Working Papers
The working paper series is aimed at providing an outlet for GW researchers to make available completed research or work in progress. Click the link to display the working paper.
WP032 - Understanding the Economic Performance of Metropolitan Areas in the United States. Pamela Blumenthal, Edward (Ned) Hill, and Hal Wolman, January 2008.
WP031 - Local Democratic Governance: What Is It and How Do We Manage It? Michael Bell, February 2007.
WP030 - Capital Cities and their National Governments: Washington, DC in Comparative Retrospective. Hal Wolman, Jan Chadwick, Anna Karruz, Julia Friedman, Garry Young, July 2007.
WP029 - What Explains Central City Performance? Hal Wolman, Ned Hill (Cleveland State University), Pat Atkins, Pamela Blumenthal, Kimberly Furdell, and Elaine Weiss, February 2007 (revised)
WP028 - State and Local Infrastructure Financing, Mike Bell, David Brunori, Royce Hanson, Chanyong Choi, Lori Metcalf, and Bing Yuan, November 2005
WP027 - The Property Tax: Its Role and Significance in Funding State and Local Government Services, David Brunori, Richard Green, Michael Bell, Chanyung Choi, Bing Yuan, March 2006
WP026 - State and Local Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth and Development Michael Bell, David Brunori, Richard Green, Hal Wolman, Joe Cordes, Tanya Qadir , August 2005
WP025 - State and Local Fiscal Trends and Future Threats, David Brunori, Michael E. Bell, Harold Wolman, Patricia Atkins, Joseph J. Cordes, and Bing Yuan, July 2005
WP024 - Active Living and Biking: Tracing the Evolution of a Biking System in Arlington, Virginia, Garry Young and Royce Hanson, March 2006
WP023 - Lessons and Limits: Tax Incentives and Rebuilding theGulf Coast after Katrina, Robert P. Stoker (GWIPP) and Michael J. Rich, August 2006
WP022 - Estimating Economic Impacts Of Homeland Security Measures, Joseph J. Cordes, Anthony Yezer, Garry Young, Mary Catherine Foreman and Charlotte Kirschner
WP021 - Toward Understangind Urban Pathology: Creating a Typology of 'Weak Market' Cities, Kimberly Furdell and Hal Wolman, April 2006
WP020 - Explaining City Performance: how Important is State Policy? Pamela Blumenthal, Kimberly Furdell, Elaine Weiss, and Hal Wolman, April 2006
WP019 - Intrametropolitan Area Revenue Raising Disparities and Equities, Patricia Atkins, Leah Curran, Michael Bell, Harold Wolman, and Joseph Cordes, November 2005
WP018 - Economic Wellbeing and Where We Live: Accounting for Geographic Cost-of-living Differences, Leah Curran, Harold Wolman, Edward W. (Ned) Hill and Kimberly Furdell, April 2005
WP017 - An Analysis of Fiscal Policies in the Sudan: A Pro-poor Perspective - A Discussion Draft, Medani M. Ahmed, Rahamtalla Ali Babiker and Michael E. Bell, July 2004
WP016 - State Policy Effects on Urban Performance , Kimberly Furdell Hal Wolman, Ned HIll, and Elaine Weiss, April 2005
WP015 - All Centers Are Not Equal: An Exploration of the Polycentric Metropolis, Andrea Sarzynski, Royce Hanson, Hal Wolman, and Michael McGuire , April 2005
WP014 - Does the Community Reinvestment Act Help Minorities Access Traditionally Inaccessible Neighborhoods?, Samantha Friedman and Gregory D. Squires, July 2004
WP013 - Testing the Conventional Wisdom about Land Use and Traffic Congestion: The More We Sprawl, the Less We Move?, Andrea Sarzynski, Hal Wolman, George Galster , and Royce Hanson, March 2005
WP012 - Community Building and a Human-Capital Agenda in Hampton, Virginia: A Case Analysis of the Policy Process in a Medium-Size City, Clarence Stone and Donn Worgs, July 2004
WP011 - The Government of Sudan: Intergovernmental Policies and Issues, Michael E. Bell and Medani M. Ahmed, February 2005
WP010 - Fiscal Decentraliztion In The Sudan: Concepts And Challenges, Michael E. Bell and Medani M. Ahmed, February 2005
WP009 - Economic Well-Being and Where We Live: Accounting for Geographic Cost-of-Living Differences, Leah Curran, Hal Wolman, Ned Hill, and Kimberly Furdell, January 2005
WP008 - Recommendations for the Design of the Federal Docket Management System, Cary Coglianese, Stuart Shapiro, and Steven J. Balla, November 2004
WP007 - The High Performance Bonus , Michael Wiseman, October 2004
WP006 - Thin the Soup or Shorten the Line: Choices Facing Washington Area Nonprofits, Patricia Atkins, Mallory Barg, and Joseph Cordes, and Martha Ross, March 2004
WP005 - Have central cities come back?, Kimberly Furdell, Edward W. (Ned) Hill, and Harold Wolman
WP004 - The Impact of Family Homeownership on Children's Educational Attainment and Earnings During Early Adulthood, George Galster, Nancy Gardner, Marv Mandell, Dave E. Marcotte, and Harold Wolman
WP003 - Cities and State Legislatures: Changing Coalitions and the Metropolitan Agenda, Harold Wolman, Todd Swanstrom, Margaret Weir, & Nicholas Lyon
WP002 - Privileged Place: Race, Uneven Development and the Geography of Opportunity in Urban America, Gregory Squires & Charis Kubrin (completed version available in the January 2005 issue of Urban Studies (Vol. 42, No. 1, 47–68).
WP001 - Racing up to the Bottom: Work and Welfare in the US, Robert P. Stoker & Laura A. Wilson