Browsing La Follette Working Papers by Title
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East Asia and Global Imbalances: Saving, Investment, and Financial Development
(2007)The paper investigates the role of budget balances, financial development and openness in the evolution of global imbalances. The authors examinine the effect of different types and aspects of financial development using ... -
Economic Inequality in College Access, Matriculation, and Graduation
(2005)This paper concerns the extent to which colleges and universities have succeeded in their desire to promote merit, foster economic mobility, and serve youth from less advantaged families. -
Economic Conditions and Poverty: A Comparison of the 1980s and 1990s
(2006)The authors first establish a benchmark for the relationship between poverty rates among family types and unemployment rates in the 1980s and 1990s. The authors then discuss possible reasons for the differences in ... -
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 ... -
Education and Labor Market Consequences of Teenage Childbearing: Evidence Using the Timing of Pregnancy Outcomes and Community Fixed Effects
(2008)The authors explore the consequences of teen childbearing to the mother using a comparison group of pregnant teens who had miscarriages. Taking into account birth control choices, the timing of miscarriages, and community ... -
The Effect of Child Support Enforcement Efforts on Nonmarital Fertility and Marriage
(2007)The author finds mixed evidence as to whether the strength of state child support enforcement affects nonmarital birth or marriage rates. In the preferred specifications, increased enforcement leads to a decrease in the ... -
The Effects of Family Caps on the Subsequent Fertility Decisions of Never-Married Mothers
(2007)The author's estimates suggest that family caps designed to reduce fertility among welfare recipients by denying additional cash assistance to those who have children do not have an effect on subsequent child-bearing among ... -
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 ... -
The Emerging Global Financial Architecture: Tracing and Evaluating New Patterns of the Trilemma Configuration
(2010-03)The authors investigate how the trilemma policy mix affects economic performance in developing countries. They find that greater monetary independence can dampen output volatility, while greater exchange rate stability is ... -
The End of an Idea? The Bush Administration and the Exhaustion of the Politicized Presidency
(2008)The most important component of the George W. Bush administration's management agenda was the extension of the politicized presidency. However, the strategy of increased tighter political control of the federal bureaucracy ... -
Enhancing Criminal Sentencing Options in Wisconsin: The State and County Correctional Partnership
(2005)The State and County Correctional Partnership proposes providing Wisconsin counties with annual block grants and imposing fees for state prison time served by felons who commit less serious crimes. This policy change ... -
Enhancing the Feasibility of School Finance Reform
(2009)This paper describes a simulation model designed to analyze school funding reform proposals in Wisconsin. It includes a parallel current law model and the capacity to show any proposal's aggregate budgetary and distributional ... -
The Euro May over the Next 15 Years Surpass the Dollar as Leading International Currency
(2008)The euro has arisen as a credible eventual competitor to the dollar as leading international currency, much as the dollar rose to challenge the pound 70 years ago. The authors find that the euro may surpass the dollar as ... -
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 ... -
Expectations and Exchange Rate Policy
(2006)Empirical evidence and theoretical discussion have long emphasized the impact of "news" on exchange rates. In most exchange rate models, the exchange rate acts as an asset price and, as such, responds to news about ... -
Explaining Export Varieties: the Role of Comparative Advantage
(2010-07)This study investigates whether the variety of products in a country's exports is explained by the country's comparative advantage. The author's model predicts greater export variety in industries that intensively use a ... -
Explaining Turnover Intention in State Government: Examining the Roles of Gender, Life Cycle and Loyalty
(2008)To understand the intent of state employees to leave their jobs, this paper looks at life-cycle, gender and loyalty. The authors find that age, experience, and geographical preference coupled with economic and family ... -
A Faith-based Initiative: Does a Flexible Exchange Rate Regime Really Facilitate Current Account Adjustment?
(2008)The authors find no strong tie between exchange rate regime flexibility and the rate of current account reversion, even after accounting for economic development, trade and capital account openness. They also find that the ... -
A Faith-Based Initiative: Do We Really Know that a Flexible Exchange Rate Regime Facilitates Current Account Adjustment?
(2008)The authors show that data do not support the assertion that a flexible exchange rate regime would facilitate current account adjustment. -
Fifth-Year Report: Milwaukee Parental Choice Program
(1995)An update to a 1994 paper, this report describes the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program and data; the participating families and students; outcomes after five years; and responses to earlier evaluations.