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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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