Research and Impact

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. 

In this column Jim Landers examines the differences between discretionary and nondiscretionary incentives and the implications of these differences for evaluators.

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. 

Stéphane Lavertu analyzes the expansion of Ohio charter schools, finding that increased school choice slightly improved graduation and attendance rates in traditional districts without harming test scores.