Details for our 2024 Annual Student Conference are forthcoming
February 9th, 2024
The O'Neill Ph.D. Student Association (OPSA) invites you to participate in the 24th Annual OPSA Conference. The conference is this Friday, courtesy of the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington, and Governance and Management Speaker Series. The OPSA Annual Conference highlights some of the research of current Masters and Ph.D. students. O'Neill's doctoral students have hosted the conference since 2000.
Stephanie Moulton, PhD’08, now professor and Associate Dean for Faculty and Research at the John Glenn College of Public Affairs at The Ohio State University, will attend as our keynote speaker.
- Dec. 5. Submissions open
- Jan. 10. Submissions close
- Feb. 8, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Mentoring Session with Speaker
- Feb. 9, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Student Conference
- Feb. 9, 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM Reception and Awards Ceremony at O’Neill First Floor Commons
8:30 - 9:00 am Breakfast
Room: O'Neill 3rd Floor Graduate Lounge
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM - Research Design Session I
Topic: Nonprofit Management
Room: A335
Chair: Beth Gazley
Discussant: Laura Helmke-Long
Rachel Cash | Donor Advised Funds, Anonymity and Controversial Causes |
Courtney Hahm | Too Big to Discriminate or Regulate? The Religious Exemption Effect on Performances of Nonprofit Intermediaries |
Jongmin Lee, Lanjun Peng, Joanna Woronkowicz, Doug Noonan | Fill the gap: Artists' Guaranteed income (GI) program and its application to the gap in social welfare programs |
10:35 AM - 11:50 AM - Full Paper Session I
Topic: Policy Implementation & Administrative Burden
Room: A335
Chair: Jill Nicholson-Crotty
Discussant: Xiaochun Zhu
Marylis Fantoni | At their fingertips: Online reporting of Domestic Violence as a tool to decrease administrative burden |
Emily Mee | Heterogeneous Effects of Burden: Disentangling the Impact of Information, Compliance, and Psychological Costs on Student Financial Aid Preferences |
Shaun Khurana | Nonprofit Help with Administrative Burden: Judicial Discretion in Transgender Name Changes |
Megdalynn Fisher | Government Intervention in Nursing Homes: Assessing Ownership Dynamics and Quality of Care Under Non-State Government Owned Supplemental Payment Programs |
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM - Keynote Speaker
Keynote Speaker:
Room: A221
Stephanie Moulton
Professor and Associate Dean for Faculty and Research at the John Glenn College of Public Affairs at The Ohio State University.
"Labor Outcomes of Mortgage Payment Subsidies for Unemployed Homeowners"
Policy interventions often target negative shocks to employment or housing as independent events, such as through unemployment benefits to make up for lost earnings or mortgage payment relief to prevent foreclosures. In this paper, we test the extent to which stabilizing an unemployed homeowner's housing by temporarily subsidizing the monthly mortgage payment improves long-term labor outcomes. We use data on unemployed homeowners who sought assistance through the U.S. Department of Treasury's Hardest Hit Fund program in Ohio, which provided mortgage payment assistance to unemployed homeowners for up to 15 to 18 months while they searched for a job.
Through difference-in-differences models with individual fixed effects, we find that the receipt of mortgage payment subsidies extends the duration of unemployment in the short-term but results in significantly higher wages and a higher probability of remaining employed over the long term.
2:30 - 3:45 pm - Full Paper Session II
Topic: Policy Intervention
Room: A335
Chair: Denvil Duncan
Discussant: Mallory Dreyer
Bahawal Shahryar | Is every Technological Intervention in VAT Administration a Success Story? Evidence from a Federal-level Point of Sale (POS) Retail Integration Policy in Pakistan |
Dario Salcedo, Wesley Zebrowski and Shellye Suttles | The Unintended Consequences of Monitoring Technologies: Evidence from the ELD Mandate |
Jiaen Wu, Amanda Rutherford | Is GPT a Good Civil Servant? The Evaluation of Artificial Discretion by Large Language Model |
Rachel Carpenter | Causal Effects of Source of Income Discrimination Bans on Homelessness Rates |
Topic: Economy, Budgeting, and Performance
Room: A221
Chair: Seth Freedman
Discussant: Lanjun Peng
Marc Plooster | State pension liabilities and the cost of debt: Does disclosure or recognition change the cost of debt? |
Luis Navarro | Preferences for Local Public Goods in the Gig Economy |
Lady Ikeya and Marc Plooster | Federal SALT Deduction Cap and the Impact on County Budgeting Outcomes |
Jordan Hunter, Sean Nicholson-Crotty | Working with Winners: The role of perceived organizational performance in co-production |
4:00 - 5:00 pm - Research Design Session II
Topic: Governance
Room: A335
Chair: Matthew Baggetta
Discussant: Trevor Memmott
Amanda Rutherford, Tom Rabovsky, Karl Santiago | The Role of State Politics in Shaping the Tenure and Succession of Top Managers |
Amanda Rutherford, Paolo Belardinelli, and Kyuwoong Kyeong | The Nuances of Government Transparency: An Experimental Assessment of the Effects of Polarization and Justification Strategies on Citizen Perceptions |
Ben Hellerstein | Bipartisan collaboration in environmental nonprofit organizations |
Topic: Citizen & Policy Implementation
Room: A221
Chair: Kosali Simon
Discussant: Luis Navarro
Xiaochun Zhu, Paolo Belardinelli, Temirlan T. Moldogaziev | Participatory budgeting and loss aversion: experimental evidence from China |
Shuangyu Chen | State Sales Taxes and Cross-border Shopping in Over-the-counter Drugs |
Megdalynn Fisher, Lady Ikeya, Madelyn Mustaine, John Bowblis, Kosali Simon | Racial Sorting Among Nursing Home Residents |
