Center for Research on the Wisconsin Economy
10.19. Ananth Seshadri. The UW-System faces price controls like none of its peers. This policy brief provides some background for this freeze. It brings the best available evidence to bear on returns to college, investing in the UW-System, and college debt.
8.19. Junjie Guo, Ananth Seshadri and Christopher Taber. Using county-level data on prison admission, prison release, parole supervision and employment opportunities by industry and skill requirements, we estimate the effect of the number of low-skill new hires by industry at the time of prison release on recidivism in Wisconsin.
6.25.19. Junjie Guo and Noah Williams. We provide new evidence on the potential impact of Medicaid expansion on health care providers and the privately insured in Wisconsin.
5.19.19. Kim Ruhl. In response to the U.S. financial crisis of 2007–2008, the “Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act” (henceforth, the Dodd-Frank Act or just the Act) was enacted on July 21, 2010. This sweeping reform was meant to stabilize the financial system and prevent future crises.
5.10.19. Junjie Guo and Noah Williams. Wisconsin has a progressive individual state income tax system, which features increasing marginal tax rates (the tax rate on the last dollar earned) as income rises. However other aspects of the tax code, such as the earned income tax credit (EITC) and standard deduction, change the effective marginal tax rate that taxpayers face.
4.16.19. Gwyn Pauley and Matt Wiswall. This report estimates the costs and savings of the proposed Medicaid expansion in Wisconsin.
3.28.19. Simeon Alder. The decline of business dynamism in the United States has garnered considerable attention in recent years. Academic research has highlighted various aspects of this decline in dynamism, among them the rise in market share concentration, the aging of firms, the rise in mark-ups, or the disappearance of young, high-growth firms. In this report, we review the available data with a particular focus on Wisconsin's entrepreneurial activity.
2.19.19. Will Flanders and Noah Williams. Medicaid expansion in Wisconsin will be a major topic of debate in this year. Currently in Wisconsin, those earning up to 100% of the federal poverty limit are eligible for Medicaid.
11.8.19. Junjie Guo and Noah Williams. This paper provides forecasts for the United States and Wisconsin economies in 2019. We use a mixed-frequency vector auto-regression (MF-VAR) model that has been previously applied to forecast the national economy, which we extend to also consider the state of Wisconsin.
12.19.18. Junjie Guo and Noah Williams. On June 30, 2013, Wisconsin Act 20, which reduced the state’s personal income tax rates for the first time since 1999 and eliminated a tax bracket, was signed into law. This reform was later followed by 2013 Wisconsin Act 145, which further reduced the marginal tax rate for the bottom income bracket.