Faculty & Research Published Research Research Education Economics Social Psychology Health Policy Social Entrepreneurship Environmental Policy Ethics Leadership Racial Justice and Equity National Security Political Science Advocacy Domestic Policy & Politics International and Global Affairs Democracy Social Equity International Development Research and Commentary Facet Area of Focus - Research Craig Volden Christopher J. Ruhm Bala Mulloth Eileen Chou Benjamin Castleman Sarah Turner Edgar O. Olsen Sophie Trawalter Benjamin Converse Christine Mahoney Timothy Wilson Adam Leive James H. Wyckoff William Shobe Charles Holt Daniel W. Player Daphna Bassok Harry Harding Jay Shimshack Jeanine Braithwaite John Pepper Richard Bonnie David Leblang John Holbein Leora Friedberg Molly Lipscomb James Savage Sebastian Tello-Trillo Frederick P. Hitz Gabrielle Adams Gerald Warburg Isaac Mbiti Paul S. Martin Raymond C. Scheppach Ruth Gaare Bernheim Andrew S. Pennock Gerald Higginbotham Jazmin Brown-Iannuzzi Jennifer Lawless Michele Claibourn Noah Myung Philip Potter Facet People - Research EdPolicyWorks: Center for Education Policy and Workforce Competitiveness Center for Effective Lawmaking UVA Humanitarian Collaborative National Security Policy Center Facet UVA Partner - Research Published Research The Goldilocks Contract: The Synergistic Benefits of Combining Structure and Autonomy for Persistence, Creativity, and Cooperation Authors: Eileen Chou, Nir Halevy, Adam D. Galinsky, J. Keith Murnighan Contracts are commonly used to regulate a wide range of interactions and relationships. Yet relying on contracts as a mechanism of control often comes at a cost to motivation. Learn more Published Research Next Week, Next Month, Next Year: How Perceived Temporal Boundaries Affect Initiation Expectations Authors: Benjamin Converse, M. Hennecke To move from commitment to action, planners must think about the future and decide when to initiate. We demonstrate that planners prefer to initiate on upcoming days that immediately follow a temporal boundary. Learn more Published Research Spatial Models of Legislative Effectiveness Authors: Craig Volden, Alan Wiseman, Matt Hitt Spatial models of policymaking have evolved from the median voter theorem to the inclusion of institutional considerations such as committees, political parties, and various voting and amendment rules. Such models, however, implicitly assume that no policy is better than another at solving public policy problems and that all policy makers are equally effective at advancing proposals. Learn more Published Research Social Entrepreneurship The Role of Universities in Encouraging Growth of Technology-Based New Ventures Authors: Bala Mulloth, Bharat Rao In addition to typical university focus activities such as the education of students, dissemination of faculty research findings through publications, and partnerships with corporate firms and outreach, today, new venture creation has also gained substantial interest. In fact, universities worldwide are increasingly viewed as venues for spurring entrepreneurship and economic development. Learn more Published Research Ideology, Learning, and Policy Diffusion: Experimental Evidence Authors: Craig Volden, Daniel M. Butler, Adam Dynes, Boris Shor We introduce experimental research design to the study of policy diffusion in order to better understand how political ideology affects policymakers’ willingness to learn from one another’s experiences. Our two experiments–embedded in national surveys of U.S. municipal officials–expose local policymakers to vignettes describing the zoning and home foreclosure policies of other cities, offering opportunities to learn more. We find that: (1) policymakers who are ideologically predisposed against the described policy are relatively unwilling to learn from others, but (2) such ideological biases can be overcome with an emphasis on the policy’s success or on its adoption by co-partisans in other communities. Learn more Published Research Economics Environmental Policy Decentralization and Pollution Spillovers: Evidence from the Re-Drawing of County Borders in Brazil Authors: Molly Lipscomb, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak Learn more Published Research Ideology, Learning, and Policy Diffusion: Experimental Evidence Authors: Craig Volden, Daniel M. Butler, Adam M. Dynes, Boris Shor We introduce experimental research design to the study of policy diffusion in order to better understand how political ideology affects policymakers’ willingness to learn from one another’s experiences. Our two experiments–embedded in national surveys of U.S. municipal officials–expose local policymakers to vignettes describing the zoning and home foreclosure policies of other cities, offering opportunities to learn more. Learn more Published Research Economics Health Effects of Economic Crises Authors: Christopher J. Ruhm This analysis summarizes prior research and uses national, US state and county‐level data from 1976 to 2013 to examine whether the mortality effects of economic crises differ in kind from those of the more typical fluctuations. The tentative conclusion is that economic crises affect mortality rates (and presumably other measures of health) in the same way as less severe downturns – leading to improvements in physical health. Learn more Published Research The Changing Benefits of Early Work Experience Authors: Christopher J. Ruhm, Charles L. Baum We examine whether the benefits of high school work experience have changed over the last 20 years by comparing effects for the 1979 and 1997 cohorts of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Our main specifications suggest that the future annual earnings benefits of working 20 h per week in the senior year of high school have fallen from 17.4% for the earlier cohort, measured in 1987–1989, to 12.1% for the later cohort, in 2008–2010. Learn more Published Research Education Teacher Turnover, Teacher Quality, and Student Achievement in DCPS Authors: James H. Wyckoff, Melinda Adnot, Thomas Dee, Veronica Katz In practice, teacher turnover appears to have negative effects on school quality as measured by student performance. However, some simulations suggest that turnover can instead have large positive effects under a policy regime in which low-performing teachers can be accurately identified and replaced with more effective teachers. Learn more Published Research Social Psychology Slow Motion Increased Perceived Intent Authors: Benjamin Converse, Eugene M. Caruso, Zachary C. Burns To determine the appropriate punishment for a harmful action, people must often make inferences about the transgressor’s intent. In courtrooms and popular media, such inferences increasingly rely on video evidence, which is often played in “slow motion.” Learn more Published Research Driving technology innovation through social entrepreneurship at Prezi Authors: Bala Mulloth, Jill R. Kickul, Lisa K. Gundry Purpose There has been a profound neglect in most of the literature dealing with social entrepreneurship on the relationship between social entrepreneurship and technological innovation. 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Published Research The Goldilocks Contract: The Synergistic Benefits of Combining Structure and Autonomy for Persistence, Creativity, and Cooperation Authors: Eileen Chou, Nir Halevy, Adam D. Galinsky, J. Keith Murnighan Contracts are commonly used to regulate a wide range of interactions and relationships. Yet relying on contracts as a mechanism of control often comes at a cost to motivation. Learn more
Published Research Next Week, Next Month, Next Year: How Perceived Temporal Boundaries Affect Initiation Expectations Authors: Benjamin Converse, M. Hennecke To move from commitment to action, planners must think about the future and decide when to initiate. We demonstrate that planners prefer to initiate on upcoming days that immediately follow a temporal boundary. Learn more
Published Research Spatial Models of Legislative Effectiveness Authors: Craig Volden, Alan Wiseman, Matt Hitt Spatial models of policymaking have evolved from the median voter theorem to the inclusion of institutional considerations such as committees, political parties, and various voting and amendment rules. Such models, however, implicitly assume that no policy is better than another at solving public policy problems and that all policy makers are equally effective at advancing proposals. Learn more
Published Research Social Entrepreneurship The Role of Universities in Encouraging Growth of Technology-Based New Ventures Authors: Bala Mulloth, Bharat Rao In addition to typical university focus activities such as the education of students, dissemination of faculty research findings through publications, and partnerships with corporate firms and outreach, today, new venture creation has also gained substantial interest. In fact, universities worldwide are increasingly viewed as venues for spurring entrepreneurship and economic development. Learn more
Published Research Ideology, Learning, and Policy Diffusion: Experimental Evidence Authors: Craig Volden, Daniel M. Butler, Adam Dynes, Boris Shor We introduce experimental research design to the study of policy diffusion in order to better understand how political ideology affects policymakers’ willingness to learn from one another’s experiences. Our two experiments–embedded in national surveys of U.S. municipal officials–expose local policymakers to vignettes describing the zoning and home foreclosure policies of other cities, offering opportunities to learn more. We find that: (1) policymakers who are ideologically predisposed against the described policy are relatively unwilling to learn from others, but (2) such ideological biases can be overcome with an emphasis on the policy’s success or on its adoption by co-partisans in other communities. Learn more
Published Research Economics Environmental Policy Decentralization and Pollution Spillovers: Evidence from the Re-Drawing of County Borders in Brazil Authors: Molly Lipscomb, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak Learn more
Published Research Ideology, Learning, and Policy Diffusion: Experimental Evidence Authors: Craig Volden, Daniel M. Butler, Adam M. Dynes, Boris Shor We introduce experimental research design to the study of policy diffusion in order to better understand how political ideology affects policymakers’ willingness to learn from one another’s experiences. Our two experiments–embedded in national surveys of U.S. municipal officials–expose local policymakers to vignettes describing the zoning and home foreclosure policies of other cities, offering opportunities to learn more. Learn more
Published Research Economics Health Effects of Economic Crises Authors: Christopher J. Ruhm This analysis summarizes prior research and uses national, US state and county‐level data from 1976 to 2013 to examine whether the mortality effects of economic crises differ in kind from those of the more typical fluctuations. The tentative conclusion is that economic crises affect mortality rates (and presumably other measures of health) in the same way as less severe downturns – leading to improvements in physical health. Learn more
Published Research The Changing Benefits of Early Work Experience Authors: Christopher J. Ruhm, Charles L. Baum We examine whether the benefits of high school work experience have changed over the last 20 years by comparing effects for the 1979 and 1997 cohorts of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Our main specifications suggest that the future annual earnings benefits of working 20 h per week in the senior year of high school have fallen from 17.4% for the earlier cohort, measured in 1987–1989, to 12.1% for the later cohort, in 2008–2010. Learn more
Published Research Education Teacher Turnover, Teacher Quality, and Student Achievement in DCPS Authors: James H. Wyckoff, Melinda Adnot, Thomas Dee, Veronica Katz In practice, teacher turnover appears to have negative effects on school quality as measured by student performance. However, some simulations suggest that turnover can instead have large positive effects under a policy regime in which low-performing teachers can be accurately identified and replaced with more effective teachers. Learn more
Published Research Social Psychology Slow Motion Increased Perceived Intent Authors: Benjamin Converse, Eugene M. Caruso, Zachary C. Burns To determine the appropriate punishment for a harmful action, people must often make inferences about the transgressor’s intent. In courtrooms and popular media, such inferences increasingly rely on video evidence, which is often played in “slow motion.” Learn more
Published Research Driving technology innovation through social entrepreneurship at Prezi Authors: Bala Mulloth, Jill R. Kickul, Lisa K. Gundry Purpose There has been a profound neglect in most of the literature dealing with social entrepreneurship on the relationship between social entrepreneurship and technological innovation. The purpose of this paper is to provide new insights into that relationship by using the case of Prezi, a Budapest, Hungary-based mission-driven software company. Learn more