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.
Working Paper Series
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Funding Public Education in Wisconsin: The Property Tax-School Funding Dilemma
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2021-001 -
The Effect of the Housing Crisis on the Finances of Central Cities
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2020-001 -
A Requiem for “Blame It on Beijing” Interpreting Rotating Global Current Account Surpluses
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2019-002 -
A Third of a Century of Currency Expectations Data: The Carry Trade and the Risk Premium
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2019-001 -
Purchasing Power Parity and Real Exchange Rates
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2018-010 -
The Tax Autonomy of Local Governments in the United States
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2018-009 -
The Impact of Minimum Wage Legislation in Minnesota vs. Wisconsin: Contra Williams
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2018-008 -
The New Fama Puzzle
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2018-007 -
Tracking the State Economies at High Frequency: A Primer
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2018-006 -
Money matters: The role of yields and profits in agricultural technology adoption
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2018-005 -
Change in Distance to Nearest Abortion Facility in Wisconsin, 2010 to 2017
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2018-004 -
The impact of One Acre Fund’s small farm program
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2018-003 -
Communicating the Vision: How Face-to-Face Dialogue Facilitates Transformational Leadership
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2018-001 -
Financial Spillovers and Macroprudential Policies
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2017-007 -
The Once and Future Global Imbalances? Interpreting the Post-Crisis Record
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2017-006 -
How do Elected Officials Evaluate Performance? Goal Preferences, Governance Preferences and the Process of Goal Reprioritization
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2017-005 -
Volunteering Makes You Happier, but Why You Volunteer Also Matters: Other-Oriented Motivations and Cumulative Life-Satisfaction
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2017-004 -
Installation Price, Degradation, and Value in Residential Photovoltaic Systems
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2017-003 -
The Design and Practice of Integrating Evidence: Connecting Performance Management with Program Evaluation
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2017-002 -
Making Sense of Performance Regimes: Rebalancing External Accountability and Internal Learning
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2017-001 -
Balance Sheet Effects on Monetary and Financial Spillovers: The East Asian Crisis Plus 20
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2016-008 -
The Valley of Death, the Technology Pork Barrel, and Public Support for Large Demonstration Projects
La Follette Working Paper No. 2016-007 -
The Complicated Partisan Effects of State Election Laws
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2016-006 -
Exchange Rate Prediction Redux: New Models, New Data, New Currencies
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2016-005 -
Estimating Currency Misalignment Using the Penn Effect: It’s Not as Simple as It Looks
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2016-004 -
The Political Economy of Voter Support for School Property Taxation
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2016-003 -
The Effects of State Policies Requiring High School Personal Finance Education on Credit Scores
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2016-002 -
The Importance of Family Income in the Formation and Evolution of Non-Cognitive Skills in Childhood
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2016-001 -
(Almost) A Quarter Century of Currency Expectations Data: Interest Rate Parity and the Risk Premium
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2015-006 -
Monetary Policy Spillovers and the Trilemma in the New Normal: Periphery Country Sensitivity to Core Country Conditions
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2015-005 -
Strategic Employment Growth in Wisconsin
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2015-004 -
Cost-Benefit Analysis of Implementing the SPIn Risk Assessment Tool at the Point of Release for Illinois Prisoners
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2015-003 -
Using Patents and Prototypes as Preliminary Indicators of Technology-Forcing Policies: Lessons from California’s Zero Emission Vehicle Regulations
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2015-002 -
Influence and the Administrative Process: Lobbying the U.S. President’s Office of Management and Budget
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2015-001 -
Net Benefits of Hospital-Sponsored Health Care for the Homeless: Cost-Benefit Analysis of a Demonstration Project
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2014-010 -
The Structural Behavior of China-U.S. Trade Flows
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2014-009 -
Does Training Matter? Evidence from Performance Management Reforms
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2014-008 -
Emerging Market Economies and the Next Reserve Currencies
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2014-007 -
Central Banking: Perspectives from Emerging Economies
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2014-006 -
Performance Management Routines that Work? An Early Assessment of the GPRA Modernization Act
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2014-005 -
The Political Economy of Voter Support for School Property Taxation
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2014-004 -
The Predictive Power of the Yield Curve across Countries and Time
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2014-003 -
Regional Trade Agreements with Labor Clauses: Effects on Labor Standards and Trade
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2014-002 -
The Rise of the “Redback” and China’s Capital Account Liberalization: An Empirical Analysis on the Determinants of Invoicing Currencies
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2014-001 -
For a Few Dollars More: Reserves and Growth in Times of Crises
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2013-014 -
Administrative Burden: Learning, Psychological and Compliance Costs in Citizen-State Interactions
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2013-013 is forthcoming in Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory -
Uncovering the Circumstances of Performance Information Use: Findings from an Experiment
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2013-012 -
Government Reform, Political Ideology, and Administrative Burden: The Case of Performance Management in the Bush Administration
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2013-011 -
Does Public Service Motivation Lead to Budget Maximization? Evidence from an Experiment
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2013-010 -
A Consideration of Patterns of Intra-Industry Trade: Why Do Countries Export and Import More/Less in the Same Industry?
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2013-009 -
A Life Worth Living: Evidence on the Relationship between Prosocial Values and Happiness
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2013-008 -
Credibility, ambition, and discretion in long-term U.S. energy policy targets from 1973 to 2011
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2013-007 -
Post-Recession U.S. Employment through the Lens of a Non-Linear Okun’s Law
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2013-006 -
Macro Approaches to Foreign Exchange Determination
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2013-005 -
Export and Import Elasticities for Japan: New Estimates
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2013-004 -
Advancing the Empirical Study of Performance Management: What We Learned from the Program Assessment Rating Tool
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2013-003, forthcoming in American Review of Public Administration -
Fiscal Multipliers
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2013-002 -
The Predictive Content of Commodity Futures
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2013-001 is forthcoming in Journal of Futures Markets -
The Exchange Rate and Global Imbalances
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2012-015 -
Accelerating College Knowledge: Examining the Feasibility of a Targeted Early Commitment Pell Grant Program
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2012-014 -
Property Tax Delinquency and the Number of Payment Installments
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2012-013 -
A Note on Reserve Currencies with Special Reference to the G-20 Countries
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2012-012 -
Understanding Gender Disparities in Tax-Deferred Retirement Account Balances: Saving through the Wisconsin Deferred Compensation Program
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2012-011 -
Working within Constraints: Can Transformational Leaders Alter the Experience of Red Tape?
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2012-010 -
Agency Political Ideology and Reform Implementation: Performance Management in the Bush Administration
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2012-009 -
The “Impossible Trinity” Hypothesis in an Era of Global Imbalances: Measurement and Testing
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2012-007 -
China, East Asia, and Global Rebalancing
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2012-006 -
Are Chinese Trade Flows Different?
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2012-005 -
Statewide Expansion of Treatment Alternatives to Incarceration in Wisconsin: A Cost Benefit Analysis
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2012-004 -
Interpreting Community College Effects in the Presence of Heterogeneity and Complex Counterfactuals
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2012-003 -
Long-Term Effects of Public Low-Income Housing Vouchers on Neighborhood Quality and Household Composition
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2012-002 -
The Eurozone in Crisis: Origins and Prospects
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2012-001 -
A Heckuva Job: How Management Failures Doomed the Bush Administration
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2008-018 -
A Theory of Culture-Switching: Leadership and Red Tape during Hurricane Katrina
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2011-018 is forthcoming in Public Administration -
Does Involvement in Performance Management Routines Encourage Performance Information Use? Evaluating GPRA and PART
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2011-017 is forthcoming in Public Administration Review -
A Forensic Analysis of Global Imbalances
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2011-016 -
Willingness to Pay for a Climate Backstop: Liquid Fuel Producers and Direct CO2 Air Capture
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2011-015 -
Do Important Inventions Benefit from Knowledge Originating in Other Technological Domains?
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2011-014 -
The Impact on Property Taxes of the Governor’s 2011-12 School Funding Proposals
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2011-012 -
Prosocial Values and Performance Management Theory: The Link between Perceived Social Impact and Performance Information Use
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2011-010 is forthcoming in Governance -
Setting the Table: How Transformational Leadership Fosters Performance Information Use
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2011-009 is forthcoming in Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory -
The Impact of the Great Recession and the Housing Crisis on the Financing of America’s Largest Cities
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2011-008 -
Financial Globalization and China
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2011-006 -
Reducing Health-Care Associated Infections: An Organizational How-To Guide
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2011-005 -
Cost-Benefit Analysis of Implementing a Sales Tax on Motor Fuels in Wisconsin
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2011-004 -
An Analysis of the Proposal to Reduce Revenue Limits for Wisconsin School Districts
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2011-003 -
Evidence on Financial Globalization and Crises: Global Imbalances
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2011-002 -
Efficiently Reducing Corrections Costs in Wisconsin: Applying the Washington State Model
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2011-001 -
Education and Health in Late-Life among High School Graduates: Cognitive versus Psychological Aspects of Human Capital
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2010-024 -
The (Un)Productivity of American Higher Education: From “Cost Disease” to Cost-Effectiveness
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2010-023 -
Revenue Diversification and the Financing of Large American Central Cities
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2010-022 -
Creaming-Skimming, Parking and Other Intended and Unintended Effects of Performance-Based Contracting in Social Welfare Services
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2010-021 -
Temporary Help Work: Multiple Job-Holding and Compensating Differentials
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2010-020 -
How Credible is the Evidence, and Does It Matter? An Analysis of the Program Assessment Rating Tool
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2010-019 -
Reducing Child Support Debt and Its Consequences: Can Forgiveness Benefit All?
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2010-018 -
Improving Education and Employment for Disadvantaged Young Men: Proven and Promising Strategies
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2010-017 -
How Large Is Wisconsin’s Budget Gap for the 2011-13 Biennium?
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2010-016 -
Financing U.S. Debt: Is There Enough Money in the World – and At What Cost?
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2010-015 -
Are Property Taxes Forcing the Elderly Out of their Homes?
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2010-014 -
U.S. Health Care Reform: A Primer and an Assessment
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2010-013 -
Explaining Export Varieties: the Role of Comparative Advantage
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2010-012 -
Willingness to Pay for Climate Policy: A Review of Estimates
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2010-011 -
Measuring Misalignment: Latest Estimates for the Chinese Yuan
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2010-010 -
Surfing the Waves of Globalization: Asia and Financial Globalization in the Context of the Trilemma
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2010-009 -
The Emerging Global Financial Architecture: Tracing and Evaluating New Patterns of the Trilemma Configuration
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2010-008 -
Revisiting the Revisited: An Alternative Test of the Monopolistic Competition Model of International Trade
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2010-007 -
Robust Incentives and the Design of a Climate Change Governance Regime
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2010-006 -
Comparative Advantage, Firm Heterogeneity, and Selection of Exporters
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2010-005 -
Asset-Based Measurement of Poverty
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2010-004 -
A Critical Review of Property Tax Relief in Wisconsin: The School Levy Credit and the First Dollar Credit
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2010-003 -
Supply Capacity, Vertical Specialization and Tariff Rates: The Implications for Aggregate U.S. Trade Flow Equations
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2010-001 -
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Intensive Autism Services in the State of Wisconsin
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2009-027 -
The Benefits and Costs of the Section 8 Housing Subsidy Program: A Framework and First-Year Estimates
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2009-025 -
Local Air Quality and Climate Policy: Valuing Ancillary Benefits When the Debate is about Minimizing Costs
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2009-024 has been published in Environmental Research Letters under the title "Implications of Incorporating Air-Quality Benefits into Climate Change Policymaking." -
The President and the Distribution of Federal Spending
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2009-023 -
Information Costs, Policy Uncertainty, and Political Control: Federal Advisory Committees at the FDA
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2009-022 -
Governance and Evidence-Based Medicine: Lessons from the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2009-021 -
Through A Glass, Darkly: Understanding the Effects of Performance Regimes
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2009-020 -
The Big Question for Performance Management: Explaining Performance Information Use
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2009-019 was published in 2010 as “The Big Question for Performance Management: Why do Managers Use Performance Information?” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 20(4): 849-866. -
Performance Regimes amidst Governance Complexity
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2009-017 is forthcoming in the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory -
Implications of Climate Policy in a Carbon-Intensive Region: Estimating Abatement costs under Deep Policy Uncertainty
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2009-015 -
State and Federal Aid to Wisconsin School Districts in Fiscal Year 2010
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2009-014 -
New Estimates of Public Employment and Training Program Net Impacts: A Nonexperimental Evaluation of the Workforce Investment Act Program
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2009-013 -
Does Debt Discourage Employment and Payment of Child Support? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2009-012 -
Third-Party Governance under No Child Left Behind: Accountability and Performance Management Challenges
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2009-011 was published in 2010 as “Third-Party Governance under No Child Left Behind: Accountability and Performance Management Challenges in Supplemental Educational Services Provision” in Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 20(1): 59-80. -
Supplemental Education Services under No Child Left Behind: Who Signs Up, and What Do They Gain?
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2009-010 was published in 2010 in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 32 (June): 273-298. -
Financial Literacy Programs Targeted on Pre-School Children: Development and Evaluation
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2009-009 -
Private Information and the Monetary Model of Exchange Rates: Evidence from a Novel Data Set
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2009-008 -
Enhancing the Feasibility of School Finance Reform
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2009-007 -
The Growth of Homeowner Property Taxes: Evidence from Wisconsin
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2009-006 -
Is University of Wisconsin Education Becoming More Elite? A Partial Answer
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2009-005 -
Pitfalls in Measuring Exchange Rate Misalignment: The Yuan and Other Currencies
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2009-002 -
What Does It Mean to be Poor in a Rich Society?
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2009-001 -
One Standard Fits All? The Pros and Cons of Performance Standard Adjustments
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2008-023 -
The Design and Dynamics of Performance Measurement Systems in the Public Sector
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2008-022 was published in 2010 as “Incentives and their Dynamics in Public Sector Performance Management Systems.” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 29(1): 183-208. -
The Potential of a Couples Approach to Employment Assistance: Results of a Nonexperimental Evaluation
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2008-021 has been published in Review of Economics of the Household 7(2) 2009: 133-158. -
The Network Governance of Crisis Response: Case Studies of Incident Command Systems
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2008-020; an abbreviated version was published in 2009 in the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 19(4): 895-915. -
A Faith-Based Initiative: Does a Flexible Exchange Rate Regime Really Facilitate Current Account Adjustment?
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2008-019 -
Beyond Access: Explaining Socioeconomic Differences in College Transfer
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2008-017 -
Happiness as a Complex Financial Phenomenon: The Financial and Psychological Adjustment to Widowhood in the U.S.
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2008-016 -
Nonlinearities, Business Cycles and Exchange Rates
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2008-015 -
Long-Term Effects of Public Low-Income Housing Vouchers on Work, Earnings, and Neighborhood Quality
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2008-013 -
Interpreting Interim Deviations from Cost Projections for Publicly Supported Energy Technologies
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2008-012 -
Private Information and the Monetary Model of Exchange Rates: Evidence from a Novel Data Set
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2008-011 -
Cost Containment for Climate Policy Requires Linked Technology Policies
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2008-010 -
Grandparents to Grandchildren Transfers: The Potential Importance to Younger Families’ Economic Stability
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2008-009 -
A Faith-Based Initiative: Do We Really Know that a Flexible Exchange Rate Regime Facilitates Current Account Adjustment?
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2008-008 -
The Euro May over the Next 15 Years Surpass the Dollar as Leading International Currency
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2008-007 -
Demand Subsidies Versus R&D: Comparing the Uncertain Impacts of Policy on a Pre-Commercial Low-Carbon Energy Technology
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2008-006 -
Education and Labor Market Consequences of Teenage Childbearing: Evidence Using the Timing of Pregnancy Outcomes and Community Fixed Effects
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2008-004 -
Child Mental Health and Human Capital Accumulation: The Case of ADHD Revisited
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2008-003 -
Explaining Turnover Intention in State Government: Examining the Roles of Gender, Life Cycle and Loyalty
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2008-002 -
Master or Servant? Agency Slack and the Politics of IMF Lending
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2007-039 -
Choose Your Weapon: International Trade Agreements and Exchange Rate Policy Choice
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2007-038 -
Uncertainty, Context, and the Duration of International Agreements
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2007-036 -
The Effects of Family Caps on the Subsequent Fertility Decisions of Never-Married Mothers
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2007-035 -
The Effect of Child Support Enforcement Efforts on Nonmarital Fertility and Marriage
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2007-034 -
A New Measure of Financial Openness
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2007-033 -
A Decade of Innovation in EU Governance: The European Employment Strategy, the Open Method of Coordination, and the Lisbon Strategy
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2007-031 -
China’s Current Account and Exchange Rate
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2007-030 -
Price-based Measurement of Financial Globalization: A Cross-Country Study of Interest Rate Parity
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2007-029 -
Public Service Motivation and Interpersonal Citizenship Behavior in Public Organizations: Testing a Preliminary Model
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2007-028 -
The Ties that Bind: Social Networks, Person-Organization Fit and Turnover Intention
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2007-027 -
Measuring How Administration Shapes Citizenship: A Policy Feedback Perspective on Performance Management
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2007-026 is published in Public Administration Review 68(5): 908-920. -
How do Public Organizations Learn? Bridging Cultural and Structural Perspectives
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2007-025 has been published in Public Administration Review 69(6): 1097-1105. -
East Asia and Global Imbalances: Saving, Investment, and Financial Development
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2007-024 -
Property Tax Responses to State Aid Cuts in the Recent Fiscal Crisis
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2007-023 -
Strengthening the Social Dimension of the Lisbon Strategy
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2007-022 -
The Normative Model in Decline? Public Service Motivation in the Age of Governance
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2007-021 -
Learning from Difference: The New Architecture of Experimentalist Governance in the European Union
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2007-020 -
Cost-Benefit Analysis Involving Addictive Goods: Using Contingent Valuation to Estimate Willingness to Pay to Eliminate Addiction
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2007-019 -
Access to Higher Education: Exploring the Variation among Research Universities in the Prevalence of Pell Grant Recipients
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2007-018 -
Two Essays in International Finance: Interest Rate Parity and the Forward Premium Puzzle
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2007-014 -
Global Current Account Imbalances: American Fiscal Policy versus East Asian Savings
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2007-012 -
Inequality and Health: Is Housing Crowding the Link?
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2007-011 -
The Gap in Employment of High-Income Professionals in Wisconsin
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2007-010 -
Wisconsin's Border Counties
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2007-009 -
Living Costs and Taxes in Wisconsin
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2007-008 -
Migration To and From Wisconsin
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2007-007 -
Perspectives on Economic Development from Site Selection Magazine
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2007-006 -
Choosing the Right Pond: What are Appropriate Comparison Cities for Wisconsin's Metropolitan Areas?
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2007-005 -
The Case for Counter-Cyclical Fiscal Capacity
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2007-004 -
Finding Workable Levers over Work Motivation: Comparing Job Satisfaction, Job Involvement and Organizational Commitment
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2007-003 is published in Administration & Society 39(7): 803-832. -
The Overvaluation of Renminbi Undervaluation
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2007-002 -
Economic Conditions and Poverty: A Comparison of the 1980s and 1990s
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2006-031 -
An Assessment of Several Marriage Market Related Explanations for the Decline in Female Marriage Rates Between 1970 and 1980
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2006-030 -
What Makes Hierarchical Networks Succeed? Evidence from Hurricane Katrina
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2006-029 -
Current Account Balances, Financial Development and Institutions: Assaying the World Savings Glut
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2006-027 -
The Color of Devolution: Race, Federalism, and the Politics of Social Control
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2006-026 -
A Public Transformed? Welfare Reform as Policy Feedback
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2006-025 -
The Illusion of Precision and the Role of the Renminbi in Regional Interaction
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2006-023 -
The Chicago O'Hare Expansion: A Case Study of Administrative Manipulation of Benefit-Cost Principles
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2006-022 -
Generational Income Mobility: A Review Essay
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2006-021 -
Do Youth Nonmarital Childbearing Choices Reflect Expected Income and Relationship Consequences?
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2006-020 -
The Sufficiency of Retirement Savings: A Comparison of Two Cohorts of Retired Workers at the Time of Retirement
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2006-019 -
ICT Use in the Developing World: An Analysis of Differences in Computer and Internet Penetration
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2006-017 -
Conventional and Unconventional Approaches to Exchange Rate Modeling and Assessment
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2006-016 -
Challenges of the New Regulation
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2006-015 -
Public and Private Regulation of Organ Transplantation: Liver Allocation and the Final Rule
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2006-013 -
Fiscal Conditions in Selected Metropolitan Areas
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2006-011 -
The Legacy of Rodriguez: Three Decades of School Finance Reform in Texas
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2006-010 -
Expectations and Exchange Rate Policy
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2006-008 -
The U.S. Current Account Deficit and the Expected Share of World Output
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2006-007 -
Taylor Rules and the Deutschmark Dollar Real Exchange Rate
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2006-006 -
The Taxpayer Protection Amendment: A Preliminary Analysis
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2006-003 -
Gender Issues and Social Security Reform: Assessing the Role of Social Security and Personal Savings in Well-Being During Retirement
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2006-002 -
Will the Euro Eventually Surpass the Dollar as Leading International Reserve Currency?
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2006-001 -
Economic Inequality in College Access, Matriculation, and Graduation
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2005-032 -
Work and Earnings of Low-Skill Women: Do Survey Response and Administrative Records Provide Consistent Information?
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2005-031 -
SCHIP Expansion and Parental Coverage: An Evaluation of Wisconsin's BadgerCare
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2005-030 -
Why the Renminbi Might be Overvalued (But Probably Isn't)
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2005-029 -
Learning under Uncertainty: Networks in Crisis Management
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2005-028 has been published in Public Administration Review 68(2): 350-361 -
Bureaucratic Red Tape and Organizational Performance: Testing the Moderating Role of Culture and Political Support
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2005-026 -
Ambiguity in Policy Lessons: The Agencification Experience
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2005-025 has been published in Public Administration 84(4): 1029-1050. -
Three Current Account Balances: A "Semi-Structuralist" Interpretation
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2005-024 -
Crisis Management Policy and Hierarchical Networks
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2005-022 -
What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Performance? Dialogue Theory and Performance Budgeting
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2005-021 -
A Primer on Real Effective Exchange Rates: Determinants, Overvaluation, Trade Flows and Competitive Devaluation
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2005-019 -
Child Support in the United States: An Uncertain and Irregular Income Source?
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2005-017 -
Knowledge of Child Support Policy Rules: How Little We Know
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2005-016 -
Doomed to Deficits? Aggregate U.S. Trade Flows Re-Examined
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2005-015 -
The Puzzle of Private Rulemaking: Expertise, Flexibility, and Blame Avoidance in Regulation
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2005-014 -
What Does Increased Economic Inequality Imply about the Future Level and Dispersion of Human Capital?
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2005-013 -
Do Newly Retired Workers in the U.S. Have Sufficient Resources to Maintain Well-Being?
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2005-012 -
What Matters for Financial Development? Capital Controls, Institutions, and Interactions
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2005-007 -
Does No Child Left Behind Place a Fiscal Burden on States? Evidence from Texas
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2005-006 -
Assessing the Use of Econometric Analysis in Estimating the Costs of Meeting State Education Accountability Standards: Lessons from Texas
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2005-005 -
The Political Roots of Disability Claims: How State Environments and Policies Shape Citizen Demands
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2005-004 -
How Far Has the Dollar Fallen?
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2005-003 -
Enhancing Criminal Sentencing Options in Wisconsin: The State and County Correctional Partnership
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2005-002 -
Social Europe and Experimental Governance: Towards a New Constitutional Compromise?
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2005-001 -
Understanding Racial Disparities in Health: The Income-Wealth Paradox
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2004-008 -
The Impact of State Government Fiscal Crises on Local Governments and Schools
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2004-007 -
Institutionalizing Neutrally Competent Policy Analysis: Resources for Promoting Objectivity and Balance in Consolidating Democracies
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2004-006 -
The Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR): A Solution to Wisconsin's Fiscal Problems or a Prescription for Future Fiscal Crises?
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2004-004 -
The Political Economy of School Choice
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2004-002 -
Macroeconomic Management and Financial Stability: The Implications for East Asia
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2004-001 -
Dolphins and Tuna, Shrimp and Turtles: An American Tale or Policymaking Goes Global?
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2003-005 -
Policy Transfer Versus Varieties of Capitalism in Environmental Policy
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2003-004 -
Changing Regulatory Systems
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2003-003 -
Universal Preschool: Much to Gain but Who Will Pay?
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2003-002 -
The Devil May Be in the Details: How the Characteristics of SCHIP Programs Affect Take-Up
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2003-001 -
Thirty Years of Business and Politics
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2002-005 -
Spots and Leopards: The Capacity of Systems to Change; First Impression
A consideration of David Vogel's book National Styles of Regulation. La Follette School Working Paper No. 2002-004 -
In the Shadows of Social Democracy? U.S. Unions in a Time of Adversity
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2002-003 -
Importing Cooperation
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2002-002 -
Health Inequality between Black and White Women
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2002-001 -
Globalization, Internationalization and U.S. Interest Groups
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2001-003 -
The Dual Motives of Interest Group Research
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2001-002 -
Lost in the Balance: How State Policies Affect the Fiscal Health of Cities
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2001-001 -
Searching for a Way off Welfare: A Structural Competing Risk Model of AFDC Durations
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2000-003 -
Internationalization, Globalization and Policy Making: The Case of U.S. Agriculture
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2000-002 -
Globalization, Internationalization and Policy Networks in the U.S.
La Follette School Working Paper No. 2000-001 -
Accountability and Internationalization
La Follette School Working Paper No. 1999-001 -
Private and Public Education in Wisconsin
La Follette School Working Paper No. 1995-002 -
Fifth-Year Report: Milwaukee Parental Choice Program
La Follette School Working Paper No. 1995-001 -
Fourth-Year Report: Milwaukee Parental Choice Program
La Follette School Working Paper No. 1994-001
Policy Report
La Follette School faculty have provided evidence-based information to policymakers for decades. To make our work more accessible to a wider audience, our Policy Reports highlight summaries of recent research, helping extending the reach of the University of Wisconsin–Madison far beyond campus.
Policy Report
Policy Primers
Funding Public Education in Wisconsin: The Property Tax-School Funding Dilemma
Other Publications
Public Safety and Assistant District Attorney Staffing in Wisconsin, 2010 - 2011
The Unmet Needs of the Menominee Nation: Challenges and Opportunities, 2007-2008