THE IMPACT WE MAKE IS REAL.

EVANS SCHOOLOF PUBLIC POLICY & GOVERNANCE

EVANS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY & GOVERNANCE

EVANS SCHOOLOF PUBLIC POLICY & GOVERNANCE

Finding real solutions for real problems means thinking differently, collaborating across disciplines, and working at the intersection of study and practice. At the Evans School, that’s what we do—using the world as our laboratory. We dive deep into the pressing public policy and governance issues of today and we orient our scholarship toward the emerging issues of tomorrow. Whether it is through evaluating the impact of a minimum wage increase, investigating the role of altruism in benefit-cost analysis, or making sure we “right-size” management and evaluation requirements for nonprofits, our impact is real.

Sandra O. Archibald Dean and Professor Evans School of Public Policy & Governance

ASSESSING SOCIAL POLICY OUTCOMES

When Americans go to the polls in 2016, it’s likely they’ll be choosing between candidates with opposing views on the minimum wage. Despite decades of prior work on the topic, there are very few definitive answers in this debate. The Evans School is leading a five-year empirical research project* to analyze the outcomes of Seattle’s minimum wage social policy on families and business, going beyond traditional measures of earnings and employment, uniquely positioning us to provide evidence in a time when evidence will be in high demand.

* In addition to being awarded a multi-year contract from the City of Seattle to conduct this policy analysis, the Evans School team has also received more than $3 million from private philanthropy to expand both the longevity and the scope of this timely evaluation. This collaborative team, led by the Evans School’s Jacob L. Vidgor, includes Evans School faculty Scott W. Allard, Heather D. Hill, Mark C. Long, and Robert D. Plotnick, as well as Jennie Romich (UW School of Social Work) and Jennifer Otten (UW School of Public Health).

DEMOCRATIZINGPUBLIC FINANCE

In the past, you could lead a public or nonprofit organization without knowing about budgets or finance. You just had to hire good “money people.” However, with today’s limited resources, public and nonprofit leaders have no choice but to build sophisticated financial analysis and cost-effectiveness directly into their organizations. That’s why we at the Evans School emphasize the education and discipline of public finance.* On the first day of the core MPA financial management class we tell the students: “You are all money people now.” The rest follows from there.

* The Evans School’s Justin Marlowe’s original “Guide to Financial Literacy” was published as an insert in the July 2014 issue of Governing magazine and has been viewed more than 200,000 times online. The second edition was distributed in August 2015; a third edition will be released in November 2015.

INNOVATINGBENEFIT-COSTANALYSIS

The worthiness of costly regulations that impact public health and safety has long been a topic of debate in the policy world. At the Evans School, we produce scholarship that shows a better understanding of how an entire community values a single human life.* Federal agencies will know if they’re being too stringent in approving public policies that impose costs in the interest of saving lives. This research will inform governmental decision-making, inspire medical research, and expand resources to produce lifesaving preventative measures.

* In February 2015, the Evans School’s Mark C. Long was awarded the University of Washington’s 2015 Innovation Award for his work on how altruistic sentiments have a bearing on the value of a life in benefit-cost analysis.

CREATING COLLABORATIVEGOVERNANCE

For some time, it has been unclear whether government funding for collaborative environmental governance efforts pays off in terms of improved environmental outcomes. Research at the Evans School* has made an important empirical contribution to this debate. Through “big data” analysis from watershed partnerships across the US, evidence shows that such collaborative efforts have had an overall positive impact on the condition of lakes, rivers, streams, and watersheds— leading to new approaches for generating environmental progress.

* The dissertation of the Evans School’s Tyler Scott (PhD, 2015): “Do All These Meetings Matter? Three Essays Concerning the Impact of Collaborative Watershed Governance.” Published in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management and the Policies Studies Journal. Winner of the 2015 NASPAA Best Dissertation Award.

‘BUILDING RIGHT-FIT’EVALUATION SYSTEMS

As the culture of giving and philanthropy evolves, more donors are focusing on how charitable organizations measure and demonstrate impact. The result is ever-increasing demands for data and impact metrics. But more data are not always better. As with Goldilocks’ search for the right porridge, chair, and bed, organizations must now develop “right-fit” systems of measurement that support learning, action, and responsibility. The Goldilocks Project, completed by faculty at the Evans School, provides a framework that supports nonprofit organizations in building monitoring and evaluation systems that fit organizational needs to accurately report impact when possible, demonstrate accountability as needed, and provide decision-makers with timely and actionable operational data.*

* The Goldilocks Problem: Finding a “Right-Sized” Approach to Monitoring and Evaluation in Development by the Evans School’s Mary Kay Gugerty and Dean Karlan (Yale University) is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. The Goldilocks Challenge Toolkit is an online resource available through Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA). Funding for this project was provided by the Google Innovation Fund and developed with support from Google.org.

Recent PhD Placements and Awards

Katharine DestlerGeorge Mason University, School of Public Policy

Lily HsuehArizona State University, School of Public Affairs

Stephanie LeiserUniversity of Michigan, Ford School of Public PolicyWinner of the 2015 Association for Budgeting and Financial Management Michael Curro

Student Paper Award (won by Evans School students three out of last four years)

Tyler ScottUniversity of Georgia, Department of Public Administration & PolicyWinner of the 2015 NASPAA Best Dissertation Award

In 2015, we changed our name to the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Policy & Governance. This name better reflects our intellectual and practical contributions to policy design, implementation, and evaluation throughout all levels of local, national, and global governance. This is who we are and what we do.

Scott W. Allard Publius: The Journal of Federalism,

advisory councilAPPAM Policy Council member

Sandra O. Archibald Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis, board

of directorsJournal of Comparative Policy Analysis;

International Comparative Policy Analysis Forum, board of directors

ASPA, 2016 conference program co-chairNational Academy of Public Administration,

Fellow

Ann BostromJournal of Risk Research, associate editorAAAS Section K, chair-elect

Alison CullenRisk Analysis: An International Journal,

editorial boardAlfred P. Sloan Foundation (Chemistry of the

Human Habitat), advisory board member

J. Patrick DobelPublic Integrity, editor-at-large

Scott FritzenInternational Review of Public Administration,

managing editor

Mary Kay GugertyARNOVA, member-at-large

Heather D. HillSocial Service Review, external review board

member

Sharon KiokoAssociation of Budgeting and Financial

Management Executive Committee (2016)

Marieka M. KlawitterJournal of Public Affairs Education, co-editor

Mark C. LongJournal of Policy Analysis and Management,

co-editorAPPAM vice president

Justin Marlowe Boston Federal Reserve Municipal Finance

Conference, conference co-chairJournal of Public Administration Research and

Theory, editorial boardJournal of Public Budgeting, Accounting, and

Financial Management, editorial board

David SuárezARNOVA, board member, conference

co-organizerPublic Administration Review, editorial board

Craig ThomasJournal of Public Administration Research and

Theory, immediate past editor

Jacob L. VigdorNational Bureau of Economic Research,

research associateEconomic Inquiry, associate editorEducation Next, editorial advisory board

William M. ZumetaJournal of Comparative Policy Analysis,

board memberEducational Evaluation and Policy Analysis,

board member

2015 Professional and Editorial Leadership

Scott W. AllardPhD, University of Michigan Social Policy, Public Policy Analysis, Nonprofit Management

Professor Scott W. Allard joined the Evans School in 2014. Allard is a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program and co-primary investigator of the Family Self-Sufficiency Data Center at the University of Chicago, a research affiliate of the National Poverty Center at the University of Michigan and of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He previously held faculty positions at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, the Department of Political Science at Brown University, and in the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago.

Scott FritzenPhD, Princeton University Public Management Administration, Public Policy Analysis

Associate Professor Scott Fritzen joined the Evans School in 2015. Fritzen recently served as associate provost and associate professor of public policy at New York University (NYU) Shanghai, and associate dean and interim dean at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Fritzen also served for 12 years as a faculty member and as the vice dean of academic affairs at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore.

New Faculty

Rachel FyallPhD, Indiana University Nonprofit Management, Public Management Administration, Public Policy Analysis

Assistant Professor Rachel Fyall joined the Evans School in 2014 after completing her PhD in public affairs at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. Her dissertation research investigates the influence of nonprofit organizations on the formation of public policy and in the delivery of public services. She examines advocacy and lobbying by nonprofit organizations as well as how discretion shapes the public services provided by nonprofit contractors.

Heather D. HillPhD, Northwestern University Social Policy, Public Policy Analysis

Associate Professor Heather D. Hill joined the Evans School in 2014. Hill previously held a faculty position at the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago. Hill has received grants to support her research from the Russell Sage Foundation, the William T. Grant Foundation, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HSS), and the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment. As one of seven Family Self-Sufficiency and Stability Scholars funded by HHS, Hill is currently examining how state-level safety-net rules affect family earnings and income stability.

Sharon KiokoPhD, Indiana University Public Finance and Budgeting

Associate Professor Sharon Kioko joined the Evans School in 2015. Kioko recently served as an associate professor of public administration and international affairs at the Maxwell School of Public Affairs at Syracuse University. Kioko is an expert in public financial analysis and her research interests include public budgeting and finance, the municipal bond market, state and local financial management policy, and quantitative methods.

Elizabeth Richardson VigdorPhD, Harvard University Public Policy Analysis, Social Policy

Senior Lecturer Elizabeth Richardson Vigdor joined the Evans School in 2014. Vigdor spent 15 years at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, most recently as an associate professor of the practice of public policy. Vigdor’s research has focused on the economics of health policy, specifically the individual and social consequences of being uninsured, the measurement and valuation of health, and the impact of firearm policy.

New Faculty

Jacob L. VigdorPhD, Harvard University Public Policy Analysis, Social Policy

Daniel J. Evans Endowed Professor Jacob L. Vigdor joined the Evans School in 2014. Vigdor holds affiliations as a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, and an external fellow at the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration at University College London. He previously served on the faculty of the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University for 15 years.

Evans School Faculty and Lecturers

Scott W. Allard Professor; PhD, University of MichiganC. Leigh Anderson Associate Dean, Professor; PhD, University of WashingtonSandra O. Archibald Dean, Professor; PhD, University of California, DavisMichael Blake Professor; PhD, Stanford UniversityAnn Bostrom Professor; PhD, Carnegie Mellon UniversityJoseph Cook Associate Professor; PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillAlison Cullen Professor; Sc.D., Harvard UniversitySara Curran Associate Professor; PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillBrian Dillon Assistant Professor; PhD, Cornell UniversityJ. Patrick Dobel Professor; PhD, Princeton UniversityLaura Evans Associate Professor; PhD, University of MichiganScott Fritzen Associate Professor; PhD, Princeton UniversityRachel Fyall Assistant Professor; PhD, Indiana UniversityMary Kay Gugerty Professor; PhD, Harvard UniversityCrystal C. Hall Assistant Professor; PhD, Princeton UniversityJoaquín Herranz, Jr. Associate Dean, Associate Professor;

PhD, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyHeather D. Hill Associate Professor; PhD, Northwestern UniversityCharles Hirschman Professor; PhD, University of Wisconsin–MadisonSharon Kioko Associate Professor; PhD, Indiana UniversityMarieka M. Klawitter Professor; PhD, University of WisconsinStephen Kosack Assistant Professor; PhD, Yale University David F. Layton Professor; PhD, University of WashingtonMark C. Long Professor; PhD, University of MichiganJustin Marlowe Professor; PhD, University of Wisconsin–MilwaukeeMarcia Meyers Professor; PhD, University of California, BerkeleyStephen B. Page Associate Professor; PhD, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMaria Perez Assistant Professor; PhD, Stanford UniversityRobert D. Plotnick Associate Dean, Professor; PhD, University of California, BerkeleyDavid Suárez Associate Professor; PhD, Stanford UniversityCraig Thomas Professor; PhD, University of California, BerkeleyJacob L. Vigdor Professor; PhD, Harvard UniversityWilliam M. Zumeta Professor; PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Dorothy Bullitt Senior Lecturer; JD, Boston UniversityCarlos Cuevas Senior Lecturer; PhD, Ohio State UniversityGreg Traxler Senior Lecturer; PhD, Iowa State UniversityElizabeth Vigdor Senior Lecturer; PhD, Harvard University

By the Numbers

40Current faculty

83Executive MPA students enrolled

92%MPA graduates employed in public/ nonprofit/social sectors

502Total students enrolled

3.6Average GPA for incoming MPA students

51%MPA students from out of state/ international

8442015 MPA, EMPA, & PhD applicants

25Current PhD students

$21M2015 Evans School endowment market value

156/158Mean GRE Quantitative/Verbal scores of enrolled MPA students

For more information about the Evans School, visit us online at evans.uw.edu.

To learn more about the impact of our faculty research and scholarship, visit evans.uw.edu/research-impact.

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