Rebecca Nesbit, PhD’08, now an associate professor of public administration and policy at the University of Georgia, will attend as our keynote speaker.
Last year's conference agenda remains for reference, only.
February 25, 2022
The O'Neill Ph.D. Student Association (OPSA) invites you to participate in the 22nd 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.
Room: A100 (O'Neill 1st floor commons)
Governance & Management IRoom: A223Chair: 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 IRoom: 169Chair: 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” |
Governance & Management IIRoom: A223Chair: 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 IIRoom: 169Chair: 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 |
Feel free to collect your lunch and take it to Room 169 for the keynote address.
Room: 169
(feel free to eat your lunch during the presentation)
Governance & Management IIIRoom: A223Chair: 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
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Policy Analysis and Public Finance IIIRoom: 169Chair: 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. |
Governance & ManagementRoom: A223Chair: 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 FinanceRoom: 169Chair: 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. |
