Recently we caught up with UConn School of Public Policy (SPP) Professor Bill Simonsen regarding his research. He had the following updates for our newsletter!
Over the past few years, one focus of my research has been with colleagues Mark Robbins and Eric Brunner in the broad area of citizen’ willingness to pay for public services. This research has produced four articles:
- “Information, Tax Salience and Support for School District Bond Referenda” in Public Finance and Budgeting
- “Property Tax Information and Support for School Bond Referenda: Experimental Evidence” in Public Administration Review
- “Experimental evidence about property tax word aversion” in Public Finance and Budgeting
- “Attachment to Government and Support for Government Debt” in International Journal of Public Administration
In addition, we have two working papers in this area and are currently collecting additional data through a randomized control trial.