The policy players behind higher education
Alumni Tim Casper (MA '99) and Jen Klippel (MPA ’06) share their experiences working in higher education and how their La Follette School training helped them.
Inspiring evidence-based policymaking
Alumni Tim Casper (MA '99) and Jen Klippel (MPA ’06) share their experiences working in higher education and how their La Follette School training helped them.
Master's student Travis Austin (MPA ’26) and alum Theola Carter (MA ’91) discuss their involvement in local government.
Most of Wisconsin’s water utilities provide safe, healthy drinking water with 92% of the state’s water utilities earning A grades for water quality (health) in a first-of-its-kind water utility report card designed by Professor Manuel P. Teodoro.
A new study finds that distrust in government was common among both those who voted in the participatory budgeting election and those who refused to vote.
In this report, La Follette students evaluate the economic effects of eliminating Wisconsin’s policy of suspending driver’s licenses for nonpayment of legal financial obligations.
Students analyzed the Sauk County Adult Treatment Court and the Substance Use Diversion and Support program.
Students assessed the long-term costs and benefits of investment in universal child savings accounts for Wisconsin residents.
Students completed a benefit-cost analysis of three potential alternatives to current policy to increase the availability and affordability of child care in La Crosse County, Wisconsin.
Health concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic led to creative changes in youth justice practice and a significant reduction in Wisconsin’s youth justice population.
For Cost-Benefit Analysis Public Affairs 881 taught by David Weimer, Fall 2019