Huiyuan Wu
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Mail code: 3720Campus: Dtphx
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Student Information
Graduate StudentPublic Administration and Policy
Watts Col of Pub Ser & Com Sol
Huiyuan Wu is a Ph.D. student in Public Administration and Policy at Arizona State University’s School of Public Affairs and a Graduate Student Fellow at the Center for Organization Research and Design (CORD).
Her research examines how intergovernmental relations influence local government fiscal behavior. She is also interested in how local governments alleviate financial pressures and maintain fiscal health.
Her dissertation investigates how fiscal authority is negotiated among states, state legislatures, local governments, and voters, focusing on how tax and expenditure limitations (TELs) and home rule interact to shape local fiscal autonomy and fiscal behavior.
Her other research projects investigate whether local governments use greater fiscal autonomy to expand the size of government and whether voters effectively constrain this expansion, as well as the effects of hydraulic fracturing on local governments’ fiscal condition.
- M.S. Public Financial Management, University of Illinois at Chicago
- B.S.Public Administration, East China University of Science and Technology
Non degree:
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ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods, University of Michigan
Concentration: Causal Inference, Evaluating Model Robustness, Machine Learning
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Data Analytics Credential Program, University of Chicago
Quantitative Analysis and Programming in R
Public budgeting and finance, intergovernmental relations, fiscal federalism, fiscal institutions, fiscal health
Yin Wang, Li Zeng & Huiyuan Wu. (2021). “The influence of government ability, individual characteristics and interaction between government and citizens on citizen satisfaction.” Journal of Yunnan Administration Institute 2021(03).162-172
Conference Presentation:
• “How state constitutional and statutory provisions shape the interaction between tax and expenditure limitations and home rule in determining local fiscal autonomy,” Association for Budgeting & Financial Management (ABFM) Conference, Washington, D.C., September 2026.
• “Evolving Federal–State Fiscal Relations in Crisis: State Governments’ Responses to Federal COVID-19 Aid,” 12th Annual Deil Wright Symposium,86th American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) Conference, Los Angeles, CA, March 2026.
• “Tracing the dollars: how does federal COVID-19 aid shape the fiscal health of state governments,” Association for Budgeting & Financial Management (ABFM) Conference, Atlanta, GA, October 2025.
• “Do Local Governments Benefit Financially from Fracking?” with Akheil Singla. Association for Budgeting & Financial Management (ABFM) Conference, Cleveland, OH, September 2024.
• “Do Voters Moderate the Relationship Between Taxing Authority and Government Growth? Evidence from Externally Imposed Changes in Home Rule Status” with Siân, Mughan. Association for Budgeting & Financial Management (ABFM) Conference, Cleveland, OH, September 2024.
Undergraduate level:
Teaching Assistant PAF 112: Public Serv & Ameri Democracy (2026 Fall C)
Teaching Assistant PAF 160: How to Survive 21st Century (2026 Fall C)
Graduate level:
Teaching Assistant PAF 504 Microeconomics of Public Policy I (2026 Summer B)
Teaching Assistant PAF 506 Public Budgeting and Finance (2025 Summer A,2026 Summer A)
Teaching Assistant PAF 508 Organizational Behavior (2024 Summer A)