Funding: The Fannie Mae Foundation
Summary: To what extent and how does state government policy affect the performance of major cities within the state on a wide variety of indicators of resident well-being? The project will proceed by first identifying cities that have performed well between 1990-2000 on each of a series of 20 indicators (e.g., change in poverty rate, unemployment rate, housing affordability, crime rate, etc.). It will then model performance on each of these indicators to identify cities that performed better than the model would have predicted. Case studies will then be conducted to assess whether this better than expected performance was due to state (or city) policies directed at the state’s cities.
Researcher(s)
Hal Wolman - Research Professor
Products
States and Their Cities: Partnerships for the Future
August 01, 2007
What Explains Central City Performance?
December 22, 2006
Explaining City Performance: how Important is State Policy?
April 20, 2006
State Policy Effects on Urban Performance
April 02, 2005
State Policy Effects on Urban Performance
April 02, 2005