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22nd Annual Student Conference

February 25, 2022

The O'Neill Ph.D. Student Association (OPSA) invites you to participate in the 22^nd Annual OPSA Conference. The conference is this Friday, courtesy of the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington.

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. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are working closely with program and school administration to support current public health initiatives.

8:30 - 9:00 am Breakfast and Welcome from Dean Mooney

Room: A100 (O'Neill 1st floor commons)

9:00 - 9:50 am - Paper Session 1

Governance & Management I
Room: A223
Chair: Jennifer Brass

Shannon Conley

Collaboration Crowding: Imbedded Multi-Jurisdictional Control in Common Pool Resources

Marylis Fantoni, Claudia Avellaneda

Explaining Paradiplomacy: Do local pro-international structures matter?

Shaun Khurana

Under What Flag: Can Strategic Essentialism Minimize Transaction Costs in Co-Production?

Policy Analysis and Public Finance I
Room: 169
Chair: Justin Ross

Luis Navarro	Vertical Fiscal Externalities and Municipal Bankruptcy: Theory and Evidence
Faisal Saeed Cheema	Growth of Government Expenditure in the US: An Appraisal of Modern Monetary Theory
Madeline Yozwiak	A comment on the puzzle of “regulated equity returns”

10:00 - 10:50 am - Paper Session 2

Governance & Management II
Room: A223
Chair: Sergio Fernandez

Ting-An-Xu Liu & Tima Moldogaziev

Urban Government Performance and Perceived Corruption in Context: Empirical Evidence from Taipei

Euipyo Lee

The Lagged Effects of Organizational Culture on the Organizational Citizenship Behavior: A Multi-Level Analysis

Breck Wightman

Holding Out for a Hero: Linking Vacancy Duration and Managerial Fit

Policy Analysis and Public Finance II
Room: 169
Chair: Coady Wing

John Stavick	Does Employee Turnover Reduce Organizational Performance? Evidence from State Health Departments and COVID Vaccinations
Laura Montenovo	The Effects of Weakening Employment Protection on Firms' Size and Productivity: Evidence from Two Italian Reforms
Janet Jock et al.	Effects of pension eligibility expansion on men’s cognitive function: findings from the HAALSI cohort in rural South Africa

11:00 am Lunch distribution

Orange Lounge (lounge area outside of 167 and 169)

Feel free to collect your lunch and take it to Room 169 for the keynote address.

11:30 am - 1:00 pm - Virtual Keynote Speaker

Frances Berry, Florida State University

Room: 169
(feel free to eat your lunch during the presentation)

1:00 - 1:50 pm - Paper Session 3

Governance & Management III
Room: A223
Chair: Tom Rabovsky

Megan Darnley, Shannon Conley

The weighted scales of administrative burden: Burden distributions and equity of service provision in higher education

Jongmin Lee, Jill Nicholson-Crotty

Administrative Burden in Nonprofit organizations : Relationship between funding and administrative burdens in Affordable Care Act (ACA) Navigators

Marylis Fantoni, Eva Witesman, Eveline Medeiros, David Hart

Lessons from Moral Exemplars

Policy Analysis and Public Finance III
Room: 169
Chair: Seth Freedman

Ju Won Chung	Negative impacts of vacant residential properties on local governments -Empirical Evidence from the counties in Indiana
Wooserk Park	Federal Response to COVID-19 and Its Impacts on Employment: Evidence from Three Employment Channels
Ashley C. Bradford, Catherine Maclean	Access to behavioral healthcare treatment and eviction outcomes.

2:00 - 3:00 pm - Workshops

Governance & Management
Room: A223
Chair: Amanda Rutherford

Jongmin Lee	Participation motivation of panel reviewers in public arts grants
Julie Beasley, Carolyn Goerner	Higher Education Paradox: How Can Mentorship in Academia Foster Representation and Gender Parity?

Policy Analysis and Public Finance
Room: 169
Chair: Landon Yoder

Rachel Cash	Foundation Associations and Public Policy
Wesley Zebrowski	Quantifying Discriminative Allocation in USDA Farm Assistance
Felipe Bravo Pena	Institutional dimensions of a (un)sustainable agriculture: The influence of rural extension services and smallholders’ social network, on the type of practices they adopt.

Association of O’Neill Ph.D. Students

Annual Conference

22nd Annual Student Conference

8:30 - 9:00 am Breakfast and Welcome from Dean Mooney

9:00 - 9:50 am - Paper Session 1

10:00 - 10:50 am - Paper Session 2

11:00 am Lunch distribution

11:30 am - 1:00 pm - Virtual Keynote Speaker

Frances Berry, Florida State University

1:00 - 1:50 pm - Paper Session 3

2:00 - 3:00 pm - Workshops

3:00 - 3:30 pm - Closing Remarks and Awards

Room: A100 (O'Neill 1st floor commons)

Annual Conference

22nd Annual Student Conference

8:30 - 9:00 am Breakfast and Welcome from Dean Mooney

9:00 - 9:50 am - Paper Session 1

10:00 - 10:50 am - Paper Session 2

11:00 am Lunch distribution

11:30 am - 1:00 pm - Virtual Keynote Speaker

Frances Berry, Florida State University

1:00 - 1:50 pm - Paper Session 3

2:00 - 3:00 pm - Workshops

3:00 - 3:30 pm - Closing Remarks and Awards

Room: A100 (O'Neill 1st floor commons)

Association of O’Neill Ph.D. Students resources