Research Publications
Research from the La Follette School of Public Affairs including working papers, policy reports, and more key publications.
Working Papers
Working papers feature new research from La Follette School faculty members. These pre-publication versions of academic articles, book chapters, and other publications are in various stages of completion, offering insight into our current research before it is published in peer-reviewed outlets.
-
Geographic Variation in the Black-White Life Expectancy Gap in Wisconsin, 2005-2017
-
Exit ramps crucial for outdoor testing of stratospheric aerosol injection
-
Immigration and US Shelter Prices: The Role of Geographical and Immigrant Heterogeneity
-
Current Account Dynamics and the Saving-Investment Nexus in a Changing and Uncertain World
-
Assessing the Effectiveness of Wisconsin’s School Funding Formulas
-
Assessing the Effectiveness of School Funding Formulas in Massachusetts, Texas, and Wisconsin
-
The Dollar versus the Euro as International Currencies
-
Forecasting Real Activity using Cross-Sectoral Stock Market Information
-
Do Foreign Yield Curves Predict U.S. Recessions and GDP Growth?
-
Foreign direct investment under uncertainty: evidence from a large panel of countries
Student research
Cost-benefit analysis
-
A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Emergency Medical Services for Wisconsin Rural Municipalities
-
A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Conservation Tax Exonerations in Coastal Ecuador
-
A Cost-Benefit Analysis of eDNA Technology for Invasive Species Detection
-
A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Wisconsin HIV Drug Assistance Program
-
A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Switching from Cesium-Chloride to X-ray Blood Irradiators
Workshop in public affairs
-
A Multimodal Analysis of the Madison Building Improvement Grant
-
Artificial Intelligence Adoption in State and Local Governments
-
Strategic Paths for Milwaukee’s Downtown Parking Garages: Strength, Ambiguity, and Opportunity
-
Student Debt Services in Context: Strategies to Strengthen Student Debt Support in Wisconsin
-
Reducing Barriers to Water Infrastructure Finance in Wisconsin