David L. Sjoquist, Professor and Director (FRC & DPO)
Director, Fiscal Research Center
Director, Domestic Programs
Dan E. Sweat Distinguished Chair in Educational and Community Policy
Professor of Economics
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Phone: 404-413-0246
E-mail: sjoquist@gsu.edu
Homepage: http://frc.gsu.edu/sjoquist/index.html
Vita (pdf)
Specialties:
State & Local Government Taxation
Economics of Educational Policy
Sjoquist's areas of expertise are state and local taxation and urban and regional economics. A specialist in the field of public finance, Sjoquist has an extensive interest in urban economics, especially local economic development and central city poverty. He has published extensively on topics such as analysis of public policies, teenage employment, capital maintenance expenditures, local government fiscal conditions and the urban underclass. His current research interests include property taxation, school financing, local sales and income taxes, and public housing.
Sjoquist heads the Andrew Young School's Fiscal Research Center, which provides nonpartisan research in the evaluation and design of state and local fiscal and economic policy.
Sjoquist's research has been funded by the Ford Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Economic Development Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce, the Fannie Mae Foundation and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. His work has been published in such journals as American Economic Review, Journal of Public Economics, National Tax Journal, and Review of Economics and Statistics.
