Ivy Liu

Assistant Professor of Public Policy Leadership

Email:
sliu7@olemiss.edu
Office Location:
110 Odom Hall
Phone:
662-915-7347
Website:
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Research Interests

Public Sector Innovation, Organizational Learning, Casual Inference, Network Governance

Biography

Dr. Ivy Liu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Policy Leadership at the University of Mississippi. She holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy and Management from The Ohio State University, with graduate minors in economics and statistics. Her research examines how governments learn, innovate, and adapt through complex interorganizational networks to address challenges in areas such as economic development and community building. Her work has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals, including Public Administration Review and Public Administration. She teaches undergraduate courses in research methods and policy analysis. She currently serves as treasurer of the Section on Public Policy at American Political Science Association (APSA) and Chinese Policy Scholars Group at APPAM.

Professional Affiliations

American Political Science Association
American Society for Public Administration
Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management
Public Health Extreme Events Research Center
Public Management Research Association

Publications

Policy Studies

Employing Synthetic Control Method to Examine Whether State Corporate Tax Rate Reductions Grow Manufacturing Employment

This study examines the impact of reductions in Indiana's corporate income tax rate beginning in July 2012. It employs the synthetic control method to construct a counterfactual, or “synthetic Indiana,” using quarterly manufacturing employment data from 23 states that did not change their tax rates during the 2003–2018 study period.

Landers, J., & Liu, I. (2025). Employing Synthetic Control Method to Examine Whether State Corporate Tax Rate Reductions Grow Manufacturing Employment. Economic Development Quarterly.

Liu, I. S., & Yi, H. (2024). Member duality and policy tourism: Learning in interlocal policy networks. Public Administration.

Wang, C., & Liu, I. S. (2024). Unraveling the politics-science nexus: diverse strategies in US states’ termination of mask policies. Policy Studies, 1-28.

Yi, H., & Liu, I. (2022). Executive Leadership, Policy Tourism, and Policy Diffusion among Local Governments. Public Administration Review, 82(6), 1024-1041.