Research and Impact

Working to solve the complex problems facing today’s world.

The Glenn College’s world-class faculty brings practical experience and an interdisciplinary approach to research, analysis and technical assistance. Collaborating across policy areas, and with public and private sector organizations, our work seeks to improve public governance and policymaking.

More Research and Impact

Recent Publications

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.

Spillover effects of opioid prescribing practices : Do increased prescriptions lead to increased fatal car crashes ?
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.

Democracy, Complexity, and Science: Exploring Structural Sources of National Scientific Performance
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.

A contemporary concept of the value(s)-added food and agriculture sector and rural development
Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society
2020

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

Revising the Academy’s Research Priorities: Methods of the Research Priorities and Strategies Development Taskforce
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.