There is well-documented evidence that urban trees benefit the physical, mental, and social health of urban residents. The environmental justice hypothesis posits that environmental amenities like urban forest cover are inequitably low in poor and minority communities. If so, these communities...

This paper examines the impact of the Child Support Performance and Incentive Act (CSPIA) of 1998 on child support enforcement goals that are rewarded financially as well as outcomes that are not rewarded. I am able to reconstruct three of the five performance measures explicitly rewarded by...

This paper investigates personal income tax (PIT) mimicry at the international level. It is the first to empirically investigate the extent to which PIT mimicry varies along the tax schedule and the first to include nations which are not part of the OECD. We use data on international personal...

Research suggests that urban trees provide substantial public health and public environmental benefits. However, scholarly works suggest that urban trees may be unequally distributed among poor and minority urban communities, meaning that these communities are potentially being deprived of...

Performance-based management is pervasive in public organizations; governments around the world have created performance management systems with the hope that they will contribute to organizational effectiveness. However, there has been little comprehensive review of the effect of performance...