While I was still in school, I worked as a guide on wilderness expeditions. As part of that job, I was a certified Wilderness First Responder. In that training there is a mantra about working from ...

Earlier this week, I attended the Minnesota Evaluation Association ’s annual conference. In the morning, I had a conversation with a few other attendees about some of the challenges of performing quan ...

Often, governments, nonprofits, foundations, and associations have budgets to answer important questions but don’t know exactly what kind of study they need to answer them. I use $40,000 as an example ...

One of the most important questions we have to answer when we are proposing a project to a client is “how long will it take?” This one question has major implications for project costs, it can inform ...

In a survey released this morning by Scioto Analysis, 16 of 31 economists agreed that a vehicle-miles-traveled fee would be a more efficient way to fund Ohio's roads than the motor-fuel tax. Earlier ...

This morning, Scioto Analysis published a cost-benefit analysis of policies to regulate data centers in Ohio. We estimate that between 2013 and 2026, Ohio data centers produced a net social benefit of ...

Earlier this month, the Health Policy Institute of Ohio released a newsletter that focused on the percentage of outpatient healthcare facilities in Ohio that are independently owned. Currently only 31 ...

On Wednesday, the Ohio House of Representatives and the Ohio Senate approved a 90-day suspension of the state’s gas tax, planning to backfill it with funds from the state’s General Revenue fund. With ...

As a policy analyst, I encounter a range of different types of policy studies. Different research questions demand different tools. For example, measuring the economic footprint of a cycling industry ...

Housing is one of the largest expenses in most household budgets, which means that changes in housing costs can have a significant impact on whether or not a household is able to make ends meet. This ...

When we start a new project at Scioto Analysis, one of the first things we do with a client is agree on a scope: what questions the study will answer, which impacts will be measured, what methods will ...