Research and Impact

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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. 

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

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

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.