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Rob Greenbaum

Professor and Associate Dean for Curriculum

Biography

Professor Robert Greenbaum conducts research and teaches on topics such as urban and regional economic development, economic resilience, policy evaluation, applied microeconomics and applied econometrics.

He received his doctorate in public policy and management from Carnegie Mellon’s H. John Heinz III College, and he earned his bachelor’s degree in economics from Bard College. He currently serves as the Associate Dean for Curriculum and Interim Chair of the Doctoral Studies Committee in the John Glenn College of Public Affairs at The Ohio State University, where he has been a faculty member since 1999. In 2002, he served as a research fellow at the International Center for Economic Research in Turin, Italy. At Ohio State, he has been engaged with interdisciplinary centers such as the Center for Urban and Regional Analysis, the Criminal Justice Research Center and the Sustainability Institute.

His research focuses on urban and regional economic development. He has published numerous articles examining the adoption and effectiveness of spatially targeted economic development incentives, such as enterprise zones. His current research involves examining factors related to the ability of economies to withstand and bounce back from disruptions. He has explored the resilience of local economies to adverse events such as terrorism, crime, natural disasters and recessions. He also studies the trade-offs business leaders face when contemplating resilience-enhancing investments. His work was recognized with the Donald Robertson Memorial Prize for the best paper published in Urban Studies in 2004 and the Health Policy Institute of Ohio’s award for the best published applied Ohio health policy paper in 2009.

He primarily teaches graduate classes in economics and applied econometrics as well as a graduate capstone course.

He has advised state and local governments on issues related to economic development and has engaged with policymakers in research projects that have examined factors such as the development of the Arena District in Columbus and the implications of changes in Medicaid expenditures in Ohio. He also served on City of Columbus Economic Advisory Committee in 2001.

Managing Public Sector Contracts: Market Frictions and Human Resources Solutions
Elements in Public and Nonprofit Administration
February 03, 2026

Dean Trevor Brown and colleagues present a framework for analyzing the complexities of contracting.

Locked Down or Let Out After COVID-19: Political Systems and Global Incarceration
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice
January 21, 2026

Victor St. John examines whether the degree of democracy shapes carceral changes.

Resilience in Reentry: An Implementation and Impact Evaluation of the Social Resilience Model in the PREPARE Program in New York City
Child Trends
December 19, 2025

Victor St. John and colleagues present an evaluation study that examines the impacts of PREPARE Plus on fathers’ perceptions, behavioral intentions, behaviors, and knowledge related to parenting, relationships, financial stability, and recidivism. 

Just Transition to Electric Vehicles in Disadvantaged Communities: Integrating Transportation, Energy, Environmental, and Climate Justice
Energy Research & Social Science
November 17, 2025

The research by Jeffrey M. Bielicki and colleagues. This research showed how intertwined disadvantages perpetuate or exacerbate distributive, recognition, restorative and procedural injustices in the EV transition.

The Leaky Pipeline: Assessing the College Outcomes of Ohio’s High-Achieving Low-Income Students
Thomas B. Fordham Institute
November 05, 2025

This report examines Ohio’s public-school pipeline to college, particularly for high-achieving low-income students, and identifies the characteristics of districts and high schools that are most effective at getting these students into four-year colleges and universities.

Evaluating Credibility, Legitimacy and Salience in a Participatory Modeling Project in the Food, Energy, Water Nexus
Environmental Science & Policy
November 01, 2025

Jeffrey M. Bielicki and colleagues examine factors that should be considered in the assessment of participatory modeling projects.

Impacts of Extreme Weather on Farmer Mental Health
Rural Sociology
October 30, 2025

Shoshanah Inwood and colleagues examine how extreme weather driven by climate change contributes to rising stress and psychological distress among Midwest farmers, identifying key pathways linking climate impacts to farmer mental health challenges.

Preventing Suicide in Jails: Examining Community, Facility, and Individual Differences
Criminal Justice and Behavior
October 09, 2025

Victor St. John and colleagues examine how individual, facility, and community factors intersect to shape suicide fatalities in U.S. jails.

U.S. Jails and Fatal Drug Overdoses: Patterns, Predictors and the Role of Rehabilitative Contexts
Health & Justice
September 30, 2025

Victor St. John, Tasha Perdue and colleagues examine predictors of drug- and opioid-related deaths among incarcerated individuals nationwide.

How Do Algorithmic Decision-Making Systems Used in Public Benefits Determinations Fail? Insights From Legal Challenges
Public Administration Review
September 25, 2025

Esra Gules-Guctas and colleagues demonstrate how algorithmic decision-making systems used in public benefits determinations can produce outcomes that fail to comply with legal requirements when statutory rules are improperly implemented in code, often due to flawed data, poor design choices, or inherent system limitations.

Administrative Burden in Higher Education: Race, Criminal Records, and Street-Level Bureaucrats in College Admissions
Public Administration Review
September 24, 2025

Victor St. John, Gregory Wilson, Long Tran, and Lydia Applin investigate how administrative burden in college admissions affects individuals with criminal records, with attention to racial disparities.

Human Resources for Public Sector Contracting: An Education and Training Perspective for Formal and Relational Management
International Journal of Commerce and Contracting
September 11, 2025

Trevor Brown and colleagues analyze global higher education contract management programs and suggest more balanced emphasis on technical, interpersonal and strategic competencies.

Finding our way through the fog: embedding social infrastructure in food system resilience
Agriculture and Human Values
September 02, 2025

Shoshanah Inwood, Jill Clark and colleagues focus on the significance of social infrastructure for food system resilience by drawing on the insights and experiences from positions as emergency management practitioners and land-grant university social science food system researchers working with emergency management agencies, food system and food security organizations in this commentary. 

Evaluation of Integrating Communications, Assessment, and Tactics (ICAT) Training with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police
Applied Report for the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department
August 20, 2025

This study evaluates the impact of ICAT de-escalation training within the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department on officers’ attitudes and behavior. Findings from a stepped-wedge randomized controlled trial design show significant reductions in use of force and subjects injured following training, with no increase in officers injured, and highlight the importance of organizational support and training reinforcement in sustaining behavioral change.

The Impact of Differential Treatment by Race and Ethnicity on Diet Quality
Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy
August 05, 2025

Jill Clark and colleagues, using nationally representative data, find that the potential for differential treatment by race and ethnicity in the food retail environment is associated with lower nutritional quality of food acquisitions for Black and Hispanic households.

Type 2 Diabetes and Financial Outcomes
JAMA
July 28, 2025

PhD graduate Patthew Pesavento and professors Cäzilia Loibl and Stephanie Moulton published an economic evaluation study of 166,285 adult patients finding a higher probability of adverse financial outcomes among patients with type 2 diabetes.

Pennsylvania State Police Traffic Stop Study
2024 Annual Report of the Pennsylvania State Police
July 28, 2025

This report by Robin Engel and Jenn Cherkauskas provides a detailed breakdown of traffic stop characteristics and outcomes at the department level, as well as across PSP’s four Areas, 16 Troops, and 89 Stations. PSP’s voluntary data collection and analysis align with best practices, showcasing its commitment to transparency and accountability to its communities and reinforcing its dedication to evidence-based policing practices. 

The Columbus Model: Crowd Psychology, Dialogue Policing, and Protest Management in the U.S.A.
Policing and Society
July 17, 2025

Russell Hassan, Clifford Stott and colleagues deliver the first systematic, theory-informed empirical analysis of the Columbus Division of Police post-2020 POPS framework using participatory action research across 60+ events to show how specific approaches contain conflict and promote self-regulation within protest crowds, also revealing tensions in organizational change.

High Turnover with Low Accountability: Local School Board Elections in 16 States
EdWorkingPapers
June 17, 2025

Vladimir Kogan and Stéphane Lavertu analyze U.S. school board election data and find that nearly half of races go uncontested and that incumbents are reelected more than 80 percent of the time when they run. 

Collections for the Public Good: A Case Study from Ohio
Diversity
May 31, 2025

Daniel Kelley offer some answers as to why natural history collections, and specifically geological collections, are important and relevant to society today and to the future of humankind. Authors offer perspective on the ways that geological collections will continue to benefit society at large by providing some illustrative historical examples. 

Loyalty to Principle or Politics: The US Civil Service under Attack …but is it Justified?
Public Money & Management
May 15, 2025

Jos C. N. Raadschelders and authors stress the importance of a career civil service recruited on the basis of merit, while at the same time recognizing the need for genuine civil service reform. The article also highlights the importance of career civil servants to citizens.

The Future of Global Public Administration in the Age of Democratic Backsliding
The American University in Cairo's School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
May 07, 2025

Jos Raadschelder's policy brief about the future of global public administration, published by the The American University in Cairo's School of Global Affairs and Public Policy

Charitable Objectives or Donor Benefits? What Sponsor Language Reveals About Donor-Advised Fund Priorities and Resource Flows
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
April 29, 2025

The research, conducted by Professor Brian Mittendorf, shows that donor-advised funds balance client service and mission impact, and the language they use in public outreach can predict their priorities and behavior.

Thinking Outside the Credit Box: Strategies to Advance Equity in the Housing Finance System
Housing Policy Debate
April 24, 2025

In this article, Dr. Stephanie Moulton and a team of housing policy experts draw from recent research to propose changes to the housing finance system that would improve access to mortgages while enabling homeownership stability for low wealth households in the U.S.

Roundtable: Perspectives on The Public
Perspectives on Public Management and Governance
April 07, 2025

Travis Whetsell and Jos Raadschelders explore the dimensions of the public as a central idea in the contemporary field of public management and governance. 

The Impact of Professor Allan Rosenbaum: Global Champion of Public Administration, Field-Builder, Teacher, and Friend
Public Administration Review
March 26, 2025

Trevor Brown and colleagues remember Professor Allan and highlight the impacts he made on the field and many public administrators and scholars across the globe. 

Avoiding Paradigm Voyeurism and Embracing Intersectionality Stewardship: Intersectionality as a Research Paradigm “From Below”
Oxford Handbook of Engaged Methodological Pluralism
March 03, 2025

In this chapter published in the Oxford Handbook of Engaged Methodological Pluralism, Ange-Marie Hancock traces the impact of three well-established approaches to intersectionality that focus attention on power via a content analysis of 132 articles published in any of nine political science journals.

Employing Synthetic Control Method to Examine Whether State Corporate Tax Rate Reductions Grow Manufacturing Employment
Economic Development Quarterly
January 28, 2025

This article examines how rate cuts and changes to the corporate apportionment formula affect manufacturing employment.

From Disciplinary Depth to Interdisciplinary Breadth: The Case of Public Administration
The American Review of Public Administration
January 17, 2025

This article examines the evolution and academic status of Public Administration (PA) as a field of study.

Labor outcomes of mortgage payment subsidies for unemployed homeowners
Journal of Housing Economics
January 08, 2025

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

Categorizing Stigma as a Barrier to Support Following Nonfatal Overdose: A Qualitative Study
Journal of Addiction Medicine
January 03, 2025

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.

For-profit milk in nonprofit cartons? The case of nonprofit charter schools subcontracting with for-profit education management organizations
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
January 01, 2025

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

Finding a Black Cat in a Coal Cellar
December 17, 2024

Noah Dormady's study of Ohio’s retail electricity markets finds majority of retail electric supply offers don't save customers money.

In With the New: Reflections on and Key Takeaways From the 2024 Roundtable
The Pew Charitable Trusts
December 15, 2024

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.


 

Subjected to Harassment: Deconstructing Power in an Encounter With Workplace Sexual Harassment
Gender, Work, and Organization
December 11, 2024

Erynn Beaton's qualitative study uses deconstruction to understand how power operates in encounters with sexual harassment within the public workplace.

Subjected to Harassment: Deconstructing Power in an Encounter With Workplace Sexual Harassment
Gender, Work, and Organization
December 11, 2024

Erynn Beaton and Maham Ali analyze a woman’s account of sexual harassment by a congressman, showing how power operates in complex ways and illustrating why current workplace practices remain ineffective.

The Trap of Securitizing Science
Issues in Science and Technology
December 09, 2024

In response to China’s rise, Western governments are acting to limit scientific collaboration—but these measures will not increase economic competitiveness and could inhibit the practice of science itself.

19th International Conference on Scientometrics & Informetrics (ISSI) 2023 Editorial
Scientometrics
November 28, 2024

Caroline Wagner served as a conference organizer for the 2023 conference on International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI) and as co-editor of the special issue of Scientometrics containing the top papers from the conference. 

How to track the economic impact of public investments in AI
Nature
November 22, 2024

National statistics systems should recognize the researchers whose ideas drive artificial-intelligence applications, not just machines and factory outputs.

Collaboration strategies affecting implementation of a cross-systems intervention for child welfare and substance use treatment: a mixed methods analysis
Implementation Science Communications
November 11, 2024

Amanda Girth, Rebecca Smith and colleagues analyze the implementation of Sobriety Treatment and Recovery Teams (START), finding that collaboration strategies like leadership support, staff co-location, and third-party resource support influence program fidelity depending on local context.

Collaboration strategies affecting implementation of a cross-systems intervention for child welfare and substance use treatment: a mixed methods analysis
Implementation Science Communications
November 11, 2024

Amanda M. Girth, along with her colleagues, identifies collaboration strategies and contextual conditions that influenced the implementation fidelity of the Ohio Sobriety Treatment and Recovery Teams (START) cross-systems intervention integrating child welfare and behavioral health services.

Fortifying Physical and Psychological Wellbeing: Leveraging Capital for Resilience Against Racism and Adversity Across Racial Groups
Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
November 06, 2024

This study investigates how adversities like racism, loss, and adverse police contact affect psychological and physical health, while examining the moderating roles of economic, social, and spiritual capital and revealing racial differences in health impacts and coping benefits.

The Impact of Increasing Funding for High-Performing Ohio Charter Schools: The Quality Community School Support Fund, 2019–23
Thomas B. Fordham Institute
October 17, 2024

For too long, Ohio underfunded its public charter schools. That policy was unfair to charter school students—many economically disadvantaged—whose educations received less taxpayer support simply by virtue of their choice of schools.

The impacts of New York's balance billing regulation on ground ambulance pricing
Health Services Research
October 16, 2024

Wendy Xu examines the effects of New York's surprise billing regulations on price changes by emergency ground ambulance service providers.

Neighbors’ Perceptions of University Engaged “Research”
Journal of Planning Education and Research
October 08, 2024

Jill K. Clark and colleagues investigate community members’ perceptions of their engagement with university researchers’ work in their neighborhoods, finding that perceptions are shaped not just by individual experiences but also by broader, enduring narratives that differ by neighborhood and racialized group, highlighting the importance of understanding historical relationships and setting clear expectations in community-engaged research.

Self-affirmed for saving energy in the United States: Cognition, intention, and behavior
Energy Research & Social Science
October 01, 2024

Stephanie Moulton, along with her colleagues, introduces a self-affirmation intervention to test whether writing down personal values can enhance energy-saving attitudes and behaviors, finding it boosts positive cognitive outcomes especially among lower-income individuals, though it does not increase actual energy-saving actions.

Election workers under stress: Pressures from political officeholders, lawyers, and citizens
PA-Times
September 13, 2024

Jos Raadschelders explores the tensions between agendas of elected officials and career civil servants.

Student Achievement and Learning Acceleration on Spring 2024 Ohio State Tests
Ohio Department of Education and Workforce
September 12, 2024

Vladimir Kogan examines spring 2024 Ohio State Tests to understand how student academic achievement has been recovering since the declines experienced during the Covid-19 pandemic.

China shows science is not dependent on liberal democracy
LSE Impact Blog
September 10, 2024

The literature on research policy often assumes a dynamic interplay between democratic nations, science and innovation. Caroline S. Wagner suggests that at least in the case of China, science depends more on state capacities, a situation which may in turn have an impact on the current composition of global science.

Developing an Index of National Research Capacity
Quantitative Science Studies
September 03, 2024

Can national research capacity be measured?

Correlates of Current Methamphetamine Use and Opioid Co-Use Among Latina Women in a Low-Income Community
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
September 02, 2024

This study examines emerging patterns of current methamphetamine use, including opioid co-use, among this understudied population. 

Does workplace inclusion mitigate emotional exhaustion? Evidence from local government organizations
Public Management Review
August 26, 2024

Russell Hassan, along with his colleagues, examines how workplace inclusion can reduce emotional exhaustion and buffer against challenges like incivility and COVID-19–related job changes in local government organizations.

Forecasting the Fiscal Impacts of Tax Incentive Programs: Unraveling the Revenue Puzzle
The Pew Charitable Trusts
August 15, 2024

In this column Jim Landers discusses the complexities and challenges of estimating the fiscal impacts of tax incentive programs.

Holding Civil Servants Accountable: Merit, Fealty and the U.S. Civil Service at a Crossroads
PA Times
August 12, 2024

Jos Raadschelders and his colleague examine the principle of merit in the U.S. civil service, highlighting the tensions between political accountability and bureaucratic independence that place career public servants at the center of today’s democratic challenges.

 

The Yoke of Objectivity in Public Administration (and Beyond)
Perspectives on Public Management and Governance
August 06, 2024

This article problematizes the concept of "objectivity" as it applies to research and practice in public administration and beyond.

The Yoke of Objectivity in Public Administration (and Beyond)
Perspectives on Public Management and Governance
August 05, 2024

Erynn Beaton and colleagues challenges the idea of value-free objectivity in public administration research, arguing for greater reflexivity and responsibility to address impacts on marginalized groups and advance social equity.

Exploring factors influencing repeated recalls in the US meat and poultry industry
Agribusiness
August 01, 2024

Neal Hooker investigates the timing, probability and frequency of repeated recalls in the U.S. meat and poultry industry between 2003 and 2019. 

New development: Loyalty to principle or politics—The US civil service under attack … but is it justified?
Public Money & Management
July 16, 2024

Jos Raadschelders studies the threats to merit-based, apolitical civil service, necessary reforms and risks to democracy.

Inequality in high-cost borrowing and unemployment insurance generosity in US states during the COVID-19 pandemic
Nature Human Behavior
July 11, 2024

Stephanie Moulton and colleagues research the association between public benefits and the use of costly credit.

The impact of surprise billing laws on emergency services
Health Economics
July 10, 2024

Wendy Xu investigated the effects of the state laws on emergency clinician reimbursements, charges, network participation, and potential surprise billing episodes.

Giving Voice: Examining the Tactical Repertoires of Nonprofit Advocacy for Disadvantaged Populations
Nonprofit Policy Forum
July 08, 2024

This research study empirically examines the ways that service-providing nonprofit organizations advocate on behalf of their disadvantaged clients.

Giving Voice: Examining the Tactical Repertoires of Nonprofit Advocacy for Disadvantaged Populations
Nonprofit Policy Foum
July 08, 2024

Erynn Beaton and colleagues find that nonprofits serving disadvantaged populations use advocacy tactics at higher rates than other organizations, with effectiveness shaped by tactical repertoires, client participation, funding, and policy context.

The Gift of a Lifetime: The Hospital, Modern Medicine, and Mortality
American Economic Review
July 01, 2024

Alex Hollingsworth explores how access to modern hospitals and medicine affects short-run and long-run mortality. 

Systemic Factors Influencing Risk Aversion: Diagnosing Behaviors and Tailoring Interventions for Lasting Transformation
July 01, 2024

This report discusses the Phase II work for the Systemic Factors Influencing Risk Aversion: Diagnosing Behaviors and Tailoring Interventions for Lasting Transformation project (WRT-1081.8.4). The project was a collaboration between the Air Force Installation Contracting Center (AFICC) and The Ohio State University (OSU).

Children needs and childcare: an illustration of how underappreciated social and economic needs shape the farm enterprise
Agriculture and Human Values
June 26, 2024

Shoshanah Inwood studies how children and their childcare needs shape the farm enterprise and the extent to which childcare arrangements, farm individuals and households, and farm enterprise characteristics interact with these decisions.

Ohio charter schools after the pandemic: Are their students still learning more than they would in district schools?
School Choice/Thomas B. Fordham Institute
June 11, 2024

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.

Interdisciplinary knowledge integration in public affairs scholarship: An empirical analysis of the contributions of public administration, policy sciences, and nonprofit studies
Journal of Public Affairs Education
May 31, 2024

Megan LePere-Schloop and her colleague analyze nearly a million journal citations to compare how public administration, public policy, and nonprofit studies integrate interdisciplinary knowledge, finding distinct patterns shaped by each field’s origins and practices.

The Courts and the President
Elements in Public and Nonprofit Administration
May 22, 2024

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.

An Invisible Impediment to Progress: Perceptions of Racialization in the Nonprofit Sector
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
May 17, 2024

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. 

Evaluating Discretionary and Nondiscretionary Incentives
The Pew Charitable Trusts
May 15, 2024

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

How can urban middle-aged participants increase their agricultural entrepreneurship volition during COVID-19? Evidence from South Korea
The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension
May 01, 2024

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.

Mortgage Borrowing and Chronic Disease Outcomes in Older Age: Evidence from Biomarker Data in the Health and Retirement Study
The Journals of Gerontology: Series B
April 17, 2024

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. 

Measuring labour market transitions of youths in Thailand: Evidence from rotation groups (2012-21) in the Labour Force Surveys
International Labour Organization
April 01, 2024

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

Establishing an Agenda for Public Budgeting and Finance Research
Public Finance Journal
April 01, 2024

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

Did the emergence of Ohio charter schools help or harm students who remained in district schools?
Thomas B. Fordham Institute
March 26, 2024

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.

The potential of urban food governance to transform lives, cities, and the planet
Journal of Urban Food Systems Governance
March 16, 2024

Jill K. Clark, along with her colleagues, proposes a critical framework for urban food governance, emphasizing five interconnected principles, time, place, relationships, diversity and power, to guide just and sustainable outcomes in urban food systems.

The Effect of Household Earnings on Child School Mental Health Designations: Evidence from Administrative Data
Journal of Human Resources
March 01, 2024

Lauren Jones investigates the impact of household earnings shocks on in-school mental health designations in the context of the Great Recession using propensity score matching and a unique data set of linked administrative educational and tax data.

Managing Forced Migration: Overt and Covert Policies to Limit the Influx of Ukrainian Refugees
World Affairs
February 27, 2024

Jos Raadschelders studies the reception of Ukrainian migrants in the EU and United States. 

‘We Expected a Revolution and Got a Slow Burn’: Microfoundations of Institutional Change in the Community Foundation Field
Nonprofit & Voluntary Sector Quarterly
February 15, 2024

Megan LePere-Schloop uses a simultaneous qualitative mixed methods design to describe organizational paths to community leadership while considering field-level aspiration toward such change.

Specifying Cross-system Collaboration Strategies for Implementation: A Multi-site Qualitative Study with Child Welfare and Behavioral Health Organizations
Implementation Science
February 12, 2024

Amanda Girth and colleagues identify, describe, and specify multi-level collaboration strategies used during the implementation of Ohio Sobriety Treatment and Reducing Trauma (Ohio START), a cross-system intervention that integrates services across two systems (child welfare and evidence-based behavioral health services) for families that are affected by co-occurring child maltreatment and parental substance use disorders.

Specifying cross-system collaboration strategies for implementation: a multi-site qualitative study with child welfare and behavioral health organizations
Implementation Science
February 12, 2024

Amanda Girth and colleagues examine the implementation of Ohio Sobriety Treatment and Reducing Trauma (START), identifying seven cross-system collaboration strategies that strengthen staffing, service access, and case planning for families facing child maltreatment and parental substance use disorders.

Workplace Incivility and Its Impact on Public Employees’ Job Search Behavior
Public Personnel Management
February 07, 2024

Shahidul Hassan, along with his colleagues, examines how experiences of supervisor and coworker incivility influence public employees’ job satisfaction and prompt job search behavior, especially affecting employees of color more strongly.

Preference for Group-based Social Hierarchy and the Reluctance to Accept Women as Equals in Law Enforcement
Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory
February 07, 2024

Jill Davis and Russell Hassan study whether police officers motivated to protect existing social power hierarchies are more likely to resist organizational diversity and hold more negative views about women's suitability for law enforcement.

Perspectives of community members on community-based participatory research: A systematic literature review
Journal of Urban Affairs
February 07, 2024

Jill K. Clark, along with her colleagues, investigates community members’ perceptions of their engagement with university researchers’ work in their neighborhoods, finding that perceptions are shaped not just by individual experiences but also by broader, enduring narratives that differ by neighborhood and racialized group, highlighting the importance of understanding historical relationships and setting clear expectations in community-engaged research.

The Relation Between Perceived Racial Discrimination and Civic Engagement Among People of Asian Descent
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
February 05, 2024

Long Tran, Russell Hassan and Darwin Baluran examine how perceived racial discrimination relates to political and community civic engagement among people of Asian descent after COVID-19.

Gender Differences in Workplace Incivility Experiences and Their Impacts on the Wellbeing and Retention of Women in Law Enforcement Organizations
Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice
January 30, 2024

Jill Davis, Russell Hassan and colleagues examine higher rates of workforce incivility reports from policewomen versus policemen. Policewomen also report heightened emotional exhaustion and express a greater intention to leave their current positions than policemen.

Which trust matters and to whom in cross-sector collaboration? Evidence from the local level in the Middle East
International Public Management Journal
January 30, 2024

Long Tran provides evidence of the importance of trust in a developing country.

Characterizing prescription opioid, heroin, and fentanyl initiation trajectories: A qualitative study
Social Science & Medicine
January 25, 2024

Tasha Perdue describes opioid initiation within each of the three waves from the perspective of people who use illicit opioids, with a focus on emerging pathways into fentanyl use.

Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions of CO2-Enabled Sedimentary Basin Geothermal
Environmental Science & Technology
January 12, 2024

Jeff Bielicki's 50th peer-reviewed publication of his career, he was a part of an investigation into the net effects on CO2 emissions of using CO2 from various sources (e.g., natural gas power plants) to produce geothermal heat while isolating that CO2 from the atmosphere.

Ukraine's parliament in war: the impact of Russia's invasion on the Verkhovna Rada's ability and efforts to legislate reforms and join the European Union
The Theory of Practice of Legislation
January 08, 2024

Dean Trevor Brown and Founding Director Charles Wise published a study of the impact of Russia's invasion on the changing political dynamics that spurred Ukraine's Parliament to pursue compliance with EU requirements.

The antecedents of conformity in an institutionalized federated system: The case of local united ways
Nonprofit Management & Leadership
January 05, 2024

Megan LePere-Schloop and colleagues find that middle-performing United Way organizations are most likely to adopt the national network’s community impact language, refining the theory of middle-status conformity within federated systems.

Social Equity of Public Participation Environments
Journal of Social Equity and Public Administration
January 03, 2024

Jill K. Clark, along with her colleagues, explores the social equity of public participation environments, emphasizing the importance of inclusive and equitable practices in public administration to ensure fair representation and engagement of marginalized communities.

The 2023 Roundtable Wrap-Up. What Are the Important Take-Aways?
The Pew Charitable Trusts
December 15, 2023

In this summary Jim Landers shares the highlights from the ninth annual Roundtable on Evaluating Economic Development Tax Incentives event, held in 2023. In addition to data source and evaluation techniques, Landers features presentations on second-time evaluation strategies.

Invitation for country studies in Public Administration Review
Public Administration Review
December 11, 2023

Jos Raadschelders and his Public Administration Review colleagues introduce a series exploring how the study and practice of public administration differ across political systems, emphasizing the vital role of career civil servants in effective and democratic governance worldwide.

Practically speaking: An introduction
Public Administration Review
December 09, 2023

Jos Raadschelders, as an Editor-in-Chief of the Public Administration Review, discuss ways in which they can make the publication better. 

Introducing our vision and plans
Public Administration Review
December 05, 2023

Jos Raadschelders and his Public Administration Review colleagues outline their vision and goals on the future of public administration scholarship to be published in their journal.

Spatially-Explicit Absolute Life Cycle Assessment by Multi-Regional Hybrid Modeling: Computational Framework
Journal of Cleaner Production
November 16, 2023

Jeff Bielicki establishes a computational approach for environmental lifecycle assessment that considers processes, economic flows, and multiple regions

A Potential for Climate Benign Direct Air CO2 Capture with CO2-Driven Geothermal Utilization and Storage (DACCUS)
Environmental Research Letters
November 02, 2023

This article from Jeff Bielicki establishes a strategy that uses carbon dioxide to extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, as part of a portfolio of approaches to mitigate climate change.

Analytical solutions to evaluate the geothermal energy generation potential from sedimentary-basin reservoirs
Geothermics
November 02, 2023

In this study, Jeff Bielicki and colleagues develop and implement analytical solutions for calculating reservoir impedance, reservoir heat depletion, and wellbore heat loss in sedimentary reservoirs that are laterally extensive, homogeneous, horizontally isotropic and have uniform thickness.

A Thousand Cuts: Cumulative Lead Exposure Reduces Academic Achievement
The Journal of Human Resources
November 01, 2023

Alex Hollingsworth studies how ambient lead exposure impacts learning in elementary school by leveraging a natural experiment where a large national automotive racing organization switched from leaded to unleaded fuel. 

Methods and lessons for business resilience and recovery surveys
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
October 31, 2023

Noah Dormady and colleagues address the lack of tailored guidance for conducting business resilience and recovery surveys by collecting and synthesizing instruments and best practices from previous survey efforts. 

“And the Survey Says”: Written Surveys and Interviews Can Yield Important Information About Incentive Program Operations and Impacts
Pew Charitable Trusts Incentive Evaluators Network Newsletter—October 2023: Evaluation Perspectives
October 24, 2023

Jim Landers published commentary about state legislative program evaluation staffs and legislative fiscal and economic analysis staffs using survey and interview methods for evaluating the impact of state and local economic development incentive programs.
 

Test-based accountability and educational equity: Breaking through local district politics?
Economics of Education Review
October 16, 2023

Stephane Lavertu and his colleague examine the No Child Left Behind district accountability system, finding that negative ratings prompted student disenrollment and personnel changes but did not lead to greater equity in school funding or governance.

Co-Creating Maps and Atlases Rivals: How Scientists Learned to Cooperate Lorraine Daston Columbia Global Reports
Science
October 10, 2023

Caroline Wagner explores the importance of cooperation in the creation of two major scientific resources.

Middle-aged adults’ career trajectories and later-life financial security: evidence from Korea
Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
October 09, 2023

This study explored how middle-aged workers’ career trajectory patterns were associated with their financial security later in life.

A Framework to Centre Justice in Energy Transition Innovations
Nature Energy
September 21, 2023

As part of an interdisciplinary team of social scientists, Chris Rea offers a framework to help engineers and practitioners center justice in renewable energy transition innovations.

Convergence Research as a ‘System-of-Systems’: A Framework and Research Agenda
Minerva
September 14, 2023

Researchers Lisa Gajary, Anand Desai and colleagues present a multilevel research agenda that accounts for a complex systems understanding of Convergence Research, one of the U.S. National Science Foundation's "10 Big Ideas" and top strategic approaches to address grand societal challenges.

Excess Emissions: Environmental Impacts, Health Effects, and Policy Debate
Review of Environmental Economics and Policy
September 06, 2023

Alex Hollingsworth studies the need for emissions data reporting to enable creation and implementation of effective regulatory frameworks.

Medicare Advantage Disenrollment Patterns Among Beneficiaries With Multiple Chronic Conditions
Journal of the American Medical Association
September 06, 2023

Wendy Xu's study in the Journal of the American Medical Association examines the behavior of Medicare Advantage enrollees with chronic conditions. 

The Effects of Administrative Burden on Program Equity and Performance: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in a Foreclosure Prevention Program
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
September 01, 2023

Stephanie Moulton's study examines the effects of reforms to reduce administrative burden in a foreclosure prevention program by streamlining the application process and reducing applicant wait times.

Simulated Power Analyses for Observational Studies: An Application to the Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion
Journal of Public Economics
September 01, 2023

Using an applied example – the link between gaining health insurance and mortality – Alex Hollingsworth and colleagues conduct a simulated power analysis to outline the importance of power and ways to estimate power in complex research settings.

Student Achievement and Learning Acceleration in Ohio
August 28, 2023

Vladimir Kogan examines student performance on the spring 2023 Ohio State Tests.

Introduction to Governance, Government and Public Administration
Book
August 17, 2023

Jos Raadschelders presents an accessible, student-friendly introduction to governance, government and public administration

Integrated Power Sector Planning Needed Under Water-Carbon Dual Challenges
Nature Water
August 07, 2023

Jeff Bielicki investigates tradeoffs in water consumption and availability with carbon dioxide emissions for power plants worldwide.

Global assessment of the carbon–water tradeoff of dry cooling for thermal power generation
Nature Water
August 07, 2023

Jeff Bielicki and colleagues investigate the CO2 emission and energy penalty due to the deployment of dry cooling—a critical water mitigation strategy—together with alternative water sourcing and carbon capture and storage under climate scenarios.

Women are credited less in science than men
Nature
August 04, 2023

Bruce Weinberg and colleagues study the reasons women are less likely to be named on a given article or patent produced by their team relative to their male peers.

China’s use of formal science and technology agreements as a tool of diplomacy
Science and Public Policy
August 01, 2023

Caroline Wagner studies the use of diplomatic tools by China's government in pursuit of foreign policy goals.

Research Brief: Supporting Students Experiencing Homelessness Involved in the Criminal Justice System
f the National Evaluation and Technical Assistance Center for the Education of Children and Youth Who Are Neglected, Delinquent, or At-risk (NDTAC)
August 01, 2023

Victor St. John’s brief explains how homelessness affects students’ education and involvement in the criminal justice system, and how Title I, Part D coordinators can collaborate with McKinney-Vento program staff to better support these students.

Comparative Effects of Recreational and Medical Marijuana Laws on Drug Use among Adults and Adolescents
The Journal of Law and Economics
August 01, 2023

Alex Hollingsworth's new research finds that recreational laws increase past-year marijuana use by 25 percent among adults and by 10 percent among adolescents.

Polluting under the Radar: Emissions, Inequality, and Concrete Batch Plants in Houston
Environmental Science & Technology
July 25, 2023

Alex Hollingsworth and colleagues show that concrete batch plants in Houston, TX are collectively a large source of pollution, emitting between 38 and 111 tons of primary PM2.5 emissions annually and being disproportionately located in census tracts with more low-income, Hispanic, and Black populations.

Support for Democratic Policing among Frontline Police Officers: The Role of Social Dominance Orientation
The British Journal of Criminology
July 21, 2023

Jill Davis, Russell Hassan and Darwin Baluran study the connection between police officer preference for group-based social hierarchy and endorsement of democratic policing practices.

Cost Analysis and Cost Effectiveness of a Subsidized Community Supported Agriculture Intervention for Low-Income Families
International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
July 10, 2023

Jennifer Garner and colleagues study the cost of implementing and participating in a multi-component subsidized community supported agriculture intervention and calculate cost-effectiveness based on diet and food security impacts.

The Environmental State: Nature and the Politics of Environmental Protection
Sociological Theory
July 10, 2023

Christopher Rea defines the environmental state and theorizes two structuring forces central to its provision of environmental welfare. 

Police station design and intrusive police encounters: untangling variations in emotions and behaviourally-relevant perceptions across racial groups
Policing and Society
June 13, 2023

Victor St. John studies police station design as a strategy to improve police-community relationships.

The Political Embeddedness of Voluntary Action: The Case of Local Philanthropic COVID-19 Relief Funds
Administration & Society
June 05, 2023

Megan LePere-Schloop and colleagues show that political engagement, policy signaling, and competition help activate local voluntary action, as seen in the creation of community COVID-19 relief funds.

What Side of Town? How Proximity to Critical Survival Factors Affects Rural Business Longevity
Growth and Change
June 01, 2023

Professor Ned Hill examines the impact of proximity to fixed assets on rural business survival during the Great Recession, finding that factors like highway proximity and industry agglomeration play crucial roles in different sectors.

Avid, Averse, Apprehensive, or Apathetic? A Typology of Collaboration Attitudes
Nonprofit Management and Leadership
May 02, 2023

Long Tran's publication identifies four major types of attitudes toward collaboration opportunities: Avid, Averse, Apprehensive, and Apathetic.

Managers’ Career Paths and Interlocal Collaboration: An Agent Network Collaboration Model
Public Management Review
May 01, 2023

Hongtao Yi examines the role of change agents, city leaders, and their networks in facilitating interlocal collaboration in environmental governance.

A Diplomatic-Informed Archival Pedagogy: Fostering Student-Centered Learning Environments for Novice Archival Researchers
Journal of Documentation
April 04, 2023

Dearborn and colleagues utilize self-determination theory to define student-centeredness and provide empirical guidance for creating a learning environment supporting student motivation, persistence and academic achievement. The proposed framework provides both structure and theoretical grounding for the archivist while also cultivating a learning environment which effectively motivates novice researchers.

The Eco-Munitionary Subject: Conservation with and of Firearms
Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space
February 22, 2023

​​​​​​​Assistant Professor Christopher Rea examines the role of the Pittman-Robertson Act in shaping the relationship between firearms and conservation and seeks to understand how this relationship is reproduced.

The Promise of Coupling Geologic CO2 Storage with Sedimentary Basin Geothermal Power Generation
iScience
February 17, 2023

This study examines the potential of utilizing geologic carbon dioxide (CO2) storage and CO2 as a working fluid for geothermal energy production to achieve ambitious greenhouse gas mitigation targets and provide load following flexibility for integrating variable renewable energy sources.

Examining inequality in the time cost of waiting
Nature Human Behavior
February 09, 2023

Katie Vinopal examines the difference between high- and low-income people in time spent waiting for basic services.

The 2022 State of Ohio Families: Challenges and Promises
Marriage & Family Review
February 06, 2023

Lauren Jones examines the state of Ohio families, addressing challenges and highlighting innovations, programs, and policies aimed at improving family well-being in a changing social, political, and economic landscape.

Legacy Regions, Not Legacy Cities: Growth and Decline in City-Centered Regional Economies
Journal of Urban Affairs
January 28, 2023

Ned Hill discusses legacy cities and how policy can better suit these economies.

Consumer Price Effects of Deregulated Electric Generation Markets: The Case of Ohio and the Midwestern United States
Utilities Policy
January 28, 2023

This study from Ned Hill and colleagues investigates the effects of electric utility restructuring on the cost of generated electricity, increases in the regulated portions of customers’ bills, and changes in customers’ average total electricity price in restructured states relative to similar states that remained regulated.

What Is Economic Development? And What Is the Job of an Economic Development Professional?
Economic Development Quarterly
January 02, 2023

Ned Hill's study defines economic development and the role of an economic development professional. 

Mastering Public Administration: From Max Weber to Dwight Waldo, Fourth Edition
Book
January 01, 2023

Jos Raadschelders provides a singular investigation into the influence of 10 scholars on contemporary public administration as well as how significant their work continues to be on contemporary research.

The Ohio EdChoice Program’s Impact on School District Enrollments, Finances, and Academics
Thomas B. Fordham Institute
December 14, 2022

Stéphane Lavertu estimates the impact of the EdChoice programs by comparing changes in district outcomes (from before these programs were in place to the 2018–19 school year) between districts that had higher as opposed to lower levels of exposure to them.

The Nexus of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Nonprofit Studies: An Empirical Mapping of Research Topics and Knowledge Integration
Public Administration Review
December 08, 2022

Megan LePere-Schloop examines the empirical knowledge integration among public administration (PA), public policy studies (PP), and nonprofit studies (nonprofit), revealing low citation rates between PA/PP and nonprofit journals, and identifies three categories effectively integrating knowledge from these fields.

Work engagement, burnout, and the motivation to serve among law enforcement officers during the COVID-19 pandemic and community protests in the USA
Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice
November 15, 2022

Russell Hassan investigates changes in officer work engagement and burnout over time and the role of public service motivation in sustaining high work engagement and attenuating burnout.

Economic Impacts of the COVID-19 Crisis: Evidence from Credit and Debt of Older Adults
Journal of Pension Economics & Finance
November 09, 2022

Stephanie Moulton documents the credit outcomes of older adults immediately before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.

Managing across boundaries for coordinated local and regional food system policy
Food Policy
October 21, 2022

Jill Clark evaluates the extent to which Know Your Farmer Know Your Food changed the way the USDA implements local and regional food systems policy. 

Historical Roots of Public Administration: Development of the Interaction between Political and Administrative Officeholders
Elgar Encyclopedia of Public Management
October 20, 2022

Jos Raadschelders looks at the history of public administration and relationship between administrative and political officeholders.

Managing the onset of a new disease in older age: Housing wealth, mortgage borrowing, and medication adherence
Social Science & Medicine
October 13, 2022

Stephanie Moulton examines the relationship between wealth and health. 

The International Trade of U.S. Organic Agri-Food Products: Export Opportunities, Import Competition and Policy Impacts
Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems
October 12, 2022

Neal Hooker offers new insights concerning the current status and trends of U.S. organic imports and exports U.S. policies relevant to the international trade of U.S. organic agri-food products are described, characterizing specific products and partners.

For-Profit Charter Schools: An Evaluation of their Spending and Outcomes
Thomas B. Fordham Institute
September 28, 2022

Using recent data from Ohio, Professor Stéphane Lavertu and Assistant Professor Long Tran dig into what is meant by “forprofit” charter schools, how they spend resources differently from other charters, and how they compare in effectiveness to other charters (and to traditional public schools) in academic and nonacademic outcomes.

Assessing the Causes of Racial Disparities in Drug Courts
Glenn College News
September 23, 2022

An Ohio State research team, including the John Glenn College of Public Affairs, will examine why and how racial disparities in drug court diversion and participation persist. 

Credit Counseling and Long-Term Credit Outcomes: Evidence from the National Foundation for Credit Counseling’s Sharpen Your Financial Focus Program
September 21, 2022

Adrienne DiTommaso and Stephanie Moulton's study identifies the characteristics and long-term outcomes of consumers participating in nonprofit credit counseling, including those who do and do not enroll in debt management plans. 

Recovering Rare Earth Elements from Coal Mine Drainage Using Industrial Byproducts: Environmental and Economic Consequences
Environmental Engineering Science
September 15, 2022

This article summarizes laboratory-scale experimental results of a trap-extract-precipitate (TEP) process and uses the mass and energy balances to estimate the economic costs and environmental impacts of the TEP. 

Academic Achievement and Pandemic Recovery in Ohio
September 15, 2022

Vladimir Kogan examines student performance on the Ohio fall 2021 third grade English language arts (ELA) assessment.

Planning toward sustainable food systems - An exploratory assessment of local U.S. food system plans
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development
September 02, 2022

Published by Jill Clark, this assessment of government-adopted food system plans in the U.S. examines which topics, across the three dimensions of sustainability (social, environmental, and economic), are included in local food system plans and conducts an exploratory analysis that asks whether the community capitals (built, cultural, social, financial, human, and natural) available in a community are associated with the content of food system plans.

Disciplinary Contributions to Nonprofit Studies: A 20-Year Empirical Mapping of Journals Publishing Nonprofit Research and Journal Citations by Nonprofit Scholars
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
September 01, 2022

Assistant Professor Megan LePere-Schloop analyzes nonprofit research published between 1999 and 2019, both within and outside of three core nonprofit journals.

Food systems governance should be preceded by food systems diplomacy
Nature Food
September 01, 2022

Jill Clark studies how international actors consider and engage with negotiations that influence the food system and how they can reframe the global food governance narrative.

Mapping Information in the Wild: An Archivist’s Approach to Liaison Librarianship
The Reference Librarian
August 30, 2022

Utilizing action research methodology to study and inform her instruction approach and philosophy, Carly Dearborn created an instructional model which incorporates archival principles and concepts into a landscape mapping exercise.

Same Product, Different Price: Experimental Evidence on the Transaction Cost Expenditures of Selling to Governments and Firms
Public Administration Review
August 22, 2022

Dean Trevor Brown examines whether governments pay more than firms when contracting.

Emerging Themes and Future Directions of Multi-Sector Nexus Research and Implementation
Frontiers in Environmental Science
August 11, 2022

Associate Professor Jeff Bielicki presents the results of a collaborative thought exercise involving 75 scientists and summarizes them into 10 key recommendations covering: the most critical nexus issues of today, emerging themes, and where future efforts should be directed. 

Sexual Misconduct: Policies to Improve Institutional Accountability and Reduce Individual Burdens
Nonprofit Policy Forum
August 09, 2022

This report provides a brief overview of research on sexual misconduct in the nonprofit sector, a summary of the colloquium discussion, and suggested directions for resolution.

A Review of Sexual Harassment Prevention Practices: Toward a Nonprofit Research Agenda
Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action
August 01, 2022

Professors Erynn Beaton, Megan LePere-Schloop and Rebecca Smith use qualitative analysis to explore the anti-harassment practices recommended to nonprofit practitioners and compares these practices to academic research to develop a nonprofit scholarly research agenda. 

“Active and Vital Resources”: A Thematic Analysis of Congressional Collection Policies
The American Archivist
July 01, 2022

Carly Dearborn, public policy archivist and assistant professor, published an analysis of collection development policy language in congressional and public policy archives

A Vacancy Chain Model of Local Managers’ Career Advancement
Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
July 01, 2022

Hongtao Yi and Doctoral Student Catherine Chen study the career trajectories of local managers.

Sexual Harassment Policies in Nonprofits
Nonprofit Management and Leadership
June 29, 2022

Erynn Beaton and colleagues examine rates of SXH policy adoption among nonprofits and the relationship between SXH policy adoption and organizational characteristics.

Do Opioid Prescriptions Lead to Fatal Car Crashes?
American Journal of Health Economic
June 27, 2022

Associate Professor Lauren Jones examines the effects of Opioid prescriptions on fatal car crashes.

Academic Achievement and Pandemic Recovery: Update from Fall Third Grade ELA Assessments
June 09, 2022

This report by Prof. Vladimir Kogan examines student performance on the Ohio fall 2021 third grade English language arts (ELA) assessment, covering the second cohort of third graders tested since the beginning of the pandemic.

Violent Entanglements: The Pittman-Robertson Act, Firearms, and the Financing of Conservation
Conservation and Society
June 09, 2022

Assistant Professor Christopher Rea compares the four largest sources of revenue for state wildlife and conservation agencies and demonstrate the growing importance of Pittman-Robertson as gun sales increase.

Commentary – The Bosnian Tinderbox: Is Putin Holding the Wick?
World Affairs
June 08, 2022

This commentary is intended as an addendum and recent update to the original research article published in World Affairs, “The High Representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina: The Unusual Institutional Arrangement of a Non-Authoritarian, yet Controlled, Democracy” 

Governance Rules for Managing Smart City Information
Urban Governance
May 31, 2022

This study by Amanda Girth, David Landsbergen and Doctoral Student Mariángeles Westover-Muñoz provides a new framework to identify how cities can select the appropriate governance rules to facilitate the political, financial, and operational sustainability of their IDEs, and derivatively, their smart city efforts.

One-year in: COVID-19 research at the international level in CORD-19 data
Plos One
May 25, 2022

Professor Caroline Wagner studies the difference in COVID-19 research internationally.

Incorporating Quality-Differentiated Demand into the Undergraduate Microeconomics Core
May 17, 2022

This study, published in The American Economist, addresses quality-related aspects of consumer choice in undergraduate microeconomics.

Speaking Truth to Power in Fundraising: A Toolkit
Association of Fundraising Professionals
May 16, 2022

Erynn Beaton and Megan LePere-Schloop study the fundraising workplace, address sexual harassment in the profession, and set resources for taking action. 

A Discussion of Measuring the Top-1% Most-Highly-Cited Publications: The Case of China
Scientometrics
May 14, 2022

Caroline Wagner examines China's most highly-cited articles, how this measures against the United States, and how field normalizations may skew the results.

Maintaining School Foodservice Operations in Ohio during COVID-19: "This [Was] Not the Time to Sit Back and Watch"
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
May 14, 2022

Jennifer Garner and Joshua Hawley analyze how COVID-19 related lockdowns affected critical resources for nutritious food.

Philanthropic Capital for Communities
Federal Reserve Bank Philadelphia
May 02, 2022

This report from Megan LePere-Schloop explores the grantmaking activity of an extensive sample of community foundations and local United Way affiliates, with a particular focus on the support they provide to organizations involved in community and economic development.

Strictly Speaking: Examining Teacher Use of Punishment and Student Outcomes
May 02, 2022

This working paper, from Associate Professor Katie Vinopal and colleagues, examines how teachers vary in disciplinary behaviors and the impacts on students.

The High Representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina: The Unusual Institutional Arrangement of a Controlled “Democracy”
World Affairs
April 27, 2022

Jos Raadschelders examines the (Office of the) High Representative (OHR) intended to help Bosnia-Herzegovina develop into a democracy.

Food System Dynamics Structuring Nutrition Equity in Racialized Urban Neighborhoods
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
April 01, 2022

Jill Clark identifies nutrition equity as an overarching goal for local food systems, which reflects a state of having freedom, agency, and dignity in food traditions resulting in people and communities healthy in body, mind, and spirit. It is a transformative goal designed to spur system-level interventions that further racial equity through improved local food system dynamics.

Equitable deliberative participation design: A call to use a lens of multidimensional power
Perspectives on Public Management and Governance
March 31, 2022

Professor Jill Clark examines the use of multidimensional power to promote social justice and equity.

Best Practices for States Planning Tax Incentive Evaluations
Pew Charitable Trusts
March 24, 2022

Jim Landers describes how to develop an evaluation plan. Specifically, he discusses the logistical concerns of the process, including how to maximize staff resources and expertise, time evaluations to leverage complementary work, and gather the information necessary to conduct evaluations.

Best Practices for Planning Tax Incentive Evaluations: Lessons Learned from Indiana’s Evaluation Process
Pew Charitable Trusts
March 24, 2022

Jim Landers describes how to develop a tax incentive evaluation plan, the logistical concerns of the process, including how to maximize staff resources and expertise, time evaluations to leverage complementary work, and gather the information necessary to conduct evaluations.

The Long-Term Effect of the Earned Income Tax Credit on Women’s Physical and Mental Health
Health Economics
March 22, 2022

Lauren Jones estimates the long-term effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) eligibility on women's physical and mental health at age 50. 

An Early Assessment of the 2017 Child Marriage Restraint Act of Bangladesh
Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health
March 10, 2022

This study examines the trends in child marriage in Bahledesh following the enactment of the new law to inform policymakers working towards eliminating child marriage from the country.

Property Tax Compliance and Reverse Mortgages: Using Nudges to Improve the Market
National Tax Journal
March 01, 2022

Stephanie Moulton's study is based on a field experiment designed to increase the salience of property tax and insurance payments among a particularly vulnerable population, older adults who took out a reverse mortgage. 

Drop in China-USA International Collaboration
ISSI Newsletter
March 01, 2022

Professor Caroline Wagner examines publication data among ‘big three’ players following reports of withdrawal of Chinese researchers from collaboration with the United States in response to political conflict,

Informational Determinants of Large-area Hurricane Evacuations
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
March 01, 2022

Professor Noah Dormady presents an experimental design that overcomes the counterfactual problem present in all prior published experiments by relying on an actual storm with a known outcome. 

Transforming Ohio’s Economy: Questions for the Next Governor of Ohio
Economic Report
March 01, 2022

A new report from Glenn College researcher, Bill Shkurti, informs gubernatorial candidates and Ohio voters about policy choices that lie ahead.  

Toward a More Reflexive and Deliberative Public Affairs: A Critical Reimagining of Doctoral Training
February 22, 2022

This article analyzes a reimagining of public affairs doctoral training by institutionalizing the socioemotional processes of reflexivity and deliberation in three key areas of doctoral training: core coursework, pedagogical training, and professional development.

The Cost-Effectiveness of Economic Resilience
International Journal of Production Economics
February 01, 2022

Professor Noah Dormady incorporates resilience into longstanding economic production theory and identifies the key components for evaluating the cost and effectiveness of resilience.

Who Votes: City Election Timing and Voter Composition
American Political Science Review
February 01, 2022

Vladimir Kogan studies how moving local elections to the same day as national elections could increase voter turnout and make the electorate more representative.

Flexible CO2-Plume Geothermal (CPG-F): Using Geologically Stored CO2 to Provide Dispatchable Power and Energy Storage
Energy Conversion and Management
February 01, 2022

Associate Professor Bielicki's study reveals that a Flexible CO2 Plume Geothermal (CPG-F) facility, capable of providing both dispatchable power and energy storage, can deliver 190% more power than a conventional CPG power plant for 8 hours while costing 70% more in capital, making it an efficient baseload power and dispatchable storage option.

Approaches for Overcoming Barriers to Cross-Sector Data Sharing
The American Journal of Managed Care
January 28, 2022

This study explores factors influencing the development and sustainability of data sharing in the Mid-Ohio Farmacy (MOF), a produce referral program implemented in partnership between a community-based organization and an academic medical center, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.

Emergencies, Disasters and Ohio’s Food System
January 26, 2022

This study, helps to visualize and understand how Ohio state government agencies, civil society, nonprofits and the private sector intersect with the food system to respond to disasters in Ohio.

Does Temporary Mortgage Assistance for Unemployed Homeowners Reduce Longer-Term Mortgage Default? An Analysis of the Hardest Hit Fund Program
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
January 22, 2022

Stephanie Moulton and Stephanie Casey-Pierce analyze the longer-term effects of temporary mortgage payment subsidies on mortgage default.

Peak-Load Pricing with Quality-Differentiated Demand
January 21, 2022

This study, published in The American Economist, focuses on peak-load pricing and highway tolls.

Policy Composition and Adoption Duration: Capturing Conflict in the Legislative Process
Policy Studies Journal
January 17, 2022

Hongtao Yi, Doctoral Student Catherine Chen and colleagues were published in the Policy Studies Journal for their work on the affects of conflicts during the policy process 

Conflict and Cooperation Within Police Units: The Importance of Manager Inclusiveness
Public Management Review
January 13, 2022

This study by Russell Hassan assesses the influence of manager inclusiveness on unit-level relational conflict and interpersonal helping behavior.

Accountability in Collaborative Federal Programs—Multidimensional and Multilevel Performance Measures Needed: The Case of Wildland Fire Prevention
American Review of Public Administration
January 04, 2022

This research explores the nature of the accountability dilemma in collaborative programs and analyzes and illustrates them in the context of wildland fire prevention in the United States.

The relationship of financial stress with the timing of the initial claim of U.S. Social Security retirement income
Journal of the Economics of Aging
January 04, 2022

Stephanie Moulton and Caezilia Loibl explore why some older adults claim Social Security benefits early and whether the level of an individual’s financial stress prior to the claiming decision is associated with a benefit claim at age 62.

Crack cocaine use among aging Mexican American men with heroin use histories: Motivations and polydrug use patterns
Addiction Research & Theory
January 03, 2022

Assistant Professor Tasha Perdue examines crack cocaine use among Mexican American men with heroin use histories. 

Researching Homeownership Inequalities: A Life-Cycle Perspective
Cityscape
January 01, 2022

This article examines four specific research topics at different stages in the homeownership life cycle—from mortgage underwriting to post-purchase support, as proposed in the HUD learning objectives.

Preparing for Food System Resiliency in Ohio Policy and Planning Lessons from COVID-19
January 01, 2022

Jill Clark and Aiden Irish aim to inform state emergency management responses in order to better prepare for and mitigate medium- and long-term negative social and economic impacts resulting from future disasters and disruptions.

A Contemporary Reassessment of the US Surgical Workforce Through 2050 Predicts Continued Shortages and Increased Productivity Demands
The American Journal of Surgery
January 01, 2022

This study aims to predict practicing surgeon workforce size across ten specialties.

The Interactive Influence of Public Service Motivation, Perceived Reward Equity, and Prosocial Impact on Employee Engagement: A Panel Study in Pakistan
Public Management Review
December 21, 2021

This study examines independent and joint influences of public service motivation, job prosocial impact, and job reward equity on public employee engagement.

Food Insecurity Among Older Adults in the U.S.: The Role of Mortgage Borrowing
Applied Economics Perspectives and Policy
December 12, 2021

Stephanie Moulton assesses the impact of new mortgage borrowing on food insecurity among homeowners aged 65 and older.

Mapping Civil Society in the Digital Age: Critical Reflections From a Project Based in the Global South
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
December 10, 2021

Assistant Professor Megan LePere-Schloop examines the development of a critical framework for mapping civil society in the digital age, highlighting concerns about computational methods and the power dynamics in knowledge production.

How Procedural Experiences Shape Citizens' Perceptions of and Orientations Toward Legal Institutions: Evidence From a Household Survey in Bangladesh
Review of Administrative Sciences
December 09, 2021

This study provides insight about how institutional context and experiences shape citizens' perceptions about procedural fairness and trust and confidence in legal institutions.

How to “Run” the Many Moving Parts of Democratic Government? Book review of Nissim Cohen (2021).
Public Administration Review
December 06, 2021

This review was written by Professor Jos Raadschelders.

Nonprofit Role Classification Using Mission Descriptions and Supervised Machine Learning
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
November 28, 2021

Professor Megan LePere-Schloop uses data on United Ways that e-filed their 990 forms and supervised machine learning to illustrate an approach for classifying a large set of mission descriptions by roles.

Local Value Chain Models of Healthy Food Access: A Qualitative Study of Two Approaches
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
November 19, 2021

Country Fresh Stops (CFS) and Donation Station (DS) are two complementary programs that support local agriculture in Appalachia Ohio. As the first study of these programs in the peer-reviewed literature, this publication identifies factors that facilitate or hinder the implementation of these local value chain models of healthy food access.

Advances in the Empirical Estimation of Disaster Resilience
Handbook on the Economics of Natural Disasters
November 18, 2021

Professor Noah Dormady summarizes key contributions and advances in the empirical estimation of disaster resilience.

Utilization Patterns of a Food Referral Program: Findings from the Mid-Ohio Farmacy
Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
November 12, 2021

There is limited evidence describing utilization of clinic-based food referral programs intended to support healthy eating for food-insecure patients. To address this gap, this study aims to describe the utilization of the Mid-Ohio Farmacy (MOF).

Making Disciplinary-Based Theories of the Nonprofit Sector Accessible for Students: An Example Using a Theory From Political Science
Journal of Nonprofit Education and Leadership
October 02, 2021

Professor Megan LePere-Schloop introduces a novel pedagogical approach that helps students understand the theories used to teach about the nonprofit sector and how educators can connect theory to current challenges impacting nonprofit organizations.

Ohio Nonprofit COVID-19 Survey: A Report of Wave 3 Results
Social Science Research Network
September 17, 2021

Erynn Beaton's Wave 3 survey results tell a story of the nonprofit sector’s resilience and contribution, and how organizations rallied during the pandemic to provide new services to new populations and to create partnerships with other organizations.

Public Values and Public Participation: A Case of Collaborative Governance of a Planning Process
American Review of Public Administration
September 10, 2021

Jill Clark empirically illustrates the connection between public value frames, design choices, and public participation in a collaborative policymaking process.

Organized Elite Power and Clean Energy: A Study of Negative Policy Experimentations with Renewable Portfolio Standards
September 06, 2021

This study, published in Review of Policy Research, examines elite power groups use of Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS), one of the most widely adopted clean energy policies in the U.S..

Ethics Education in the Study of Public Administration: Anchoring to Civility, Civics, Social Justice, and Understanding Government in Democracy
Journal of Public Affairs Education
September 03, 2021

Professor Jos Raadschelders argues that teaching ethics should be not only limited to specific ethics courses in higher education nor just embedded as an element in various core courses in public administration programs, but also anchored in a thoughtful K-12 curriculum.

Rising to Ostrom's Challenge: An Invitation to Walk on the Bright Side of Public Governance and Public Service
September 03, 2021

This programmatic essay argues that public governance scholarship would benefit from developing a self-conscious and cohesive strand of "positive" scholarship, akin to social science subfields like positive psychology, positive organizational studies, and positive evaluation.

Should Managers Provide General or Specific Ethical Guidelines to Employees: Insights from a Mixed Methods Study
Journal of Business Ethics
September 01, 2021

Professor Russell Hassan contributes to our understanding of how communication of ethical guidelines by managers may reduce the likelihood of employee unethical behavior.

The Power to Convene: Making Sense of the Power of Food Movement Organizations in Governance Processes in the Global North
Agriculture and Human Values
August 31, 2021

Professor Jill Clark uses the concept of relational fields to conduct a post-hoc analysis of nine cases, examining how social movement organizations and other actors actively create new deliberative governance spaces. 

Community supported agriculture plus nutrition education improves skills, self efficacy, and eating behaviors among low income caregivers but not their children: a randomized controlled trial
International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
August 31, 2021

Despite the benefits of adequate fruit and vegetable (FV) intake, most individuals in the U.S. do not eat recommended amounts, with lower intake among individuals with lower socioeconomic status. Findings suggesting that greater FV access is related to higher intake underpin ongoing public health efforts to increase FV intake.

How the COVID-19 Pandemic Affected Student Learning in Ohio
August 27, 2021

Stephane Lavertu studies COVID-19 pandemic caused significant learning losses for Ohio public school students, especially in math and for disadvantaged students.

Ethnography: Tales of the Nonprofit Field
International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations
August 17, 2021

Professor Erynn Beaton describes how nonprofits can use ethnography to enrich research.

The Publicness of Publicly Funded Research
Science and Public Policy
August 04, 2021

Professor Caroline Wagner examines key US legislative initiatives during the post–World War II history of public policy related to the ownership of publicly funded research-based knowledge. 

Beyond backyard chickens: A framework for understanding municipal urban agriculture policies in the United States
Food Policy
August 01, 2021

Professor Jill Clark develops a framework to understand the landscape of municipal urban agriculture policy, focusing on authority, policy instruments, and topic areas.

Fixes that Fail: A system archetype for examining racialized structures within the food system
American Journal of Community Psycholog
August 01, 2021

Professor Jill Clark provides a narrative interpretive tool for unveiling complexity within the food system and interdependencies with racialized systems such as criminal justice and labor market.

Essential, Fragile, and Invisible Community Food Infrastructure: The Role of Urban governments in the United States
Food Policy
August 01, 2021

Professor Jill Clark examines the role of subnational governments in community food infrastructures.

 

 

China’s Scholarship Shows Atypical Referencing Patterns
Scientometrics
July 09, 2021

Professor Caroline Wagner analyzes reference pairs in articles to search for unexpected referencing combinations at the journal–journal level

Measuring the Potential Impact of New and Reformulated Bread and Breakfast Cereal Products on Nutrient Intakes
US Department of Agriculture
July 01, 2021

Professor Neal Hooker studies the potential impact of new breakfast cereal and bread products on nutrients consumed by adults and children.

Not All High-Growth Firms Are Alike: Capturing and Tagging Ohio’s Gazelles
Economic Development Quarterly
June 29, 2021

Professor Ned Hill presents a statistically valid typology of high-growth firms, also known as gazelles, to determine if payroll and job growth patterns differ between groups or clusters.

Development Starts With Historical Endowments: Industrial Policy and Leadership Are Catalysts
Economic Development Quarterly
June 23, 2021

Professor Ned Hill discusses how economic endowments and industrial policy played roles in both regions’ economic outcomes

Maximizing the Efficiency of Active Case Finding for SARS-CoV-2 Using Bandit Algorithms
June 14, 2021

Using bandit algorithms, the authors of a paper in Medical Decision Making present and test an approach for finding otherwise undetected cases of COVID-19 before they lead to a widespread outbreak.

When do Women Receive Managerial Support? The Effects of Gender Congruence and the Quality of Manager-Employee Relationship
Public Management Review
June 07, 2021

Professor Russell Hassan examines the impact of manager-employee gender similarity on supportive leadership behaviors by public managers.

An Experimental Investigation of Resilience Decision Making in Repeated Disasters
Environment Systems & Decisions
June 07, 2021

Noah Dormady, Rob Greenbaum and Kim Young examine resilience decision making in the more realistic context of repeated catastrophic events. 

It's About Time: Examining Inequality in the Time Cost of Waiting
June 03, 2021

This working paper, from Associate Professor Katie Vinopal, examines the scale and extent of socioeconomic differences in waiting time

Maintaining School Foodservice Operations During COVID-19: The Case of Ohio
Current Developments in Nutrition
June 01, 2021

Assistant Professor Jennifer Garner characterizes COVID-19-related food service adaptations, including impacts on both summer and school year meal provision.

Are University Rankings Statistically Significant? A Comparison among Chinese Universities and with the USA
Journal of Data and Information Science
May 01, 2021

Professor Caroline Wagner addresses the question of whether differences are statistically significant in the rankings of Chinese universities.

A relational approach to evaluate food environments finds that the proximate food environment matters for those who use it
Health & Place
May 01, 2021

Professor Jill Clark investigates whether shopping close to home moderates the relationship between the proximate food environment and diet.

Glenn College Releases Review of Columbus Response to 2020 Protests
April 26, 2021

In July 2020, Columbus City leaders commissioned an independent, outside after-action review of the City’s response to protests that took place last summer. Former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio Carter Stewart and the John Glenn College of Public Affairs were named the lead investigative team.

What Do China’s Scientific Ambitions Mean for Science—and the World?
Issues in Science and Technology
April 05, 2021

Professor Caroline Wagner looks at how China has transformed its capacity for scientific research. 

The Democratic Deficit in U.S. Education Governance
American Political Science Review
March 30, 2021

Professors Stéphane Lavertu and Vladimir Kogan compare voters and students in four states on several policy-relevant dimensions.

An Examination of the Relationship Between Local Tax Incentives and Diversification of the Local Economic Base
Economic Development Quarterly
March 24, 2021

Using newly available annual data on incentives at the metropolitan statistical area (MSA) level, Rob Greenbaum and colleagues explore the relationship between incentives and economic diversity between 2005 and 2015. 

Institutional Leadership: Maintaining Mission Integrity in the Era of Managerialism
Nonprofit Management and Leadership
March 22, 2021

Professor Erynn Beaton develops a framework of practices nonprofit leaders can use to maintain mission integrity

Topic Evolution, Disruption and Resilience in Early COVID-19 Research
Scientometrics
March 20, 2021

Professor Caroline Wagner explores how the trajectory of and research community around the coronavirus research was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Whatever it Takes: Sexual Harassment in the Context of Resource Dependence
Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
March 09, 2021

Professors Erynn Beaton, Megan LePere-Schloop and Rebecca Smith suggest powerful resource dependencies are present in the public and nonprofit sectors.

Flows and Networks in Global Innovation System Among Top R&D Nations
BRG Institute
March 08, 2021

This study examines how flows of people and information reveal dynamics about the global information system.

The Impact of Collaboration Network on Water Resource Governance Performance: Evidence From China’s Yangtze River Delta Region
March 04, 2021

This study, published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, examines the relationship between network structure and network performance.

Conceptual Foundations and Empirical Advances of Economic Resilience with Extensions to Complexity, Entropy and Spatial Dynamics
Handbook on Entropy, Complexity & Spatial Dynamics
March 03, 2021

Professor Noah Dormady presents, further clarifies, and extends the foundations of economic resilience, with an eye to concerns of measurement.

Improved Clusterings and Visualizations of 11,359 Journals in the JCRs 2015
Scientometrics
March 02, 2021

Professor Caroline Wagner's publication raises a number of questions such as how to collect data of citations related to a given journal; conduct social network analysis on journals related to citations; and produce diagram properly and quickly on a dashboard.

International Collaboration During the COVID-19 Crisis: Autumn 2020 Developments
Scientometrics
February 14, 2021

Professor Caroline Wagner examines how international COVID-19 research collaborations have shifted during the pandemic. 

How Does Minority Political Representation Affect School District Administration and Student Outcomes?
American Journal of Political Science
February 09, 2021

Professors Stéphane Lavertu and Vladimir Kogan investigates how the racial and ethnic composition of California school boards affects school district administration and student achievement. 

Under What Conditions Do Governments Collaborate? A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Air Pollution Control in China
February 08, 2021

This study, published in Public Management Review, proposes four starting conditions that affect the establishment of intergovernmental collaboration: power imbalance, resource imbalance, prehistory of collaboration and participation of superior levels of government.

Small Improvements in an Urban Food Environment Resulted in No Changes in Diet Among Residents
Journal of Community Health
February 01, 2021

Professor Jill Clark examined a U.S. Healthy Food Financing Initiative funded food hub that was designed to be implemented by a community development corporation in an urban neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio.

The COVID-19 Pandemic and Student Achievement on Ohio’s Third-Grade English Language Arts Assessment
January 27, 2021

Professor Stéphane Lavertu's report draws on data from the fall administration of Ohio’s annual Third-Grade English Language Arts assessment to examine how the COVID pandemic has affected student learning in the state.

Experimental Estimates of the Student Attendance Production Function
Journal of Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis
January 25, 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
January 03, 2021

Professor Erynn Beaton examines the role social enterprise plays in society as more non-profits embrace it.

Democracy, Complexity, and Science: Exploring Structural Sources of National Scientific Performance
Science and Public Policy
January 01, 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.

Spillover effects of opioid prescribing practices : Do increased prescriptions lead to increased fatal car crashes ?
American Journal of Health Economics
January 01, 2021

Associate Professor Lauren Jones estimates the relationship between commuting zone (CZ)-level opioid prescription rates and CZ-level car crash fatality outcomes.

A contemporary concept of the value(s)-added food and agriculture sector and rural development
Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society
December 15, 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
November 20, 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
November 10, 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
November 02, 2020

Professor Megan LePere-Schloop draws upon concepts of community resilience to explore the antecedents of community philanthropic organizations’ response to COVID-19.

Rent-Seeking through Collective Bargaining: Teachers Unions and Education Production
Economics of Education Review
November 01, 2020

Professor Stéphane Lavertu explores how teachers unions affect education production by comparing outcomes between districts allocating new tax revenue amidst collective bargaining negotiations and districts allocating tax revenue well before.

The Three Ages of Government, From the Person, to the Group, to the World
November 01, 2020

This book, by Professor Jos C.N. Raadschelders, provides the information that all citizens should have about their connections to government, why there is a government, what it does, how it does it, and why we can no longer do without it.

The Lived Experience of Managerialization: Understanding Values Conflict in Nonprofits through a Pragmatic Institutionalism
Journal of Management Studies
October 23, 2020

Professor Erynn Beaton focuses on the lived experiences of organization members and advancing a pragmatic institutionalism.

Emergency Food Provision for Children and Families during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Examples from Five U.S. Cities
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy
September 24, 2020

Professor Jill Clark uses qualitative data to provide insight into emergency food provision developed in five cities to serve children and families. 

Combining Nonprofit Service and Advocacy: Organizational Structures and Hybridity
Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action
September 23, 2020

Professor Erynn Beaton examines how the logics of service provision and political advocacy are combined and managed across a sample of nonprofits.

How Federally Insured Reverse Mortgages Affect the Credit Outcomes of Older Adults
The Journal of Consumer Affairs
September 22, 2020

Stephanie Moulton's paper explores how extraction of home equity through the federally insured Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) affects the credit outcomes of older adults. 

Debt Stress and Debt Illusion: The Role of Consumer Credit, Reverse and Standard Mortgages
The Journals of Gerontology
September 18, 2020

Stephanie Moulton's study examines the relationship of debt stress and reverse mortgage borrowing and compares it to stress from standard mortgages and consumer debt.

Making community-supported agriculture accessible to low-income families: findings from the Farm Fresh Foods for Healthy Kids process evaluation
Technology Business Management
September 15, 2020

The purpose of this study was to assess Farm Fresh Foods for Healthy Kids reach, dose, and fidelity via a mixed methods process evaluation.

Ohio Nonprofit COVID-19 Survey: A Report of Wave 2 Results
Social Science Research Network
September 04, 2020

This report contains the results of the Ohio Nonprofit COVID-19 Survey, Wave 2.

The Landscape of Community Philanthropy: Navigating Relationships between local United Ways and Community Foundations
September 01, 2020

This report summarizes the roles that United Ways and community foundations play in their local communities, their perceptions of the changes going on in the world around them and their perceptions of their relationships with each other.

Neighborhood Disadvantage and Children’s Cognitive Skill Trajectories
Children and Youth Services Review,
September 01, 2020

Associate Professor Katie Vinopal examines how neighborhood poverty is associated with children’s trajectories of growth in math and reading skills in early elementary school

Low-Income Homeownership and the Role of State Subsidies: A Comparative Analysis of Mortgage Outcomes
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
August 05, 2020

Stephanie Moulton examines the role of state subsides on low-income home mortgages

Are Foreclosure Spillover Effects Universal? Variation over Space and Time
July 25, 2020

This study reviews the spillover effect of foreclosures on nearby housing prices over space and time employing geographically weighted regression, which allows modeled relationships to vary locally within a geographic area.

Workforce Data (and Knowledge) Under Pressure
Employment Research Newsletter
July 23, 2020

Professor Josh Hawley's work on the effect of the pandemic on public sector.

Collaborative Networks and Environmental Governance Performance: A Social Influence Model
July 23, 2020

This research, published in Public Management Review, examines how collaborative networks affect the performance of individual policy actors embedded in the network.

Consolidation in a Crisis: Patterns of International Collaboration in Early COVID-19 Research
PLoS One
July 21, 2020

Professor Caroline Wagner seeks to understand whether a catastrophic and urgent event, such as the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, accelerates or reverses trends in international collaboration

Data Science in the Public Interest: Improving Government Performance in the Workforce
July 14, 2020

This book is about how new and underutilized types of big data sources can inform public policy decisions related to workforce development.

A Dynamic Discrete Choice Model of Reverse Mortgage Borrower Behavior
International Economic Review
June 09, 2020

Stephanie Moulton examines the behavior of mortgage borrowers. 

Gender and Prosecutorial Discretion: An Empirical Assessment
Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory
May 16, 2020

This study examines the role of gender in the exercise of prosecutorial discretion.

Ohio Nonprofit COVID-19 Survey: A Report of the Results
Social Science Research Network
May 04, 2020

This report provides early reactions of the nonprofit sector to the pandemic, including their actions and concerns, to inform policymakers, funders, media, and other decision makers about how to best support the sector during this time.

Gender, Race, and Experiences of Workplace Incivility in Public Organizations
Review of Public Personnel Administration
May 04, 2020

Professor Russell Hassan explores how public employees’ incivility experiences vary across social categories, specifically by gender and race.

Socioeconomic Representation: Expanding the Theory of Representative Bureaucracy
Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
April 01, 2020

Associate Professor Katie Vinopal investigates whether socioeconomic representation affects teachers' perceptions of their relationships with students.

School District Operational Spending and Student Outcomes: Evidence From Tax Elections in Seven States
Journal of Public Economics
March 01, 2020

Professors Stéphane Lavertu and Vladimir Kogan use close tax elections to estimate the impact of school district funding increases on operational spending and student outcomes.

Measuring the Impacts of Research Investments: Beyond the Economic Approach
Social Science Research Network
January 22, 2020

Professor Caroline Wagner uses data to identify possible measures for the social benefits of research.

Drought, Hurricane, or Wildfire? Assessing the Trump Administration’s Anti-Science Disaster
Engaging Science, Technology, and Society
January 08, 2020

Assistant Professor Christopher Rea describes three potential baselines for assessing the nature and impact of Trump’s anti-science rhetoric and (in)action on science, science policy, and politics.

A Qualitative Evaluation of Double Up Food Bucks Farmers’ Market Incentive Program Access
Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior
January 08, 2020

Assistant Professor Jennifer Garner explores factors affecting access to and use of Double Up Food Bucks, a farmers' market program that doubles Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits for use toward the purchase of fruits and vegetables.

Local Organizational Determinants of Local-International NGO Collaboration
Public Management Review
January 07, 2020

Professor Long Tran explores several local organizational characteristics that may explain the existence of collaborative relations between international and local non-governmental organizations.

Government Privatization and Political Participation: The Case of Charter Schools
Journal of Politics
January 01, 2020

Professor Stéphane Lavertu and Vladimir Kogan explore if privatization could also affect citizen participation in democratic governance.

No Margin, No Mission: How Practitioners Justify Nonprofit Managerialization
International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations
December 17, 2019

Professor Erynn Beaton examines how nonprofit practitioners respond to pressures to enact business practices.

Value of Information on Resilience Decision-Making in Repeated Disaster Environments
Natural Hazards Review
December 16, 2019

Professors Noah Dormady, Rob Greenbaum and Kim Young report on a series of controlled experiments with human subjects on the decision of firms to invest in resilience to mitigate supply-chain disruptions and their willingness to pay for advisory information to improve resilience planning investments.

The Behavioral Public Administration Movement: A Critical Reflection
Public Administration Review
December 09, 2019

Professor Russell Hassan discusses the behavioral public administration movement call for greater use of theories from psychology and experimental research designs to improve the rigor of public administration research.

Child Cash Benefits and Family Expenditures: Evidence from the National Child Benefit
Canadian Journal of Economics
November 26, 2019

Associate Professor Lauren Jones studies how income may improve child outcomes.

Towards Understanding Workplace Incivility: Gender, Ethical Leadership and Personal Control
Public Management Review
November 21, 2019

This study examines the prevalence of workplace incivility and ways to reduce uncivil behavior towards women and minority groups.

Facilitating Learning to Improve Performance of Law Enforcement Workgroups: The Role of Inclusive Leadership Behavior
International Public Management Journal
October 29, 2019

Professor Russell Hassan examines how law enforcement managers may cultivate learning and improve performance of their workgroups by demonstrating inclusive leadership

Finding Our Way to Food Democracy: Lessons from US Food Policy Council Governance
Politics and Governance
October 28, 2019

Professor Jill Clark examines the relationship between a Food Policy Council's organizational structure, relationship to government, and membership and its policy priorities.

Vulnerability of Existing and Planned Coal-Fired Power Plants in Developing Asia to Changes in Climate and Water Resources
Energy and Environmental Science
September 20, 2019

Professor Jeff Bielicki describes the impact of the growing use of coal power generation in Asia on climate and water resources.

Rookie Mistakes: The Interplay of Teacher Experience and Racial Representation
Educational Researcher
September 11, 2019

Associate Professor Katie Vinopal examines the extent to which teachers’ perceptions of racially dissimilar students vary by experience in the teaching profession

Portable Innovation, Policy Wormholes, and Innovation Diffusion
August 07, 2019

This article in Public Administration Review explores the effects of city managers' career paths on the diffusion of climate policy innovation among municipal governments in the United States.

Bayesian Calibration of Multi-Response Systems via Multivariate Kriging: Methodology and Geological and Geotechnical Case Studies
Engineering Geology
August 03, 2019

Professor Dormady proposes a highly efficient Bayesian updating framework that is integrated with multivariate Kriging surrogate modeling to quantify heteroscedastic uncertainties in the entire space of uncertain system variables and capture spatial and temporal dependencies among the responses using non-separable covariance structure. 

A Dialogue on Preventing Sexual Harassment in Nonprofits
Academy of Management
August 01, 2019

Professors Erynn Beaton and Rebecca Smith compare practice-oriented recommendations and academic research regarding sexual harassment in nonprofit workplaces.

International NGO Centralization and Leader-Perceived Effectiveness
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
July 09, 2019

Professor Long Tran explores how centralization, a fundamental structural characteristic, relates to an INGO’s effectiveness as perceived by its own leader versus by leaders of other INGOs.

Timing Is Money: Does Lump‐Sum Payment Of The Earned Income Tax Credit Affect Savings And Debt?
Economic Inquiry
July 01, 2019

Associate Professor Lauren Jones investigates whether savings and debt among EITC‐eligible families reflect the timing of payments.

Global Science for Global Challenges
Handbook on Science and Public Policy
June 28, 2019

Professor Caroline Wagner explores the application of complex systems theory to understand the rapid growth of international collaboration, particularly as it can be applied to global challenges. 

An Intersection of Privatization and Public Utility Regulation: The Ohio State University's Energy Concession Agreement
Utilities Policy
June 13, 2019

Professor Noah Dormady presents a case of a 50-year comprehensive energy concession agreement by The Ohio State University that generated an up-front payment exceeding a billion dollars.

The Need for Ethical Leadership in Combating Corruption
International Review of Administrative Sciences
June 04, 2019

Professor Russell Hassan empirically assesses the role of ethical leadership in reducing corruption. 

International Research Collaboration: Novelty, Conventionality, and Atypicality in Knowledge Recombination
Research Policy
June 01, 2019

Professor Caroline Wagner tests for novelty and conventionality in international research collaboration.

Turnover Behavior Among US Government Employees
Review of Administrative Sciences
May 08, 2019

Professor Joshua Hawley examines US government employees’ turnover before and after the recession.

Why there and then, not here and now? Ecological Offsetting in California and England, and the Sharpening Contradictions of Neoliberal Natures
Enviromental Planning E Nature and Space
May 01, 2019

Assistant Professor Christopher Rea develops a novel analytical framework for explaining why this kind of environmental market-making may or may not be successful in different contexts.

The Role of Education, Occupational Match on Job Satisfaction in the Behavioral and Social Science Workforce
Human Resource Development Quarterly
March 04, 2019

Professor Joshua Hawley and colleagues examines the education and workforce outcomes of STEM graduates.

The Economic Impact of the Trade Skirmish of 2018 on the Nation and Ohio
Ohio Manufacturing Institute
March 01, 2019

Professor Ned Hill examines the trade conflict sparked by the federal government’s initiation of tariffs in 2018 to protect the U.S. steel and aluminum industries.

Stakeholder Perspectives on Sustainability in the Food-Energy-Water Nexus
Frontiers in Environmental Science
February 08, 2019

Professor Jeff Bielicki shows how stakeholders interact and perceive the food-energy-water nexus and how those perspectives are shaped.

 

The Value of Bulk Energy Storage for Reducing CO2 Emissions and Water Requirements from Regional Electricity Systems
Energy Conversion and Management
February 01, 2019

Professor Jeff Bielicki investigates the effect of bulk energy storage on CO2 emissions and water requirements.

Economic Resilience of the Firm: A Production Theory Approach
International Journal of Production Economics
February 01, 2019

Professor Dormady provides a microeconomic foundation for analyzing the comprehensive range of tactics used by firms and other organizations after catastrophic events. 

The EU Emissions Trading Scheme: Protection via Commodification?
Culture, Practice & Europeanization
January 01, 2019

Assistant Professor Christopher Rea shows that market-oriented schemes like the EU ETS are better characterized as Polanyian countermovements that are, in fact, helping to “re-embed” the European economy in more ecologically sustainable relationships with nature.

U.S. Foreign Policy for the Middle Class: Perspectives From Ohio
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
December 10, 2018

Professor Ned Hill explores ways to make U.S. foreign policy work better for America’s middle class, even if their economic fortunes depend largely on domestic factors and policies.

Knowledge and Experience Related to Community Supported Agriculture and Local Foods among Nutrition Educators
Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition
November 29, 2018

Assistant Professor Jennifer Garner examines nutrition educators’ experiences with, knowledge of, and beliefs about local foods, and elicits ideas on how to integrate education about and access to local food systems into their current work.

How Empowering Leadership Reduces Employee Silence in Public Organizations
Public Administration
November 18, 2018

Professor Russell Hassan provides insights into how managers may lower employee silence in government organizations.

The Collaborative Era in Science
November 01, 2018

This book, written by Caroline Wagner, argues that the global network of science has ushered in a new era of collaboration that is changing the playbook for science policy.

An Attainable Global Vision for Conservation and Human Well-Being
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
October 16, 2018

Professor Jeff Bielicki explores the possibility of meeting the demands of increased populations and economic growth in 2050 while simultaneously advancing multiple conservation goals.

Encouraging the Collection of Performance Data in Nonprofit Organizations: The Importance of Organizational Support for Learning
Public Performance and Management Review
October 10, 2018

Professor Russell Hassan provides insight into how to facilitate performance data collection within nonprofit organizations

Fruit and Vegetable Preferences and Practices May Hinder Participation in Community-Supported Agriculture Among Low-Income Rural Families
Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior
October 06, 2018

Assistant Professor Jennifer Garner describes fruit and vegetable preferences and other factors that may influence participation in community-supported agriculture.

Measure of National Return in International Science Cooperation
STI 2018 Conference Proceedings
September 11, 2018

This article suggests a measure for the impact of international collaboration in science

Wage and Employment Growth in America’s Drug Epidemic: Is All Growth Created Equal?
American Journal of Agricultural Economics
September 01, 2018

Associate Professor Lauren Jones examines the narrative whereby opioid overdoses among white, male, less-educated, rural workers have been caused by reduced economic opportunities borne by such people.

Effectiveness of Broad and Specific Leadership Behaviors
Personnel Review
August 23, 2018

Professor Russell Hassan supports the idea that examining specific leader behaviors in addition to broad meta-categories can improve leadership theory, research and training.

Can a Shift in the Purchase of local Foods by Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Recipients Impact the Local Economy?
Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems Journal
August 15, 2018

Assistant Professor Jennifer Garner used a customized input-output model to simulate potential economic impacts of programs and policies that enable Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients to shift purchases from traditional food retailers to DTC venues in four states.

Regulatory Thickening and the Politics of Market-Oriented Environmental Policy
Environmental Politics
August 08, 2018

Assistant Professor Christopher Rea examines the linkages between market-based policy instruments and expanding state control over environmental quality.

The Consignment Mechanism in Carbon Markets: A Laboratory Investigation
Journal of Commodity Markets
August 01, 2018

Professor Dormady details the consignment auction design used in California, in which utilities are allocated a share of emissions permits that they must sell into the uniform-price auction.

Contract Design, Complexity, and Incentives: Evidence From U.S. Federal Agencies
The American Review of Public Administration
July 28, 2018

This study analyzes nearly 390,000 federal contracts across service acquisitions of varying complexity to determine whether incentive contracts differ in contract duration, cost, or technical performance when compared with other types of contracts.

Do Markets Make Good Commissioners?: A Quasi-Experimental Analysis of Retail Electric Restructuring in Ohio
Journal of Public Policy
July 03, 2018

Noah Dormady provides a quasi-experimental analysis of the price impacts of retail electric restructuring in Ohio.

Beyond Spending Levels: Revenue Uncertainty and the Performance of Local Governments
Journal of Urban Economics
July 01, 2018

Professor Stéphane Lavertu estimates the impact of revenue uncertainty on Ohio public school districts’ educational effectiveness.

Election Timing, Electorate Composition, and Policy Outcomes: Evidence from School Districts
American Journal of Political Science
July 01, 2018

Professor Stéphane Lavertu and Vladimir Kogan examine how election timing influences voter composition in terms of partisanship, ideology, and the numerical strength of powerful interest groups. 

Taking a Closer Look at the Empowerment-Performance Relationship: Evidence from Law Enforcement Organizations
Public Administration Review
June 25, 2018

Professors Jos Raadschelders and Russell Hassan examine the influence of empowering leadership practices on police officers' job performance, perceptions of managerial effectiveness, and unit performance.

Complex Contracting: Management Challenges and Solutions
Public Administration Review
June 19, 2018

Dean Trevor Brown creates a framework that provides guidance on how managers can harness the upsides of complex contracting while avoiding its pitfalls.

Natural Disasters and Relief Assistance: Empirical Evidence on the Resilience of U.S. Counties Using Dynamic Propensity Score Matching
Journal of Regional Science
June 06, 2018

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. 

The Geospatial and Economic Viability of CO2 Storage in Hydrocarbon Depleted Fractured Shale Formations
International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control
May 26, 2018

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

Who Pays for Retail Electric Deregulation? Evidence of Cross-Subsidization from Complete Bill Data
Energy Journal
May 22, 2018

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

The Impact of the Earned Income Tax Credit on Household Finances
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
May 04, 2018

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.

Testing Strategies to Increase Saving in Individual Development Account Programs
Journal of Economic Psychology
April 19, 2018

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.

School Improvement Grants in Ohio: Effects on Student Achievement and School Administration
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis
March 23, 2018

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

Acclimation and the Response of Hourly Electricity Loads to Meteorological Variables
Energy Journal
January 01, 2018

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.

Center-Based Early Care and Education and Children’s School Readiness: Do Impacts Vary by Neighborhood Poverty?
Developmental Psychology
November 30, 2017

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

Designing Public Participation: Managing Problem Settings and Social Equity
Public Administration Review
November 02, 2017

Professor Jill Clark provides a theoretical framework that links public managers' and community leaders' perspectives on their own political efficacy and sources of their efficacy, yielding four types of “designers.” 

Tax Increment Financing: A Propensity Score Approach
Economic Development Quarterly
November 01, 2017

This study, published in the Economic Development Quarterly, examines the effect of tax increment financing (TIF) on economic growth in Indiana.

Understanding Individual and Organizational Level Representation: The Case of Parental Involvement in Schools
Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
October 13, 2017

Associate Professor Katie Vinopal examines whether the benefits of representation stem from individual (direct)- versus organizational (indirect)-level pathways, or both.

Dietary Intake Contributions of Food and Beverages by Source and Food Security Status in US Adults
Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior
September 01, 2017

Professors Jill Clark and Neal Hooker compare the consumption patterns and diet quality of foods and beverages obtained from various sources by food security status.

Securing a Stop to the Summer Setback: Policy Considerations in the Future Expansion of the Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer for Children
Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior
September 01, 2017

Professor Neal Hooker reviews empirical assessments of Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children (SEBTC) and Electronic Benefits Transfer research, and presents policy considerations in the program's future expansion.

Neighborhood Poverty and Children's Academic Skills and Behavior in Early Elementary School
Journal of Marriage and Family
August 24, 2017

Associate Professor Katie Vinopal evaluates the degree associations between neighborhood disadvantage and outcomes persist into elementary school and whether neighborhood disadvantage interacts with household disadvantage.

Leakage Risks of Geologic CO2 Storage and the Impacts on the Global Energy System and Climate Change Mitigation
Climatic Change
July 26, 2017

Professor Bielicki investigated how subsurface and atmospheric leakage from geologic CO2 storage reservoirs could impact the deployment of Carbon Capture and Storage in the global energy system. 

Regional Governance and Institutional Collective Action for Environmental Sustainability
Public Administration Review
June 29, 2017

Hongtao Yi investigates why various mechanisms of cooperation among local authorities are chosen using the theoretical lens of institutional collective action.

Local Capitalism and Civic Engagement: The Potential of Locally Facing Firms
Public Administration Review
June 09, 2017

Jill Clark demonstrates that locally-facing firms are associated with greater levels of civic and political engagement compared with locally owned firms that sell their products to customers elsewhere.

Theorizing Command-and-Commodify Regulation: the Case of Species Conservation Banking in the United States
Theory & Society
April 01, 2017

Assistant Professor Christopher Rea offers a framework for explaining these processes of regulatory marketization, like cap-and-trade and ecological offsetting.

Autonomy Versus Control in Procurement and Contracting: the Use of Cost-Reimbursement Contracts in Three US Federal Departments
International Review of Administrative Sciences
March 01, 2017

Dean Trevors examines the efficacy of central attempts to influence the use of specific types of contracts, namely, cost-reimbursement versus fixed-price contracts.

Comparing UK Food Retailers Corporate Social Responsibility Strategies
British Food Journal
March 01, 2017

Professor Neal Hooker examines how socio-economic and institutional factors impact UK food retailers’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategies as revealed in corporate communications and product marketing. 

A Natural Experiment: Using Immersive Technologies to Study the Impact of "All-Natural" Labeling on Perceived Food Quality, Nutritional Content, and Liking
Journal of Food Science
February 08, 2017

Professor Neal Hooker examines how an all-natural label impacts judgments of perceived food quality, nutritional content, and acceptance.

Designing the Buyer–Supplier Contract for Risk Management: Assessing Complexity and Mission Criticality
January 19, 2017

This study, published in the Journal of Supply Chain Management, argues that contract design is a predominant strategy to set contractual expectations among supply chain partners to manage risk

Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts: The Potential Impact of Yogurt Innovation on Dietary Intakes
Journal of Food Composition and Analysis
January 01, 2017

Professor Neal Hooker details the challenges to surveillance with the dynamic food supply.

Sex, Gender, and Disasters: Experimental Evidence on the Decision to Invest in Resilience
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
November 10, 2016

Professors Kim Young, Rob Greenbaum and Noah Dormady use a randomized controlled experimental design to examine whether biological sex or gender diversity might lead to decision-making that improves investments in resilience to calamitous events. 

What's in a Name? The Impact of Fair Trade Claims on Product Price
Agribusiness: An International Journal
November 01, 2016

Professor Neal Hooker uses food marketing and other data to find the impact of a fair trade label on a product. 

Electricity Customer Choice in Ohio: How Competition Has Outperformed Traditional Monopoly Regulation
Northeast Ohio Public Energy Council
November 01, 2016

Professor Ned Hill assesses the effects that deregulation of electricity generation has had on electricity prices in Ohio.

The Responsiveness of Casino Revenue to the Casino Tax Rate
Public Budgeting & Finance
October 01, 2016

Associate Professor Jim Landers examines the tax base elasticity of the regulated casino industry in Illinois to help estimate state-level revenue impacts of casino tax rate changes.

Back-Pedaling or Continuing Quietly? Assessing the Impact of ICLEI Membership Termination on Cities’ Sustainability Actions
October 01, 2016

This study, published in Environmental Politics, questions whether cities’ termination of their ICLEI affiliation diminishes their implementation of sustainability actions.

The Responsiveness of Casino Revenue to the Casino Tax Rate
Public Budgeting & Finance
October 01, 2016

Associate Professor Jim Landers examines the tax base elasticity of the regulated casino industry in Illinois to help estimate state-level revenue impacts of casino tax rate changes.

Incentives in Third-Party Governance: Management Practices and Accountability Implications
September 13, 2016

This study, published in Public Administration Review, assesses public managers’ use of contract incentives in practice and advances theory development. 

Policy Networks in Complex Governance Subsystems: Observing and Comparing Hyperlink, Media, and Partnership Networks
Policy Studies Journal
August 01, 2016

Hongtao Yi examines how methods for observing policy networks have not kept up with the development of new network analytic techniques required to understand governance in complex settings.

Pediatric Care Provider Density and Personal Belief Exemptions From Vaccine Requirements in California Kindergartens
American Journal of Public Health
July 01, 2016

Assistant Professor Christopher Rea explores contextual associations between medical care providers and personal belief exemptions from mandated school entry vaccinations.

Scaling-Up Regional Fruit and Vegetable Distribution: Potential for Adaptive Change in the Food System
Agriculture and Human Values
June 01, 2016

Professor Jill Clark describe current distribution systems within Ohio, identifies firms interested in scaling-up distribution and inform state-level policy efforts by identifying opportunities to better target any state-level policy and program efforts.

Impact of Product Characteristics and Market Conditions on Contract Type: Use of Fixed-Price Versus Cost-Reimbursement Contracts in the US Department of Defense
Public Performance and Management Review
May 12, 2016

Dean Trevor Brown used transaction cost economics to produce a conceptual framework that helps explain public-sector contract decisions.

What Initiatives Are British Food Retailers Taking to Improve Children’s Health and Nutrition?
Journal of Food Products Marketing
April 06, 2016

Professor Neal Hooker explores efforts targeting children’s health and nutrition.

The Leakage Risk Monetization Model for Geologic CO2 Storage
Environmental Science and Technology
April 06, 2016

Professor Jeff Bielicki developed a Leakage Risk Monetization Model (LRiMM) which integrates simulation of CO2 leakage from geologic CO2 storage reservoirs with an estimation of monetized leakage risk (MLR).

The Role of Industrial Diversity in Economic Resilience: An Empirical Examination Across 35 Years
Urban Studies
January 19, 2016

This study explores the relationship between industry diversity and economic resilience over time.

Foundations of Public Administration
January 01, 2016

This book, written by Jos C.N. Raadschelders and Richard J. Stillman II provides academics and students with a rich supply of knowledge on the scope, methods, and theoretical foundations of public administration.

The Influence of Learning Activity on Low-Skilled Workers’ Skill Improvement in the South Korean Manufacturing Industry
Human Resources Development International
November 22, 2015

Professor Joshua Hawley explores how low-skilled worker’s learning activity influences skill improvement.

The Agrifood System Policy Agenda and Research Domain
Journal of Rural Studies
October 24, 2015

Professor Jill Clark evaluates the emergence of agrifood system policy in the U.S. and suggests future evaluative policy research and comparative analysis with other domains of food policy research.

A Balancing Act: Disproportionate Sampling of Organic Foods
Journal of Food Products Marketing
May 07, 2015

Professor Neal Hooker demonstrates that there is little statistical difference, and even a net gain in predictive power, when using a balanced sample to test factors that influence a firm’s decision to market organic food.

Effects of Government Spending on Research Workforce Development: Evidence from Biomedical Postdoctoral Researchers
PLOS 1
May 01, 2015

Professor Joshua Hawley examines the effects of government spending on postdoctoral researchers’ (postdocs) productivity in biomedical sciences, the largest population of postdocs in the US.

Commodifying Conservation
Contexts
February 23, 2015

Assistant Professor Christopher Rea examines conservation banks that price the priceless and change how we protect natural resources.

Comparative Civil Service Systems in the 21st Century
February 06, 2015

This book, written in part by Jos Raadschelders, describes how civil service systems have been subject to intense scrutiny and their roles brought into question.

Global Dimensions of Public Administration and Governance: A Comparative Voyage
January 30, 2015

This book, written by Jos Raddschelders and Eran Vigoda-Gadot, is a comprehensive, comparative text on the structure and function of governments around the world.

The Tiff Over TIF: A Review of the Literature Examining the Effectiveness of the Tax Increment Financing
National Tax Journal
September 01, 2014

This article, published in the National Tax Journal, examines California's recent decision to discontinue tax increment financing (TIF) after six decades of use has triggered a re-examination of its broader use.

The Political Mobilization of Firms and Industries
Annual Review of Sociology
July 01, 2014

Christopher Rea examines the limitations of investigating business unity without focusing directly on processes and outcomes and then review studies of five types of business political action that offer lenses into corporate power in the United States: engagement in electoral politics, direct corporate lobbying, collective action through associations and coalitions, business campaigns in civil society, and political aspects of corporate responsibility. 

A Closer Look at Contract Accountability: Exploring the Determinants of Sanctions for Unsatisfactory Contract Performance
Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
April 01, 2014

This research addresses the accountability dynamics in local government contracting by analyzing the decisions public managers make to determine whether they sanction contractors for unsatisfactory performance.

Mastering Public Administration
July 25, 2013

This book, written in part by Jos Raadschelders, features chapters spotlighting theorists in the field, covering his/her life, research, writings, and impact, introducing the discipline′s most important scholarship in both a memorable and approachable manner.

Public Administration: The Interdisciplinary Study of Government
Book
July 12, 2013

Jos Raadschelders tracks the emergence of the field against a background of the expanding conception of the state and the growth of public services

Why Are State Policy Makers Still Proponents of Enterprise Zones? What Explains Their Action in the Face of a Preponderance of the Research?
International Regional Science Review
November 26, 2009

This essay reviews the research on state EZ programs and explores why it has not had a greater influence on policy.

Future Casino Tax Yields: What Recent Trends in Casino Wagering and Attendance Suggest
Indiana Business Review
March 01, 2009

This article considers and investigates the future growth potential of the state's wagering taxes.

The Two-Sided Coin: Casino Gaming and Casino Tax Revenue in Indiana
Indiana Business Review
March 01, 2009

This article focuses on the thirteen years of operation of riverboat casinos in Indiana and the growth in the supply of casino games statewide and explains the state excise taxes imposed on the casino owners.

What’s the Potential Impact of Casino Tax Increases on Wagering Handle: Estimates of the Price Elasticity of Demand for Casino Gaming
Economics Bulletin
August 25, 2008

Associate Professor Jim Landers estimates the price elasticity of demand for casino gaming.

Gambling on an Alternative Revenue Source: The Impact of Riverboat Gambling on the Charitable Gambling Component of Nonprofit Finances
Nonprofit Management and Leadership
September 22, 2006

Associate Professor Jim Landers examines the impact of casino gambling in and around Illinois on charitable gambling in that state.

Why Don’t Enterprise Zones Work? Estimates of the Extent that EZ Benefits are Capitalized into Property Values
Regional Analysis & Policy
January 01, 2006

Associate Professor Jim Landers examines the impact of local Enterprise Zones (EZs) on commercial and industrial property values. 

The Effect of Casino Gambling on Sales Tax Revenue in States Legalizing Casinos in the 1990s
State Tax Notes
December 26, 2005

Associate Professor Jim Landers looks at whether casino gambling competes with other consumer spending and therefore decreases sales tax revenue.

In the Zone: A Look at Indiana’s Enterprise Zones
Indiana Business Review
June 01, 2005

Associate Professor Jim Landers provides an overview of Indiana Enterprise Zones and explore their business characteristics and demographics.

Business Income Taxes in Indiana: Who Pays?
Indiana Business Review
September 01, 2004

Associate Professor Jim Landers analyzes business income taxes including corporate income tax systems and business income taxed through the individual income tax system. 

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