Working Papers

The working paper series is aimed at providing an outlet for GW researchers to make completed research or works in progress available. 

Measuring Urban Condition and Performance: How Do We Know Urban Revitalization (or Distress) When We See It?
January 16, 2018
Developing Legitimacy for Action by Connecting Citizens and Government: Lessons for U.S. Local Government Leaders from a Citizen Engagement Process in Australia
June 01, 2016
Learning from Abroad: Multi-Purpose Special Districts in British Columbia as a Possible Model for Governance Innovation for Local Governments in the United States
June 01, 2016
Learning from Abroad: A Framework
June 01, 2016
The TANF Resources Problem
April 13, 2016
Urban Politics Revisited: A Policy-centered Look at Local Political Ecologies
February 12, 2016
Building a Strategy for American Innovation: Proposed Elements
November 19, 2014
Stumbling into the Great Recession: How and Why GDP Estimates Kept Economists and Policymakers in the Dark
April 25, 2014
OECD Countries Local Government Fiscal Context
March 31, 2014
National Fiscal Policy and Local Government During the Economic Crisis
March 27, 2014
Indicators of the Capacity for Invention in the United States
March 27, 2014
National Nonprofit Organizations That Inspire and Enable Invention and Invention-based Enterprises
February 28, 2014
The Impacts of Technological Invention on Economic Growth – A Review of the Literature
February 28, 2014
Recommendations to the Commerce Department's Manufacturing Council
July 23, 2013
Improving Federal Statistics for Industry Studies
May 29, 2013
Undocumented College Students in the United States: In-State Tuition Not Enough to Ensure Four-Year Degree Completion
February 19, 2013
Explaining the Economic Competitiveness of the District of Columbia
September 01, 2012
Economic Development Policy Making Networks in the Cleveland and Detroit Regions
April 21, 2012
Activation and reform in the United States: What time has told
July 01, 2011
Regional Systems and Regional Economic Growth: A Systems Approach to Understanding the Regional Economy
June 01, 2011
Government, Governance, and Regional Economic Growth
April 01, 2011
Cluster and Cluster-Based Development: A Literature Review and Policy Discussion
December 17, 2010
Building Regional Economic Resilience: What Can We Learn from Other Fields
December 01, 2010
Spatial Efficiency and Regional Prosperity: A Literature Review and Policy Discussion
August 16, 2010
Economic Shocks and Regional Economic Resilience
May 10, 2010
Building Economic Development Networks in Detroit: A Comparison of Methods of Social Network Analysis
April 02, 2010
The Adoption of Solar Energy Financial Incentives Across the States
November 01, 2009
Policy Transfer: What We Know About What Transfers, How It Happens, and How to Do It
October 06, 2009
Democracy Workshop Pilot Report
January 01, 2009
Poverty in the US and the UK: Relative Measurement and Relative Achievement
December 05, 2008
Literature Review on the Determinants of Residential Employment
October 31, 2008
Comparing Local Government Autonomy Across States
October 01, 2008
Economic Competitiveness and the Determinants of Sub-National Area Economic Activity
September 30, 2008
Understanding the Economic Performance of Metropolitan Areas in the United States
January 23, 2008
States and Their Cities: Partnerships for the Future
August 01, 2007
Capital Cities and their National Governments: Washington, DC in Comparative Retrospective
June 11, 2007
Local Democratic Governance: What Is It and How Do We Manage It?
February 26, 2007
What Explains Central City Performance?
December 22, 2006
Lessons and Limits: Tax Incentives and Rebuilding the Gulf Coast after Katrina
August 01, 2006
Estimating Economic Impacts Of Homeland Security Measures
June 01, 2006
Toward Understanding Urban Pathology: Creating a Typology of 'Weak Market' Cities
April 20, 2006
Explaining City Performance: how Important is State Policy?
April 20, 2006
The Property Tax: Its Role and Significance in Funding State and Local Government Services
March 30, 2006
Active Living and Biking: Tracing the Evolution of a Biking System in Arlington, Virginia
March 05, 2006
Intrametropolitan Area Revenue Raising Disparities and Equities
November 05, 2005
State and Local Infrastructure Financing
November 01, 2005
State and Local Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth and Development
August 11, 2005
State and Local Fiscal Trends and Future Threats
July 01, 2005
Economic Well-being and Where We Live: Accounting for Geographic Cost-of-living Differences
June 15, 2005
State Policy Effects on Urban Performance
April 02, 2005
All Centers Are Not Equal: An Exploration of the Polycentric Metropolis
April 01, 2005
Testing the Conventional Wisdom about Land Use and Traffic Congestion: The More We Sprawl, the Less We Move?
March 01, 2005
The Government of Sudan: Intergovernmental Policies and Issues
February 24, 2005
Fiscal Decentralization In The Sudan: Concepts And Challenges
February 23, 2005
Recommendations for the Design of the Federal Docket Management System
November 01, 2004
The High Performance Bonus
October 01, 2004
Community Building and a Human-Capital Agenda in Hampton
July 30, 2004
An Analysis of Fiscal Policies in the Sudan: A Pro-poor Perspective - A Discussion Draft
July 09, 2004
Does the Community Reinvestment Act Help Minorities Access Traditionally Inaccessible Neighborhoods?
July 08, 2004
Thin the Soup or Shorten the Line: Choices Facing Washington Area Nonprofits
March 02, 2004
Have central cities come back?
March 01, 2004
Privileged Place: Race, Uneven Development and the Geography of Opportunity in Urban America
March 01, 2004
Cities and State Legislatures: Changing Coalitions and the Metropolitan Agenda
November 01, 2003
The Impact of Family Homeownership on Children's Educational Attainment and Earnings During Early Adulthood
October 01, 2003
Racing up to the Bottom: Work and Welfare in the US
March 01, 2003