Ed Gerrish

Ed Gerrish is an Associate Professor of Public Administration at the University of South Dakota. His research focuses on government performance systems, in particular how to optimize performance while avoiding unintended behaviors. He received his Master’s degree and Ph.D. from the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University and his undergraduate degree from the University of South Dakota. Prior to returning to graduate work, Ed analyzed the costs and benefits of regulatory decisions for federal agencies and organizations.

Research Methods, public budgeting and finance

Public sector performance, performance management, state and local finance, meta-analysis

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Gerrish, Ed. Exempting Groceries from the South Dakota Sales and Use Tax Base, 10.
Nordyke, Shane, and Gerrish, Ed. South Dakota Department of Public Safety 2023 Highway Safety Plan.
Gerrish, Ed. Teaching Program Evaluation. In Teaching Graduate Political Methodology. Elgar, 2022.
Gerrish, Ed, and Hellwege, Julia. Strategic Behavior in State Multimember Districts: Does Fielding One Candidate offer a Notable Advantage?, 677-708. Vol. 47, Iss. 3 Legislative Studies Quarterly, 2021. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/lsq.12363)
Gerrish, Ed. Taxes and Tax-Exempt Bonds: A Literature Review, 767-808. Vol. 36, Iss. 4 Journal of Economic Surveys, 2021. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/joes.12464)
Gerrish, Ed, Spreen, Thomas L., and Afonso, Whitney. Can Employee Training Influence Local Fiscal Outcomes?, 401–414. Vol. 50, Iss. 4-5 American Review of Public Administration, 2020.
Watkins, Shannon L., and Gerrish, Ed. The Relationship Between Urban Forests and Race: A Meta-Analysis, 152-168. Vol. 209 Journal of Environmental Management (JEMA), 2018. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2017.12.021)
Gerrish, Ed, and Watkins, Shannon L.. The Relationship between Urban Forests and Income: A Meta-Analysis, 293-308. Vol. 170 Landscape and Urban Planning, 2017. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2017.09.005)
Gerrish, Ed, and Spreen, Thomas L.. Does Benchmarking Encourage Improvement or Convergence? Evaluating North Carolina’s Fiscal Analysis Tool, 596–614. Vol. 27, Iss. 4 Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 2017. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jopart/mux018)
Gerrish, Ed. The Effect of the Child Support Performance and Incentive Act of 1998 on Rewarded and Unrewarded Performance Goals. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2017. (DOI: 10.1002/pam.21957)
Gerrish, Ed. The effect of the child support performance and incentive act of 1998 on rewarded and unrewarded performance goals, 65–96. Vol. 36, Iss. 1 Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2016. (DOI: 10.1002/pam.21957)
Gerrish, Ed. The Impact of Performance Management on Performance in Public Organizations: A Meta-Analysis, 48–66. Vol. 76, Iss. 1 Public Administration Review, 2016.
Gerrish, Ed. The Evolution of Performance Management in Public Organizations. Indiana University, 2015.
Gerrish, Ed. Complex Contracting: Government Purchasing in the Wake of the U.S. Coast Guard's Deepwater Program, by Trevor Brown, Matthew Potoski, and David Van Slyke, 248-250. Vol. 34, Iss. 1 Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2014. (DOI: 10.1002/pam.21806)
Gerrish, Ed, and others. EMAILME: Stata module to facilitate sending mail on Windows systems. Statistical Software Components, 2014.
Gerrish, Ed, and Wu, Po-Ju. Performance Management in the Public Sector. In Meta-Analysis for Public Management and Policy, 352–397. Jossey-Bass, 2013.

Gerrish, Ed, Your Lyin Eyes: Motivated Reasoning and interpreting Graphic Performance Information. Does Partisanship Trump Reason?. Presented at the Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management (APPAM), Denver, CO. (November 07, 2019)
Gerrish, Ed, our Lyin Eyes: Motivated Reasoning and interpreting Graphic Performance Information. Does Partisanship Trump Reason?. Presented at the Public Management Research Conference (PMRC), Chapel Hill, NC. (June 2019)
Gerrish, Ed, and Hellwege, Julia, “Strategic Behavior in State Multi-Member Districts: Does Fielding One Candidate Offer a Notable Advantage?” . Presented at the MPSA Annual Conference, Chicago. (April 07, 2019)
Gerrish, Ed, Benchmarking Fiscal Outcomes: The Role of Employee Training. Presented at the Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management (APPAM), Washington, DC. (November 2018)
Gerrish, Ed, and Spreen, Thomas L., Does Benchmarking Encourage Innovation or Convergence? Evaluating North Carolina’s Fiscal Analysis Tool. Presented at the Public Management Research Conference, Washington, DC. (June 08, 2017)
Gerrish, Ed, and Spreen, Thomas L., Does Benchmarking Encourage Improvement or Convergence? Evaluating North Carolina’s Fiscal Analysis Tool. Presented at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Washington, DC. (November 05, 2016)
Fyall, Rachel, and Gerrish, Ed, Housing Policy by Any Other Name: Estimating the Size of Seattle’s Nonprofit Housing Tax Expenditure. Presented at the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management, Seattle, Wa. (October 05, 2016)
Gerrish, Ed, Do performance reforms make a difference: Evidence from meta-analyses. Presented at the Public Management Research Conference, Aarhus, Denmark. (June 2016)
Gerrish, Ed, The relationship between urban trees, race, ethnicity, and Income: a meta-analysis.. Presented at the American Association for Geographers, San Francisco, CA. (April 2016)
Gerrish, Ed, and Watkins, Shannon L., The relationship between urban trees, race, ethnicity, and Income: a meta-analysis.. Presented at the Association for Public Policy Analysis \& Management (APPAM), Miami, FL. (November 2015)
Gerrish, Ed, and Spreen, T. Luke, Does Benchmarking Encourage Innovation or Convergence? Evaluating North Carolina’s Fiscal Analysis Tool. . Presented at the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management, Washington, DC. (October 2015)

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