The KnowledgeBank at OSU
(40.704 recursos)
Knowledge Bank contains collections of presentations, publications and reports related to Ohio State University.
Mostrando recursos 1 - 6 de 6
1.
Viewing Spatial Consequences of Budgetary Policy Changes - Greenbaum, Robert; Desai, Anand
While the research community is often very concerned with the distributional effect of public policy decisions, the geographic distribution of the affected populations is often overlooked. This paper argues that seemingly geographically neutral policies have spatial consequences and that the choice of how to measure them is important. We suggest that maps produced by geographical information systems (GIS) provide a powerful tool for communicating these ideas to policy makers. We further suggest that GIS supplemented by spatial statistics yield geographic information that can perform a valuable function in policy debates. We use the recent proposed changes in Medicaid expenditures in...
2.
Estimating the Restoration and Modernization Costs of Infrastructure and Facilities - Lufkin, Peter; Desai, Anand; Janke, Jay
Under spending for the maintenance of public facilities and infrastructure is a well-known issue. At least part of the problem can be attributed to our poor understanding of precisely what funding is required. Methodological limitations diminish the credibility of budget estimates that, for many agencies, are based on ad hoc approximations or historical trends. Estimates based on physical inspections are more defensible, but are expensive and more useful for defining remedial projects than estimating future budget requirements.
Carefully defining facility restoration and modernization (R&M) requirements yields a collection of determinantsincluding obsolescence, changing uses, and extraordinary damageclosely related to the concept of...
3.
Decomposing the impacts: Lessons from a multistate analysis of enterprise zone programs - Bondonio, Daniele; Greenbaum, Robert
This paper exploits the exogenous variation of the U.S. state enterprise zone policies to estimate the impact of geographically- targeted tax incentives on a number of dimensions of local economic growth. The econometric analysis uses plant-level data from 11 state programs to sort out growth outcomes into gross flows separately accounted for by new, existing, and vanishing establishments in the target areas. The paper extends the literature by moving beyond a dichotomous treatment indicator to incorporate the contribution of a number common zone policy features. Although the findings of no net mean impacts of the zone programs on various measure...
4.
Do High Technology Policies Work? An Analysis of High Technology Industry Employment Growth in U.S. Metropolitan Areas, 1988-1998 - Jenkins, J. Craig; Leicht, Kevin T; Jaynes, Arthur
In the past three decades, federal, state and local governments have launched an array of new high technology development programs. Researchers and policy-makers disagree about the relative merits of these policies as economic development tools. We address two questions: (1) Do these policies affect high technology industry employment net of location and agglomeration factors? (2) Do these policies interact with existing agglomeration advantages to boost high technology industry employment? Using a conditional change score design to examine the effects of seven major high technology policies on the change in high technology industry employment in metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) between 1988...
5.
Privacy and Access to Public Records in the Information Age - Bermann, Sol
Paper presented on February 7, 2006 at a full-day conference co-sponsored by Battelle Memorial Institute and the John Glenn Institute for Public Service and Public Policy, to examine the intersection of 21st century technology and personal privacy.
6.
Using Consumer Information to Improve Recalls - Hooker, Neil H.; Shang, Wenjing
Paper presented on February 7, 2006 at a full-day conference co-sponsored by Battelle Memorial Institute and the John Glenn Institute for Public Service and Public Policy, to examine the intersection of 21st century technology and personal privacy.
1.
