Research
Published Peer Review
”State intervention in local government fiscal distress.” Chapter 13 of Research Handbook on City and Municipal Finance, edited by Craig L. Johnson, Temirlan T. Moldogaziev, and Justin M. Ross, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2023.
"The Effects of Campus Shooting on School Finance and Student Composition." 2023. Education Finance and Policy, 18(2): 277–301. With Maithreyi Gopalan.
Coverage in Ed Week, the74, and GWToday
"Municipal Bond Sectoral Risk and Information Intermediation in Uncertain Times: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic." 2022. Public Budgeting & Finance, 42(4): 34-53. With Ruth Winecoff.
"Is There a Glass Cliff in City Management? Exploring Hiring and Departure of Female City Managers." 2022. Public Administration Review, 82(3): 570-584. With Laura Connolly and Jennifer Connolly.
summary in LSE Phelan US Centre blog
"Nonprofit Density and Distributional Equity in Public Service Provision: Exploring Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Public Park Access across U.S. Cities." 2022. Public Administration Review, 82(3): 473-486. With Yuan Cheng and Shuyi Deng.
"A Replication of 'Trade Shocks and the Provision of Local Public Goods'." 2022. Public Finance Review, 50(3): 336-376. With Ziyuan Wang and Thomas Luke Spreen.
"Fiscal Transparency or Fiscal Illusion? Housing and Credit Market Responses to Fiscal Monitoring." 2022. International Tax and Public Finance, 29: 1–29.
"Auditor or Adviser? Auditor (In)Dependence and Its Impact on Financial Management." 2021. Public Administration Review, 81(3): 475-487.
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"General Purpose Local Government Defaults: Type, Trend, and Impact." 2020. Public Budgeting & Finance, 40(4): 62-85. With Yulianti Abbas.
Coverage in Bond Buyer and Brookings
"Intergovernmental Costs of Political Gridlock: Local Government Cash Flow Smoothing during State Budgetary Delays." 2020. Public Finance Review, 48(1): 102-134.
"Not All State Authorizations for Municipal Bankruptcy are Equal: Impact of Bankruptcy Authorizations on State Primary Market Borrowing Costs." 2019. National Tax Journal, 72(2): 435-464.
"The impact of state intervention and bankruptcy authorization laws on local government deficits." 2019. Economics of Governance, 20(4): 305-328.
"Negative Externality of Fiscal Problems: Dissecting the Contagion Effect of Municipal Bankruptcy." 2019. Public Administration Review, 79(2): 156-167.
coverage in Governing
"Providing Public Services without Relying Heavily on Government Funding: How do Nonprofits Respond to Government Budget Cuts? " 2019. American Review of Public Administration, 49(6): 675-688. With Yuan Cheng.
"Financial Management Conservatism under Constraints: Tax and Expenditure Limits and Local Deficit Financing during the Great Recession." 2017. Local Government Studies, 43(6): 946-965.
summary in Institute of Local Government Studies blog
"Responsiveness of Income to Local Income Taxes: Evidence from Indiana." 2017. National Tax Journal 70(2): 367-392. With Bradley T. Heim.
"The Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Self-Employment." 2017. Health Economics 26(12): 256-273. With Bradley T. Heim.
"Indiana's Property Tax Caps: Old Idea, New Approach, and Surprising Incentives." 2015. Public Budgeting & Finance 35(4): 18-41. With Justin M. Ross and Madeline Ferrell.
Work in Progress
"School District Borrowing and Capital Spending: The Effectiveness of State Credit Enhancement."
summary in Brown Center Chalkboard commentary series of the Brookings Institute
coverage in Bloomberg
"The Elusive Fiscal Commons: Examining Fiscal Interaction among Overlapping Governments." With Jinhai Yu and Xin Chen.
"Industrial Automation and Local Public Goods." With Thomas Luke Spreen and Ziyuan Wang.