Our Research
G&ER conducts applied research across governance, institutions, public systems, organizational performance, and public policy. We examine how decisions made by governments, organizations, and institutions shape opportunity, accountability, public services, economic well-being, and everyday life across communities.
Our work translates complex governance and policy questions into accessible, evidence-informed analysis that helps institutions, organizations, researchers, and communities better understand how public decisions shape everyday life.
Research Across Places | Examining how governance and public policy shape everyday life across cities and communities.
✓ Published
Philadelphia | Policy to Pocket
Can a Full-Time Worker Afford to Access Opportunity in Philadelphia?
COMING SOON
Washington, DC | Policy to Pocket
Exploring governance, opportunity, and access in the nation's capital.
CURRENT RESEARCH
New York City | Policy to Pocket
The Price of Proximity: How Housing, Transit, and Time Are Reshaping Everyday Survival in New York City.
COMING SOON
Chicago | Policy to Pocket
Understanding how policy and public investment shape neighborhoods, mobility, and opportunity in Chicago.
CURRENT RESEARCH
Puerto Rico | Policy to Pocket
The Invisible Cost of “Affordability: How San Juan’s Housing Crisis, Infrastructure Instability, and Mobility Pressures Are Reshaping Access to Opportunity Across Puerto Rico.
CURRENT RESEARCH
Pennsylvania Transit Study | Beyond the Manifesto
When Political Commitments Meet Public Transit Reality! Examining how funding decisions, governance, implementation capacity, and institutional constraints shape public transportation and everyday mobility across Philadelphia.
Expanding Our Research Footprint
G&ER is actively expanding to more cities and regions. Have a location or issue you would like us to explore?
Our Research Series
Our flagship research series examine governance, public policy, and institutional performance through distinct but complementary lenses.
Policy to Pocket | How public decisions shape everyday life.
Research examining how housing, transportation, public investment, wages, and governance decisions shape affordability, access to opportunity, mobility, and quality of life across cities and communities.
Focus Areas
Housing & Affordability
Transportation & Mobility
Economic Opportunity
Public Services
Quality of Life
Research Pipeline
Philadelphia • New York City • Puerto Rico • Washington, DC • Chicago
Beyond the Manifesto | Where political promises meet governing reality.
Research examining what happens after elections by evaluating whether political commitments become institutional reality through implementation, governance, administrative capacity, accountability, and public-sector performance.
Focus Areas
Governance Transitions
Policy Implementation
Political Commitments
Institutional Performance
Public Accountability
Current Research
SEPTA Implementation Study • Pennsylvania
The Public Ledger | Following how institutions govern.
Research examining how public institutions allocate resources, implement decisions, manage public funds, and deliver services through evidence-based analysis of accountability, transparency, and institutional performance.
Focus Areas
Public Spending & Budgets
Infrastructure & Transit
Procurement & Contracts
Education & Public Services
Institutional Accountability
Current Themes
Budgets • Transit Funding • Procurement • Service Delivery