2025 Annual Student Conference
February 21st, 2025
The O'Neill Ph.D. Student Association (OPSA) invites you to participate in the 25th Annual OPSA Conference. The conference is Friday, Feb. 21, courtesy of the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington, and the 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.
Tina Nabatchi (SPEA '07), the Joseph A. Strasser Endowed Professor in Public Administration and a professor of public administration and international affairs in the Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs, Syracuse University, will attend as our keynote speaker.
- Feb. 20, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Mentoring Session with Speaker, A225
- Feb. 21, 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Student Conference
- Feb. 21, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Reception and Awards Ceremony at O’Neill First Floor Commons
8:30 - 9:00 am Opening Remarks and Breakfast
Room: O'Neill 3rd Floor Graduate Lounge
9:00 - 10:15 am - Research Design Session I
Topic: Technology, Policy, and Governance
Room: A335
Chair: Mitchell Berg
Discussants: Emily Mee and Xiaochun Zhu
Alex Yunchen Zhu | Lose-lose or win-win? Examining the Effects of AI-driven Applications on Decision Making in Public Organizations |
Ashlea Raemer | Exploring smartphone use during civil society convenings |
Sieun Lee | The Heterogeneous Effects of Large and Small Minimum wage Changes on Local Government Employment |
Courtney L. Hahm | “No New Friends” – Inclusion Regulation Impacts on Willingness to Co-Produce in Foster Care |
10:25 AM - 11:40 AM - Full Paper Session I
Topic: Public Service and Behavior
Room: A335
Chair: Matthew Baggetta
Discussants: Julie A. Beasley and Juwon Chung
Marylis Fantoni | The role of fear in psychological costs: an experiment of domestic violence reporting |
Shaun Khurana | The Allyship Effect: Nonprofit Help with Administrative Burden |
Rachel Cash | Donor Advised Funds and Project 2025 |
Faisal Cheema and James Perry | Self-Determination Theory and Turnover Intention: Testing the Mediating Effect of Public Service Motivation |
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM - Keynote Speaker and Lunch
Feel free to collect your lunch and take it to Room A221 for the keynote address.
Keynote Speaker:
Room: A221
Tina Nabatchi
Joseph A. Strasser Endowed Professor in Public Administration and a professor of public administration and international affairs in the Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs, Syracuse University.
"Clocks, Clouds, and Collaboration: The Evolution of a Research Agenda"
Abstract: In this talk, Tina Nabatchi will explore how her research agenda has evolved over time. She’ll begin with a “clocks and clouds” metaphor that helps frame the kinds of ‘big’ questions that interest her. She’ll then turn to collaboration and collaborative governance, explaining how her research has shifted from studying specific processes to building frameworks and theory to empirical testing. She will illustrate this evolution with her current project, “The Atlas of Collaboration,” which is an attempt to build a large-n database on collaborative governance that contains multi-level and multi-type data that span and connect individuals, structures, processes, outputs, and outcomes.
2:00 - 3:15 pm - Full Paper Session II
Topic: Policy Impacts and Outcomes
Room: A201
Chair: Nicole Siegal
Discussants: Wooserk Park and Sih-Ting Cai
Dario Salcedo | In-Kind Reparations, Wellbeing, and Mental Health Conditions: Evidence from the Colombian Land Restitution Program |
Ben Hellerstein | Estimating the effect of energy disclosure requirements on building energy use |
Lady Ikeya | Balancing the Bottom Line: Personnel Costs, Input Choices, and Patient Outcomes in Nursing Homes |
3:25 - 4:40 pm - Research Design Session II
Topic: Environmental Policy and Markets
Room: 201
Chair: Vicky Meretsky
Discussants: Luis Navarro and Madeline Yozwiak
Boy Valentin Purba | The Impact of Consumption Tax Exemptions on Electric Vehicle Sales |
Wenrui Qu | Assessing the Impact of Large-scale Solar Projects on Nearby Property Values in the United States |
Saiwen Zhang | Are catastrophic climate risks valued more? Evidence from a discrete choice experiment on willingness-to-pay |
Junying Tong | Untangling Natural Amenities and Disamenities: An Empirical Analysis of Risk Disclosure and Housing Prices in California |
