Worldwide, 1.6 million girls are “missing” at birth every year. One policy tool to improve the sex ratio is a conditional cash transfer that pays parents to invest in daughters,
Feb 2023
Behavioral Public Administration: Recognizing, Celebrating and Reflecting on Research Trends
Wright, B. E. (2023). Behavioral Public Administration: Recognizing, Celebrating and Reflecting on Research Trends. In Frontier Research in Behavioral Public Administration (pp. 17-24). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore. Full Article
Dec 2021
Mayors are important intergovernmental actors. Understanding how they conceptualize their roles in intergovernmental relations can help us better understand metropolitan governance. Network institutionalism and institutional role theory frame this investigation
Oct 2019
Measurement Error and the Specification of the Weights Matrix in Spatial Regression Models
While the spatial weights matrix W is at the core of spatial regression models, there is a scarcity of techniques for validating a given specification of W. I approach this problem from a
Jun 2018
Measurement Error and the Specification of W
Spatial regression models are becoming increasingly popular across the social sciences as a means of modeling spatial dependencies within data. At the core of these models is W, a connectivity
Jan 2017
Guns and Butter? Fighting Violence with the Promise of Development
There is growing awareness that development-oriented government policies may be an important counterinsurgency strategy, but existing papers are usually unable to disentangle various mechanisms. Using a regression-discontinuity design, we analyze
May 2014
Collaborative Strategies for Sustainable Cities
Baltimore, like many other cities around the globe, is redesigning local government policy and programs in order to become a more sustainable city. Sustainability, as a concept guiding public action,
Feb 2012
Reconsidering Gender Bias in Intrahousehold Allocation in India
Finding evidence of gender discrimination among children in the intrahousehold allocation of goods has often proven to be difficult. This article uses data on education expenditures in India to test
