Public Finance and Budgeting

The 2023 Roundtable Wrap-Up. What Are the Important Take-Aways?

The Pew Charitable Trusts

2023

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

Administration & Society

2023

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

In With the New: Reflections on and Key Takeaways From the 2024 Roundtable

The Pew Charitable Trusts

2024

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

Forecasting the Fiscal Impacts of Tax Incentive Programs: Unraveling the Revenue Puzzle

The Pew Charitable Trusts

2024

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

Evaluating Discretionary and Nondiscretionary Incentives

The Pew Charitable Trusts

2024

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

Housing Policy Debate

2025

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

Contract Design, Complexity, and Incentives: Evidence From U.S. Federal Agencies

The American Review of Public Administration

2018

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

Economic Development Quarterly

2025

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

The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension

2024

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

Ashley Orr