Rob Wassmer's Working and Recently Published Papers

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bulletDoes Counseling Reduce Frequent Emergency Department Use?

(September, 2008, PDF). With Lucinda Winward and Robert Derlot.
 
bullet California's Farmland Preservation Programs, Taxes, and Furthering the Appropriate Safeguarding of Agriculture at the Urban Fringe to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

(September, 2008, PDF).
 
bullet Causes of Urban Sprawl in the United States: Auto Reliance as Compared to Natural Evolution, Flight From Blight, and Local Revenue Choices,

(June, 2008, PDF). Published in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Spring 2008, pp. 536-555.
 
bullet California's State and Local Revenue Structure After Proposition 13: Is Denial An Appropriate Way to Cope?

(May, 2008, PDF). Prepared for presentation to the "Out of the Box: State and Local Tax Policy" Conference at Andrew Young School of Public Policy at Georgia State University.
 
bulletSub-National Fiscal Activity as Determinants of Individual Happiness: Ideology Matters

(February, 2008, PDF). With Ted Lascher and Stephan Kroll. Prepared for presentation at a seminar on “Social Welfare and Public Finance” at the National Tax Association’s 99th Annual Conference on Taxation in Boston.
 
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What Determines Whether a Manufacturing Firm Locates and Remains in California (or Any State)?

(July, 2008, PDF). With Katherine Chalmers. Prepared for the Faculty Research Fellows Program at California State University, Sacramento.
 

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The Increasing Use of Property Tax Abatement as a Means of Promoting State and Local Economic Activity in the United States,

(October, 2007, PDF). Prepared for presentation at the Lincoln Institute-George Washington University Institute of Public Policy Property Tax Roundtable on October 5-6, 2007 in Washington, D.C.
 

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Reconsidering Claims about the Secondary Effects of Direct Democracy,

(September, 2007, PDF). With Ted Lascher.

 

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Beyond The Basics: The Effects Of Non-Core Curricular Enrichments On Standardized Test Scores At High Schools

(January, 2006, PDF). With Susan Catron. Published in the Michigan Journal of Public Affairs, V. 3, Summer 2006.
 

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Who Supports Local Growth and Regional Planning to Deal With Its Consequences?

(November, 2005, PDF). Prepared as part of 2002 Field Poll Faculty Fellowship. Published in
Urban Affairs Review, May 2006, pp. 621-45,
 

bulletDoes a More Centralized Urban Form Raise Housing Prices?

(September, 2005, PDF).  Prepared for presentation to the 2004 APPAM Conference. Published in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Spring 2006, pp. 439-62.
 
bulletThe Desirability of Conducting a Cost/Benefit Assessment of the Sacramento Area Water Forum and its Successor Element and a Prospectus on How to Do It

(August, 2005, PDF).  With the assistance of Public Policy Master's Students in spring 2005 PPA 220A.  Preparation of this document supported by a Hewlett Capacity Building Grant from the Center for Collaborative Policy.
 
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The Influence of Local Urban Containment Policies and Statewide Growth Management on the Size of United States Urban Areas*

(June, 2005, PDF).  Prepared for presentation to the Devoe L. Moore’s Critical Issue Symposium on “State and Local Government Regulations and Economic Development” held on March 4, 2005 at Florida State University. Published in Journal of Regional Science, February 2006, pp. 25-67.
 

bulletA Benefit-Cost Analysis of the Auburn Boulevard Revitalization Project

(February, 2005, PDF).  With Susan Catron. Prepared under contract from the Local Initiatives Support Corporation.  Summary available from LISC.
 
bullet A Regional View of Social Disparities

(April 2004, PDF).  A text and GIS presentation on regional disparities in socio-economic indicators in the Greater Sacramento Area.  Prepared with assistance of the Community Services Planning Commission.
 

bullet K-12 Education in the U.S. Economy: Its Impact on Economic Development, Earnings, and Housing Values

(September 2003, PDF). With Thomas Hungerford; prepared as part of a contract from the National Education Association.

 
bulletIntroduction to Property Tax Policy

(February 2003, PDF). Prepared for International Association of Assessing Officers Property Tax Policy Course.
 
bullet Urban Devolution and Metropolitan Local Governance in California's Next Half Century of Growth

(January 2003, PDF). Prepared for presentation at the 10th Annual California Policy Issues Conference of the Pat Brown Institute of Public Affairs on "Building a Civil Society: Separate Geographies, Shared Destinies," November 14, 2002. Published in Building a Civil Society: Separate Geographies, Shared Destinies (November, 2002), Los Angles, CA: Pat Brown Institute of Public Affairs, pp. 67-95.
 
bulletLessons from California Public Schools Where Performance Exceeds Predictions

( November 2002, PDF).  Commissioned report prepared for the California Senate Office of Research with the assistance of Rosie Papazian and Kim Connor.  Journal version of research published in California Politics and Policy (2004).

bullet A Quantitative Study of California Community College Transfer Rates: Policy Implications and a Future Research Agenda

(October 2002, PDF).  With Colleen Moore and Nancy Shulock.  Journal length version of research, "Racial/Ethnic Differences in Transfer Rates in California Community Colleges: Implications for Policy and Practice" published in Research in Higher Education (2004).
 
bullet An Economic Perspective on Urban Sprawl: With an Application to the American West and a Test of the Efficacy of Urban Growth Boundaries

(September 2002, PDF).  California Senate Office of Research version.
 
bullet An Economic View of Some Causes of Urban Spatial Segregation and its Benefits and Costs

(September 2002, PDF). Published as "An Economic View of the Causes as Well as the Costs and Some of the Benefits of Urban Spatial Segregation" in Desegregating the City: Ghettos, Enclaves, and Inequality (2005), Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, pp. 159-174.

bulletAn Analysis of Subsidies and Other Options to Expand the Productive End Use of Scrap Tires in California

(November 2002, PDF).  Commissioned report prepared for the California Integrated Waste Management Board with the  assistance of CSUS Public Policy and Administration Master's Students .

bullet The Benefits of Growth

(May 2002, PDF).  With Marlon Boarnet.  Commissioned report prepared for the Urban Land Institute.

bulletTime, Tiebout, and Transition in the Structure of Local Governments in U.S. Metropolitan Areas

(July 2000, PDF).  With Ronald C. Fisher.

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