Browsing La Follette Working Papers by Issue Date
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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, ... -
Understanding Racial Disparities in Health: The Income-Wealth Paradox
(2004)The authors examine the ways in which racial differences in health vary over the income-wealth distribution, comparing the self-reported health status of non-Hispanic whites with those of individuals of other races and ... -
The Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR): A Solution to Wisconsin's Fiscal Problems or a Prescription for Future Fiscal Crises?
(2004)Facts do not support arguments in favor of an amendment to Wisconsin's constitution to limit government spending and taxing authority. The amendment's proposal to tie growth in per-capita or per-public spending to ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Why the Renminbi Might be Overvalued (But Probably Isn't)
(2005)The authors find that some approaches for evaluating China's renminbi imply substantial underevaluation, while others imply little or none, and other methods indicate slight overevaluation. -
Does No Child Left Behind Place a Fiscal Burden on States? Evidence from Texas
(2005)The federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 requires states to establish goals for all students and for groups of students characterized by race, ethnicity, poverty, disability and limited English proficiency. The ... -
A Primer on Real Effective Exchange Rates: Determinants, Overvaluation, Trade Flows and Competitive Devaluation
(2005)The author discusses alternative measures of effective exchange rates in the context of their theoretical underpinnings and actual construction. Focusing on contemporary indices and recently developed econometric ... -
Crisis Management Policy and Hierarchical Networks
(2005)In crisis situations, good public management combines the virtues of networks and hierarchies. For most complex emergencies, no single organization can comprehensively meet the challenge, so a network becomes necessary. ... -
Bureaucratic Red Tape and Organizational Performance: Testing the Moderating Role of Culture and Political Support
(2005)While targeting bureaucratic red tape is a component of most real-world efforts to improve the effectiveness of government agencies, academic work has not attempted to understand and develop the implications of ... -
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 ... -
What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Performance? Dialogue Theory and Performance Budgeting
(2005)Published in Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. This paper examines the Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART) in the federal budgeting process. The early evidence on PART prompts the search for a ... -
The Political Roots of Disability Claims: How State Environments and Policies Shape Citizen Demands
(2005)By examining a model of welfare demand in the Social Security Disability Insurance and the Supplemental Security Income programs, the authors test the hypothesis that state environments shape aggregate rates of welfare ... -
What Does Increased Economic Inequality Imply about the Future Level and Dispersion of Human Capital?
(2005)With longitudinal data on 1,200 children, the authors consider whether the persistent increase in economic inequality among families and geographic areas has implications for the levels of educational attainment of ... -
Do Newly Retired Workers in the U.S. Have Sufficient Resources to Maintain Well-Being?
(2005)This paper explores whether older adults have the resources they need beyond Social Security to maintain economic well-being after they retire. The discussion examines motivations for accumulating wealth to save for ... -
The Puzzle of Private Rulemaking: Expertise, Flexibility, and Blame Avoidance in Regulation
(2005)Private regulation of transplant organs instead of traditional control by a government agency may surprise some observers, but the practice lends itself to quick decision-making by experts and lets the politicians ... -
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 ... -
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. -
Supply Capacity, Vertical Specialization and Tariff Rates: The Implications for Aggregate U.S. Trade Flow Equations
(2005)This paper re-examines aggregate and disaggregate import and export demand functions for the United States. This re-examination is warranted because income elasticities are too high to be warranted by standard theories ... -
Work and Earnings of Low-Skill Women: Do Survey Response and Administrative Records Provide Consistent Information?
(2005)The authors find substantial differences in mean earnings and mean employment rates between survey data and Unemployment Insurance data.