NEPPC Working Papers
NEPPC's most in-depth studies, these reports accessibly and thoroughly cover policy issues relevant to New England. These reports began in 2005, with report number 05-1.
In 2012, the Center's working paper series merged with the research department's working paper series.
Working Papers 2012
| Research Department Working Paper 12-1 Are American Homeowners Locked into Their Houses? The Impact of Housing Market Conditions on State-to-State Migration by Alicia Sasser Modestino and Julia Dennett |
Working Papers 2011
| NEPPC Working Paper 11-3 Childhood Lead and Academic Performance in Massachusetts by Jessica W. Reyes, Visiting Scholar from Amherst College |
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| NEPPC Working Paper 11-2 Designing Formulas for Distributing Reductions in State Aid by Bo Zhao and David Coyne |
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| NEPPC Working Paper 11-1 Municipal Aid Evaluation and Reform by Bo Zhao |
Working Papers 2010
| NEPPC Working Paper 10-4 Does Springfield Receive Its Fair Share of Municipal Aid? Implications for Aid Formula Reform in Massachusetts by Bo Zhao with Marques Benton, Lynn Browne, Prabal Chakrabarti, DeAnna Green, Yolanda K. Kodrzycki, Ana Patricia Muñoz, and Richard Walker |
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| NEPPC Working Paper 10-3 Unaffordable Housing and Local Employment Growth by Ritashree Chakrabarti and Junfu Zhang, Visiting Scholar from Clark University |
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| NEPPC Working Paper 10-2 The Fiscal Impact of Potential Local Option Taxes in Massachusetts by Bo Zhao |
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| NEPPC Working Paper 10-1 Spatial Competition and Cross-border Shopping: Evidence from State Lotteries by Brian Knight, Visiting Scholar from Brown University and Nathan Schiff, University of British Columbia |
Working Papers 2009
| NEPPC Working Paper 09-3
House Prices and Risk Sharing by Dmytro Hryshko, University of Alberta, María José Luengo-Prado, Visiting Scholar from Northeastern University, and Bent E. Sørensen, University of Houston and CEPR |
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| NEPPC Working Paper 09-2
The Role of the Housing Market in the Migration Response to Employment Shocks by Jeffrey Zabel, Visiting Scholar from Tufts University |
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| NEPPC Working Paper 09-1
Voting with Their Feet? Local Economic Conditions and Migration Patterns in New England by Alicia Sasser |
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Working Papers 2008
| NEPPC Working Paper 08-4 Public-Private Partnerships, Cooperative Agreements, and the Production of Public Services in Small and Rural Municipalities by Robert D. Mohr, Visiting Scholar from University of New Hampshire, Steven Deller, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and John Halstead, University of New Hampshire |
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| NEPPC Working Paper 08-3
The Lengthening of Childhood by David Deming and Susan Dynarski, Visiting Scholar from Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University |
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| NEPPC Working Paper 08-2
Designing State Aid Formulas: The Case of a New Formula for Distributing Municipal Aid in Massachusetts by Bo Zhao and Katharine Bradbury |
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| NEPPC Working Paper 08-1
The Dynamic between Municipal Revenue Sources and the State-Local Relationship in New England by Richard F. Dye, University of Illinois at Chicago |
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Working Papers 2007
| NEPPC Working Paper 07-4
The Labor Market for Direct Care Workers by Reagan Baughman, Visiting Scholar, and Kristin Smith, University of New Hampshire |
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| NEPPC Working Paper 07-3
The Impact of Wetlands Rules on the Prices of Regulated and Proximate Houses: A Case Study by Katherine A. Kiel, Visiting Scholar from the College of the Holy Cross |
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| NEPPC Working Paper 07-2
(November 2007) The Fiscal Impacts of College Attainment by Philip A. Trostel, Visiting Scholar from the University of Maine |
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| NEPPC Working Paper 07-1
Do Loans Increase College Access and Choice? Examining the Introduction of Universal Student Loans by Bridget Terry Long, Visiting Scholar from Harvard Graduate School of Education and NBER |
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Working Papers 2006
| NEPPC Working Paper 06-3 Measuring Disparities in Non-School Costs and Revenue Capacity among Massachusetts Cities and Towns by Katharine Bradbury and Bo Zhao |
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| NEPPC Working Paper 06-2
Measuring Fiscal Disparities Across the U.S. States: A Representative Revenue System/Representative Expenditure System Approach, Fiscal Year 2002 by Yesim Yilmaz, Sonya Hoo, Matthew Nagowski, Kim Rueben and Robert Tannenwald |
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| NEPPC Working Paper 06-1
The Lack of Affordable Housing in New England: How Big a Problem? Why Is It Growing? What Are We Doing About It? (Updated with 2005 data in January 2007) by Alicia Sasser, Bo Zhao, and Darcy Rollins (with an overview by Robert Tannenwald) |
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Working Papers 2005
| NEPPC Working Paper 05-2
The Challenge of Energy Policy in New England by Carrie Conaway |
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NEPPC Working Paper 05-1 |
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