Publications
Publications
Peer-reviewed articles and books by the core CTDS faculty, students and affiliates.
Books
2026 · Book (Edited Volume)
Computational Approaches to Policy Challenges: Novel Methods and Applications
Kim, Y. (Ed.)
World Scientific Series on Public Policy and Technological Innovation · Publisher link →
2024 · Book
Green Gentrification and Environmental Injustice: A Complexity Approach to Policy
Campbell, H., Eckerd, A., & Kim, Y.
Springer
2021 · Book 🏆 2022 Goldsmith Prize, Shorenstein Center, Harvard
Choosing the Future: Technology and Opportunity in Communities
Mossberger, K., Tolbert, C.J., & LaCombe, S.
Oxford University Press
2021 · Book (Edited)
Transforming Everything? Evaluating Broadband's Impacts Across Policy Areas
Mossberger, K., Welch, E.W., & Wu, Y. (Eds.)
Oxford University Press
Peer-Reviewed Articles & Book Chapters
2026
Workforce patterns and income disparities in a growing US city
Berg, A., Howell, A., & Bagchi-Sen, S.
Journal of Economic Geography
2025
Prestige over merit: An adapted audit of LLM bias in peer review
Howell, A., Wang, J., Du, L., Melkers, J., & Shah, V.
arXiv:2509.15122 · arXiv
2026
From pixels to urban policy-intelligence: Recovering legacy effects of redlining with a multimodal LLM
Howell, A., Wu, N., Bagchi-Sen, S., Kim, Y., & Sun, C.
npj Urban Sustainability · arXiv preprint
2026
Administrative decision-making with generative AI: The challenge of epistemic boundedness
Kim, Y., Kim, J., Kim, T., & Cho, H.C.
Administration & Society · DOI →
2026
Advancing an understanding of the regulatory environments in which nonprofits operate through the creation and digitization of an open-source legal compendium of nonprofit law
Harrison, T., Lecy, J.D., & Shelly, M.L.
Nonprofit Policy Forum
2026
Examining the association between state lobbying regulations and nonprofit lobbying expenditures
Ward, K.D., Grasse, N., & Lecy, J.D.
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly · DOI →
2026
Digitale Spaltung im internationalen Vergleich [The Digital Divide and Digital Citizenship in International Comparison]
Kersting, N., & Mossberger, K.
Handbuch Digitalisierung und politische Beteiligung
2025
Cash transfers and the Han-Minority household energy poverty gap in rural China
Howell, A.
Energy Economics
2025
Public perceptions of responsible AI in local government: A multi-country study using the theory of planned behaviour
David, A., Yigitcanlar, T., Desouza, K., Mossberger, K., Cheong, P.H., et al.
Government Information Quarterly
2025
Artificial intelligence and the city: An editorial perspective
Yigitcanlar, T., Desouza, K., Mossberger, K., Cheong, P.H., et al.
Journal of Urban Technology
2025
Understanding chatbot adoption in local governments: A review and framework
Senadheera, S., Yigitcanlar, T., Desouza, K., Mossberger, K., et al.
Journal of Urban Technology
2025
Some good news, more bad news: Two decades of the gender pay gap for nonprofit directors and chief financial officers
Grasse, N.J., Heidbreder, B., Kukla-Acevedo, S.A., & Lecy, J.D.
Review of Public Personnel Administration · DOI →
2025
Connecting park access and use data for equitable environmental planning
Kim, Y., Kim, J., Won, Y., Nelson, J., & Stuhlmacher, M.
Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science · DOI →
2025
Urban neighborhoods with greater access but less use of nearby parks: Case of Los Angeles, California
Won, Y., Kim, J., Kim, Y., & Corley, E.
Environment and Behavior · DOI →
2025
Preferring local over non-local parks? Green space visit patterns by urban residents in desert cities, Arizona
Kim, J., Won, Y., Kim, Y., & Corley, E.
Landscape and Urban Planning · DOI →
2024
Spatioethnic household carbon footprints in China and the equity implications of climate mitigation policy: A machine learning approach
Howell, A.
Annals of the American Association of Geographers
2024
Rural road stimulus and the role of matching mandates on economic recovery in China
Howell, A.
Journal of Development Economics
2024
Disentangling agglomeration economies from selection under policy distortions in China
Howell, A., Li, R., Bagchi-Sen, S., & Lobo, J.
Regional Studies
2024
Heterogeneous effects of a foreign buyer tax on house prices in New South Wales
Howell, A., Mughan, S., & Singla, A.
Journal of Economic Geography
2024
Place-based policy and neighborhood business density: Impacts of the Community Development Block Grant program
McCullough, M.
Urban Affairs Review
2024
Governor's political affiliation and stringent COVID-19 policy
Wang, C., Kim, Y., & Mossberger, K.
Public Administration Review
2024
Metaverse as local government communication platform: A systematic review through the lens of publicness theory
Senadheera, S., Yigitcanlar, T., Desouza, K., Mossberger, K., et al.
Cities
2024
From digital inequality to opportunity: Broadband policy in the states
Mossberger, K.
In T. Kousser, J. Michener & C.J. Tolbert (Eds.), Politics in the American States, 12th ed. Sage.
2024
Institutional trustworthiness on public attitudes toward facial recognition technology: Evidence from US policing
Li, R.G.
Government Information Quarterly
2024
The green space dilemma: Pathways to greening with and without gentrification
Kim, J., Kim, Y., & Stuhlmacher, M.
Journal of Urban Affairs · DOI →
2024
The unequal connectivity of parks and tree canopy in 10 US cities
Stuhlmacher, M., & Kim, Y.
Urban Forestry & Urban Greening · DOI →
2024
Is the grass greener or the water bluer? Drivers of local park visitation patterns in Phoenix, Arizona
Nelson, J., Won, Y., Kim, J., Stuhlmacher, M., & Kim, Y.
Urban Forestry & Urban Greening · DOI →
2023
Impact of a guaranteed minimum income program on rural-urban migration in China
Howell, A.
Journal of Economic Geography
2023
Community-wide broadband adoption and student academic achievement
Caldarulo, M., Mossberger, K., & Howell, A.
Telecommunications Policy
2023
Agglomeration, recombinant innovation, and the role of market reforms in a transitioning China
Howell, A., Li, R., Feldman, M., & Qian, H.
Economics of Innovation and New Technology
2023
Digital economic activity and resilience for metros and small businesses during Covid-19
Mossberger, K., Martini, N.F., McCullough, M., & Tolbert, C.J.
Small Business Economics
2023
The public good and public attitudes toward data sharing through IoT
Mossberger, K., Cho, S., Cheong, P.H., & Kuznetsova, D.
Policy & Internet
2023
Green space access and visitation disparities in the Phoenix metropolitan area
Kim, Y., Corley, E.A., Won, Y., & Kim, J.
Landscape and Urban Planning · DOI →
2023
How to code a million missions: Developing bespoke nonprofit activity codes using machine learning algorithms
Santamarina, F.J., Lecy, J.D., & van Holm, E.J.
Voluntas
2022
Socio-economic impacts of scaling back a massive payments for ecosystem services programme in China
Howell, A.
Nature Human Behaviour
2022
The impact of China's R&D subsidies on R&D investment, technological upgrading, and economic growth
Boeing, P., Eberle, J., & Howell, A.
Technological Forecasting and Social Change
2022
A new measure of digital economic activity and its impact on local opportunity
Mossberger, K., LaCombe, S., & Tolbert, C.J.
Telecommunications Policy
2022
Information and policy innovation in US states
LaCombe, S., Tolbert, C., & Mossberger, K.
Political Research Quarterly
2022
The role of green space in Chicago's gentrification
Stuhlmacher, M., Kim, Y., & Kim, J.
Urban Forestry & Urban Greening · DOI →
2021
The effects of the COVID-19 crisis on the City of Phoenix's budget and creditworthiness
Singla, A., Mughan, S., & Howell, A.
Municipal Finance Journal
2020
Minimum wage impacts on Han-minority workers' wage distribution and inequality in urban China
Howell, A.
Journal of Urban Economics
2020
Picking 'winners' in space: Impact of spatial targeting on firm performance in China
Howell, A.
Journal of Regional Science
2020
Explaining the urban premium in Chinese cities and the role of place-based policies
Howell, A., Liu, C., & Yang, R.
Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
2020
Going out to innovate more at home: Impacts of outward direct investments on Chinese firms' domestic innovation performance
Howell, A., Lin, J., & Worack, S.
China Economic Review
2020
Relatedness economies, absorptive capacity, and economic catch-up: Firm-level evidence from China
Howell, A.
Industrial and Corporate Change
2020
Industry relatedness, FDI liberalization, and the indigenous innovation process in China
Howell, A.
Regional Studies
2020
Agglomeration, absorptive capacity, and knowledge governance: Implications for public-private firm innovation in China
Howell, A.
Regional Studies
2019
Turning points in the Chinese civil war: A financial market perspective
Howell, A., & Zhao, L.
Australian Economic History Review
2019
Heterogeneous impacts of China's economic and development zone program
Howell, A.
Journal of Regional Science
2019
Clustering effects on firm exporting with productivity-enhancing R&D in China
Howell, A.
The World Economy
2017
Marshallian sources of relatedness and their effects on firm survival and subsequent success in China
Howell, A.
Economic Geography
2019
Artificial discretion as a tool of governance: A framework for understanding the impact of artificial intelligence on public administration
Young, M., Bullock, J., & Lecy, J.
Perspectives on Public Management and Governance