Providing Sawyer PointOne Filters in La Moskitia: A Cost-Benefit Analysis
In this report, La Follette students conduct a cost-benefit analysis on the distribution of Sawyer PointOne water filters to the region of La Moskitia, Honduras.
Inspiring evidence-based policymaking
In this report, La Follette students conduct a cost-benefit analysis on the distribution of Sawyer PointOne water filters to the region of La Moskitia, Honduras.
In this report, La Follette students evaluate the impacts of mobile dentistry in areas of low utilization and with few Medicaid providers.
In this report, La Follette students analyze the costs and benefits of lowering Wisconsin’s state-mandated elevated blood lead levels intervention threshold.
In this report, La Follette students evaluate the impacts of funding initiatives on the treatment of private wells in Wisconsin.
In this report, La Follette students analyze the costs and benefits of using community forestry management in Nepal to reverse degradation and promote forest recovery.
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.
The novel study, led by Associate Professor Lauren Schmitz, is among the first in economics to combine genetic information and data from a randomized controlled study.
The Kohl Competition awards funding to faculty research projects that exemplify evidence-based policymaking and meaningfully shape public policy.
Last fall, the UW–Madison Institute for Research on Poverty hired several undergraduate students for internships that allow them to build policy research and communications skills.
In May, health policy certificate student Susan Farias joined Professor Sarah Halpern-Meekin in her work on the project, which studies the impact of poverty reduction on families and young children.