select ACADEMIC Publications and reports

Allard, Scott W. and Elizabeth Pelletier. 2023. “Volatility and Change in Suburban Nonprofit Safety Nets.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences. 9(2): 134–60.

 Allard, Scott W., Jacob Grumbach, Calista Jahn, Megan Ming Francis, Lucas Owen, Whitney Quesenbery, Fernando Sánchez, AK Sterling, Joshua Varela, Will von Geldern, and Isaiah Wright. 2023. “Understanding Patterns and Trends in Rejected Mailed Ballots in Washington State.”

Morrisey, Taryn, Scott W. Allard, and Elizabeth Pelletier. 2022. “Access to Early Care and Education in Rural Communities: Implications for Children’s School Readiness.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences. 8(3): 100-23.

Allard, Scott. W. and Elizabeth Pelletier. 2021. “Place, Poverty, & Safety Net Provision in the U.S.” The Journal of Social Security Research. 6(2): 148-68.

Allard, Scott W., Maria Wathen, and Sandra K. Danziger. 2021. “The Spatial Context of Food Assistance: Examining Local Food Assistance Environment in the Context of SNAP.” Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition. 17(4): 501-20.

Allard, Scott W., Jennifer Romich, Anne Althauser, James Buszkiewicz, and Emmi Obara. 2020. “The Initial Nonprofit Exposure and Response to Seattle’s Minimum Wage Ordinance.” Social Service Review. 94(2): 185-237.

Romich, Jennifer, Scott W. Allard, Anne Althauser, James Buszkiewicz, and Emmi Obara. 2020. “Employer Responses to a City-level Minimum Wage Law: Early Evidence from Seattle.” Urban Affairs Review, 56(2): 451-79. 

 Allard, Scott W., Emily Wiegand, Colleen Schlect, A. Rupa Datta, Robert Goerge, and Elizabeth Weigensberg. 2018. “Agencies’ Use of Administrative Data for Improved Practice: Needs, Challenges, and Opportunities.” Public Administration Review, 78(2): 240-50.

     *2018 winner of the Louis Brownlow Award for best Public Administration Review article by a 

     practitioner and/or for a practitioner audience

Allard, Scott W., Maria Wathen, H. Luke Shaefer, and Sandra Danziger. 2017. “Neighborhood Food Infrastructure and Food Security in Metropolitan Detroit.” Journal of Consumer Affairs, 51(3): 566-97.

     *Top 20 most read article in Journal of Consumer Affairs, 2016-17

 Allard, Scott W. and Steven Rathgeb Smith. 2014. “Medicaid and the Funding of Social Service Organizations.” Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law, 39(6): 1135-72.

 Allard, Scott W. and Benjamin Roth*. 2010. “Strained Suburbs: The Social Service Challenges of Rising Suburban Poverty.” The Brookings Institution, Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy. 

Allard, Scott W. and Sheldon Danziger. 2003. “Proximity and Opportunity: How Residence and Race Affect the Employment of Welfare Recipients.”  Housing Policy Debate, 13(4): 675-700.