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

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

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. 

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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. 

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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. 

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. 

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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. 

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

In this summary Jim Landers shares highlights from the 2024 NCSL Roundtable on Evaluating Economic Development Tax Incentives. In addition to highlighting sessions on artificial intelligence in evaluation and thinking beyond economic indicators, Landers features a discussion on the synthetic control method.

Erynn Beaton 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.

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

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.

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. 

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Can national research capacity be measured?

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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).

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.

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.

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.

Charles Wise explores how US Presidents have long issued presidential directives to federal agencies to adopt and implement programs to advance presidential priorities, both pursuant to statutes passed by Congress and outside of them.

Greg Wilson's paper in NVSQ challenges race-neutral perceptions of the nonprofit sector by showing how Black-led organizations perceive racialization across key areas central to success: leadership, funding, data, collaboration, and volunteering. 

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

This study explores how urban middle-aged education program participants can increase their agricultural entrepreneurship volition (AEV) during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea.

Stephanie Moulton examines the extent to which older adults use home equity to help manage the costs associated with a chronic disease in older age and how such borrowing can affect their ability to manage the disease. 

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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. 

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. 

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.
 

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

​​​​​​​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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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. 

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

Stephanie Moulton examines the relationship between wealth and health. 

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.

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.

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. 

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. 

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

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. 

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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. 

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.

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. 

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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” 

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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

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. 

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,

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. 

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

This review was written by Professor Jos Raadschelders.

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.

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.

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

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).

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.

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.

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

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..

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.

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.

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

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. 

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.

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

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

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. 

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Professor Long Tran evaluates factors, policies and practices that impact and improve student attendance.

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

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.

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

Professor Jill Clark examines values-added food, agriculture and rural development. 

Assistant Professor Jennifer Garner examines revising The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics priorities and methods. 

Caezilia Loibl and Stephanie Moulton examine the extent to which credit cards, other consumer debts, and mortgage debt increase financial stress.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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. 

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Stephanie Moulton examines the behavior of mortgage borrowers. 

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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. 

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

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.

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

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. 

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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. 

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

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.

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

Rob Greenbaum utilizes a novel dynamic propensity score matching approach for multiple cohorts of U.S. counties between 1989 and 1999 to examine local economy resilience to rare natural disasters. 

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

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

Associate Professor Lauren Jones analyzes how expansions to the federal and state Earned Income Tax Credits (EITC) affected household finances over the past two decades.

Associate Professor Lauren Jones tests whether saving rates in a federally funded, matched, savings program for low-income families – the Individual Development Account program – can be improved through insights from behavioral economics.

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

Professor Jeff Bielicki examines the relationship between electricity demand and meteorological conditions to assist with short-term electricity load forecasts and long-term projections of climate change impacts.

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

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.” 

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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

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.

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

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. 

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

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

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

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

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. 

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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).

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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