Research Database

IPPSR is MSU’s new hub for public policy information and research. Search our summaries of scientific research with implications for public policy by inputting keywords in the search box above or browse the pages below for pertinent research.

How Not to Increase Participation in Local Government: The Advantages of Experiments When Testing Policy Interventions
Kevin Arceneaux, Daniel M. Butler :
The role of social and policy learning in changing forest governance: An examination of community based forestry initiatives in the U.S.
Renee O’Connell :
Direct-to-consumer Auto Sales: It’s not just about Tesla
Marina Lao, Debbie Feinstein, Francine Lafontaine :
Are the Non monetary Costs of Energy Efficiency Investments Large? Understanding Low Take Up of a Free Energy Efficiency Program
Meredith Fowlie, Michael Greenstone, Catherine Wolfram
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The Magical Realism of Body Counts: How media credulity and flawed Statistics sustain a controversial policy
Muhammad Idrees Ahmad :
Make Them Hear You: Participatory Defense and the Struggle for Criminal Justice Reform
Janet Moore, Marla Sandys, Raj Jayadev :
The Detroit Future City: How Pervasive Neoliberal Urbanism Exacerbates Racialized Spatial Injustice
Daniel Clement, Miguel Kanai :
Surge in Newly Identified Diabetes among Medicaid Patients in 2014 within Medicaid Expansion States under the Affordable Care Act
Harvey W. Kaufman, Zhen Chen, Vivian A. Fonseca, Michael J. McPhaul :
The Everyday Emergency: Planning and Democracy Under Austerity Regimes
Carolyn G. Loh :
Because We Can Doesnt Mean We Should and if We Do: Urban communities, Social and Economic Justice, and Local Economic-Development-Driven Eminent Domain Practices
Kirk E. Harris :
The Effects of Alcohol Excise Tax Increases on Public Health and Safety in Texas
Megan C. Diaz, Frank J. Chaloupka, David H. Jernigan :
Lead Exposure and Behavior: Effects on Aggression and Risky Behavior among Children and Adolescents
Jessica Reyes :
Evaluating Behaviorally-Motivated Policy: Experimental Evidence from the Lightbulb Market
Hunt Allcott, Dmitry Taubinsky :
A Principle or a Strategy? Voter Identification Laws and Partisan Competition in the American States
William D. Hicks, Seth C. McKee, Mitchell D. Sellers, Daniel A. Smith :
Not Too Late: Improving Academic Outcomes for Disadvantaged Youth
Philip J. Cook, Kenneth Dodge, George Farkas, Roland G. Fryer Jr, Jens Ludwig, Susan Mayer, Harold Pollack, Laurence Steinberg :
The Potential Effects of a Right to Work Law in Wisconsin
Abdur Chowdhury :
The Economic Effects of Adopting a Right-to-Work Law: Implications for Illinois
Robert Bruno, Roland Zullo, Frank Manzo IV, Alison Dickson :
Optimal Spatial Taxation: Are Big Cities Too Small?
Jan Eeckhout, Nezih Guner :
Where Have All the (White and Hispanic) Inmates Gone? Comparing the Racial Composition of Private and Public Adult Correctional Facilities
Brett C. Burkhardt :
Electoral Institutions and Electoral Cycles in Economic Development: A Field Experiment of over 3,000 municipalities
Nathan Jensen, Michael Findley, Daniel Nielson :