Archived Working Papers

Working Papers are archived five years after posting, or when they are published, whichever comes first. Copies of the following papers are no longer available through the Department Office. Feel free to contact the author(s)/publisher directly about obtaining copies.

2002-07 The Influence of Local Fiscal Structure and Growth Control Choices on "Big-Box" Urban Sprawl in the American West

Revised and Published
Entry in The Property Tax, Land Use, and Land Use Regulation, Edited by Dick Netzer, Edward Elgar Press, 2003, pp. 88 - 121
Robert W. Wassmer, California State University, Sacramento

2002-06 A Regional View of Social Disparities

(November 2002)
Robert W. Wassmer, California State University, Sacramento

2002-05 Policy Lessons from California Public Schools that Achieve Higher than Expected

Revised and Published
Commissioned report prepared for the California Senate Office of Research with the assistance of Rosie Papazian and Kim Connor, November 2002.
Robert W. Wassmer, California State University, Sacramento

2002-04 The Benefits of Growth

(November 2002)
Robert W. Wassmer, California State University, Sacramento

2002-03 An Analysis of Subsidies and Other Options to Expand Tire Recycling/Diversion in California

(November 2002)
Robert W. Wassmer, California State University, Sacramento

2001-02 An Economic View of Some Causes of Urban Spatial Segregation and its Benefits and Costs

Revised and Published
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.
Robert W. Wassmer, California State University, Sacramento

2001-01 An Economist’s Perspective on Urban Sprawl: With an Application to Metropolitan Areas in California and the American West

(June 2001)
Robert W. Wassmer, California State University, Sacramento

2000-05 Retail Sprawl, Urban Containment, and the “Fiscalization” of Land Use in the Western United States

(April 14, 2001)
Robert W. Wassmer, California State University, Sacramento

2000-03 Urban Sprawl in a U.S. Metropolitan Area: Ways to Measure and Comparison of the Sacramento Area to Similar Metropolitan Areas in California and the U.S.

(October 2000)
Robert W. Wassmer, California State University, Sacramento

2000-02 Response to Matsusaka: Estimating the Effect of Ballot Initiatives on Policy Responsiveness

(August 2000)
Michael G. Hagen, University of Pennsylvania
Edward L. Lascher, Jr., California State University, Sacramento
John F. Camobreco, Christopher Newport University

99-02 California's Budget and Budgetary Process, 1999-2000

(August 25-27, 1999)
Dawn M. Bateman, UC, Davis, Department of Political Science
Edward L. Lascher, Jr., California State University, Sacramento

99-01 County Fiscal Stress: Cause and Consequence in California After Proposition 13

(August 1999)
Robert W. Wassmer, California State University, Sacramento
Charles Anders, California State University, Sacramento, Executive Fellow

98-02 Public Opinion about Ballot Initiatives

(September 3, 1998)
Michael G. Hagen, University of Pennsylvania
Edward L. Lascher, Jr., California State University, Sacramento

98-01 An Evaluation of California's Proposition 224: Cost Saving and Taxpayer Protecting, Or Time Delaying and Bureaucracy Enhancing?

(March 2, 1998)
Deborah Franklin, California State University, Sacramento Master's Student
Robert W. Wassmer, California State University, Sacramento

97-09 CSUS and US: The Economic Impact of California State University, Sacramento on the Surrounding Region

(January 29, 1997)
Robert W. Wassmer, California State University, Sacramento

97-07 Time, Tiebout, and Transition in the Structure of Local Government in U.S. Metropolitan Areas

(Revised, June 2000)
Robert W. Wassmer, California State University, Sacramento
Ronald C. Fisher, Michigan State University

97-05 Public Infrastructure Spending and Private Income Generation in Large US Cities

(August 26, 1994)
John T. Durkin, Jr., Wayne State University
Robert W. Wassmer, California State University, Sacramento

97-04 Regional Problems: Can California’s 7,000 Governments Work Together?

(1997)
Phillip L. Isenberg, Esq., Hyde, Miller, Owen, & Trost, and California State University, Sacramento

97-03 State Role in Monitoring Conversion of Nonprofit Hospitals and Health Plans to For-Profit Status

(May 19-21, 1997)
Phillip L. Isenberg, Esq., Hyde, Miller, Owen, & Trost, and California State University, Sacramento

97-02 Disappearing Constraints: Voting Rights & Gerrymandering in 2001

Revised and Published
California Politics & Policy: A Journal of the Pat Brown Institute of Public Affairs, October 1998
Timothy A. Hodson, California State University, Sacramento

97-01 The Paradox of Policy Analysis: If It’s Not Used, Why Do We Have It?

Revised and Published
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Volume 18, Issue 2 (Spring 1999), pp. 226-244
Nancy Shulock, California State University, Sacramento

96-12 Suburban Secession: History and Context

(September 1996)
Peter M. Detwiler, California State University, Sacramento and California State Senate

96-11 Expert Opinion and Automobile Insurance Reform: An Empirical Assessment

Revised and Published
The Journal of Insurance Regulation (16), Winter 1997, ppp. 197-222)
Edward L. Lascher, Jr., California State University, Sacramento
Michael R. Powers, Temple University

96-10 Creatures of Statute. . . Children of Trade, The Legal Origins of California Cities

(December 1996)
Peter M. Detwiler, California State University, Sacramento and California State Senate

96-09 Legislators, Learning and Policy Success: The Case of Automobile Insurance Reformation in Pennsylvania

(August 1996)
Edward L. Lascher, Jr., California State University, Sacramento

96-08 Privatization in California State Government: Implications of the Tulare County Demonstration Project

(1996)
Carole Wolff Barnes, California State University, Sacramento

96-05 Loss Imposition and Institutional Structure: The Case of Automobile Insurance Reform in North America

Revised and Published
Canadian Journal of Political Science, 1998, vol. 31, pp. 143-164
Edward L. Lascher, Jr., California State University, Sacramento

96-02 Public Sector Inefficiency in Large US Cities

Revised and Published
Journal of Urban Economics 46, 1999, pp. 278-299
Philip J. Grossman, Virginia Poly Tech Institute and State University, and Wayne State University
Panayiotis Mavros, University of Aarhus and Wayne State University
Robert W. Wassmer, California State University, Sacramento

96-01 Decline of the California Legislature; Why New Faces Won’t Help

(March 1996)
Ken DeBow, California State University, Sacramento

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