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.

Franchising and Franchise Law
Howard Yale Lederman :
Banking the poor via savings accounts: Evidence from a field experiment
Silvia Prina :
Invitation Phone Calls Increase Attendance at Civic Meetings: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Scott Hock, Sarah Anderson, Matthew Potoski

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Get Out the Vote-by-Mail? A Randomized Field Experiment Testing the Effect of Mobilization in Traditional and Vote-by-Mail Precincts
Kevin Arceneaux, Thad Kousser, Megan Mullin

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Big Five Personality Traits and Responses to Persuasive Appeals: Results from Voter Turnout Experiments
Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, David Doherty, Conor M. Dowling, Costas Panagopoulos :
The Opportunity Cost of Smaller Classes: A State-By-State Spending Analysis
Marguerite Roza, Monica Ouijdani :
Shaping Citizen Perceptions of Police Legitimacy: A Randomized Field Trial of Procedural Justice
Lorraine Mazerolle, Emma Antrobus, Sarah Bennett, Tom R. Tyler :
Shaping Citizens Perceptions of Police Legitimacy: A Randomized Field Trial of Procedural Justice
Lorraine Mazerolle, Emma Antrobus, Sarah Bennett, Tom Tyler :
Incentivizing Time Shifting of Data: A Survey of Time Dependent Pricing for Internet Access
Soumya Sen :
Precursors to Policy Innovation: How Tennessee Entered the Race to the Top
Maida A. Finch :
Mortality and Access to Care among Adults after State Medicaid Expansions
Benjamin D. Sommers, Katherine Baicker, Arnold Epstein :
Does Foreign Aid Increase Foreign Direct Investment?
Pablo Selaya, Eva Rytter Sunesen :
The provision of public goods by agriculture: Critical questions for effective and efficient policy making
Henk J. Westhoek, Koen P. Overmars, Henk van Zeijts :
Returns to Education: Exploring the Link between Legislators Public School Degrees and State Spending on Higher Education
Megan Thiel, Kristen Shorette, Catherine Bolzendahl :
Public Private Partnerships for Promotion of Cross Border Trade and Transportation
David Lick, Roger E. Hamlin :
An Evaluation of the Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness of the National Exercise Referral Scheme in Wales, UK
Simon Mark Murphy, Rhiannon Tudor Edwards, Nefyn Williams, Larry Raisanen, Graham Moore, Pat Linck, Natalia Hounsome, Nafees Ud Din, Laurence Moore :
Randomized Government Safety Inspections Reduce Worker Injuries with No Detectable Job Loss
David Levine, Michael Toffel, Matthew Johnson :
Quantifying the Advantage of Looking Forward
Tobias Preis, Helen Susannah Moat, H. Eugene Stanley, Steven R. Bishop :
Souls to the Polls: Early Voting in Florida in the Shadow of House Bill 1355
Michael C. Herron, Daniel A. Smith :
Gender Difference or Parallel Publics? The Dynamics of Defense Spending Opinions in the United States, 1965 to 2007
Richard Eichenberg, Richard Stoll :