Browsing La Follette Working Papers by Title
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Knowledge of Child Support Policy Rules: How Little We Know
(2005)People participating in a demonstration project on Wisconsin child support and welfare had little knowledge about child support policy rules. This research, one of the few that examine how much individuals know about ... -
Leadership and Reform: Mapping the Causal Pathways of Performance Information Use
(2009)The authors examine how leadership fosters performance data and influences the implementation of management reforms. They suggest that transformational leadership has a positive but indirect effect on the use of performance ... -
Learning from Difference: The New Architecture of Experimentalist Governance in the European Union
(2007)The authors identify distinctive and surprisingly effective innovations that have emerged in European Union governance. These innovations might inform the next round of efforts to render the institutions of European ... -
Learning under Uncertainty: Networks in Crisis Management
(2005)This paper examines the nature of learning in networks dealing with conditions of high uncertainty. It applies Koppenjan and Klijns (2004) framework for understanding network uncertainty to an extreme example: an ... -
The Legacy of Rodriguez: Three Decades of School Finance Reform in Texas
(2006)This paper explores the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 Rodriquez ruling that said Texas's heavy reliance on the local property tax to fund public education did not violate the equal protection clause ... -
Living Costs and Taxes in Wisconsin
(2007)The author takes on the task of looking at how the cost of living, including taxes, affects migration to Wisconsin, especially the decisions of young, highly educated people to relocate in the Badger State. -
Local Air Quality and Climate Policy: Valuing Ancillary Benefits When the Debate is about Minimizing Costs
(2009-11-24)While air quality co-benefits have been prominently portrayed as a hedge against uncertainty in climate policy, this assessment finds that full inclusion of co-benefits depends on?rather than substitutes for?better valuation ... -
Long-Term Effects of Public Low-Income Housing Vouchers on Work, Earnings, and Neighborhood Quality
(2008)This analysis of the federal Section 8 housing voucher program finds that voucher recipients live in better neighborhoods within five years of receiving vouchers. The results also show that voucher receipt initially causes ... -
Lost in the Balance: How State Policies Affect the Fiscal Health of Cities
(2001)Fiscal problems in central cities, disparities with suburbs and how state governments cope are addressed in this examination of intergovernmental aid in California, New York and Wisconsin. The authors offer recommendations ... -
Macroeconomic Management and Financial Stability: The Implications for East Asia
(2004)The determinants of economic and financial linkages between developed and developing countries, with special focus on East Asia, are explored. The paper discusses recent efforts to reform the international financial ... -
Master or Servant? Agency Slack and the Politics of IMF Lending
(2007)This paper argues that states and International Monetary Fund bureaucrats exercise partial but incomplete control over the fund’s lending policies. Using an original dataset of IMF lending to 47 countries from 1984-2003, ... -
Measuring How Administration Shapes Citizenship: A Policy Feedback Perspective on Performance Management
(2007)Governments' emphasis on gauging the outcomes of social programs generally do not measure how a policy affects an individual's role as citizen. The authors argue that performance management systems should focus on ... -
Measuring Misalignment: Latest Estimates for the Chinese Yuan
(2010-06)The authors re-orient the discussion of currency misalignment back toward theory and empirics. They set forth a typology of modeling approaches to assess misalignment to highlight the difficulties in theoretically defining ... -
Migration To and From Wisconsin
(2007)Wisconsin exports more college graduates than it imports, with a net 7,000 people with bachelor's degrees leaving, the authors discover. More educated people leave Wisconsin for Chicago and Minneapolis/St. Paul than ... -
The Network Governance of Crisis Response: Case Studies of Incident Command Systems
(2008)This examination of hierarchical incident command systems (ICS) used in crises explores how the network properties of crisis responses fundamentally affect ICS operations in terms of coordination, authority and trust. -
New Estimates of Public Employment and Training Program Net Impacts: A Nonexperimental Evaluation of the Workforce Investment Act Program
(2009)Two federal job training programs for adults lead to higher wages in the long run. People with poor work histories who enrolled in training through the Workforce Investment Act's Adult Program initially had lower wages, ... -
A New Measure of Financial Openness
(2007)In creating an index that measures the extent of openness in capital account transactions, the authors address the lack of proper ways of measuring the extent of the openness in cross-border financial transactions. The ... -
Nonlinearities, Business Cycles and Exchange Rates
(2008)The paper brings together the literature on exchange rate models and monetary policy models, with special reference to the importance of output, inflation gaps and exchange rate targets. It focuses on the dollar/euro ... -
The Normative Model in Decline? Public Service Motivation in the Age of Governance
(2007)This paper examines how public management reforms that foster market values (through performance measurement, financial incentives and contracting out) crowd-out the public service motivation of employees. The flaws of the ... -
One Standard Fits All? The Pros and Cons of Performance Standard Adjustments
(2008)Public performance measurement systems rarely use formal performance standards adjustment procedures. After weighing the pros and cons and describing processes, the authors recommend how public sector performance measurement ...