Paul Szymanski

For-Profit Charter Schools: An evaluation of their spending and outcomes

Education Policy

September 28, 2022

This report, published in Thomas B. Fordham Institute, evaluates for-profit charter school's spending and outcomes.

Academic Achievement and Pandemic Recovery in Ohio

COVID-19

September 15, 2022

Examination of student performance on the Ohio fall 2021 third grade English language arts (ELA) assessment.

Food Policy

September 02, 2022

This study, published in Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, is an assessment of government-adopted food system plans in the U.S. that 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 available in a community are associated with the content of food system plans.

Mastering Public Administration. From Max Weber to Dwight Waldo

Public Management and Leadership

August 23, 2022

In this textbook, Raadschelders and Fry provide 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.

Sobriety Checkpoint Laws, Fatal Car Crashes and Arrests

Local Government Management and Policy

August 12, 2022

This study, published in Social Science Research Network, analyzes how sobriety checkpoints impact fatal car crashes and arrests.

Information and Technology Management

July 01, 2022

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

A Vacancy Chain Model of Local Managers’ Career Advancement

Local Government Management and Policy

July 01, 2022

Associate Professor Hongtao Yi and Doctoral Student Catherine Chen were published in the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory for their study examining the career trajectories of local managers.

Do Opioid Prescriptions Lead to Fatal Car Crashes?

June 27, 2022

Associate Professor Lauren Jones published a new study on the effects of Opioid prescriptions on fatal car crashes in the American Journal of Health Economics.

Environmental Policy and Management

June 09, 2022

This research, published in Conservation and Society, 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

Academic Achievement and Pandemic Recovery in Ohio

Education Policy

June 09, 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.

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

June 08, 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

Local Government Management and Policy

May 31, 2022

This research, published in Urban Governance, creates 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.

COVID-19

May 25, 2022

This research, published in Plos One, studies the difference in COVID-19 research internationally.

Education Policy

May 17, 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

Nonprofit Management

May 16, 2022

The report, produced with the Association of Fundraising Professionals, includes a study of the fundraising workplace, a call to action in addressing sexual harassment in the profession, and a set of resources for taking action.

COVID-19

May 14, 2022

This study published in the National Library of Medicine analyzes how COVID-19 related lockdowns affected critical resources for nutritious food.

Philanthropic Capital for Communities

Economics

May 02, 2022

This report 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.

Education Policy

May 02, 2022

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

Public Management and Leadership

April 27, 2022

This study, published in World Affairs, examines the (Office of the) High Representative (OHR) intended to help Bosnia-Herzegovina develop into a democracy.

Public Policy and Analysis

March 24, 2022

This study, published in The Pew Charitable Trusts, outlines the best practices for states planning tax incentive evaluations.

Economics

March 22, 2022

This research, published by Health Economics, estimates the long-term effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) eligibility on women's physical and mental health at age 50.

Urban Policy and Housing

March 01, 2022

This study, published in the National Tax Journal, 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

Science, Engineering and Technology Policy

March 01, 2022

This article, published in the ISSI newsletter, examined publication data among ‘big three’ players following reports of withdrawal of Chinese researchers from collaboration with the United States in response to political conflict,

Economics

March 01, 2022

A new report from Glenn College researchers informs gubernatorial candidates and Ohio voters about policy choices that lie ahead.

Education Policy

February 22, 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.

Approaches for Overcoming Barriers to Cross-Sector Data Sharing

Social Policy

January 28, 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

Food Policy

January 26, 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.

Urban Policy and Housing

January 22, 2022

This study, published in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, analyzes the longer-term effects of temporary mortgage payment subsidies on mortgage default.

Peak-Load Pricing with Quality-Differentiated Demand

Economics

January 21, 2022

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

Public Policy and Analysis

January 17, 2022

Associate Professor 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

Public Management and Leadership

January 13, 2022

This study, published in Public Management Review, assesses the influence of manager inclusiveness on unit-level relational conflict and interpersonal helping behaviour.

Contracting and Public-Private Partnerships

January 04, 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.

Economics

January 04, 2022

This paper, published in the Journal of the Economics of Aging, explores 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.

January 01, 2022

This study, published in The American Journal of Surgery, aimed to predict practicing surgeon workforce size across ten specialties.

Public Management and Leadership

December 21, 2021

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

Urban Policy and Housing

December 12, 2021

This study, published by Applied Economics Perspectives and Policy, assesses the impact of new mortgage borrowing on food insecurity among homeowners aged 65 and older

Data Analytics

December 10, 2021

This study, published in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, uses a variety of skills to develop a critical framework for mapping civil society in the digital age.

Public Management and Leadership

December 09, 2021

This study, published by the International Review of Administrative Sciences, provides insight about how institutional context and experiences shape citizens' perceptions about procedural fairness and trust and confidence in legal institutions.

Contracting and Public-Private Partnerships

December 08, 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 Management and Leadership

December 06, 2021

This review was written by Professor Jos Raadschelders and published in Public Administration Review.

COVID-19

December 02, 2021

This study examines how the appearance of a novel coronavirus in late 2019 radically changed the community of researchers working on coronaviruses

Economics

December 01, 2021

In this study, published in the Journal of Urban Affairs, Professor Ned Hill discusses legacy cities and how policy can better suit these economies.

The Cost-Effectiveness of Economic Resilience

Economics

November 29, 2021

This paper, published by the International Journal of Production Economics, incorporates resilience into longstanding economic production theory and identifies the key components for evaluating the cost and effectiveness of resilience.

Nonprofit Management

November 28, 2021

This study, published in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 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.

Social Policy

November 19, 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

Economics

November 18, 2021

This study, published by the Handbook on the Economics of Natural Disasters, summarizes key contributions and advances in the empirical estimation of disaster resilience.

Social Policy

November 12, 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).

Nonprofit Management

October 02, 2021

This paper, published in the Journal of Nonprofit Education and Leadership, 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

Nonprofit Management

September 17, 2021

The 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.

Public Policy and Analysis

September 10, 2021

This study, published by the American Review of Public Administration, empirically illustrates the connection between public value frames, design choices, and public participation in a collaborative policymaking process.

Energy Policy

September 06, 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..

Education Policy

September 03, 2021

This study, published in the Journal of Public Affairs Education, 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.

Public Management and Leadership

September 01, 2021

This study, published in the Journal of Business Ethics, contributes to our understanding of how communication of ethical guidelines by managers may reduce the likelihood of employee unethical behavior.

Nonprofit Management

September 01, 2021

This research note uses 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.

Food Policy

August 31, 2021

This study, published in Agriculture and Human Values, 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.

Social Policy

August 31, 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.

Informational Determinants of Large-area Hurricane Evacuations

Environmental Policy and Management

August 30, 2021

This study, published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 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.

How the COVID-19 Pandemic Affected Student Learning in Ohio

COVID-19

August 27, 2021

Analysis of Spring 2021 Ohio State Tests

Ethnography: Tales of the Nonprofit Field

Nonprofit Management

August 17, 2021

This article, published in the International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, describes how nonprofits can use ethnography to enrich research.

Food Policy

August 01, 2021

This study, published in Food Policy, examines the role of subnational governments in community food infrastructures.

China’s Scholarship Shows Atypical Referencing Patterns

Information and Technology Management

July 09, 2021

This study, published by Scientometrics, analyzes reference pairs in articles to search for unexpected referencing combinations at the journal–journal level

Economics

June 29, 2021

In this study, published in Economic Development Quarterly, the authors present 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.

Economics

June 23, 2021

In this article, published in Economic Development Quarterly, Professor Ned Hill discusses how economic endowments and industrial policy played roles in both regions’ economic outcomes

COVID-19

June 14, 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.

Resilience Decision Making in Repeated Disasters

Public Finance and Budgeting

June 07, 2021

The research, published in Environment Systems and Decisions Journal, examines resilience decision making in the context of repeated catastrophic events.

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

Social Policy

June 03, 2021

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

Food Policy

June 01, 2021

Published in Current Developments in Nutrition, characterizes COVID-19-related food service adaptations, including impacts on both summer and school year meal provision.

May 14, 2021

This study examines the top-1% most highly-cited articles and their country of origin.

Glenn College Releases Review of Columbus Response to 2020 Protests

Civic Engagement, Advocacy and Volunteerism

April 26, 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.

The Democratic Deficit in U.S. Education Governance

Education Policy

March 30, 2021

This study, published in the American Political Science Review, compares voters and students in four states on several policy-relevant dimensions.

Nonprofit Management

March 22, 2021

This article, published in Nonprofit Management and Leadership, develops a framework of practices nonprofit leaders can use to maintain mission integrity

Social Policy

March 09, 2021

Research published in the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory suggests powerful resource dependencies are present in the public and nonprofit sectors.

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

Information and Technology Management

March 08, 2021

This study, published by the BRG Institute, examines how flows of people and information reveal dynamics about the global information system.

Environmental Policy and Management

March 04, 2021

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

Education Policy

February 09, 2021

This study, published in the American Journal of Political Science, investigates how the racial and ethnic composition of California school boards affects school district administration and student achievement.

Environmental Policy and Management

February 08, 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.

COVID-19

January 27, 2021

This 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

Education Policy

January 25, 2021

This study evaluates factors, policies and practices that impact and improve student attendance. Published in the journal of Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.

Nonprofit Management

January 03, 2021

This article, published in Public Management Review, examines the role social enterprise plays in society as more non-profits embrace it.

The Role of Consumer and Mortgage Debt for Financial Stress

Urban Policy and Housing

November 10, 2020

This study in the journal of Aging and Mental Health examines the extent to which credit cards, other consumer debts, and mortgage debt increase financial stress.

COVID-19

November 02, 2020

This article in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly draws upon concepts of community resilience to explore the antecedents of community philanthropic organizations’ response to COVID-19.

Education Policy

November 01, 2020

This study, published in the Economics of Education Review, 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.

Civic Engagement, Advocacy and Volunteerism

November 01, 2020

This book, by 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.

Urban Policy and Housing

September 22, 2020

This study, published in the Journal of Consumer Affairs, examines how the extraction of home equity through the federally insured Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) affects the credit outcomes of older adults.

Urban Policy and Housing

September 18, 2020

This study examines the relationship of debt stress and reverse mortgage borrowing and compares it to stress from standard mortgages and consumer debt.

Social Policy

September 15, 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

COVID-19

September 04, 2020

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

Social Policy

September 01, 2020

This study, published in Children and Youth Services Review, examines how neighborhood poverty is associated with children’s trajectories of growth in math and reading skills in early elementary school

Nonprofit Management

September 01, 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.

Urban Policy and Housing

July 25, 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.

Environmental Policy and Management

July 23, 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

Data Analytics

July 23, 2020

Professor Josh Hawley's work on the effect of the pandemic on public sector data was published in the Employment Research Newsletter.

July 21, 2020

This study, published by PLoS One, 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 Analytics

July 14, 2020

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

Public Management and Leadership

May 04, 2020

This study, published in the Review of Public Personnel Administration, 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

COVID-19

May 04, 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.

Urban Policy and Housing

April 20, 2020

This paper analyzes the longer term effects of temporary mortgage payment subsidies on mortgage default.

Education Policy

April 01, 2020

This study, published in the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, investigates whether socioeconomic representation affects teachers' perceptions of their relationships with students.

Economics

March 01, 2020

This study, published in the Journal of Public Economics, uses close tax elections to estimate the impact of school district funding increases on operational spending and student outcomes.

Information and Technology Management

January 22, 2020

This study, available at SSRN, uses data to identify possible measures for the social benefits of research.

Food Policy

January 08, 2020

The study, published by the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 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.

Nonprofit Management

January 07, 2020

This study, published in Public Management Review, explores several local organizational characteristics that may explain the existence of collaborative relations between international and local non-governmental organizations.

Education Policy

January 01, 2020

This study, published in the Journal of Politics, explores if privatization could also affect citizen participation in democratic governance.

Nonprofit Management

December 17, 2019

This study, published in the International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, examines how nonprofit practitioners respond to pressures to enact business practices.

Economics

December 16, 2019

The study, published in the Natural Hazards Review, reports 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 Management and Leadership

December 09, 2019

This study, published by the Public Administration Review, 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.

Economics

November 26, 2019

This study, published in the Canadian Journal of Economics, studies how income may improve child outcomes.

Public Management and Leadership

November 21, 2019

This study, published in Public Management Review, examined the prevalence of workplace incivility and ways to reduce uncivil behavior towards women and minority groups.

Public Management and Leadership

October 29, 2019

This study, published in the International Public Management Journal, examines how law enforcement managers may cultivate learning and improve performance of their workgroups by demonstrating inclusive leadership

Food Policy

October 28, 2019

This study, published by Politics and Governance, examines the relationship between a Food Policy Council's organizational structure, relationship to government, and membership and its policy priorities.

Energy Policy

September 20, 2019

This study, posted in Energy and Environmental Science, describes the impact of the growing use of coal power generation in Asia on climate and water resources.

Education Policy

September 11, 2019

This study, published in Educational Researcher, 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

Environmental Policy and Management

August 07, 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.

Environmental Policy and Management

August 03, 2019

This study, published in Engineering Geology, 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

Nonprofit Management

August 01, 2019

This paper, published by the Academy of Management, compares practice-oriented recommendations and academic research regarding sexual harassment in nonprofit workplaces.

International NGO Centralization and Leader-Perceived Effectiveness

Nonprofit Management

July 09, 2019

This study, published in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 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.

Social Policy

July 01, 2019

This study, published in Economic Inquiry, investigates whether savings and debt among EITC‐eligible families reflect the timing of payments.

Global Science for Global Challenges

Science, Engineering and Technology Policy

June 28, 2019

This chapter, in the Handbook on Science and Public Policy, explores the application of complex systems theory to understand the rapid growth of international collaboration, particularly as it can be applied to global challenges.

Energy Policy

June 13, 2019

This study, published in Utilities Policy, 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

Public Management and Leadership

June 04, 2019

This study, published in the International Review of Administrative Sciences, empirically assesses the role of ethical leadership in reducing corruption.

Information and Technology Management

June 01, 2019

This article, published in Research Policy, tests for novelty and conventionality in international research collaboration.

Turnover Behavior Among US Government Employees

Public Management and Leadership

May 08, 2019

Published in the International Review of Administrative Sciences, this study examines US government employees’ turnover before and after the recession.

Public Management and Leadership

March 04, 2019

Professor Joshua Hawley and colleagues were published by Human Resource Development Quarterly for their work on examining the education and workforce outcomes of STEM graduates.

Economics

March 01, 2019

This brief, published by the Ohio Manufacturing Institute, examines the trade conflict sparked by the federal government’s initiation of tariffs in 2018 to protect the U.S. steel and aluminum industries.

Environmental Policy and Management

February 08, 2019

This study, posted in the Frontiers in Environmental Science, shows how stakeholders interact and perceive the food-energy-water nexus and how those perspectives are shaped

Energy Policy

February 01, 2019

Posted in Energy Conversion and Management, this study investigates the effect of bulk energy storage on CO2 emissions and water requirements.

Economic Resilience of the Firm: A Production Theory Approach

Economics

February 01, 2019

This study, published in the International Journal of Production Economics, provides a microeconomic foundation for analyzing the comprehensive range of tactics used by firms and other organizations after catastrophic events.

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

Economics

December 10, 2018

This study, published in the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 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.

Food Policy

November 29, 2018

This study, published in the Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition, 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.

Public Management and Leadership

November 18, 2018

This study, published in Public Administration, provides insights into how managers may lower employee silence in government organizations.

The Collaborative Era in Science

Science, Engineering and Technology Policy

November 01, 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

Environmental Policy and Management

October 16, 2018

This study, posted in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, explores the possibility of meeting the demands of increased populations and economic growth in 2050 while simultaneously advancing multiple conservation goals.

Nonprofit Management

October 10, 2018

This article, published in Public Performance and Management Review, provides insight into how to facilitate performance data collection within nonprofit organizations

Food Policy

October 06, 2018

This study, published by the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, describes fruit and vegetable preferences and other factors that may influence participation in community-supported agriculture.

Measure of National Return in International Science Cooperation

Science, Engineering and Technology Policy

September 11, 2018

This article, from the STI 2018 Conference Proceedings, suggests a measure for the impact of international collaboration in science

Economics

September 01, 2018

This study, published in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 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

Public Management and Leadership

August 23, 2018

This study, published by Personnel Review, supports the idea that examining specific leader behaviors in addition to broad meta-categories can improve leadership theory, research and training.

Food Policy

August 15, 2018

This study, published by the Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems Journal, 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.

Environmental Policy and Management

August 08, 2018

This study, published in Environmental Politics, examines the linkages between MBIs and expanding state control over environmental quality.

Energy Policy

August 01, 2018

This study, published in the Journal of Commodity Markets, 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.

Public Policy and Analysis

July 03, 2018

This study, published in the Journal of Public Policy, provides a quasi-experimental analysis of the price impacts of retail electric restructuring in Ohio

Civic Engagement, Advocacy and Volunteerism

July 01, 2018

This study, published in the American Journal of Political Science, examines how election timing influences voter composition in terms of partisanship, ideology, and the numerical strength of powerful interest groups.

Economics

July 01, 2018

This study, published in the Journal of Urban Economics, estimates the impact of revenue uncertainty on Ohio public school districts’ educational effectiveness.

Public Management and Leadership

June 25, 2018

This study, published in Public Administration Review, examines the influence of empowering leadership practices on police officers' job performance, perceptions of managerial effectiveness, and unit performance.

Complex Contracting: Management Challenges and Solutions

Contracting and Public-Private Partnerships

June 19, 2018

This study, posted in Public Administration Review, creates a framework that provides guidance on how managers can harness the upsides of complex contracting while avoiding its pitfalls.

Local Government Management and Policy

June 06, 2018

This study, published in the Journal of Regional Science, 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.

Environmental Policy and Management

May 26, 2018

This study, posted in the International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, examines the storage of CO2 including capacities, regional coordination, and storage in shale.

Energy Policy

May 22, 2018

This study, published in the Energy Journal, 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

Economics

May 04, 2018

This study, published in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, analyzes how expansions to the federal and state Earned Income Tax Credits (EITC) affected household finances over the past two decades.

Economics

April 19, 2018

This study, published in the Journal of Economic Psychology, 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.

Education Policy

March 23, 2018

This study, published in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, estimates the effect of Ohio’s School Improvement Grant turnaround efforts on student achievement and school administration.

Environmental Policy and Management

January 01, 2018

This study, posted in the Energy Journal, 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.

Social Policy

November 30, 2017

This study, published in Developmental Psychology, examines the effects of neighborhood provided resources on children’s achievement and development.

Public Management and Leadership

November 02, 2017

Thus study, published in Public Administration Review, 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.”

Education Policy

October 13, 2017

This study, published in the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, examines whether the benefits of representation stem from individual (direct)- versus organizational (indirect)-level pathways, or both.

Food Policy

September 01, 2017

This study, published by the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 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.

Food Policy

September 01, 2017

This study, published in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, compares the consumption patterns and diet quality of foods and beverages obtained from various sources by food security status.

Social Policy

August 24, 2017

This study, published in the Journal of Marriage and Family, evaluates the degree associations between neighborhood disadvantage and outcomes persist into elementary school and whether neighborhood disadvantage interacts with household disadvantage.

Environmental Policy and Management

July 26, 2017

This study, published in Climatic Change, 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.

Local Government Management and Policy

June 29, 2017

This study, published in Public Administration Review, investigates why various mechanisms of cooperation among local authorities are chosen using the theoretical lens of institutional collective action.

Local Government Management and Policy

June 09, 2017

This study, published by Public Administration Review, 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.

Environmental Policy and Management

April 01, 2017

This study, published in Theory & Society, offers a framework for explaining these processes of regulatory marketization, like cap-and-trade and ecological offsetting.

Food Policy

March 01, 2017

This study, published in the British Food Journal, examines how socio-economic and institutional factors impact UK food retailers’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategies as revealed in corporate communications and product marketing.

Contracting and Public-Private Partnerships

March 01, 2017

This study, published by the International Review of Administrative Sciences, examines the efficacy of central attempts to influence the use of specific types of contracts, namely, cost-reimbursement versus fixed-price contracts.

Food Policy

February 08, 2017

This study, published in the Journal of Food Science, examined how an all-natural label impacts judgments of perceived food quality, nutritional content, and acceptance.

Economics

January 19, 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

Food Policy

January 01, 2017

This study, published in the Journal of Food Composition and Analysis, details the challenges to surveillance with the dynamic food supply.

November 10, 2016

This study, published in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, uses 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.

Energy Policy

November 01, 2016

This study, published for the Northeast Ohio Public Energy Council, 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

Food Policy

November 01, 2016

This study, published in Agribusiness: An International Journal, uses food marketing and other data to find the impact of a fair trade label on a product.

Environmental Policy and Management

October 01, 2016

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

Contracting and Public-Private Partnerships

September 13, 2016

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

Social Policy

September 01, 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.

Public Policy and Analysis

August 01, 2016

This study, published in the Policy Studies Journal, 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.

July 01, 2016

This study, published in the American Journal of Public Health, explores contextual associations between medical care providers and personal belief exemptions from mandated school entry vaccinations.

Food Policy

June 01, 2016

This study, published by Agriculture and Human Values, 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.

Contracting and Public-Private Partnerships

May 12, 2016

This study, published by Public Performance and Management Review, used transaction cost economics to produce a conceptual framework that helps explain public-sector contract decisions.

Food Policy

April 06, 2016

This study, published in the Journal of Food Products Marketing, explores efforts targeting children’s health and nutrition.

The Leakage Risk Monetization Model for Geologic CO2 Storage

Environmental Policy and Management

April 06, 2016

This study, posted in Environmental Science and Technology, 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).

Economics

January 19, 2016

This study, published in Urban Studies, explores the relationship between industry diversity and economic resilience over time.

Foundations of Public Administration

Public Management and Leadership

January 01, 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.

November 22, 2015

This study, published in Human Resources Development International, explores how low-skilled worker’s learning activity influences skill improvement.

Citizen Attributions of Blame in Third-Party Governance

Contracting and Public-Private Partnerships

November 09, 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

Food Policy

October 24, 2015

This study, published in the Journal of Rural Studies, 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

Food Policy

May 07, 2015

This study, published in the Journal of Food Products Marketing, 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.

May 01, 2015

This study, published in PLOS 1, examines the effects of government spending on postdoctoral researchers’ (postdocs) productivity in biomedical sciences, the largest population of postdocs in the US.

Comparative Civil Service Systems in the 21st Century

Public Management and Leadership

February 06, 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.

Public Management and Leadership

January 30, 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.

Mastering Public Administration

July 25, 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

Public Policy and Analysis

July 12, 2013

This book, written by Jos Raadschelders, tracks the emergence of the field against a background of the expanding conception of the state and the growth of public services

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