulation on ground ambulance pricing

Health Services Research

2024

Wendy Xu examines the effects of New York's surprise billing regulations on price changes by emergency ground ambulance service providers.

Neighbors’ Perceptions of University Engaged “Research”

Journal of Planning Education and Research

2024

This study is one of the first to ask community members about their perceptions of university research.

PA-Times

2024

Jos Raadschelders explores the tensions between agendas of elected officials and career civil servants.

Student Achievement and Learning Acceleration on Spring 2024 Ohio State Tests

Ohio Department of Education and Workforce

2024

Vladimir Kogan examines spring 2024 Ohio State Tests to understand how student academic achievement has been recovering since the declines experienced during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Developing an Index of National Research Capacity

Quantitative Science Studies

2024

Can national research capacity be measured?

Annals of Epidemiology

2024

The Yoke of Objectivity in Public Administration (and Beyond)

Perspectives on Public Management and Governance

2024

This article problematizes the concept of "objectivity" as it applies to research and practice in public administration and beyond.

Exploring factors influencing repeated recalls in the US meat and poultry industry

Agribusiness

2024

Neal Hooker investigates the timing, probability and frequency of repeated recalls in the U.S. meat and poultry industry between 2003 and 2019.

Public Money & Management

2024

Jos Raadschelders studies the threats to merit-based, apolitical civil service, necessary reforms and risks to democracy.

Human Nature Behavior

2024

Stephanie Moulton and colleagues research the association between public benefits and the use of costly credit.

The impact of surprise billing laws on emergency services

Health Economics

2024

Wendy Xu investigated the effects of the state laws on emergency clinician reimbursements, charges, network participation, and potential surprise billing episodes.

Nonprofit Policy Forum

2024

This research study empirically examines the ways that service-providing nonprofit organizations advocate on behalf of their disadvantaged clients.

The Gift of a Lifetime: The Hospital, Modern Medicine, and Mortality

American Economic Review

2024

Alex Hollingsworth explores how access to modern hospitals and medicine affects short-run and long-run mortality.

Agriculture and Human Values

2024

Shoshanah Inwood studies how children and their childcare needs shape the farm enterprise and the extent to which childcare arrangements, farm individuals and households, and farm enterprise characteristics interact with these decisions.

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management

2024

Long Tran and Stéphane Lavertu examine how nonprofit charter schools’ reliance on for-profit operators affects student achievement and attendance

Science and Public Policy

2024

School Choice/Thomas B. Fordham Institute

2024

Professor Stéphane Lavertu investigates whether charter schools provide a superior education when compared to the district alternative. Just prior to the pandemic, Fordham research showed that students attending brick-and-mortar charters in Ohio made significantly greater academic progress than their peers attending nearby district schools.

The Courts and the President

Elements in Public and Nonprofit Administration

2024

Charles Wise explores how US Presidents have long issued presidential directives to federal agencies to adopt and implement programs to advance presidential priorities, both pursuant to statutes passed by Congress and outside of them.

An Invisible Impediment to Progress: Perceptions of Racialization in the Nonprofit Sector

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

2024

Greg Wilson's paper in NVSQ challenges race-neutral perceptions of the nonprofit sector by showing how Black-led organizations perceive racialization across key areas central to success: leadership, funding, data, collaboration, and volunteering.

The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension

2024

This study explores how urban middle-aged education program participants can increase their agricultural entrepreneurship volition (AEV) during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea.

The Journals of Gerontology: Series B

2024

Stephanie Moulton examines the extent to which older adults use home equity to help manage the costs associated with a chronic disease in older age and how such borrowing can affect their ability to manage the disease.

Establishing an Agenda for Public Budgeting and Finance Research

Public Finance Journal

2024

Ned Hill worked with colleagues to establish an academic research agenda aligned with the needs of practitioners.

International Labour Organization

2024

In collaboration with the ILO regional office in Bangkok, Thailand we modeled the employment and unemployment using new linked panel data from 2012-2021.

The potential of urban food governance to transform lives, cities, and the planet

Global Food Security

2024

Jill Clark and colleagues propose five interconnected principles to impact urban food governance thinking and practice and argue that attending to these five principles can support the capacity and expansion of transformative urban food governance.

Journal of Human Resources

2024

Lauren Jones investigates the impact of household earnings shocks on in-school mental health designations in the context of the Great Recession using propensity score matching and a unique data set of linked administrative educational and tax data.

World Affairs

2024

Jos Raadschelders studies the reception of Ukrainian migrants in the EU and United States.

Nonprofit & Voluntary Sector Quarterly

2024

Megan LePere-Schloop uses a simultaneous qualitative mixed methods design to describe organizational paths to community leadership while considering field-level aspiration toward such change.

Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory

2024

Jill Davis and Russell Hassan study whether police officers motivated to protect existing social power hierarchies are more likely to resist organizational diversity and hold more negative views about women's suitability for law enforcement.

Journal on Urban Affairs

2024

Jill Clark and colleagues study interest in community-based participatory research by universities and funders by analyzing peer-reviewed scholarship on CBPR.

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

2024

Long Tran, Russell Hassan and Darwin Baluran examine how perceived racial discrimination relates to political and community civic engagement among people of Asian descent after COVID-19.

International Public Management Journal

2024

Long Tran provides evidence of the importance of trust in a developing country.

Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice

2024

Jill Davis, Russell Hassan and colleagues examine higher rates of workforce incivility reports from policewomen versus policemen. Policewomen also report heightened emotional exhaustion and express a greater intention to leave their current positions than policemen.

Social Science & Medicine

2024

Tasha Perdue describes opioid initiation within each of the three waves from the perspective of people who use illicit opioids, with a focus on emerging pathways into fentanyl use.

Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions of CO2-Enabled Sedimentary Basin Geothermal

Environmental Science & Technology

2024

Jeff Bielicki's 50th peer-reviewed publication of his career, he was a part of an investigation into the net effects on CO2 emissions of using CO2 from various sources (e.g., natural gas power plants) to produce geothermal heat while isolating that CO2 from the atmosphere.

The Theory of Practice of Legislation

2024

Dean Trevor Brown and Founding Director Charles Wise published a study of the impact of Russia's invasion on the changing political dynamics that spurred Ukraine's Parliament to pursue compliance with EU requirements.

Journal of Cleaner Production

2023

Jeff Bielicki establishes a computational approach for environmental lifecycle assessment that considers processes, economic flows, and multiple regions

Environmental Research Letters

2023

This article from Jeff Bielicki establishes a strategy that uses carbon dioxide to extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, as part of a portfolio of approaches to mitigate climate change.

Geothermics

2023

In this study, Jeff Bielicki and colleagues develop and implement analytical solutions for calculating reservoir impedance, reservoir heat depletion, and wellbore heat loss in sedimentary reservoirs that are laterally extensive, homogeneous, horizontally isotropic and have uniform thickness.

A Thousand Cuts: Cumulative Lead Exposure Reduces Academic Achievement

The Journal of Human Resources

2023

Alex Hollingsworth studies how ambient lead exposure impacts learning in elementary school by leveraging a natural experiment where a large national automotive racing organization switched from leaded to unleaded fuel.

Methods and lessons for business resilience and recovery surveys

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

2023

Noah Dormady and colleagues address the lack of tailored guidance for conducting business resilience and recovery surveys by collecting and synthesizing instruments and best practices from previous survey efforts.

Pew Charitable Trusts Incentive Evaluators Network Newsletter—October 2023: Evaluation Perspectives

2023

Jim Landers published commentary about state legislative program evaluation staffs and legislative fiscal and economic analysis staffs using survey and interview methods for evaluating the impact of state and local economic development incentive programs.

Science

2023

Caroline Wagner explores the importance of cooperation in the creation of two major scientific resources.

Longitudinal and Life Course Studies

2023

This study explored how middle-aged workers’ career trajectory patterns were associated with their financial security later in life.

A Framework to Centre Justice in Energy Transition Innovations

Nature Energy

2023

As part of an interdisciplinary team of social scientists, Chris Rea offers a framework to help engineers and practitioners center justice in renewable energy transition innovations.

Convergence Research as a ‘System-of-Systems’: A Framework and Research Agenda

Minerva

2023

Researchers Lisa Gajary, Anand Desai and colleagues present a multilevel research agenda that accounts for a complex systems understanding of Convergence Research, one of the U.S. National Science Foundation's "10 Big Ideas" and top strategic approaches to address grand societal challenges.

Excess Emissions: Environmental Impacts, Health Effects, and Policy Debate

Review of Environmental Economics and Policy

2023

Alex Hollingsworth studies the need for emissions data reporting to enable creation and implementation of effective regulatory frameworks.

Journal of the American Medical Association

2023

Wendy Xu's study in the Journal of the American Medical Association examines the behavior of Medicare Advantage enrollees with chronic conditions.

Journal of Public Economics

2023

Using an applied example – the link between gaining health insurance and mortality – Alex Hollingsworth and colleagues conduct a simulated power analysis to outline the importance of power and ways to estimate power in complex research settings.

RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

2023

Stephanie Moulton's study examines the effects of reforms to reduce administrative burden in a foreclosure prevention program by streamlining the application process and reducing applicant wait times.

Student Achievement and Learning Acceleration in Ohio

2023

Vladimir Kogan examines student performance on the spring 2023 Ohio State Tests.

Introduction to Governance, Government and Public Administration

Book

2023

Jos Raadschelders presents an accessible, student-friendly introduction to governance, government and public administration

Integrated Power Sector Planning Needed Under Water-Carbon Dual Challenges

Nature Water

2023

Jeff Bielicki investigates tradeoffs in water consumption and availability with carbon dioxide emissions for power plants worldwide.

Nature Water

2023

Jeff Bielicki and colleagues investigate the CO2 emission and energy penalty due to the deployment of dry cooling—a critical water mitigation strategy—together with alternative water sourcing and carbon capture and storage under climate scenarios.

Women are credited less in science than men

Nature

2023

Bruce Weinberg and colleagues study the reasons women are less likely to be named on a given article or patent produced by their team relative to their male peers.

China’s use of formal science and technology agreements as a tool of diplomacy

Science and Public Policy

2023

Caroline Wagner studies the use of diplomatic tools by China's government in pursuit of foreign policy goals.

The Journal of Law and Economics

2023

Alex Hollingsworth's new research finds that recreational laws increase past-year marijuana use by 25 percent among adults and by 10 percent among adolescents.

Polluting under the Radar: Emissions, Inequality, and Concrete Batch Plants in Houston

Environmental Science & Technology

2023

Alex Hollingsworth and colleagues show that concrete batch plants in Houston, TX are collectively a large source of pollution, emitting between 38 and 111 tons of primary PM2.5 emissions annually and being disproportionately located in census tracts with more low-income, Hispanic, and Black populations.

The British Journal of Criminology

2023

Jill Davis, Russell Hassan and Darwin Baluran study the connection between police officer preference for group-based social hierarchy and endorsement of democratic policing practices.

The Environmental State: Nature and the Politics of Environmental Protection

Sociological Theory

2023

Christopher Rea defines the environmental state and theorizes two structuring forces central to its provision of environmental welfare.

International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity

2023

Jennifer Garner and colleagues study the cost of implementing and participating in a multi-component subsidized community supported agriculture intervention and calculate cost-effectiveness based on diet and food security impacts.

Policing and Society

2023

Victor St. John studies police station design as a strategy to improve police-community relationships.

Growth and Change

2023

Professor Ned Hill examines the impact of proximity to fixed assets on rural business survival during the Great Recession, finding that factors like highway proximity and industry agglomeration play crucial roles in different sectors.

Avid, Averse, Apprehensive, or Apathetic? A Typology of Collaboration Attitudes

Nonprofit Management and Leadership

2023

Long Tran's publication identifies four major types of attitudes toward collaboration opportunities: Avid, Averse, Apprehensive, and Apathetic.

Public Management Review

2023

Hongtao Yi examines the role of change agents, city leaders, and their networks in facilitating interlocal collaboration in environmental governance.

Journal of Documentation

2023

Dearborn and colleagues utilize self-determination theory to define student-centeredness and provide empirical guidance for creating a learning environment supporting student motivation, persistence and academic achievement. The proposed framework provides both structure and theoretical grounding for the archivist while also cultivating a learning environment which effectively motivates novice researchers.

The Eco-Munitionary Subject: Conservation with and of Firearms

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

2023

Assistant Professor Christopher Rea examines the role of the Pittman-Robertson Act in shaping the relationship between firearms and conservation and seeks to understand how this relationship is reproduced.

iScience

2023

This study examines the potential of utilizing geologic carbon dioxide (CO2) storage and CO2 as a working fluid for geothermal energy production to achieve ambitious greenhouse gas mitigation targets and provide load following flexibility for integrating variable renewable energy sources.

Examining inequality in the time cost of waiting

Nature Human Behavior

2023

Katie Vinopal examines the difference between high- and low-income people in time spent waiting for basic services.

The 2022 State of Ohio Families: Challenges and Promises

Marriage & Family Review

2023

Lauren Jones examines the state of Ohio families, addressing challenges and highlighting innovations, programs, and policies aimed at improving family well-being in a changing social, political, and economic landscape.

Utilities Policy

2023

This study from Ned Hill and colleagues investigates the effects of electric utility restructuring on the cost of generated electricity, increases in the regulated portions of customers’ bills, and changes in customers’ average total electricity price in restructured states relative to similar states that remained regulated.

Legacy Regions, Not Legacy Cities: Growth and Decline in City-Centered Regional Economies

Journal of Urban Affairs

2023

Ned Hill discusses legacy cities and how policy can better suit these economies.

What Is Economic Development? And What Is the Job of an Economic Development Professional?

Economic Development Quarterly

2023

Ned Hill's study defines economic development and the role of an economic development professional.

Mastering Public Administration: From Max Weber to Dwight Waldo, Fourth Edition

Book

2023

Jos Raadschelders provides a singular investigation into the influence of 10 scholars on contemporary public administration as well as how significant their work continues to be on contemporary research.

Thomas B. Fordham Institute

2022

Stéphane Lavertu estimates the impact of the EdChoice programs by comparing changes in district outcomes (from before these programs were in place to the 2018–19 school year) between districts that had higher as opposed to lower levels of exposure to them.

Public Administration Review

2022

Megan LePere-Schloop examines the empirical knowledge integration among public administration (PA), public policy studies (PP), and nonprofit studies (nonprofit), revealing low citation rates between PA/PP and nonprofit journals, and identifies three categories effectively integrating knowledge from these fields.

Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice

2022

Russell Hassan investigates changes in officer work engagement and burnout over time and the role of public service motivation in sustaining high work engagement and attenuating burnout.

Economic Impacts of the COVID-19 Crisis: Evidence from Credit and Debt of Older Adults

Journal of Pension Economics & Finance

2022

Stephanie Moulton documents the credit outcomes of older adults immediately before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.

Managing across boundaries for coordinated local and regional food system policy

Food Policy

2022

Jill Clark evaluates the extent to which Know Your Farmer Know Your Food changed the way the USDA implements local and regional food systems policy.

Elgar Encyclopedia of Public Management

2022

Jos Raadschelders looks at the history of public administration and relationship between administrative and political officeholders.

Social Science & Medicine

2022

Stephanie Moulton examines the relationship between wealth and health.

Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems

2022

Neal Hooker offers new insights concerning the current status and trends of U.S. organic imports and exports U.S. policies relevant to the international trade of U.S. organic agri-food products are described, characterizing specific products and partners.

For-Profit Charter Schools: An Evaluation of their Spending and Outcomes

Thomas B. Fordham Institute

2022

Using recent data from Ohio, Professor Stéphane Lavertu and Assistant Professor Long Tran dig into what is meant by “forprofit” charter schools, how they spend resources differently from other charters, and how they compare in effectiveness to other charters (and to traditional public schools) in academic and nonacademic outcomes.

Assessing the Causes of Racial Disparities in Drug Courts

Glenn College News

2022

An Ohio State research team, including the John Glenn College of Public Affairs, will examine why and how racial disparities in drug court diversion and participation persist.

2022

Adrienne DiTommaso and Stephanie Moulton's study identifies the characteristics and long-term outcomes of consumers participating in nonprofit credit counseling, including those who do and do not enroll in debt management plans.

Environmental Engineering Science

2022

This article summarizes laboratory-scale experimental results of a trap-extract-precipitate (TEP) process and uses the mass and energy balances to estimate the economic costs and environmental impacts of the TEP.

Academic Achievement and Pandemic Recovery in Ohio

2022

Vladimir Kogan examines student performance on the Ohio fall 2021 third grade English language arts (ELA) assessment.

Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development

2022

Published by Jill Clark, this assessment of government-adopted food system plans in the U.S. examines which topics, across the three dimensions of sustainability (social, environmental, and economic), are included in local food system plans and conducts an exploratory analysis that asks whether the community capitals (built, cultural, social, financial, human, and natural) available in a community are associated with the content of food system plans.

Food systems governance should be preceded by food systems diplomacy

Nature Food

2022

Jill Clark studies how international actors consider and engage with negotiations that influence the food system and how they can reframe the global food governance narrative.

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

2022

Assistant Professor Megan LePere-Schloop analyzes nonprofit research published between 1999 and 2019, both within and outside of three core nonprofit journals.

Mapping Information in the Wild: An Archivist’s Approach to Liaison Librarianship

The Reference Librarian

2022

Utilizing action research methodology to study and inform her instruction approach and philosophy, Carly Dearborn created an instructional model which incorporates archival principles and concepts into a landscape mapping exercise.

Public Administration Review

2022

Dean Trevor Brown examines whether governments pay more than firms when contracting.

Emerging Themes and Future Directions of Multi-Sector Nexus Research and Implementation

Frontiers in Environmental Science

2022

Associate Professor Jeff Bielicki presents the results of a collaborative thought exercise involving 75 scientists and summarizes them into 10 key recommendations covering: the most critical nexus issues of today, emerging themes, and where future efforts should be directed.

Nonprofit Policy Forum

2022

This report provides a brief overview of research on sexual misconduct in the nonprofit sector, a summary of the colloquium discussion, and suggested directions for resolution.

A Review of Sexual Harassment Prevention Practices: Toward a Nonprofit Research Agenda

Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action

2022

Professors Erynn Beaton, Megan LePere-Schloop and Rebecca Smith use qualitative analysis to explore the anti-harassment practices recommended to nonprofit practitioners and compares these practices to academic research to develop a nonprofit scholarly research agenda.

A Vacancy Chain Model of Local Managers’ Career Advancement

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory

2022

Hongtao Yi and Doctoral Student Catherine Chen study the career trajectories of local managers.

“Active and Vital Resources”: A Thematic Analysis of Congressional Collection Policies

The American Archivist

2022

Carly Dearborn, public policy archivist and assistant professor, published an analysis of collection development policy language in congressional and public policy archives

Sexual Harassment Policies in Nonprofits

Nonprofit Management and Leadership

2022

Erynn Beaton and colleagues examine rates of SXH policy adoption among nonprofits and the relationship between SXH policy adoption and organizational characteristics.

Do Opioid Prescriptions Lead to Fatal Car Crashes?

American Journal of Health Economic

2022

Associate Professor Lauren Jones examines the effects of Opioid prescriptions on fatal car crashes.

Academic Achievement and Pandemic Recovery: Update from Fall Third Grade ELA Assessments

2022

This report by Prof. Vladimir Kogan examines student performance on the Ohio fall 2021 third grade English language arts (ELA) assessment, covering the second cohort of third graders tested since the beginning of the pandemic.

Conservation and Society

2022

Assistant Professor Christopher Rea compares the four largest sources of revenue for state wildlife and conservation agencies and demonstrate the growing importance of Pittman-Robertson as gun sales increase.

Commentary – The Bosnian Tinderbox: Is Putin Holding the Wick?

World Affairs

2022

This commentary is intended as an addendum and recent update to the original research article published in World Affairs, “The High Representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina: The Unusual Institutional Arrangement of a Non-Authoritarian, yet Controlled, Democracy”

Governance Rules for Managing Smart City Information

Urban Governance

2022

This study by Amanda Girth, David Landsbergen and Doctoral Student Mariángeles Westover-Muñoz provides a new framework to identify how cities can select the appropriate governance rules to facilitate the political, financial, and operational sustainability of their IDEs, and derivatively, their smart city efforts.

One-year in: COVID-19 research at the international level in CORD-19 data

Plos One

2022

Professor Caroline Wagner studies the difference in COVID-19 research internationally.

Incorporating Quality-Differentiated Demand into the Undergraduate Microeconomics Core

2022

This study, published in The American Economist, addresses quality-related aspects of consumer choice in undergraduate microeconomics.

Speaking Truth to Power in Fundraising: A Toolkit

Association of Fundraising Professionals

2022

Erynn Beaton and Megan LePere-Schloop study the fundraising workplace, address sexual harassment in the profession, and set resources for taking action.

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

2022

Jennifer Garner and Joshua Hawley analyze how COVID-19 related lockdowns affected critical resources for nutritious food.

A Discussion of Measuring the Top-1% Most-Highly-Cited Publications: The Case of China

Scientometrics

2022

Caroline Wagner examines China's most highly-cited articles, how this measures against the United States, and how field normalizations may skew the results.

Philanthropic Capital for Communities

Federal Reserve Bank Philadelphia

2022

This report from Megan LePere-Schloop explores the grantmaking activity of an extensive sample of community foundations and local United Way affiliates, with a particular focus on the support they provide to organizations involved in community and economic development.

Strictly Speaking: Examining Teacher Use of Punishment and Student Outcomes

2022

This working paper, from Associate Professor Katie Vinopal and colleagues, examines how teachers vary in disciplinary behaviors and the impacts on students.

World Affairs

2022

Jos Raadschelders examines the (Office of the) High Representative (OHR) intended to help Bosnia-Herzegovina develop into a democracy.

Food System Dynamics Structuring Nutrition Equity in Racialized Urban Neighborhoods

The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

2022

Jill Clark identifies nutrition equity as an overarching goal for local food systems, which reflects a state of having freedom, agency, and dignity in food traditions resulting in people and communities healthy in body, mind, and spirit. It is a transformative goal designed to spur system-level interventions that further racial equity through improved local food system dynamics.

Perspectives on Public Management and Governance

2022

Professor Jill Clark examines the use of multidimensional power to promote social justice and equity.

Best Practices for States Planning Tax Incentive Evaluations

Pew Charitable Trusts

2022

Jim Landers describes how to develop an evaluation plan. Specifically, he discusses the logistical concerns of the process, including how to maximize staff resources and expertise, time evaluations to leverage complementary work, and gather the information necessary to conduct evaluations.

Pew Charitable Trusts

2022

Jim Landers describes how to develop a tax incentive evaluation plan, the logistical concerns of the process, including how to maximize staff resources and expertise, time evaluations to leverage complementary work, and gather the information necessary to conduct evaluations.

Health Economics

2022

Lauren Jones estimates the long-term effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) eligibility on women's physical and mental health at age 50.

An Early Assessment of the 2017 Child Marriage Restraint Act of Bangladesh

Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health

2022

This study examines the trends in child marriage in Bahledesh following the enactment of the new law to inform policymakers working towards eliminating child marriage from the country.

Transforming Ohio’s Economy: Questions for the Next Governor of Ohio

Economic Report

2022

A new report from Glenn College researcher, Bill Shkurti, informs gubernatorial candidates and Ohio voters about policy choices that lie ahead.

Property Tax Compliance and Reverse Mortgages: Using Nudges to Improve the Market

National Tax Journal

2022

Stephanie Moulton's study is based on a field experiment designed to increase the salience of property tax and insurance payments among a particularly vulnerable population, older adults who took out a reverse mortgage.

Drop in China-USA International Collaboration

ISSI Newsletter

2022

Professor Caroline Wagner examines publication data among ‘big three’ players following reports of withdrawal of Chinese researchers from collaboration with the United States in response to political conflict,

Informational Determinants of Large-area Hurricane Evacuations

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

2022

Professor Noah Dormady presents an experimental design that overcomes the counterfactual problem present in all prior published experiments by relying on an actual storm with a known outcome.

2022

This article analyzes a reimagining of public affairs doctoral training by institutionalizing the socioemotional processes of reflexivity and deliberation in three key areas of doctoral training: core coursework, pedagogical training, and professional development.

Who Votes: City Election Timing and Voter Composition

American Political Science Review

2022

Vladimir Kogan studies how moving local elections to the same day as national elections could increase voter turnout and make the electorate more representative.

Energy Conversion and Management

2022

Associate Professor Bielicki's study reveals that a Flexible CO2 Plume Geothermal (CPG-F) facility, capable of providing both dispatchable power and energy storage, can deliver 190% more power than a conventional CPG power plant for 8 hours while costing 70% more in capital, making it an efficient baseload power and dispatchable storage option.

The Cost-Effectiveness of Economic Resilience

International Journal of Production Economics

2022

Professor Noah Dormady incorporates resilience into longstanding economic production theory and identifies the key components for evaluating the cost and effectiveness of resilience.

Approaches for Overcoming Barriers to Cross-Sector Data Sharing

The American Journal of Managed Care

2022

This study explores factors influencing the development and sustainability of data sharing in the Mid-Ohio Farmacy (MOF), a produce referral program implemented in partnership between a community-based organization and an academic medical center, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.

Emergencies, Disasters and Ohio’s Food System

2022

This study, helps to visualize and understand how Ohio state government agencies, civil society, nonprofits and the private sector intersect with the food system to respond to disasters in Ohio.

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management

2022

Stephanie Moulton and Stephanie Casey-Pierce analyze the longer-term effects of temporary mortgage payment subsidies on mortgage default.

Peak-Load Pricing with Quality-Differentiated Demand

2022

This study, published in The American Economist, focuses on peak-load pricing and highway tolls.

Policy Composition and Adoption Duration: Capturing Conflict in the Legislative Process

Policy Studies Journal

2022

Hongtao Yi, Doctoral Student Catherine Chen and colleagues were published in the Policy Studies Journal for their work on the affects of conflicts during the policy process

Conflict and Cooperation Within Police Units: The Importance of Manager Inclusiveness

Public Management Review

2022

This study by Russell Hassan assesses the influence of manager inclusiveness on unit-level relational conflict and interpersonal helping behavior.

American Review of Public Administration

2022

This research explores the nature of the accountability dilemma in collaborative programs and analyzes and illustrates them in the context of wildland fire prevention in the United States.

Journal of the Economics of Aging

2022

Stephanie Moulton and Caezilia Loibl explore why some older adults claim Social Security benefits early and whether the level of an individual’s financial stress prior to the claiming decision is associated with a benefit claim at age 62.

Addiction Research & Theory

2022

Assistant Professor Tasha Perdue examines crack cocaine use among Mexican American men with heroin use histories.

Preparing for Food System Resiliency in Ohio Policy and Planning Lessons from COVID-19

2022

Jill Clark and Aiden Irish aim to inform state emergency management responses in order to better prepare for and mitigate medium- and long-term negative social and economic impacts resulting from future disasters and disruptions.

The American Journal of Surgery

2022

This study aims to predict practicing surgeon workforce size across ten specialties.

Researching Homeownership Inequalities: A Life-Cycle Perspective

Cityscape

2022

This article examines four specific research topics at different stages in the homeownership life cycle—from mortgage underwriting to post-purchase support, as proposed in the HUD learning objectives.

Public Management Review

2021

This study examines independent and joint influences of public service motivation, job prosocial impact, and job reward equity on public employee engagement.

Food Insecurity Among Older Adults in the U.S.: The Role of Mortgage Borrowing

Applied Economics Perspectives and Policy

2021

Stephanie Moulton assesses the impact of new mortgage borrowing on food insecurity among homeowners aged 65 and older.

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

2021

Assistant Professor Megan LePere-Schloop examines the development of a critical framework for mapping civil society in the digital age, highlighting concerns about computational methods and the power dynamics in knowledge production.

Review of Administrative Sciences

2021

This study provides insight about how institutional context and experiences shape citizens' perceptions about procedural fairness and trust and confidence in legal institutions.

2021

This study, published by Public Performance and Management Review, finds that contract managers who have had more rules training tend to believe that they have less autonomy and view the behaviors of others as unethical.

Public Administration Review

2021

This review was written by Professor Jos Raadschelders.

Nonprofit Role Classification Using Mission Descriptions and Supervised Machine Learning

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

2021

Professor Megan LePere-Schloop uses data on United Ways that e-filed their 990 forms and supervised machine learning to illustrate an approach for classifying a large set of mission descriptions by roles.

Local Value Chain Models of Healthy Food Access: A Qualitative Study of Two Approaches

Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

2021

Country Fresh Stops (CFS) and Donation Station (DS) are two complementary programs that support local agriculture in Appalachia Ohio. As the first study of these programs in the peer-reviewed literature, this publication identifies factors that facilitate or hinder the implementation of these local value chain models of healthy food access.

Advances in the Empirical Estimation of Disaster Resilience

Handbook on the Economics of Natural Disasters

2021

Professor Noah Dormady summarizes key contributions and advances in the empirical estimation of disaster resilience.

Utilization Patterns of a Food Referral Program: Findings from the Mid-Ohio Farmacy

Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine

2021

There is limited evidence describing utilization of clinic-based food referral programs intended to support healthy eating for food-insecure patients. To address this gap, this study aims to describe the utilization of the Mid-Ohio Farmacy (MOF).

Journal of Nonprofit Education and Leadership

2021

Professor Megan LePere-Schloop introduces a novel pedagogical approach that helps students understand the theories used to teach about the nonprofit sector and how educators can connect theory to current challenges impacting nonprofit organizations.

Ohio Nonprofit COVID-19 Survey: A Report of Wave 3 Results

Social Science Research Network

2021

Erynn Beaton's Wave 3 survey results tell a story of the nonprofit sector’s resilience and contribution, and how organizations rallied during the pandemic to provide new services to new populations and to create partnerships with other organizations.

American Review of Public Administration

2021

Jill Clark empirically illustrates the connection between public value frames, design choices, and public participation in a collaborative policymaking process.

2021

This study, published in Review of Policy Research, examines elite power groups use of Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS), one of the most widely adopted clean energy policies in the U.S..

2021

This programmatic essay argues that public governance scholarship would benefit from developing a self-conscious and cohesive strand of "positive" scholarship, akin to social science subfields like positive psychology, positive organizational studies, and positive evaluation.

Journal of Public Affairs Education

2021

Professor Jos Raadschelders argues that teaching ethics should be not only limited to specific ethics courses in higher education nor just embedded as an element in various core courses in public administration programs, but also anchored in a thoughtful K-12 curriculum.

Journal of Business Ethics

2021

Professor Russell Hassan contributes to our understanding of how communication of ethical guidelines by managers may reduce the likelihood of employee unethical behavior.

Agriculture and Human Values

2021

Professor Jill Clark uses the concept of relational fields to conduct a post-hoc analysis of nine cases, examining how social movement organizations and other actors actively create new deliberative governance spaces.

International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity

2021

Despite the benefits of adequate fruit and vegetable (FV) intake, most individuals in the U.S. do not eat recommended amounts, with lower intake among individuals with lower socioeconomic status. Findings suggesting that greater FV access is related to higher intake underpin ongoing public health efforts to increase FV intake.

How the COVID-19 Pandemic Affected Student Learning in Ohio

2021

Stephane Lavertu studies COVID-19 pandemic caused significant learning losses for Ohio public school students, especially in math and for disadvantaged students.

Ethnography: Tales of the Nonprofit Field

International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations

2021

Professor Erynn Beaton describes how nonprofits can use ethnography to enrich research.

The Publicness of Publicly Funded Research

Science and Public Policy

2021

Professor Caroline Wagner examines key US legislative initiatives during the post–World War II history of public policy related to the ownership of publicly funded research-based knowledge.

American Journal of Community Psycholog

2021

Professor Jill Clark provides a narrative interpretive tool for unveiling complexity within the food system and interdependencies with racialized systems such as criminal justice and labor market.

Food Policy

2021

Professor Jill Clark examines the role of subnational governments in community food infrastructures.

Food Policy

2021

Professor Jill Clark develops a framework to understand the landscape of municipal urban agriculture policy, focusing on authority, policy instruments, and topic areas.

China’s Scholarship Shows Atypical Referencing Patterns

Scientometrics

2021

Professor Caroline Wagner analyzes reference pairs in articles to search for unexpected referencing combinations at the journal–journal level

US Department of Agriculture

2021

Professor Neal Hooker studies the potential impact of new breakfast cereal and bread products on nutrients consumed by adults and children.

Not All High-Growth Firms Are Alike: Capturing and Tagging Ohio’s Gazelles

Economic Development Quarterly

2021

Professor Ned Hill presents a statistically valid typology of high-growth firms, also known as gazelles, to determine if payroll and job growth patterns differ between groups or clusters.

Economic Development Quarterly

2021

Professor Ned Hill discusses how economic endowments and industrial policy played roles in both regions’ economic outcomes

Maximizing the Efficiency of Active Case Finding for SARS-CoV-2 Using Bandit Algorithms

2021

Using bandit algorithms, the authors of a paper in Medical Decision Making present and test an approach for finding otherwise undetected cases of COVID-19 before they lead to a widespread outbreak.

An Experimental Investigation of Resilience Decision Making in Repeated Disasters

Environment Systems & Decisions

2021

Noah Dormady, Rob Greenbaum and Kim Young examine resilience decision making in the more realistic context of repeated catastrophic events.

Public Management Review

2021

Professor Russell Hassan examines the impact of manager-employee gender similarity on supportive leadership behaviors by public managers.

It's About Time: Examining Inequality in the Time Cost of Waiting

2021

This working paper, from Associate Professor Katie Vinopal, examines the scale and extent of socioeconomic differences in waiting time

Maintaining School Foodservice Operations During COVID-19: The Case of Ohio

Current Developments in Nutrition

2021

Assistant Professor Jennifer Garner characterizes COVID-19-related food service adaptations, including impacts on both summer and school year meal provision.

Health & Place

2021

Professor Jill Clark investigates whether shopping close to home moderates the relationship between the proximate food environment and diet.

Journal of Data and Information Science

2021

Professor Caroline Wagner addresses the question of whether differences are statistically significant in the rankings of Chinese universities.

Glenn College Releases Review of Columbus Response to 2020 Protests

2021

In July 2020, Columbus City leaders commissioned an independent, outside after-action review of the City’s response to protests that took place last summer. Former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio Carter Stewart and the John Glenn College of Public Affairs were named the lead investigative team.

2021

This study, published in Administration & Society, utilizes the Strategic Action Field (SAF) framework as a lens to study implementation effectiveness of Ohio START, a multiactor and multilevel implementation process

What Do China’s Scientific Ambitions Mean for Science—and the World?

Issues in Science and Technology

2021

Professor Caroline Wagner looks at how China has transformed its capacity for scientific research.

The Democratic Deficit in U.S. Education Governance

American Political Science Review

2021

Professors Stéphane Lavertu and Vladimir Kogan compare voters and students in four states on several policy-relevant dimensions.

Economic Development Quarterly

2021

Using newly available annual data on incentives at the metropolitan statistical area (MSA) level, Rob Greenbaum and colleagues explore the relationship between incentives and economic diversity between 2005 and 2015.

Institutional Leadership: Maintaining Mission Integrity in the Era of Managerialism

Nonprofit Management and Leadership

2021

Professor Erynn Beaton develops a framework of practices nonprofit leaders can use to maintain mission integrity

Topic Evolution, Disruption and Resilience in Early COVID-19 Research

Scientometrics

2021

Professor Caroline Wagner explores how the trajectory of and research community around the coronavirus research was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Whatever it Takes: Sexual Harassment in the Context of Resource Dependence

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory

2021

Professors Erynn Beaton, Megan LePere-Schloop and Rebecca Smith suggest powerful resource dependencies are present in the public and nonprofit sectors.

Flows and Networks in Global Innovation System Among Top R&D Nations

BRG Institute

2021

This study examines how flows of people and information reveal dynamics about the global information system.

2021

This study, published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, examines the relationship between network structure and network performance.

Handbook on Entropy, Complexity & Spatial Dynamics

2021

Professor Noah Dormady presents, further clarifies, and extends the foundations of economic resilience, with an eye to concerns of measurement.

Improved Clusterings and Visualizations of 11,359 Journals in the JCRs 2015

Scientometrics

2021

Professor Caroline Wagner's publication raises a number of questions such as how to collect data of citations related to a given journal; conduct social network analysis on journals related to citations; and produce diagram properly and quickly on a dashboard.

International Collaboration During the COVID-19 Crisis: Autumn 2020 Developments

Scientometrics

2021

Professor Caroline Wagner examines how international COVID-19 research collaborations have shifted during the pandemic.

American Journal of Political Science

2021

Professors Stéphane Lavertu and Vladimir Kogan investigates how the racial and ethnic composition of California school boards affects school district administration and student achievement.

2021

This study, published in Public Management Review, proposes four starting conditions that affect the establishment of intergovernmental collaboration: power imbalance, resource imbalance, prehistory of collaboration and participation of superior levels of government.

Journal of Community Health

2021

Professor Jill Clark examined a U.S. Healthy Food Financing Initiative funded food hub that was designed to be implemented by a community development corporation in an urban neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio.

2021

Professor Stéphane Lavertu's report draws on data from the fall administration of Ohio’s annual Third-Grade English Language Arts assessment to examine how the COVID pandemic has affected student learning in the state.

Experimental Estimates of the Student Attendance Production Function

Journal of Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis

2021

Professor Long Tran evaluates factors, policies and practices that impact and improve student attendance.

Responding to Failure: the Promise of Market Mending for Social Enterprise

Public Management Review

2021

Professor Erynn Beaton examines the role social enterprise plays in society as more non-profits embrace it.

Science and Public Policy

2021

Professor Caroline Wagner explores the effect of democratic governance on scientific performance using panel data on 124 countries between 2007–2017. We find evidence supporting the democracy–science hypothesis.

American Journal of Health Economics

2021

Associate Professor Lauren Jones estimates the relationship between commuting zone (CZ)-level opioid prescription rates and CZ-level car crash fatality outcomes.

Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society

2020

Professor Jill Clark examines values-added food, agriculture and rural development.

Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

2020

Assistant Professor Jennifer Garner examines revising The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics priorities and methods.

The Role of Consumer and Mortgage Debt for Financial Stress

Journal of Aging and Mental Health

2020

Caezilia Loibl and Stephanie Moulton examine the extent to which credit cards, other consumer debts, and mortgage debt increase financial stress.

Activating Community Resilience: The Emergence of COVID-19 Funds Across the United States

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

2020

Professor Megan LePere-Schloop draws upon concepts of community resilience to explore the antecedents of community philanthropic organizations’ response to COVID-19.

Rent-Seeking through Collective Bargaining: Teachers Unions and Education Production

Economics of Education Review

2020

Professor Stéphane Lavertu explores how teachers unions affect education production by comparing outcomes between districts allocating new tax revenue amidst collective bargaining negotiations and districts allocating tax revenue well before.

The Three Ages of Government, From the Person, to the Group, to the World

2020

This book, by Professor Jos C.N. Raadschelders, provides the information that all citizens should have about their connections to government, why there is a government, what it does, how it does it, and why we can no longer do without it.

Journal of Management Studies

2020

Professor Erynn Beaton focuses on the lived experiences of organization members and advancing a pragmatic institutionalism.

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy

2020

Professor Jill Clark uses qualitative data to provide insight into emergency food provision developed in five cities to serve children and families.

Combining Nonprofit Service and Advocacy: Organizational Structures and Hybridity

Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action

2020

Professor Erynn Beaton examines how the logics of service provision and political advocacy are combined and managed across a sample of nonprofits.

How Federally Insured Reverse Mortgages Affect the Credit Outcomes of Older Adults

The Journal of Consumer Affairs

2020

Stephanie Moulton's paper explores how extraction of home equity through the federally insured Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) affects the credit outcomes of older adults.

Debt Stress and Debt Illusion: The Role of Consumer Credit, Reverse and Standard Mortgages

The Journals of Gerontology

2020

Stephanie Moulton's study examines the relationship of debt stress and reverse mortgage borrowing and compares it to stress from standard mortgages and consumer debt.

Technology Business Management

2020

The purpose of this study was to assess Farm Fresh Foods for Healthy Kids reach, dose, and fidelity via a mixed methods process evaluation.

Ohio Nonprofit COVID-19 Survey: A Report of Wave 2 Results

Social Science Research Network

2020

This report contains the results of the Ohio Nonprofit COVID-19 Survey, Wave 2.

Neighborhood Disadvantage and Children’s Cognitive Skill Trajectories

Children and Youth Services Review,

2020

Associate Professor Katie Vinopal examines how neighborhood poverty is associated with children’s trajectories of growth in math and reading skills in early elementary school

2020

This report summarizes the roles that United Ways and community foundations play in their local communities, their perceptions of the changes going on in the world around them and their perceptions of their relationships with each other.

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management

2020

Stephanie Moulton examines the role of state subsides on low-income home mortgages.

Are Foreclosure Spillover Effects Universal? Variation over Space and Time

2020

This study reviews the spillover effect of foreclosures on nearby housing prices over space and time employing geographically weighted regression, which allows modeled relationships to vary locally within a geographic area.

Collaborative Networks and Environmental Governance Performance: A Social Influence Model

2020

This research, published in Public Management Review, examines how collaborative networks affect the performance of individual policy actors embedded in the network.

Workforce Data (and Knowledge) Under Pressure

Employment Research Newsletter

2020

Professor Josh Hawley's work on the effect of the pandemic on public sector.

PLoS One

2020

Professor Caroline Wagner seeks to understand whether a catastrophic and urgent event, such as the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, accelerates or reverses trends in international collaboration

Data Science in the Public Interest: Improving Government Performance in the Workforce

2020

This book is about how new and underutilized types of big data sources can inform public policy decisions related to workforce development.

A Dynamic Discrete Choice Model of Reverse Mortgage Borrower Behavior

International Economic Review

2020

Stephanie Moulton examines the behavior of mortgage borrowers.

Gender and Prosecutorial Discretion: An Empirical Assessment

Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory

2020

This study examines the role of gender in the exercise of prosecutorial discretion.

Gender, Race, and Experiences of Workplace Incivility in Public Organizations

Review of Public Personnel Administration

2020

Professor Russell Hassan explores how public employees’ incivility experiences vary across social categories, specifically by gender and race.

Ohio Nonprofit COVID-19 Survey: A Report of the Results

Social Science Research Network

2020

This report provides early reactions of the nonprofit sector to the pandemic, including their actions and concerns, to inform policymakers, funders, media, and other decision makers about how to best support the sector during this time.

Socioeconomic Representation: Expanding the Theory of Representative Bureaucracy

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory

2020

Associate Professor Katie Vinopal investigates whether socioeconomic representation affects teachers' perceptions of their relationships with students.

Journal of Public Economics

2020

Professors Stéphane Lavertu and Vladimir Kogan use close tax elections to estimate the impact of school district funding increases on operational spending and student outcomes.

Measuring the Impacts of Research Investments: Beyond the Economic Approach

Social Science Research Network

2020

Professor Caroline Wagner uses data to identify possible measures for the social benefits of research.

Engaging Science, Technology, and Society

2020

Assistant Professor Christopher Rea describes three potential baselines for assessing the nature and impact of Trump’s anti-science rhetoric and (in)action on science, science policy, and politics.

Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior

2020

Assistant Professor Jennifer Garner explores factors affecting access to and use of Double Up Food Bucks, a farmers' market program that doubles Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits for use toward the purchase of fruits and vegetables.

Local Organizational Determinants of Local-International NGO Collaboration

Public Management Review

2020

Professor Long Tran explores several local organizational characteristics that may explain the existence of collaborative relations between international and local non-governmental organizations.

Government Privatization and Political Participation: The Case of Charter Schools

Journal of Politics

2020

Professor Stéphane Lavertu and Vladimir Kogan explore if privatization could also affect citizen participation in democratic governance.

No Margin, No Mission: How Practitioners Justify Nonprofit Managerialization

International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations

2019

Professor Erynn Beaton examines how nonprofit practitioners respond to pressures to enact business practices.

Value of Information on Resilience Decision-Making in Repeated Disaster Environments

Natural Hazards Review

2019

Professors Noah Dormady, Rob Greenbaum and Kim Young report on a series of controlled experiments with human subjects on the decision of firms to invest in resilience to mitigate supply-chain disruptions and their willingness to pay for advisory information to improve resilience planning investments.

The Behavioral Public Administration Movement: A Critical Reflection

Public Administration Review

2019

Professor Russell Hassan discusses the behavioral public administration movement call for greater use of theories from psychology and experimental research designs to improve the rigor of public administration research.

Child Cash Benefits and Family Expenditures: Evidence from the National Child Benefit

Canadian Journal of Economics

2019

Associate Professor Lauren Jones studies how income may improve child outcomes.

Public Management Review

2019

This study examines the prevalence of workplace incivility and ways to reduce uncivil behavior towards women and minority groups.

International Public Management Journal

2019

Professor Russell Hassan examines how law enforcement managers may cultivate learning and improve performance of their workgroups by demonstrating inclusive leadership

Finding Our Way to Food Democracy: Lessons from US Food Policy Council Governance

Politics and Governance

2019

Professor Jill Clark examines the relationship between a Food Policy Council's organizational structure, relationship to government, and membership and its policy priorities.

Energy and Environmental Science

2019

Professor Jeff Bielicki describes the impact of the growing use of coal power generation in Asia on climate and water resources.

Rookie Mistakes: The Interplay of Teacher Experience and Racial Representation

Educational Researcher

2019

Associate Professor Katie Vinopal examines the extent to which teachers’ perceptions of racially dissimilar students vary by experience in the teaching profession

Portable Innovation, Policy Wormholes, and Innovation Diffusion

2019

This article in Public Administration Review explores the effects of city managers' career paths on the diffusion of climate policy innovation among municipal governments in the United States.

Engineering Geology

2019

Professor Dormady proposes a highly efficient Bayesian updating framework that is integrated with multivariate Kriging surrogate modeling to quantify heteroscedastic uncertainties in the entire space of uncertain system variables and capture spatial and temporal dependencies among the responses using non-separable covariance structure.

A Dialogue on Preventing Sexual Harassment in Nonprofits

Academy of Management

2019

Professors Erynn Beaton and Rebecca Smith compare practice-oriented recommendations and academic research regarding sexual harassment in nonprofit workplaces.

International NGO Centralization and Leader-Perceived Effectiveness

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

2019

Professor Long Tran explores how centralization, a fundamental structural characteristic, relates to an INGO’s effectiveness as perceived by its own leader versus by leaders of other INGOs.

Economic Inquiry

2019

Associate Professor Lauren Jones investigates whether savings and debt among EITC‐eligible families reflect the timing of payments.

Global Science for Global Challenges

Handbook on Science and Public Policy

2019

Professor Caroline Wagner explores the application of complex systems theory to understand the rapid growth of international collaboration, particularly as it can be applied to global challenges.

Utilities Policy

2019

Professor Noah Dormady presents a case of a 50-year comprehensive energy concession agreement by The Ohio State University that generated an up-front payment exceeding a billion dollars.

The Need for Ethical Leadership in Combating Corruption

International Review of Administrative Sciences

2019

Professor Russell Hassan empirically assesses the role of ethical leadership in reducing corruption.

Research Policy

2019

Professor Caroline Wagner tests for novelty and conventionality in international research collaboration.

Turnover Behavior Among US Government Employees

Review of Administrative Sciences

2019

Professor Joshua Hawley examines US government employees’ turnover before and after the recession.

Enviromental Planning E Nature and Space

2019

Assistant Professor Christopher Rea develops a novel analytical framework for explaining why this kind of environmental market-making may or may not be successful in different contexts.

Human Resource Development Quarterly

2019

Professor Joshua Hawley and colleagues examines the education and workforce outcomes of STEM graduates.

The Economic Impact of the Trade Skirmish of 2018 on the Nation and Ohio

Ohio Manufacturing Institute

2019

Professor Ned Hill examines the trade conflict sparked by the federal government’s initiation of tariffs in 2018 to protect the U.S. steel and aluminum industries.

Stakeholder Perspectives on Sustainability in the Food-Energy-Water Nexus

Frontiers in Environmental Science

2019

Professor Jeff Bielicki shows how stakeholders interact and perceive the food-energy-water nexus and how those perspectives are shaped.

Economic Resilience of the Firm: A Production Theory Approach

International Journal of Production Economics

2019

Professor Dormady provides a microeconomic foundation for analyzing the comprehensive range of tactics used by firms and other organizations after catastrophic events.

Energy Conversion and Management

2019

Professor Jeff Bielicki investigates the effect of bulk energy storage on CO2 emissions and water requirements.

The EU Emissions Trading Scheme: Protection via Commodification?

Culture, Practice & Europeanization

2019

Assistant Professor Christopher Rea shows that market-oriented schemes like the EU ETS are better characterized as Polanyian countermovements that are, in fact, helping to “re-embed” the European economy in more ecologically sustainable relationships with nature.

U.S. Foreign Policy for the Middle Class: Perspectives From Ohio

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

2018

Professor Ned Hill explores ways to make U.S. foreign policy work better for America’s middle class, even if their economic fortunes depend largely on domestic factors and policies.

Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition

2018

Assistant Professor Jennifer Garner examines nutrition educators’ experiences with, knowledge of, and beliefs about local foods, and elicits ideas on how to integrate education about and access to local food systems into their current work.

How Empowering Leadership Reduces Employee Silence in Public Organizations

Public Administration

2018

Professor Russell Hassan provides insights into how managers may lower employee silence in government organizations.

The Collaborative Era in Science

2018

This book, written by Caroline Wagner, argues that the global network of science has ushered in a new era of collaboration that is changing the playbook for science policy.

An Attainable Global Vision for Conservation and Human Well-Being

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

2018

Professor Jeff Bielicki explores the possibility of meeting the demands of increased populations and economic growth in 2050 while simultaneously advancing multiple conservation goals.

Public Performance and Management Review

2018

Professor Russell Hassan provides insight into how to facilitate performance data collection within nonprofit organizations

Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior

2018

Assistant Professor Jennifer Garner describes fruit and vegetable preferences and other factors that may influence participation in community-supported agriculture.

Measure of National Return in International Science Cooperation

STI 2018 Conference Proceedings

2018

This article suggests a measure for the impact of international collaboration in science

Wage and Employment Growth in America’s Drug Epidemic: Is All Growth Created Equal?

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

2018

Associate Professor Lauren Jones examines the narrative whereby opioid overdoses among white, male, less-educated, rural workers have been caused by reduced economic opportunities borne by such people.

Effectiveness of Broad and Specific Leadership Behaviors

Personnel Review

2018

Professor Russell Hassan supports the idea that examining specific leader behaviors in addition to broad meta-categories can improve leadership theory, research and training.

Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems Journal

2018

Assistant Professor Jennifer Garner used a customized input-output model to simulate potential economic impacts of programs and policies that enable Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients to shift purchases from traditional food retailers to DTC venues in four states.

Regulatory Thickening and the Politics of Market-Oriented Environmental Policy

Environmental Politics

2018

Assistant Professor Christopher Rea examines the linkages between market-based policy instruments and expanding state control over environmental quality.

The Consignment Mechanism in Carbon Markets: A Laboratory Investigation

Journal of Commodity Markets

2018

Professor Dormady details the consignment auction design used in California, in which utilities are allocated a share of emissions permits that they must sell into the uniform-price auction.

Journal of Public Policy

2018

Noah Dormady provides a quasi-experimental analysis of the price impacts of retail electric restructuring in Ohio.

American Journal of Political Science

2018

Professor Stéphane Lavertu and Vladimir Kogan examine how election timing influences voter composition in terms of partisanship, ideology, and the numerical strength of powerful interest groups.

Beyond Spending Levels: Revenue Uncertainty and the Performance of Local Governments

Journal of Urban Economics

2018

Professor Stéphane Lavertu estimates the impact of revenue uncertainty on Ohio public school districts’ educational effectiveness.

Public Administration Review

2018

Professors Jos Raadschelders and Russell Hassan examine the influence of empowering leadership practices on police officers' job performance, perceptions of managerial effectiveness, and unit performance.

Complex Contracting: Management Challenges and Solutions

Public Administration Review

2018

Dean Trevor Brown creates a framework that provides guidance on how managers can harness the upsides of complex contracting while avoiding its pitfalls.

Journal of Regional Science

2018

Rob Greenbaum utilizes a novel dynamic propensity score matching approach for multiple cohorts of U.S. counties between 1989 and 1999 to examine local economy resilience to rare natural disasters.

International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control

2018

Professor Bielicki examines the storage of CO2 including capacities, regional coordination, and storage in shale.

Energy Journal

2018

Professor Noah Dormady provides a multi-utility panel regression analysis of the effect of retail deregulation on total electric bills in Ohio.

The Impact of the Earned Income Tax Credit on Household Finances

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management

2018

Associate Professor Lauren Jones analyzes how expansions to the federal and state Earned Income Tax Credits (EITC) affected household finances over the past two decades.

Testing Strategies to Increase Saving in Individual Development Account Programs

Journal of Economic Psychology

2018

Associate Professor Lauren Jones tests whether saving rates in a federally funded, matched, savings program for low-income families – the Individual Development Account program – can be improved through insights from behavioral economics.

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis

2018

Professor Stéphane Lavertu estimates the effect of Ohio’s School Improvement Grant turnaround efforts on student achievement and school administration.

Acclimation and the Response of Hourly Electricity Loads to Meteorological Variables

Energy Journal

2018

Professor Jeff Bielicki examines the relationship between electricity demand and meteorological conditions to assist with short-term electricity load forecasts and long-term projections of climate change impacts.

Developmental Psychology

2017

Professor Katie Vinopal examines the effects of neighborhood provided resources on children’s achievement and development.

Designing Public Participation: Managing Problem Settings and Social Equity

Public Administration Review

2017

Professor Jill Clark provides a theoretical framework that links public managers' and community leaders' perspectives on their own political efficacy and sources of their efficacy, yielding four types of “designers.”

Tax Increment Financing: A Propensity Score Approach

Economic Development Quarterly

2017

This study, published in the Economic Development Quarterly, examines the effect of tax increment financing (TIF) on economic growth in Indiana.

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory

2017

Associate Professor Katie Vinopal examines whether the benefits of representation stem from individual (direct)- versus organizational (indirect)-level pathways, or both.

Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior

2017

Professor Neal Hooker reviews empirical assessments of Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children (SEBTC) and Electronic Benefits Transfer research, and presents policy considerations in the program's future expansion.

Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior

2017

Professors Jill Clark and Neal Hooker compare the consumption patterns and diet quality of foods and beverages obtained from various sources by food security status.

Journal of Marriage and Family

2017

Associate Professor Katie Vinopal evaluates the degree associations between neighborhood disadvantage and outcomes persist into elementary school and whether neighborhood disadvantage interacts with household disadvantage.

Climatic Change

2017

Professor Bielicki investigated how subsurface and atmospheric leakage from geologic CO2 storage reservoirs could impact the deployment of Carbon Capture and Storage in the global energy system.

Regional Governance and Institutional Collective Action for Environmental Sustainability

Public Administration Review

2017

Hongtao Yi investigates why various mechanisms of cooperation among local authorities are chosen using the theoretical lens of institutional collective action.

Local Capitalism and Civic Engagement: The Potential of Locally Facing Firms

Public Administration Review

2017

Jill Clark demonstrates that locally-facing firms are associated with greater levels of civic and political engagement compared with locally owned firms that sell their products to customers elsewhere.

Theory & Society

2017

Assistant Professor Christopher Rea offers a framework for explaining these processes of regulatory marketization, like cap-and-trade and ecological offsetting.

Comparing UK Food Retailers Corporate Social Responsibility Strategies

British Food Journal

2017

Professor Neal Hooker examines how socio-economic and institutional factors impact UK food retailers’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategies as revealed in corporate communications and product marketing.

International Review of Administrative Sciences

2017

Dean Trevors examines the efficacy of central attempts to influence the use of specific types of contracts, namely, cost-reimbursement versus fixed-price contracts.

Journal of Food Science

2017

Professor Neal Hooker examines how an all-natural label impacts judgments of perceived food quality, nutritional content, and acceptance.

2017

This study, published in the Journal of Supply Chain Management, argues that contract design is a predominant strategy to set contractual expectations among supply chain partners to manage risk

Journal of Food Composition and Analysis

2017

Professor Neal Hooker details the challenges to surveillance with the dynamic food supply.

Sex, Gender, and Disasters: Experimental Evidence on the Decision to Invest in Resilience

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

2016

Professors Kim Young, Rob Greenbaum and Noah Dormady use a randomized controlled experimental design to examine whether biological sex or gender diversity might lead to decision-making that improves investments in resilience to calamitous events.

Northeast Ohio Public Energy Council

2016

Professor Ned Hill assesses the effects that deregulation of electricity generation has had on electricity prices in Ohio.

What's in a Name? The Impact of Fair Trade Claims on Product Price

Agribusiness: An International Journal

2016

Professor Neal Hooker uses food marketing and other data to find the impact of a fair trade label on a product.

2016

This study, published in Environmental Politics, questions whether cities’ termination of their ICLEI affiliation diminishes their implementation of sustainability actions.

The Responsiveness of Casino Revenue to the Casino Tax Rate

Public Budgeting & Finance

2016

Associate Professor Jim Landers examines the tax base elasticity of the regulated casino industry in Illinois to help estimate state-level revenue impacts of casino tax rate changes.

The Responsiveness of Casino Revenue to the Casino Tax Rate

Public Budgeting & Finance

2016

Associate Professor Jim Landers examines the tax base elasticity of the regulated casino industry in Illinois to help estimate state-level revenue impacts of casino tax rate changes.

Incentives in Third-Party Governance: Management Practices and Accountability Implications

2016

This study, published in Public Administration Review, assesses public managers’ use of contract incentives in practice and advances theory development.

2016

This study, published by Administration and Policy in Mental Health, examines worker perceptions of how public child welfare agencies' purchase of service contracts with private behavioral health organizations can both facilitate and constrain referral making and children's access to services.

Policy Studies Journal

2016

Hongtao Yi examines how methods for observing policy networks have not kept up with the development of new network analytic techniques required to understand governance in complex settings.

American Journal of Public Health

2016

Assistant Professor Christopher Rea explores contextual associations between medical care providers and personal belief exemptions from mandated school entry vaccinations.

Agriculture and Human Values

2016

Professor Jill Clark describe current distribution systems within Ohio, identifies firms interested in scaling-up distribution and inform state-level policy efforts by identifying opportunities to better target any state-level policy and program efforts.

Public Performance and Management Review

2016

Dean Trevor Brown used transaction cost economics to produce a conceptual framework that helps explain public-sector contract decisions.

The Leakage Risk Monetization Model for Geologic CO2 Storage

Environmental Science and Technology

2016

Professor Jeff Bielicki developed a Leakage Risk Monetization Model (LRiMM) which integrates simulation of CO2 leakage from geologic CO2 storage reservoirs with an estimation of monetized leakage risk (MLR).

Journal of Food Products Marketing

2016

Professor Neal Hooker explores efforts targeting children’s health and nutrition.

Urban Studies

2016

This study explores the relationship between industry diversity and economic resilience over time.

Foundations of Public Administration

2016

This book, written by Jos C.N. Raadschelders and Richard J. Stillman II provides academics and students with a rich supply of knowledge on the scope, methods, and theoretical foundations of public administration.

Human Resources Development International

2015

Professor Joshua Hawley explores how low-skilled worker’s learning activity influences skill improvement.

Citizen Attributions of Blame in Third-Party Governance

2015

This study, published by Public Administration Review, examines how structural differences in governance arrangements affect citizens’ notions of who is culpable for poor service quality.

The Agrifood System Policy Agenda and Research Domain

Journal of Rural Studies

2015

Professor Jill Clark evaluates the emergence of agrifood system policy in the U.S. and suggests future evaluative policy research and comparative analysis with other domains of food policy research.

A Balancing Act: Disproportionate Sampling of Organic Foods

Journal of Food Products Marketing

2015

Professor Neal Hooker demonstrates that there is little statistical difference, and even a net gain in predictive power, when using a balanced sample to test factors that influence a firm’s decision to market organic food.

PLOS 1

2015

Professor Joshua Hawley examines the effects of government spending on postdoctoral researchers’ (postdocs) productivity in biomedical sciences, the largest population of postdocs in the US.

Commodifying Conservation

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2015

Assistant Professor Christopher Rea examines conservation banks that price the priceless and change how we protect natural resources.

Comparative Civil Service Systems in the 21st Century

2015

This book, written in part by Jos Raadschelders, describes how civil service systems have been subject to intense scrutiny and their roles brought into question.

Global Dimensions of Public Administration and Governance: A Comparative Voyage

2015

This book, written by Jos Raddschelders and Eran Vigoda-Gadot, is a comprehensive, comparative text on the structure and function of governments around the world.

National Tax Journal

2014

This article, published in the National Tax Journal, examines California's recent decision to discontinue tax increment financing (TIF) after six decades of use has triggered a re-examination of its broader use.

The Political Mobilization of Firms and Industries

Annual Review of Sociology

2014

Christopher Rea examines the limitations of investigating business unity without focusing directly on processes and outcomes and then review studies of five types of business political action that offer lenses into corporate power in the United States: engagement in electoral politics, direct corporate lobbying, collective action through associations and coalitions, business campaigns in civil society, and political aspects of corporate responsibility.

Mastering Public Administration

2013

This book, written in part by Jos Raadschelders, features chapters spotlighting theorists in the field, covering his/her life, research, writings, and impact, introducing the discipline′s most important scholarship in both a memorable and approachable manner.

Public Administration: The Interdisciplinary Study of Government

Book

2013

Jos Raadschelders tracks the emergence of the field against a background of the expanding conception of the state and the growth of public services

International Regional Science Review

2009

This essay reviews the research on state EZ programs and explores why it has not had a greater influence on policy.

Future Casino Tax Yields: What Recent Trends in Casino Wagering and Attendance Suggest

Indiana Business Review

2009

This article considers and investigates the future growth potential of the state's wagering taxes.

The Two-Sided Coin: Casino Gaming and Casino Tax Revenue in Indiana

Indiana Business Review

2009

This article focuses on the thirteen years of operation of riverboat casinos in Indiana and the growth in the supply of casino games statewide and explains the state excise taxes imposed on the casino owners.

Economics Bulletin

2008

Associate Professor Jim Landers estimates the price elasticity of demand for casino gaming.

Nonprofit Management and Leadership

2006

Associate Professor Jim Landers examines the impact of casino gambling in and around Illinois on charitable gambling in that state.

Regional Analysis & Policy

2006

Associate Professor Jim Landers examines the impact of local Enterprise Zones (EZs) on commercial and industrial property values.

State Tax Notes

2005

Associate Professor Jim Landers looks at whether casino gambling competes with other consumer spending and therefore decreases sales tax revenue.

In the Zone: A Look at Indiana’s Enterprise Zones

Indiana Business Review

2005

Associate Professor Jim Landers provides an overview of Indiana Enterprise Zones and explore their business characteristics and demographics.

Business Income Taxes in Indiana: Who Pays?

Indiana Business Review

2004

Associate Professor Jim Landers analyzes business income taxes including corporate income tax systems and business income taxed through the individual income tax system.

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