Maxwell School News
Hou study on budget requirements and state spending published in Public Budgeting & Finance
What Makes Them Tick?
Peg Hermann is a pioneer in the field of political psychology, creating a new method for analyzing what political leaders are like — and for anticipating what they might do next.
See related: Autonomous Systems, International Affairs
Community Engagement for Improving Livelihood of Youth in Ghana’s Cocoa Sector
In Memoriam: Professor William D. Duncombe
See related: In Memoriam
Rothenberg paper on collective action in Sierra Leone communities published in The Economic Journal
See related: Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Flores Lagunes article on quantile treatment effects of Job Corps on wages published in JHR
Flores-Lagunes study on Job Corps training and wages published in American Economic Review
Wilcoxen article on China's carbon tax and climate talks published in East Asia Forum
See related: China
Wilcoxen chapter on an economic approach to general equilibrium modeling featured in Handbook
See related: Labor
Wilcoxen chapter on energy, the environment and US economic growth featured in Handbook
Wilcoxen chapter on the G-Cubed model featured in Handbook
See related: Trade
Hou article on public-private partnerships in transitional economies published in PA Review
Baltagi study on standardized LM tests published in The Econometrics Journal
Baltagi study on spatial panel data with random effects published in Econometric Reviews
Messy Data
Political scientist Colin Elman is helping change the way qualitative research is standardized, stored, and shared.
Aligned Against Violence
A tragedy in Ashlee Newman’s family created a new legislative advocate.
New Robertson Fellows Named
Among graduate students at Maxwell this fall are its two new Robertson fellows — the third pair funded by the Robertson Foundation for Government.
Published
The journal Chronos celebrates the best of undergraduate scholarship in the field of history — as judged by undergraduates themselves.
Stories from the Grave
Bioarchaeologist Shannon Novak is marrying physical and social science to capture the life stories of New York City church congregants who died well more than a century ago.