Research and Impact

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

In this summary Jim Landers shares highlights from the 2024 NCSL Roundtable on Evaluating Economic Development Tax Incentives. In addition to highlighting sessions on artificial intelligence in evaluation and thinking beyond economic indicators, Landers features a discussion on the synthetic control method.

Erynn Beaton's qualitative study uses deconstruction to understand how power operates in encounters with sexual harassment within the public workplace.

Erynn Beaton and Maham Ali analyze a woman’s account of sexual harassment by a congressman, showing how power operates in complex ways and illustrating why current workplace practices remain ineffective.

In response to China’s rise, Western governments are acting to limit scientific collaboration—but these measures will not increase economic competitiveness and could inhibit the practice of science itself.

Caroline Wagner served as a conference organizer for the 2023 conference on International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI) and as co-editor of the special issue of Scientometrics containing the top papers from the conference. 

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