Research and Impact

Madeleine Drost and Caezilia Loibl examine that during the initial COVID-19 wave in the United States, emergency savings were a key predictor of loneliness among older adults, with financial liquidity constraints shaping loneliness similarly across socioeconomic groups.

Stephanie Moulton's paper provides novel evidence that stabilizing housing during an unemployment shock leads to better employment outcomes over the long term.

Tasha Perdue, along with her colleagues, uses the Stigma and Health Discrimination Framework to examine how enacted, anticipated, internalized and structural stigma shape the experiences of people who use drugs in Dayton, Ohio following an overdose and influence the effectiveness of postoverdose interventions.

Long Tran and Stéphane Lavertu examine how nonprofit charter schools’ reliance on for-profit operators affects student achievement and attendance

Courtesy Professor Bruce Weinberg, economics, explores how characteristics of innovators and potential adopters affect the adoption of important, new scientific ideas in networks.

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.