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A Forensic Analysis of Global Imbalances
(2011-03-26)The authors use updated data to re-examine the determinants of current account balances. They find that changes in budget balances in 2008-09 appear to have an effect in advanced current account deficit countries such as ... -
Financial Globalization and China
(2011-03)This paper looks into the relationship between financial globalization and China's economic development. The authors suggest that China may need to reform its financial institutions and systems to accommodate more market ... -
Reducing Health-Care Associated Infections: An Organizational How-To Guide
(2011-03)The authors apply concepts of organizational theory to the empirical study of efforts to improve the safety of hospital patients. By identifying elements of efforts to improve safety, they outline a model of organizational ... -
Cost-Benefit Analysis of Implementing a Sales Tax on Motor Fuels in Wisconsin
(2011-01)This cost-benefit analysis devises a mixed-tax alternative to Wisconsin's 32.9 cent excise tax on motor fuel. The authors compare their alternative to the current tax and to three variations on the current policy that take ... -
An Analysis of the Proposal to Reduce Revenue Limits for Wisconsin School Districts
(2011)If the Wisconsin governor's budget includes a mandated reduction of $500 per pupil in the sum of general aid received from the state and local property tax revenue, school districts would see an aggregate 7 percent reduction ... -
Evidence on Financial Globalization and Crises: Global Imbalances
(2011-01)The author defines global imbalances and discusses explanations for the development of large current account deficits and surpluses in key economies after 1997. He includes the saving-investment approach, the intertemporal ... -
Efficiently Reducing Corrections Costs in Wisconsin: Applying the Washington State Model
(2011-01)The authors examine evidence-based programs that can reduce crime and lower corrections costs in Wisconsin. Their cost-benefit analysis identifies nine combinations of prison population reduction and reinvestment of ... -
Education and Health in Late-Life among High School Graduates: Cognitive versus Psychological Aspects of Human Capital
(2010-12)Higher academic performance in high school plays a critical role in better health throughout life. Using data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, the report looks at links between educational attainment, high school ... -
The (Un)Productivity of American Higher Education: From "Cost Disease" to Cost-Effectiveness
(2010-12)The authors examine two explanations for why productivity in academic degrees granted by American colleges and universities is declining. First, few popular programs and strategies in higher education are cost-effective, ... -
Revenue Diversification and the Financing of Large American Central Cities
(2010-11)The authors develop the concept of constructed governments to compare the revenue-raising policies of large central cities and related overlying governments. They explore whether revenue diversification supports higher ... -
Creaming-Skimming, Parking and Other Intended and Unintended Effects of Performance-Based Contracting in Social Welfare Services
(2010-09)The authors' analysis finds that government-contracted private providers of job placement services in the Netherlands tend to focus on helping clients who are the easiest to place, a practice known as cream-skimming, when ... -
Temporary Help Work: Multiple Job-Holding and Compensating Differentials
(2010-09)The authors use a compilation of administrative data to examine hourly wages, total hours of work, and quarterly earnings to investigate whether temporary help service (THS) jobs pay a compensating differential (or wage ... -
How Credible is the Evidence, and Does It Matter? An Analysis of the Program Assessment Rating Tool
(2010-09)This study empirically examines the quality of evidence that agencies provided to the Office of Management and Budget in assessments using the Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART), which was introduced in 2002 to strengthen ... -
Reducing Child Support Debt and Its Consequences: Can Forgiveness Benefit All?
(2010-09)This evaluation of a demonstration program that targeted noncustodial parents with high levels of unpaid child support debt and offered them incentives to become regular payers finds that participants paid more toward their ... -
Improving Education and Employment for Disadvantaged Young Men: Proven and Promising Strategies
(2010-09)The authors review the evidence based on youth development policies for adolescents, programs seeking to improve educational attainment and employment for in-school youth, and programs that try to "reconnect" those who are ... -
How Large Is Wisconsin's Budget Gap for the 2011-13 Biennium?
(2010-09)With adjustments to the Legislative Fiscal Bureau's July 2010 determination of Wisconsin's fiscal condition at the beginning of the upcoming biennium, the author estimates as much as a $3 billion structural fiscal deficit ... -
Financing U.S. Debt: Is There Enough Money in the World -- and At What Cost?
(2010-08)This paper examines the potential role for foreign official holdings of U.S. Treasury securities and the associated implications for Treasury security interest rates, international portfolio allocations, net international ... -
U.S. Health Care Reform: A Primer and an Assessment
(2010-08)The authors examine the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. They describe the existing structure of the U.S. health-care system, identify its major weaknesses, describe the primary features introduced by ... -
Are Property Taxes Forcing the Elderly Out of their Homes?
(2010-08)This preliminary study finds that few of Wisconsin's elderly homeowners are forced to move from their homes because of property tax increases. Given that Wisconsin's property taxes are high compared to those in other states, ...
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