THE IMPACT WE MAKE IS REAL.

THE IMPACT

WE MAKE

IS REAL.

EVANS SCHOOL

OF PUBLIC POLICY & GOVERNANCE

EVANS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY & GOVERNANCE

EVANS SCHOOL

Finding real solutions for real problems means thinking differently,

collaborating across disciplines, and working at the intersection of

study and practice. At the Evans School, that’s what we do—using

the world as our laboratory. We dive deep into the pressing public

policy and governance issues of today and we orient our scholarship

toward the emerging issues of tomorrow. Whether it is through

evaluating the impact of a minimum wage increase, investigating the

role of altruism in benefit-cost analysis, or making sure we “right-size”

management and evaluation requirements for nonprofits, our impact

is real.

Sandra O. Archibald Dean and Professor

ASSESSING

SOCIAL POLICY

OUTCOMES

When Americans go to the polls in 2016, it’s likely they’ll be

choosing between candidates with opposing views on the minimum

wage. Despite decades of prior work on the topic, there are very

few definitive answers in this debate. The Evans School is leading

a five-year empirical research project

*

to analyze the outcomes

of Seattle’s minimum wage social policy on families and business,

going beyond traditional measures of earnings and employment,

uniquely positioning us to provide evidence in a time when

evidence will be in high demand.

* In addition to being awarded a multi-year contract from the City of Seattle to conduct this policy analysis, the Evans School team has also received more than $3 million from private philanthropy to expand both the longevity and the scope of this timely evaluation. This collaborative team, led by the Evans School’s Jacob L. Vidgor, includes Evans School faculty Scott W. Allard, Heather D. Hill, Mark C. Long, and Robert D. Plotnick, as well as Jennie Romich (UW School of Social Work) and Jennifer Otten (UW School of Public Health).

DEMOCRATIZING

PUBLIC FINANCE

In the past, you could lead a public or nonprofit organization without

knowing about budgets or finance. You just had to hire good “money

people.” However, with today’s limited resources, public and nonprofit

leaders have no choice but to build sophisticated financial analysis

and cost-effectiveness directly into their organizations. That’s why we

at the Evans School emphasize the education and discipline of public

finance.

*

On the first day of the core MPA financial management class

we tell the students: “You are all money people now.” The rest follows

from there.

* The Evans School’s Justin Marlowe’s original “Guide to Financial Literacy” was published as an insert in the July 2014 issue of Governing magazine and has been viewed more than 200,000 times online. The second edition was distributed in August 2015; a third edition will be released in November 2015.

INNOVATING

BENEFIT-COST

ANALYSIS

The worthiness of costly regulations that impact public health and

safety has long been a topic of debate in the policy world. At the Evans

School, we produce scholarship that shows a better understanding of

how an entire community values a single human life.

*

Federal agencies

will know if they’re being too stringent in approving public policies that

impose costs in the interest of saving lives. This research will inform

governmental decision-making, inspire medical research, and expand

resources to produce lifesaving preventative measures.

* In February 2015, the Evans School’s Mark C. Long was awarded the University of Washington’s 2015 Innovation Award for his work on how altruistic sentiments have a bearing on the value of a life in benefit-cost analysis.

CREATING

COLLABORATIVE

GOVERNANCE

For some time, it has been unclear whether government funding for

collaborative environmental governance efforts pays off in terms of

improved environmental outcomes. Research at the Evans School

*

has

made an important empirical contribution to this debate. Through “big

data” analysis from watershed partnerships across the US, evidence

shows that such collaborative efforts have had an overall positive

impact on the condition of lakes, rivers, streams, and watersheds—

leading to new approaches for generating environmental progress.

* The dissertation of the Evans School’s Tyler Scott (PhD, 2015): “Do All These Meetings Matter? Three Essays Concerning the Impact of Collaborative Watershed Governance.” Published in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management and the Policies Studies Journal. Winner of the 2015 NASPAA Best Dissertation Award.

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BUILDING

RIGHT-FIT’

EVALUATION

SYSTEMS

As the culture of giving and philanthropy evolves, more donors are

focusing on how charitable organizations measure and demonstrate

impact. The result is ever-increasing demands for data and impact

metrics. But more data are not always better. As with Goldilocks’ search

for the right porridge, chair, and bed, organizations must now develop

“right-fit” systems of measurement that support learning, action,

and responsibility. The Goldilocks Project, completed by faculty at

the Evans School, provides a framework that supports nonprofit

organizations in building monitoring and evaluation systems that

fit organizational needs to accurately report impact when possible,

demonstrate accountability as needed, and provide decision-makers

with timely and actionable operational data.

*

* The Goldilocks Problem: Finding a “Right-Sized” Approach to Monitoring and Evaluation in

Development by the Evans School’s Mary Kay Gugerty and Dean Karlan (Yale University) is

forthcoming from Oxford University Press. The Goldilocks Challenge Toolkit is an online resource available through Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA). Funding for this project was provided by the Google Innovation Fund and developed with support from Google.org.

Recent PhD Placements and Awards

Katharine Destler

George Mason University, School of Public Policy

Lily Hsueh

Arizona State University, School of Public Affairs

Stephanie Leiser

University of Michigan, Ford School of Public Policy

Winner of the 2015 Association for Budgeting and Financial Management Michael Curro Student Paper Award (won by Evans School students three out of last four years)

Tyler Scott

University of Georgia, Department of Public Administration & Policy Winner of the 2015 NASPAA Best Dissertation Award

In 2015, we changed our name to the Daniel J.

Evans School of Public Policy & Governance.

This name better reflects our intellectual

and practical contributions to policy design,

implementation, and evaluation throughout all

levels of local, national, and global governance.

This is who we are and what we do.

Scott W. Allard

Publius: The Journal of Federalism,

advisory council

APPAM Policy Council member

Sandra O. Archibald

Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis, board of directors

Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis;

International Comparative Policy Analysis Forum, board of directors

ASPA, 2016 conference program co-chair National Academy of Public Administration,

Fellow

Ann Bostrom

Journal of Risk Research, associate editor

AAAS Section K, chair-elect

Alison Cullen

Risk Analysis: An International Journal,

editorial board

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (Chemistry of the Human Habitat), advisory board member

J. Patrick Dobel

Public Integrity, editor-at-large

Scott Fritzen

International Review of Public Administration,

managing editor

Mary Kay Gugerty

ARNOVA, member-at-large

Heather D. Hill

Social Service Review, external review board

member

Sharon Kioko

Association of Budgeting and Financial Management Executive Committee (2016)

Marieka M. Klawitter

Journal of Public Affairs Education, co-editor

Mark C. Long

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management,

co-editor

APPAM vice president

Justin Marlowe

Boston Federal Reserve Municipal Finance Conference, conference co-chair

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, editorial board

Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting, and Financial Management, editorial board

David Suárez

ARNOVA, board member, conference co-organizer

Public Administration Review, editorial board

Craig Thomas

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, immediate past editor

Jacob L. Vigdor

National Bureau of Economic Research, research associate

Economic Inquiry, associate editor Education Next, editorial advisory board

William M. Zumeta

Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis,

board member

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis,

board member

2015 Professional and

Editorial Leadership

Scott W. Allard

PhD, University of Michigan

Social Policy, Public Policy Analysis, Nonprofit Management

Professor Scott W. Allard joined the Evans School in 2014. Allard is a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program and co-primary investigator of the Family Self-Sufficiency Data Center at the University of Chicago, a research affiliate of the National Poverty Center at the University of Michigan and of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He previously held faculty positions at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, the Department of Political Science at Brown University, and in the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago.

Scott Fritzen

PhD, Princeton University

Public Management Administration, Public Policy Analysis

Associate Professor Scott Fritzen joined the Evans School in 2015. Fritzen recently served as associate provost and associate professor of public policy at New York University (NYU) Shanghai, and associate dean and interim dean at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Fritzen also served for 12 years as a faculty member and as the vice dean of academic affairs at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore.

New Faculty

Rachel Fyall

PhD, Indiana University

Nonprofit Management, Public Management Administration, Public Policy Analysis Assistant Professor Rachel Fyall joined the Evans School in 2014 after completing her PhD in public affairs at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. Her dissertation research investigates the influence of nonprofit

organizations on the formation of public policy and in the delivery of public services. She examines advocacy and lobbying by nonprofit organizations as well as how discretion shapes the public services provided by nonprofit contractors.

Heather D. Hill

PhD, Northwestern University Social Policy, Public Policy Analysis

Associate Professor Heather D. Hill joined the Evans School in 2014. Hill previously held a faculty position at the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago. Hill has received grants to support her research from the Russell Sage Foundation, the William T. Grant Foundation, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HSS), and the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment. As one of seven Family Self-Sufficiency and Stability Scholars funded by HHS, Hill is currently examining how state-level safety-net rules affect family earnings and income stability.

Sharon Kioko

PhD, Indiana University Public Finance and Budgeting

Associate Professor Sharon Kioko joined the Evans School in 2015. Kioko recently served as an associate professor of public administration and international affairs at the Maxwell School of Public Affairs at Syracuse University. Kioko is an expert in public financial analysis and her research interests include public budgeting and finance, the municipal bond market, state and local financial management policy, and quantitative methods.

Elizabeth Richardson Vigdor

PhD, Harvard University

Public Policy Analysis, Social Policy

Senior Lecturer Elizabeth Richardson Vigdor joined the Evans School in 2014. Vigdor spent 15 years at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, most recently as an associate professor of the practice of public policy. Vigdor’s research has focused on the economics of health policy, specifically the individual and social consequences of being uninsured, the measurement and valuation of health, and the impact of firearm policy.

New Faculty

Jacob L. Vigdor

PhD, Harvard University

Public Policy Analysis, Social Policy

Daniel J. Evans Endowed Professor Jacob L. Vigdor joined the Evans School in 2014. Vigdor holds affiliations as a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, and an external fellow at the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration at University College London. He previously served on the faculty of the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University for 15 years.

Evans School Faculty and Lecturers

Scott W. Allard Professor; PhD, University of Michigan

C. Leigh Anderson Associate Dean, Professor; PhD, University of Washington

Sandra O. Archibald Dean, Professor; PhD, University of California, Davis

Michael Blake Professor; PhD, Stanford University

Ann Bostrom Professor; PhD, Carnegie Mellon University

Joseph Cook Associate Professor; PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Alison Cullen Professor; Sc.D., Harvard University

Sara Curran Associate Professor; PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Brian Dillon Assistant Professor; PhD, Cornell University

J. Patrick Dobel Professor; PhD, Princeton University

Laura Evans Associate Professor; PhD, University of Michigan

Scott Fritzen Associate Professor; PhD, Princeton University

Rachel Fyall Assistant Professor; PhD, Indiana University

Mary Kay Gugerty Professor; PhD, Harvard University

Crystal C. Hall Assistant Professor; PhD, Princeton University

Joaquín Herranz, Jr. Associate Dean, Associate Professor; PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Heather D. Hill Associate Professor; PhD, Northwestern University

Charles Hirschman Professor; PhD, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Sharon Kioko Associate Professor; PhD, Indiana University

Marieka M. Klawitter Professor; PhD, University of Wisconsin

Stephen Kosack Assistant Professor; PhD, Yale University

David F. Layton Professor; PhD, University of Washington

Mark C. Long Professor; PhD, University of Michigan

Justin Marlowe Professor; PhD, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

Marcia Meyers Professor; PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Stephen B. Page Associate Professor; PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Maria Perez Assistant Professor; PhD, Stanford University

Robert D. Plotnick Associate Dean, Professor; PhD, University of California, Berkeley

David Suárez Associate Professor; PhD, Stanford University

Craig Thomas Professor; PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Jacob L. Vigdor Professor; PhD, Harvard University

William M. Zumeta Professor; PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Dorothy Bullitt Senior Lecturer; JD, Boston University

Carlos Cuevas Senior Lecturer; PhD, Ohio State University

Greg Traxler Senior Lecturer; PhD, Iowa State University

Elizabeth Vigdor Senior Lecturer; PhD, Harvard University

By the Numbers

40

Current faculty

83

Executive MPA students enrolled

92%

MPA graduates employed in public/ nonprofit/social sectors

502

Total students enrolled

3.6

Average GPA for incoming MPA students

51%

MPA students from out of state/ international

844

2015 MPA, EMPA, & PhD applicants

25

Current PhD students

$21M

2015 Evans School endowment market value

156/158

Mean GRE Quantitative/Verbal scores of enrolled MPA students

For more information about the Evans School, visit us

online at evans.uw.edu.

To learn more about the impact of our faculty research

and scholarship, visit evans.

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