Browsing La Follette Working Papers by Title
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Happiness as a Complex Financial Phenomenon: The Financial and Psychological Adjustment to Widowhood in the U.S.
(2008)Using a sample of relatively young widows and widowers, this paper examines the relationship between psychological and financial well-being of the surviving spouse. For all married and widowed men and women, wealth and ... -
Health Inequality between Black and White Women
(2002)The authors examine the inequality in health status between black and white women and to explore the extent to which such differences are associated with observed dissimilarities in characteristics such as insurance ... -
A Heckuva Job: How Management Failures Doomed the Bush Administration
(2008)This extended review examines six volumes and discusses the Bush administration from a public management perspective. -
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 ... -
How do Public Organizations Learn? Bridging Cultural and Structural Perspectives
(2007)This article presents a model of organizational learning and finds that leaders seeking to foster learning should recognize that most relevant organizational variables combine structural and cultural aspects, which are ... -
How Far Has the Dollar Fallen?
(2005)The extent of the dollar's decline relative to its peak in 2002 depends upon the composition of the basket of currencies used in calculating the dollars value. Further, the appropriate index depends upon the question ... -
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 ... -
ICT Use in the Developing World: An Analysis of Differences in Computer and Internet Penetration
(2006)The authors find evidence indicating that income, human capital, the youth dependency ratio, telephone density, legal quality and banking sector development are associated with the penetration rates of computer and ... -
The Illusion of Precision and the Role of the Renminbi in Regional Interaction
(2006)The Chinese renminbi might not be as undervalued as many analysts claim. They find that the currency might even be slightly overvalued, although they concede that this is a small possibility. Changes in China's currency ... -
The Impact of State Government Fiscal Crises on Local Governments and Schools
(2004)This paper discusses budgetary problems facing state governments, and explores the relationship between state government fiscal conditions and potential impacts on municipal governments and school districts. It ... -
Importing Cooperation
(2002)in the late 1990s, Wisconsin adapted an environmental governance model from the Netherlands and Bavaria to create Green Tier, a comprehensive approach to environmental protection that creates a new governance structure ... -
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 ... -
In the Shadows of Social Democracy? U.S. Unions in a Time of Adversity
(2002)The author suggests that the idealized European image of the social democratic labor union often does not exist, which means that American unions perhaps don't fall quite so short in contrast. -
Inequality and Health: Is Housing Crowding the Link?
(2007)The authors propose a new mechanism through which income inequality can influence health. They argue that increased income inequality induces household crowding, which in turn leads to increased rates of infectious diseases. -
Information Costs, Policy Uncertainty, and Political Control: Federal Advisory Committees at the FDA
(2009-11)The authors investigate how the Food and Drug Administration uses advisory committees in the approval of drugs and medical devices. Such committees may share policy expertise or help legitimize agency positions. Advisory ... -
Institutionalizing Neutrally Competent Policy Analysis: Resources for Promoting Objectivity and Balance in Consolidating Democracies
(2004)The creation of institutions that foster objective policy analysis can be eased if the organizations emphasize resources that include reputations of neutral competence, independence, use of professional norms, ... -
Internationalization, Globalization and Policy Making: The Case of U.S. Agriculture
(2000)With agriculture as the context, the author looks at how globalization and internationalization affect U.S. domestic policy networks and communities. -
Interpreting Interim Deviations from Cost Projections for Publicly Supported Energy Technologies
(2008)Widespread public funding of nascent energy technologies, combined with recent increases in costs the most heavily supported, has introduced a policy dilemma: should policymakers sustain these programs in anticipation cost ... -
Is University of Wisconsin Education Becoming More Elite? A Partial Answer
(2009)Family income does not affect whether the University of Wisconsin–Madison admits a student, an analysis of data from the university and census bureau finds, suggesting that family wealth does not privilege college freshmen ...