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Avid, Averse, Apprehensive, or Apathetic? A Typology of Collaboration Attitudes

Nonprofit Management and Leadership

2023

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

Public Management Review

2023

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

Examining inequality in the time cost of waiting

Nature Human Behavior

2023

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

What Is Economic Development? And What Is the Job of an Economic Development Professional?

Economic Development Quarterly

2023

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

Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice

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.

Elgar Encyclopedia of Public Management

2022

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

Social Science & Medicine

2022

Stephanie Moulton examines the relationship between wealth and health.

Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems

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

Report for the Thomas B. Fordham Institute

2022

Professors Stéphane Lavertu and Long Tran's report, published in Thomas B. Fordham Institute, evaluates for-profit charter school spending and outcomes.

Assessing the Causes of Racial Disparities in Drug Courts

Glenn College News

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.

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.

Academic Achievement and Pandemic Recovery in Ohio

2022

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

Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development

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.

Food systems governance should be preceded by food systems diplomacy

Nature Food

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.

Mastering Public Administration. From Max Weber to Dwight Waldo

Book: Mastering Public Administration

2022

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.

Public Administration Review

2022

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

Sobriety Checkpoint Laws, Fatal Car Crashes and Arrests

Social Science Research Network

2022

Lauren Jones analyzes how sobriety checkpoints impact fatal car crashes and arrests.

A Vacancy Chain Model of Local Managers’ Career Advancement

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory

2022

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

“Active and Vital Resources”: A Thematic Analysis of Congressional Collection Policies

The American Archivist

2022

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

Do Opioid Prescriptions Lead to Fatal Car Crashes?

American Journal of Health Economic

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

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.

Conservation and Society

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

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

2022

This study creates 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

2022

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

Incorporating Quality-Differentiated Demand into the Undergraduate Microeconomics Core

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

2022

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

National Library of Medicine

2022

Assistant Professor Jennifer Garner analyzes how COVID-19 related lockdowns affected critical resources for nutritious food.

Philanthropic Capital for Communities

Federal Reserve Bank Philadelphia

2022

This report 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

2022

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

World Affairs

2022

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

Perspectives on Public Management and Governance

2022

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

The Pew Charitable Trusts

2022

Associate Professor outlines the best practices for states planning tax incentive evaluations.

Health Economics

2022

Associate Professor 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

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.

Transforming Ohio’s Economy: Questions for the Next Governor of Ohio

2022

A new report from Glenn College researchers informs gubernatorial candidates and Ohio voters about policy choices that lie ahead.

Property Tax Compliance and Reverse Mortgages: Using Nudges to Improve the Market

National Tax Journal

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

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,

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.

Approaches for Overcoming Barriers to Cross-Sector Data Sharing

The American Journal of Managed Care

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

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.

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management

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

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

2022

Associate Professor 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

2022

This study assesses the influence of manager inclusiveness on unit-level relational conflict and interpersonal helping behaviour.

Journal of the Economics of Aging

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.

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 American Journal of Surgery

2022

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

Public Management Review

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

2021

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

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

2021

Professor Megan LePere-Schloop uses a variety of skills to develop a critical framework for mapping civil society in the digital age.

Review of Administrative Sciences

2021

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

2021

This study, published by Public Performance and Management Review, finds that contract managers who have had more rules training tend to believe that they have less autonomy and view the behaviors of others as unethical.

Public Administration Review

2021

This review was written by Professor Jos Raadschelders.

Legacy Regions, Not Legacy Cities: Growth and Decline in City-Centered Regional Economies

Journal of Urban Affairs

2021

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

The Cost-Effectiveness of Economic Resilience

International Journal of Production Economics

2021

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

Nonprofit Role Classification Using Mission Descriptions and Supervised Machine Learning

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

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

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

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

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).

Journal of Nonprofit Education and Leadership

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

2021

The 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.

American Review of Public Administration

2021

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

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..

Journal of Public Affairs Education

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.

Journal of Business Ethics

2021

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

A Review of Sexual Harassment Prevention Practices: Toward a Nonprofit Research Agenda

Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action

2021

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.

International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity

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.

Agriculture and Human Values

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.

Informational Determinants of Large-area Hurricane Evacuations

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

2021

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.

How the COVID-19 Pandemic Affected Student Learning in Ohio

2021

Analysis of Spring 2021 Ohio State Tests

Ethnography: Tales of the Nonprofit Field

International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations

2021

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

The Publicness of Publicly Funded Research

Science and Public Policy

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.

Food Policy

2021

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

American Journal of Community Psycholog

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.

Food Policy

2021

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

China’s Scholarship Shows Atypical Referencing Patterns

Scientometrics

2021

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

US Department of Agriculture

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

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.

Addiction Research & Theory

2021

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

Economic Development Quarterly

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

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.

An Experimental Investigation of Resilience Decision Making in Repeated Disasters

Environment Systems & Decisions

2021

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

Public Management Review

2021

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

It's About Time: Examining Inequality in the Time Cost of Waiting

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

2021

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

A Discussion of Measuring the Top-1% Most-Highly-Cited Publications: The Case of China

Scientometrics

2021

This study examines the top-1% most highly-cited articles and their country of origin.

Health & Place

2021

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

Journal of Data and Information Science

2021

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

Glenn College Releases Review of Columbus Response to 2020 Protests

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.

2021

This study, published in Administration & Society, utilizes the Strategic Action Field (SAF) framework as a lens to study implementation effectiveness of Ohio START, a multiactor and multilevel implementation process

What Do China’s Scientific Ambitions Mean for Science—and the World?

Issues in Science and Technology

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

2021

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

Economic Development Quarterly

2021

Using newly available annual data on incentives at the metropolitan statistical area (MSA) level, this article explores 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

2021

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

Whatever it Takes: Sexual Harassment in the Context of Resource Dependence

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory

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

2021

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

2021

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

Handbook on Entropy, Complexity & Spatial Dynamics

2021

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

American Journal of Political Science

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.

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.

Journal of Community Health

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.

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

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

2021

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

American Journal of Health Economics

2021

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

Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society

2020

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

Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

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

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

2020

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

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

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.

Rent-Seeking through Collective Bargaining: Teachers Unions and Education Production

Economics of Education Review

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.

Journal of Management Studies

2020

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

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy

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

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

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

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.

Technology Business Management

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

2020

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

Neighborhood Disadvantage and Children’s Cognitive Skill Trajectories

Children and Youth Services Review,

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

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.

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management

2020

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

Are Foreclosure Spillover Effects Universal? Variation over Space and Time

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.

Collaborative Networks and Environmental Governance Performance: A Social Influence Model

2020

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

Workforce Data (and Knowledge) Under Pressure

Employment Research Newsletter

2020

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

PLoS One

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

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

2020

Stephanie Moulton examines the behavior of mortgage borrowers.

Gender and Prosecutorial Discretion: An Empirical Assessment

Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory

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

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

2020

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

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management

2020

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

Socioeconomic Representation: Expanding the Theory of Representative Bureaucracy

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory

2020

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

Journal of Public Economics

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

2020

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

Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior

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

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

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

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

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

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

2019

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

Public Management Review

2019

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

International Public Management Journal

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

2019

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

Energy and Environmental Science

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

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

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.

Engineering Geology

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

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

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.

Economic Inquiry

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

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.

Utilities Policy

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

2019

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

Research Policy

2019

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

Turnover Behavior Among US Government Employees

Review of Administrative Sciences

2019

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

Human Resource Development Quarterly

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

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

2019

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

Energy Conversion and Management

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

2019

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

U.S. Foreign Policy for the Middle Class: Perspectives From Ohio

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

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.

Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition

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

2018

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

The Collaborative Era in Science

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

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.

Public Performance and Management Review

2018

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

Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior

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

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

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

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.

Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems Journal

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

2018

Assistant Professor Christopher Rea examines the linkages between MBIs and expanding state control over environmental quality.

The Consignment Mechanism in Carbon Markets: A Laboratory Investigation

Journal of Commodity Markets

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.

Journal of Public Policy

2018

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

American Journal of Political Science

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.

Beyond Spending Levels: Revenue Uncertainty and the Performance of Local Governments

Journal of Urban Economics

2018

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

Public Administration Review

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

2018

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

Journal of Regional Science

2018

This study 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.

International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control

2018

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

Energy Journal

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

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

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.

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis

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

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.

Developmental Psychology

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

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.”

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory

2017

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

Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior

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.

Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior

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.

Journal of Marriage and Family

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.

Climatic Change

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

2017

This study, published in Public Administration Review, 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

2017

Professor 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.

Theory & Society

2017

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

Comparing UK Food Retailers Corporate Social Responsibility Strategies

British Food Journal

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.

International Review of Administrative Sciences

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.

Journal of Food Science

2017

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

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

Journal of Food Composition and Analysis

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

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.

Northeast Ohio Public Energy Council

2016

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

What's in a Name? The Impact of Fair Trade Claims on Product Price

Agribusiness: An International Journal

2016

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

2016

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

Incentives in Third-Party Governance: Management Practices and Accountability Implications

2016

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

2016

This study, published by Administration and Policy in Mental Health, examines worker perceptions of how public child welfare agencies' purchase of service contracts with private behavioral health organizations can both facilitate and constrain referral making and children's access to services.

2016

This study, published in the Policy Studies Journal, 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.

American Journal of Public Health

2016

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

Agriculture and Human Values

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.

Public Performance and Management Review

2016

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

Journal of Food Products Marketing

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

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).

Urban Studies

2016

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

Foundations of Public Administration

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.

Human Resources Development International

2015

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

Citizen Attributions of Blame in Third-Party Governance

2015

This study, published by Public Administration Review, examines how structural differences in governance arrangements affect citizens’ notions of who is culpable for poor service quality.

The Agrifood System Policy Agenda and Research Domain

Journal of Rural Studies

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

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.

PLOS 1

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.

Comparative Civil Service Systems in the 21st Century

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

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.

Mastering Public Administration

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

2013

This book, written by Jos Raadschelders, tracks the emergence of the field against a background of the expanding conception of the state and the growth of public services

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