Browsing La Follette Working Papers by Title
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Access to Higher Education: Exploring the Variation among Research Universities in the Prevalence of Pell Grant Recipients
(2007)The prevalence of low-income students at 148 public and private research universities is studied using receipt of a federal Pell Grant as a proxy for low-income status. The authors consider the factors that may contribute ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
Assessing the Use of Econometric Analysis in Estimating the Costs of Meeting State Education Accountability Standards: Lessons from Texas
(2005)This assessment examines two methodologies to determine whether school districts have sufficient funds to meet accountability standards in Texas. One of the methodologies found the funds to be insufficient, while the ... -
Assessing the Emerging Global Financial Architecture: Measuring the Trilemma’s Configurations over Time
(2009)The authors develop a methodology to characterize in an intuitive manner the choices countries have made with respect to the trilemma during the post Bretton-Woods period. -
An Assessment of Several Marriage Market Related Explanations for the Decline in Female Marriage Rates Between 1970 and 1980
(2006)This examination of the role of how marriage market conditions affected the decline in 1970-80 female marriage rates documents the importance of changes in mate availability and quality. Much of the decrease in marriage ... -
Asset-Based Measurement of Poverty
(2010-01)This paper investigates measures of poverty that rely on indicators of household net worth. The authors review and assess two main approaches: income-net worth measures and asset-poverty. They provide fresh cross-national ... -
The Benefits and Costs of the Section 8 Housing Subsidy Program: A Framework and First-Year Estimates
(2009-11)The authors provide estimates of the social benefits and costs of the Section 8 housing subsidy program. Their analysis rests on a series of studies in which they estimate the effects of voucher receipt on a variety of ... -
Beyond Access: Explaining Socioeconomic Differences in College Transfer
(2008)The authors find that college students from less educated families are more likely to transfer from four-year schools to community colleges partly because of lower levels of academic performance during freshman year. -
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 ... -
The Case for Counter-Cyclical Fiscal Capacity
(2007)The authors suggest that state governments develop "counter-cyclical fiscal capacity" to create and use financial tools to maintain spending and program stability when revenue drops. This would help avoid spending cuts ... -
Challenges of the New Regulation
(2006)The author examines new methods of environmental regulation that seek to reform the traditional "command and control." -
Changing Regulatory Systems
(2003)Discussions about national regulatory styles tend to compare the United States to other nations, and differences are often portrayed as other nations being harmonious and mutually accommodating and the United States ... -
The Chicago O'Hare Expansion: A Case Study of Administrative Manipulation of Benefit-Cost Principles
(2006)The author describes the application of benefit-cost analysis principles by the Federal Aviation Administration to a major infrastructure investment proposal: the expansion of OHare International Airport. -
Child Mental Health and Human Capital Accumulation: The Case of ADHD Revisited
(2008)The authors look at a sample of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. They confirm and extend findings by other analysts in terms of implications for schooling, and they explore implications for human ... -
Child Support in the United States: An Uncertain and Irregular Income Source?
(2005)While most mothers with child-support orders receive support, the amount they receive varies substantially, the researchers find upon examining the situations of 14,729 Wisconsin mothers with new child support ... -
China’s Current Account and Exchange Rate
(2007)The authors examine whether the Chinese exchange rate is misaligned and how Chinese trade flows respond to the exchange rate and to economic activity. They find, first, that the currency is substantially below the value ... -
Choose Your Weapon: International Trade Agreements and Exchange Rate Policy Choice
(2007)This paper examines the question of whether governments engage in "exchange rate protection" - that is, whether they actively manipulate the exchange rate and/or utilize exchange rate fluctuations as a lever to influence ... -
Choosing the Right Pond: What are Appropriate Comparison Cities for Wisconsin's Metropolitan Areas?
(2007)Using per-capita income, the authors rank Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay and Appleton/Fox River Valley against their 10 closes comparison metropolitan statistical areas. They find that Milwaukee and Madison are similar ... -
The Color of Devolution: Race, Federalism, and the Politics of Social Control
(2006)Through analysis of state-level policy decisions, the authors show how modest but consistent racial effects on policy choices combine to produce large disparities in welfare and criminal justice policies encountered ...