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Papers Presented and Conference Participation: Domestic1
at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies

Faculty and research associates made over 160 presentations at professional meetings, in special symposia and as invited lectures. As this listing shows, our faculty and associates were often "at the table" when special meetings were convened to discuss subjects that are close to our mission. This years campus lectures included College of William and Mary, University of Colorado, Columbia University, George Washington University, Georgia Institute of Technology, New York University, Tulane University, and University of Southern California.

The Andrew Young School of Policy Studies

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton and Ambassador Andrew Young participated in a special foreign policy symposium honoring Andrew Young's birthday on March 9, 2001. Dean Bahl moderated the discussion before a packed house at Ebenezer Baptist Church in downtown Atlanta. Clinton and Young addressed ideas for closing the gap between rich and poor nations, promoting African economic development, and expanding the role of technology in international business. President Clinton was presented with the school's first Andrew Young Medal for Capitalism and Social Progress, for his contributions to the development of dynamic and robust free economies based on socially responsible capitalism.

The Department of Economics will jointly sponsor, with the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, a conference to explore the role of technology in the U.S. economy, to be held on January 7, 2002.  Speakers will include Alice M. Rivlin, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and former vice chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and Edward M. Gramlich, member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

James Alm

served as discussant at a session on nonprofit economics at the American Economic Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, La., January 2001.

presented "Tax Compliance as a Coordination Game" (with Michael McKee) at the Public Choice Society and Economic Sciences Association Annual Meetings, New Orleans, La., March 2001.

presented "Institutions, Paradigms, and Tax Evasion in Developing and Transition Countries" (with Jorge Martinez-Vazquez) at "Public Finance in Developing and Transition Countries: A Conference in Honor of Richard Bird," Atlanta, Ga., April 2001.

presented "Tax Reductions, Tax Changes, and the Marriage Penalty" (with Leslie A. Whittington) at the National Tax Association, Spring Symposium, Washington, D.C., May 2001.

presented "Tax Compliance as a Coordination Game" (with Michael McKee) at the Economic Science Association Annual Conference, Tucson, Ariz., September 2001.

presented "Marriage, Cohabitation, and the Income Tax" (with Leslie A. Whittington) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, September 2001, and at the APPAM 23rd Annual Research Conference, Washington, D.C., November 2001.

presented "Tax Compliance as a Coordination Game" (with Michael McKee), and served as discussant at a session on taxation, at the National Tax Association Ninety-fourth Annual Conference on Taxation, Baltimore, Md., November 2001.

presented "Corruption, Optimal Taxation, and Growth" (with Raul A. Barreto) at the Southern Economic Association 71st Annual Conference, Tampa, Fla., November 2001.

Jay Bae

presented "Retraction of Pulmonary Artery Catheter: Once Genie is out of the Bottle" at the American Economic Association session, ASSA, New Orleans, La., January 2001.

presented "Pharmacy Benefit Management Contracting: The Case of Georgia State" at the Western Medicaid Pharmacy Administrators Association meeting, Kansas City, Mo., May 2001.

presented "Getting on and Staying on: the Georgia SCHIP Enrollment/Retention Study" (poster session) at the Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy, Atlanta, Ga., June 2001.

presented "Pharmacy Benefit Management Contracting: The Case of Georgia State" and served as discussant for "Creating a Healthcare Financial Value Index in an Activity-based Accounting," at the Conference for International Society for Research in Healthcare Financial Management, Baltimore, Md., August 2001.

presented "Competitive Implication of Selective Contracting: the Case of Pharmacy Benefit Management" at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Baltimore, Md., August 2001.

presented "Racial Disparities in Enrollment of Children's Health Insurance Program: PeachCare for Kids Experience," and served as discussant for "Economics of Disability" at the Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting, Tampa, Fla., November 2001.

Roy Bahl

presented "Trends in Fiscal Decentralization: The Cases of South Africa and Indonesia" at New York University Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, February 6, 2001.

participated in the Taxation of Land and Buildings Advisory Committee, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Boston, Mass., March 2001.

presented "Split Rate Property Tax" as a part of "Taxing Land, Taxing Buildings: Should They Be The Same?", a conference on Split Rate Property Taxation sponsored by The Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, The Georgia Municipal Association, and the Urban Land Institute District Council, at Georgia State University, May 8, 2001.

presented "Fiscal Decentralization as an Economic Development Strategy" at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Calif., June 2001.

presented "Implementing Decentralization In Indonesia" at the U.S. Indonesian Society conference, Washington, D.C., June 2001.

gave the Convocation address, "The Promise of Learning," at Greenville College, Greenville, Ill., September 5, 2001.

and Sri Mulyani Indrawati spoke on Decentralization in Indonesia (session III) at the United States-Indonesia Bilateral Policy Dialogue, sponsored by The United States-Indonesia Society (USINDO) and the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS-Jakarta), Washington D.C., September 27-28, 2001.

presented the Lincoln Lecture, "Property Taxation in Developing Countries: An Assessment in 2001," at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, Mass., October 23, 2001.

presented "External Programs and Partnerships" at the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA) Annual Conference, Washington D.C., October 27, 2001.

spoke at the National Governors Association, Critical Tax Issues for State Policymakers meeting, at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in Cambridge, Mass., November 2, 2001.

moderated the session, "Financing for State and Local Government under Economic and Demographic Tension," and served as discussant at a session on "Subnational VAT" at the National Tax Association Annual Conference, Baltimore, Md., November 8, 2001.

Grant Black*

presented “Small Firm Innovation in Metropolitan Areas: Does the Local Technological Infrastructure Matter?” at the annual meetings of the Association of Public Policy and Management, Washington, D.C., November 3, 2001.

Jameson Boex**

presented "Recent Reforms in Russia's Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations," and served as discussant for the session, "Government Policy at the Federal Level," at the Southern Economic Association Meetings in Tampa, Fla., November 17-18, 2001.

Linda Calloway

(with Mindy Wertheimer) presented "Relationship Building: A Training Model for Effective Partnerships" at the National Society For Experiential Education Conference, October 2001.

Richard Charles

served as presenter and member on the NASA committee on aircraft performance monitoring systems, Washington, D.C., April 2001.

served as a panelist in the Open Geodata Consortium (OGETA) conference, "The Impact of Homeland Security on the Information World," at the Georgia Commission on Advanced Telecommunications Technologies, Atlanta, Ga., November 2001. Panelists included Patrick Gray, formerly of the FBI, Georgia Senator Robert Lamutt, and Walter Taylor, Vice President of Delta Air Lines.

see also David M. Van Slyke.

James P. Cooney, Jr.

and Glenn Landers presented "Improving End-of-Life Care Planning in Nursing Facilities" (poster) at the annual meeting of the Association for Health Services Research, Atlanta, Ga., June, 2001.

Ronald G. Cummings

presented "Valuation of Water," at the conference, "The Tennessee River: Beauty, Bounty, and Balance - Water To Power Our Lives," sponsored by the Association of Tennessee Valley Governments and the Tennessee Valley Authority, Knoxville, Tenn., June 14, 2001.

presented "Enhancing Environmental and Ecological Resources in the Flint Basin" at the Southern Region Extension Water Quality Conference, Gulf Shores, Ala., October 28, 2001.

Kelly Edmiston

served as a discussant at the Annual Conference of the American Economics Association, New Orleans, La., January, 2001.

presented "Technological Changes and their Impact on State and Local Finances" (with Bill Fox) at the annual conference of the Western Economics Association, San Francisco, Calif., July 7, 2001.

presented "Benefits & Burdens of Strategic Apportionment Policies: Preliminary Results for the Case of Double-Weighted Sales in Georgia," and "Technological Changes and their Impact on State and Local Finances," and served as moderator and discussant for the session, "State Issues in Corporate Taxation," at the Annual Conference of the National Tax Association, Baltimore, Md., November 8-10, 2001.

Paul G. Farnham

presented "The Role of Behavior Change in Determining the Cost-Effectiveness of HIV Counseling and Testing Programs" (poster presentation) at the Annual Meeting of the Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy, Atlanta, Ga., June 10-12, 2001.

presented "Economic Perspectives: Crack Cocaine Use and Adherence to Antiretroviral Treatment in HIV-Infected Black Women" at the Epidemiologic Intelligence Service Seminar, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Ga., October 9, 2001.

(with Carol R. Scotton, Lynn A. Austin and David R. Holtgrave) presented "The Role of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in HIV Prevention Resource Allocation" at the Twenty-Third Annual Research Conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM), Washington, D.C., November 1-3, 2001.

Paul Ferraro

presented "Targeting Conservation Contracts in Heterogeneous Landscapes: A Distance Function Approach and Application to Watershed Management" at the Annual Meetings of the Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association, Bar Harbor, Maine, June 2001.

served as discussant for "Long Term Risks from Participating in the Clean Development Mechanism" (with U. Narain and K. van't Veld) at the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Workshop Assessing and Managing Environmental and Public Health Risks, Bar Harbor, Maine, June 2001.

presented "Endangered Ecosystem Conservation: The Dynamics of Direct and Indirect Transfers" (with J. Conrad), and served as discussant for "Combining Environmental and Economic Indicators to Prioritize Wetlands Restoration Projects" at the Annual Meetings of the Southern Economics Association, Tampa, Fla., November 2001.

Catherine Freeman

presented "Resource Deployment and Student Achievement in Tennessee Middle Schools" at the American Education Finance Association Annual Meeting, March 2001.

Shiferaw Gurmu

presented "Premarital Birth, First Marriage, and the Role of Welfare and Marriage Market Factors: A Non-parametric Competing Risks Analysis," and served as discussant for a session on "Fertility, Female Labor Participation and Schooling," the North American Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society, New Orleans, La., January 5-7, 2001.

organized and chaired a session on "Econometric Applications in Welfare, Fertility and Health," and served as a discussant in a session on "Spatial Econometrics and Applications," at the 71st Annual Conference of the Southern Economic Association Tampa, Fla., November 17-19, 2001.

Darrick Hamilton

presented "From Dark to Light: Skin Shade Variations and Wages Among Black Americans" (with Arthur H. Goldsmith and William Darity, Jr.) at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Research Conference, Washington D.C., November, 2001.         

Carol D. Hansen

(with A. Wilensky**) presented "Understanding the Work Beliefs of Nonprofit Executives Through Organizational Stories," Academy of HRD, Tulsa, Okla., March 2001.

Amy Helling

presented "Advocate for a Modern Devil: Can Sprawl be Defended?" at the Georgia State University Law Symposium, February 2001.

presented "Strategic Planning for the Workforce of the Future" at the American Society for Public Administration Annual Conference, Newark, N.J., March 2001.

presented "Where is the Resurgens? Central City and Suburban Employment Specialization in the Atlanta Region" (with David Sawicki) at the American Association of Geographers Annual Conference, New York, March 2001.

presented "Changing Mobility Among Workers: The Consequences for Cities" at the Urban Affairs Association Annual Meeting, Detroit, Mich., April 2001.

presented "Race and Residential Accessibility to Shopping and Services" (with David Sawicki) at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Conference, Cleveland, Ohio, November 2001. She also served as a discussant at this conference.

Laura Henderson

presented "An Evaluator's Perspective of Effective Early Childhood Programs" at "Priority Schools, Priority Students: Making Public Schools Great for Every Child," the National School Conference Institute, in partnership with The National Education Association, Atlanta, Ga., October 26-28, 2001.

Gary T. Henry

presented "A Progressive Research Paradigm on Use," Bay Area Evaluators, San Francisco, Calif., January 18, 2001.

presented "Optimizing the Use of Evaluation Findings for Policy," "Cost Effective Techniques for Sampling," "Graphical Display of Date for Presentations and Analysis," and (with Melvin M. Mark) "A New Framework for Planning and Conducting Evaluations," at the Evaluators' Institute, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., January 2001.

presented "Lessons from Georgia's Universal Pre-K Evaluation" at the NYS Prekindergarten Administrators' Association Annual Conference, Latham, N.Y., March 16, 2001.

presented "Georgia's Experience with Universal Pre-K: Lessons Learned" at the Southeast Center for Teaching Quality, Chapel Hill, N.C., March 30, 2001.

presented "Impact of Hope Scholarship on Tuition and Fees" at the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Annual Fall Conference, Washington, D.C., November 1-2, 2001.

presented "Evaluation of Universal Pre-K in Georgia" and "Impacts of Evaluation: Criteria for Judging the Success of Evaluation" at the American Evaluation Association, St. Louis, Mo., November 7-9, 2001.

presented "Evaluation of Pre-K in Georgia" at the CCMC, Washington, D.C., December 10-11, 2001.

see Ross Rubenstein

Julie L. Hotchkiss

presented "Employment Outcomes of Workers with Disabilities," and served as discussant of "New Estimates of the Impact of Child Disability on Maternal Employment," at the American Economic Association, New Orleans, La., January 2001.

presented "The Upside Potential of Hiring Risky Workers: Evidence from the Baseball Industry," Society of Labor Economists, Austin, Tex., April 2001.

see also M. Melinda Pitts.

Bruce Kaufman

presented "The Behavioral Foundations of the First Law and Economics Movement" at the Research in Behavioral Law and Economics Conference, New York University, April 10, 2001.

presented "Industrial Relations Counselors, Inc.: Its History and Significance" at the Conference in Honor of the 75th Anniversary of Industrial Relations Counselors, Inc., Princeton University, September 11, 2001.

Glenn Landers

see James P. Cooney.

Susan Laury

presented "Classroom Experiments on the Internet" and "The Georgia Irrigation Reduction Auction: Experiments and Implementation" at the American Economic Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, La., January 2001.

presented "Classroom Games: Voluntary Provision of a Public Good" at the Conference on Classroom Experiments, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., May 2001.

participated by invitation as a peer-reviewer at the Jet Propulsion Lab (NASA) Mission Acquisition Meeting, Washington, D.C., May 25, 2001.

presented "The Georgia Irrigation Reduction Auction: Experiments and Implementation" at the Department of Economics, University of Mississippi, Oxford, Miss., February 2001, at Resources for the Future, Washington, D.C., May 2001, and at the Workshop on Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, October 2001.

presented "Risk Aversion and Incentive Effects" at the Department of Economics, Indiana University, October 2001.

presented "Individual Motives for Giving Under Real and Hypothetical Incentives," and chaired and served as discussant for a session on Public Goods, at the North American Regional Meeting of the Economic Science Association, Tucson, Ariz., November 2001.

presented "The Georgia Irrigation Reduction Auction: Experiments and Implementation," and chaired and served as discussant in a session on Risky Preferences, at the Southern Economic Association Meetings, Tampa, Fla., November 2001.

Gregory B. Lewis

presented "Public Opinion and State Gay Rights Laws," and (with Sue A. Frank) "Who Wants to Work for the Government" at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, Calif., August 2001.

Deon Locklin

presented findings of statewide research of customer perceptions of service delivery (conducted for the Charles McDowell Center) to the State Rehabilitation Council of the Kentucky Department for the Blind, January 15, 2001.

presented findings of statewide research of family perceptions of the disability service system (conducted for the Florida Association of Rehabilitation Facilities) at the Florida Association of Rehabilitation annual meeting, Kissimmee, Fla., January 18, 2001.

presented "Family Connections" at the joint conference of the Florida Association of Rehabilitation Facilities and Georgia Association of Training and Employment Supports, St. Simons Island, Ga., June 20, 2001.

was invited to present at a general session of the AbleTrust Symposium, St. Petersburg, Fla., September 12, 2001 (canceled).

served as facilitator for the Georgia Community Rehabilitation Leadership Task Force, quarterly.

and Rebecca Curtis presented at the Tri-State Conference for State Operated Training Centers, Sponsored by the Tennessee Division of Rehabilitation Services, Mississippi Department of Rehabilitation Services, and the South Carolina Department of Vocational Rehabilitation, Smyrna, Tenn.

Jorge Martinez-Vazquez

chaired the Tax Policy session of the World Bank's Public Sector Day, Washington, D.C., September 2001.

presented "Fiscal Decentralization and Economic Growth in Developing and Transitional Countries" (with Robert McNab), moderated a session on "International Taxation: Politics and Revenue," and moderated a session on "Fiscal Decentralization in Developing and Transition Countries," at the National Tax Association Annual Conference, Baltimore, Md., November 7 and 8, 2001.

Julia Melkers

presented "Changing Communication Patterns in the Budgetary Process," and served as discussant for "Performance Budgeting and Measurement: Surveys of State and Local Governments," at the Annual Conference of the Association of Budgeting and Financial Management, Washington, D.C., January 17-19, 2002.

(with Katherine G. Willoughby) presented "Performance Budgeting in the States - The Influence of Performance Measurement on Budget Decisions and Cycles" at the Advanced Learning Institute, Government Executive Series on Performance Measurement of State and Local Government, Atlanta, Ga., March 28-30, 2001.

presented "State Science and Technology Organizations" as invited panelist at the NSF- Sponsored Meeting: "Research Assessment: What's Next?" Arlie House Center, Va., May 17-20, 2001.

presented "Overview of State Funding Issues: Performance Measurement in the States" as invited panelist for the Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy of the National Academy of Sciences Planning Meeting on the Role of State Funding of Research, Washington, D.C., July 13, 2001.

Karen Minyard

presented "Community Led Efforts to Care for the Uninsured" at the "Texas Communities in Action Around Access to Care," convened by the East Texas Area Health Education Center, Austin, Tex., February 20-21, 2001.

presented "Sizing Your Community Health Care Needs" at the conference, "Keep it Local- A Rational Approach to Keeping Health Care Services and $s in Your Local Community," The Mississippi Rural Health Association and the Mississippi Hospital Association, Jackson, Miss., April 24, 2001.

presented "Rural Health Access: More than Geography" at the Community Access Program Grantee Meeting, Baltimore, Md., May 2, 2001.

presented "The Inevitable Hills and Valleys of Networks - Lessons Learned from Georgia" at the Rural Health Networks and 21st Century Challenge Fund RWJ Southern Rural Access Program Spring Conference, Tuskegee, Al., May 30, 2001.

presented "Creating State Government Support for Community Health Results" at the conference, "Communities in Action: Better Health for More People for Less Cost," Washington, D.C., June 21-23, 2001.

presented "Creating a New Access Point - Conception to Completion" at the Primary Care Symposium, Bethesda, Md., July 12, 2001.

presented "Organizational Identity Among TMT Members and Strategic Change in Dynamic Environments" (with Pamela S. Barr) at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., August 5-8, 2001.

presented "Supporting Access for Rural Areas" at the Community Access Program Grantee Meeting, "Building Partnerships: Leveraging Resources to Extend Community Health," Crystal City, Va., October 16, 2001.

presented "Networking: The Integration of Systems" at the Louisiana Rural Health Association 2001 Annual Meeting, "Rural Health in Action: Answering the Challenge," Lafayette, La., October 22-23, 2001.

presented the keynote address, "Rural Health: Tool for Success," at the Ohio 2001 Statewide Rural Health Conference, Columbus, Ohio, October 25, 2001.

presented "The Role of Targeted External Facilitation and Technical Assistance in Community Health System Development" at the Mississippi River Delta Grantee Meeting, sponsored by the Office of Rural Health Policy, Memphis, Tenn., November 28-30, 2001.

presented "Issues and Trends in Rural Health Delivery Systems" at the conference, "Trends in Health Care Delivery Systems: Managed Care and Other Alternatives," sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Memphis, Tenn., December 4, 2001.

Robert E. Moore

presented "A Controlled Experiment of Distance Education in International Economics" (with Larry Wolfenbarger) at the Allied Social Science Association meetings, New Orleans, La., January 5-7, 2001.

Harvey K. Newman

presented "The Decentralization of Atlanta's Convention Business" and served as moderator for a Panel on Urban Tourism, at the Annual Meeting of the Urban Affairs Association, Detroit, Mich., April 6, 2001.

Lloyd G. Nigro

presented "Civil Service Reform in Georgia" (with J. Edward Kellough), and served as panel organizer and convener of "Evaluating Civil Service Reform in the States" at the National American Society for Public Administration Conference, Newark, N.J., March 2001.

presented "Georgia Gain and Beyond: Civil Service Reform in Georgia" (with J. Edward Kellough), and served as panel organizer and congener for "Civil Service Reform," at the Southeastern Conference for Public Administration (SECOPA), Baton Rouge, La., October 2001.

Judith M. Ottoson

presented "From Planning to Practice: The Value of Evaluation, Aurora Health Care" (keynote speaker) at The Education Coordinator's Network, Milwaukee, Wisc., November 1, 2001.

presented "AEA Affiliates: Rolling Along or Reinventing the Wheel?" at the American Evaluation Association, St. Louis, Mo., November 8, 2001.

M. Melinda Pitts

(with Linda Alley, Brian Armour, Kathy Parker, and Jeff Etchason) presented "Pain Reduces Nocturnal Sleep Duration in Medical Oncology Patients" at the Associated Professional Sleep Societies meeting, Chicago, Ill., June 5-10, 2001.

and Mary Beth Walker presented "New Evidence on Healthy Birth Outcomes and the Effect of Prenatal Care" at the "Methods and Policy Issues in Health Economics and Health Administration" session, Southern Economic Association Annual Conference, Tampa, Fla., November 18, 2001.

and Julie Hotchkiss presented "The Impact of Intermittent Labor Force Participation on Wage" at the "Applications in Labor Economics" session, Southern Economic Association Annual Conference, Tampa, Fla., November 18, 2001.

(with Brian S. Armour and Jeff Etchason) presented "State Level Evaluation of the Quality of Medical Care" at the "Methods and Policy Issues in Health Economics and Health Administration" session, Southern Economic Association Annual Conference, Tampa, Fla., November 18, 2001.

Theodore H. Poister

addressed a roundtable of state transportation officials on "Strategic Leadership in State Departments of Transportation" at the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials summer meeting in Wichita, Kans., May 20, 2001.

David Rein*

(with Jennifer N. Edwards) presented "Using CAHPS to Measure Access Differences for Publicly Insured Children" at the National Consumer Assessment of Health Plans (CAHPS) Users Group Meeting, Las Vegas, Nev., 2001.

Mark Rider

presented "Multiple Modes of Tax Evasion: Theory and Evidence" (with Jorge Martinez-Vazquez) at the Western Economic Association Meetings, San Francisco, Calif., July 5- 8, 2001.

presented "Tax Deferred Savings by the Self-Employed" (with Laura Power) and moderated the session, "The Great Hope: Entrepreneurship," at the National Tax Association Annual Conference, Baltimore, Md., November 10, 2001.

Felix Rioja

presented "Financial Development and Growth: A Positive, Monotonic Relationship?" (with Neven Valev) at the American Economic Association Meetings in New Orleans, La., January 2001.

presented "Latin American Budgets and Capital Accumulation" (with Gerhard Glomm) at the Midwest Macro Meetings, Atlanta, Ga., March 2001.

Mark D. Rivera

(with Barbara O'Brien, Cindy Feathers, and Priscilla Adams) presented "M.A.P.: A School and Museum Collaboration" at the National Art Education Association Annual Conference entitled "Remembering the Past, Anticipating the Future," New York, N.Y., March 14-18, 2001.

and Gregory Streib presented "Local Government Management Assessment as an Example of Mainstreaming an Evaluative Approach within a Profession," at the 16th Annual Conference of The American Evaluation Association, entitled "Mainstreaming Evaluation," St. Louis, Mo., November 7-10, 2001.

Christine H. Roch

(with Robert Howard) presented "Litigation, State Courts and Legislatures: The Case of Education Finance Reform" at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Ill., April 19-22, 2001.

served as Discussant and Chair for "Explaining Public Policy Decisions and Outcomes," and for "Themes and Theories in Urban Public Policy and the Uses of Urban Space," at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Atlanta, Ga., November 7-10, 2001.

and David M. Van Slyke presented "The Public Management Implications of Contracting Out with Nonprofit Organizations: Increasing Citizen Satisfaction?" to the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM), Washington, D.C., November 2001.

Ross Rubenstein

presented "National Evidence on Racial Disparities in School Finance Adequacy," (with Patrice Iatarola) presented "Examining School-Level Expenditures and School Performance: The Case of New York City," and served as discussant for the session, "Charter Schools," at the annual meeting of the American Education Finance Association, Cincinnati, Ohio, March 2001.

(with William J. Fowler, Jr., Lawrence Toenjes, and Andrew Reschovsky) presented "Visual Display of Equity and Adequacy Measures" at the American Education Finance Association conference, sponsored by the National Center for Education Statistics, Cincinnati, Ohio, March 2001.

presented "National Evidence on Racial Disparities in School Finance Adequacy" at the National Center for Education Statistics Summer Data Conference, Washington, D.C., July 2001.

, Benjamin Scafidi, and Gary T. Henry (with Amy Ellen Schwartz) presented "Merit-Based Financial Aid and Tuition Increases: The Case of Georgia's HOPE Scholarships" at the annual meeting of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Washington, D.C., November 2001.

Benjamin P. Scafidi, Jr.

see Ross Rubenstein.

Bruce A. Seaman

served as invited participant at "The Information and Research Infrastructure for Cultural Policy: A Consideration of Models," a meeting sponsored by the Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University (and the Pew Charitable Trusts), December 7, 2001.

David L. Sjoquist

served as Session Moderator of "Growth and Change: The Southern City Since 1960" at the Georgia Institute of Technology, March 2001.

participated at the Conference on Community Development and University Engagement, Fannie Mae Foundation, New York City, March 2001.

served as Session Moderator at the Conference to honor Richard Bird, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Ga., April 2001.

served as Conference Organizer for "Split-Rate Property Taxation," Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Ga., May 2001.

(and Sally Wallace) presented "What a Tangled Web: Local Property, Income and Sales Taxes" at a Conference in Honor of Dick Netzer, New York University, N.Y., October 15, 2001.

and Mary Beth Walker (with Christopher Geller**) presented "The Effects of Private School Competition on Public School Performance" at the panel, "Market Competition in Education: Dynamics and Outcomes," Association for Public Policy and Management (APPAM) Annual Research Conference in Washington, D.C., November 1-3, 2001.

presented "Urban Sprawl and the Finances of State and Local Government," (with Therese J. McGuire) at the General Session, "Pressures and Prospects for State and Local Government Finance," National Tax Association Conference, Baltimore, Md., November 8-10, 2001.

Tina Anderson Smith

served as a discussant on "The Integration of Mental Health and Primary Care: Community Best Practices" at the BPHC Conference, "Communities in Action: Better Health for More People at Less Cost," Washington, D.C., June 21-23, 2001.

presented "The Role of Strategic Planning in Community Health System Development" and "Building Win-Win Rural/Regional Partnerships and Crossing County Lines" at the Community Health System Development Institute, Atlanta, Ga., July 16-20, 2001.

Charlotte Steeh

presented "The Future of Telephone Surveys?" at the 19th Annual Conference of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Ga., March 12, 2001.

served as discussant for the session, "When Nonresponse Happens to Good Surveys," at the 56th Annual Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Montreal, Canada, May 17-20, 2001.

Paula Stephan

served as discussant at the Technology, Growth and the Labor Market Conference 2002, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Atlanta, Ga., January 6-7, 2002.

served as Session Chair for "Policy and Data Issues of Scientific Workforce" at the NBER/SLOAN Foundation Workshop, "The Major Data Sources: What They Have and Plans for Improvement," National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., Washington, D.C., March 22-23, 2001.

participated in the Conference on Higher Education, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., Cambridge, Mass., February, 2, and May 9-10, 2001.

presented "Research Productivity by Age" at the National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences meeting of the Board on Higher Education Workforce Feasibility Study Meeting on Managing Retirement and Maintaining Excellence in Academic Sciences and Engineering, Washington, D.C., June 14-15, 2001.

presented "Retention and Recruitment of Women and Minorities in the IT Workforce" at the IT Workforce Meeting, University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, Colo., October 14-15, 2001.

served on the Committee on Equal Opportunities in Science and Engineering (CEOSE), National Science Foundation, Arlington, Va., February 7-8, February 21-23, June 4, and October 16-17, 2002.

presented "Science and Engineering Workforce Issues" (keynote speaker) at the American Association of Universities Fall Membership Meeting, University of Maryland, College Park, Md., October 22, 2001.

served on the Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences (SBE) Advisory Committee, National Science Foundation, Arlington, Va., November 2001.

presented "Individual Patenting and Publication Activity. Having One's Cake and Eating It Too" (with Albert Sumell* and Grant Black*) at the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Annual Fall Conference, Washington, D.C., Nov. 1-3, 2001.

served on the Societal Dimensions of Engineering, Science and Technology (SDEST) - Ethics and Values Studies, Research on Science and Technology Panel Meeting, National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C., May 14-15, and Tucson, Ariz., November 12-14, 2001.

served on the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) meeting on Higher Education, May and November 2001.

Gregory Streib

see Mark Rivera.

see Katherine G. Willoughby.

Laura Taylor

served as discussant at the American Economics Association Annual Meetings, New Orleans, La., January 2001.

presented "New Evidence on the Value of Statistical Life" at the Columbia Earth Institute's Environmental Economics Seminar Series, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, New York, April 30, 2001.

presented "The Economic Impacts of Brownfields in an Urban Area" at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., April 2001, and at the University of Central Florida, Department of Economics Seminar Series, November, 2001.

presented "Assessing the Impacts of Environmental Contamination on Urban Property Values" at the University of Colorado's Resource and Environmental Economics Workshop, Breckenridge, Co., July, 2001; and again at Camp Resources, hosted by Kerry Smith, North Carolina State University, Wilmington, N.C., August 2001.

Erdal Tekin

presented "An Analysis of Single Mothers' Employment, Welfare, and Child Care Decisions" at the Research Triangle Institute, at the Urban Institute, at Tulane University, at Akron University, and at the University of North Texas, February 2001.

presented "The Determinants and Consequences of Child Care Subsidies for Low Income Mothers" at the Southern Economic Association Meetings, Tampa, Fla., November 19, 2001, and at the University of Colorado, October 26, 2001.

John Clayton Thomas

represented Research Atlanta in Phoenix at the national project meeting in January 2001.

presented "Evaluation by the Higher Education Fellows of Their Component of the National School Health Leadership Coordination Institute" at the American Cancer Society's National School Health Leadership Institute, Bellevue, Wash., July 20-25, 2001.

presented "The Centrality of Empirical Theory in the MPA Curriculum" at the Annual Meeting of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration, Washington, D.C., October 18-20, 2001.

Geoffrey Turnbull

presented "Title Systems and Land Values" (with Thomas J. Miceli, Henry Munneke, and C. F. Sirmans) at the Allied Social Science Associations meetings, New Orleans, La., January 6, 2001.

Neven Valev

presented "Lender Heterogeneity and the Maturity of International Loans" at the Eastern Economics Association conference, New York, March 2001.

presented "Tenuous Financial Stability" (with John Carlson) at the Southeast Economics Theory and International Economics Conference, Florida International University, October 2001.

David M. Van Slyke

(with Dixon E. Southworth) presented "A Vision for The Next Century - Government Without Corruption" to the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA), Newark, N.J., March 2001. (This paper was included in ASPA's On-Line Pre-Conference.)

and Richard Charles presented "The Public Management Implications of Privatizing the Nation's Air Traffic Control System" at the Southeastern Conference for Public Administration (SECOPA), Baton Rouge, La., October 2001.

(with Arthur C. Brooks) presented "Why Do People Give? New Evidence and Management Strategies," and (with Christopher Horne) presented "Measuring Public Support for Faith-Based Organizations under Charitable Choice," for the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA), Miami, Fla., November 2001.

(with Sarah L. Eschholz) presented "The Role of Fear of Crime in Community Participation" to the American Society of Criminology (ASC), Atlanta, Ga., November 2001.

see Christine H. Roch.

Mary Beth Walker

served as discussant at the "Measurement Error" session, Joint Statistical Meetings, Atlanta, Ga., August 4, 2001.

presented "New Evidence on Healthy Birth Outcomes and the Effect of Prenatal Care" at the "Methods and Policy Issues in Health Economics and Health Administration" session, presented "Robust Covariance Estimators for Spatially Correlated Errors in Fixed Effects Models: Finite Sample Performance," at the Spatial Econometrics Session, and Served as discussant at the "Econometric Applications in Welfare, Fertility and Health" session, Southern Economic Association Annual Conference, Tampa, Fla., November 18-19, 2001.

see also M. Melinda Pitts.

see also David Sjoquist.

Sally Wallace

served as program chair and discussant for "International Taxation: Politics and Revenue" at the National Tax Association Annual Meetings, Baltimore, Md., Nov. 9, 2001.

see also David L. Sjoquist.

William L. Waugh, Jr.

served as recorder for a plenary session on "Recovery: A Retrospective View," at the 26th Annual Hazards Research and Applications Workshop, Boulder, Colo., July 15-18, 2001.

served as keynote speaker on "Targeting Civil Disasters" at the University of North Texas' Disaster Education Day, October 19, 2001.

served as featured speaker on a panel on "The Aftermath of Terror: Efforts to Recover from the 9/11 Disasters" at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, October 25, 2001.

served as keynote speaker, on "Preparing for the New Terrorism," at the annual meeting of the Oklahoma Political Science Association, Stillwater, Oklahoma, November 15, 2001.

Verna J. Willis

presented “Shared Vision: Are We at Risk of Creating Monochromatic Organizations?”, served as moderator/discussant for an "Action Learning" symposium, and served as discussant for "Action Learning-Transfer Designs: What Works and Why, Breakfast Food-n-Thought Session," at the Eighth Annual Conference, Academy of Human Resource Development, Tulsa, Ok., March 2001.

Katherine G. Willoughby

(with Doug Snow) presented "Legislatures, Budget Analysts and the Budget Process" at the Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Ill., April 22, 2001.

(withGreg Streib) presented "The Future of State Consumer Services: Finding a Footing in a Changing World" at the Annual Conference of the Southeastern Conference of Public Administration, Baton Rouge, La., October 11-12, 2001.

presented "Internship Intranet: Keeping the Lines of Communication Open for Students and Intern Sponsors" for a roundtable on teaching, and served as discussant for "Budget Theory and Collective Decision-making," at the Association of Budgeting and Financial Management annual 2001 meeting, Washington, D.C., January 17-19, 2002 (originally scheduled for September 2001).

see Julia Melkers.

Yongsheng Xu

presented "On Measuring Personal Connections and the Extent of Social Networks" at the 2001 Southeast Economic Theory and International Economics Conferences, Florida International University, Miami, Fla., November 16-18, 2001.


1. Co-authored papers are listed once, under the name of the first presenter. All Andrew Young School of Policy Studies' author names are highlighted in bold. External co-presenters are listed in parenthesis. Graduate students are designated with an asterisk, former graduate students with a double asterisk, and adjunct and visiting faculty with a triple asterisk.

 

 

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