Research and Impact

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. 

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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