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Faculty and research associates made over 120 presentations at professional
meetings, in special symposia and as invited lectures. This years campus
lectures included Harvard Law School, Georgetown University, Lafayette
College, University of Southern California, Tulane University, Indiana
University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Tennessee and University
of Alabama. Additional conference activities are located in the international
section, and in the center and department reports.
The Andrew Young School of Policy Studies
co-sponsored with the Council on Foreign Relations and the Office of
Intenational Affairs on-the-record debates between Republican and Democratic
teams featuring Andrew Young (Dem.) and Newt Gingrich (Rep.), and the
topic: "What Are the Threats Facing the United States, and Who Would Handle
Them Better and Why?: Bush or Gore," October 25, 2000.
James Alm
presented "Tax Compliance as a Coordination Game" (with Michael McKee)
at The University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Knoxville, Tenn., September
2000, and at the Economic Science Association Annual Conference, Tucson,
Ariz., September 2000.
presented "Who Pays the Ticket Tax?" (with William H. Kaempfer) at The
Second Annual Conference on the Economics of the Entertainment Industry,
Cal State Northridge, Northridge, Calif., October 2000.
presented "The Forgotten 'Singles Tax'? The Treatment of Single Individuals
in the Individual Income Tax" (with Leslie A. Whittington and Jason Fletcher);
and presented "Do Tax Amnesties Work? The Case of Russia" (with Jorge
Martinez-Vazquez and Sally Wallace) at the
National Tax Association Ninety-third Annual Conference on Taxation, Santa
Fe, N.M., November 2000.
presented "Corruption, Optimal Taxation, and Growth" (with Raul A. Barreto)
at the Southern Economic Association Annual Conference, Washington, D.C.,
November 2000.
Jay Bae
presented "Effectiveness of Medicaid Generic Drug Substitution Policy"
at the Western Medicaid Pharmacy Administrators' Meeting, San Antonio,
Tex., October 2000.
Roy Bahl
served as discussant at the Taxation of Land and Buildings Advisory Group,
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, Mass., March 13, 2000.
presented "Fiscal Federalism at the Turn of the Century: New Dimensions"
at Lafayette College, Penn., April 6, 2000.
presented "Local Revenue Generation," at the University of Southern California,
Los Angeles, Calif., June 5, 2000.
presented "Fiscal Decentralization" at the Harvard Law School, Cambridge,
Mass., July, 2000.
presented "What's Happening with the Property Tax?" at the Fiscal Chairs
Seminar, National Conference of State Legislatures, Boston, Mass., November
30, 2000.
and Sally Wallace presented "Subnational Government
Finance in the Russian Federation" at the Southern Economic Association
Meetings, Washington, D.C., November 2000.
Arthur C. Brooks
presented "The Religious Economy Under Genetic Dynamics" at the American
Economic Association Meetings, Boston, Mass., January 2000.
presented "Who Opposes Government Arts Funding?" at the 11th International
Conference on Cultural Economics, Minneapolis, Minn., May 2000.
presented "Human Resources in the Arts: Overview, Trends, and Unanswered
Questions" (May 2000) and "Performing Arts Organizations: Understanding
a New Era" to the Pew Charitable Trusts in Philadelphia, Penn., September
2000.
presented "An Overview of Cultural Economics" and "Human Resources in
the Arts: Overview, Trends, and Unanswered Questions" at the 26th Annual
Conference on Social Theory, Politics, and the Arts in Washington D.C.,
October 2000.
presented "Do Nonprofit Organizations Benefit from Waning Confidence
in Government?" (co-authored with Gregory B. Lewis)
and presented "Cultural Markets in 20 Cities" (co-authored with Roland
J. Kushner) at the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations
and Voluntary Action Annual Conference, New Orleans, La., November 2000.
Linda Calloway
co-presented "A Model for an Internal University Collaboration" at the
National Society for Experiential Education Conference, San Antonio, Tex.,
October 25-28, 2000.
Rick Charles
attented the fall Southeastern Conference on Public Administration (SECOPA)
Conference, Greensboro, N.C., October 4-7, 2000.
James P. Cooney, Jr.
discussed the position paper, "Health Statistics in the 21st Century,"
at the Institute of Medicine Invitational Symposium Honoring the 50th
Anniversary of the U.S. National Committee on Vital & Health Statistics,
National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., June 2000.
and Glenn Landers (with Jeff Etchason) presented
"Repetitive Patterns of Inter-Institutional Transfers Among Residents
of Long-Term Care Facilities in Georgia," (poster) at the annual meeting
of the Association for Health Services Research, Los Angeles, Calif.,
June 2000.
Ronald G. Cummings
See Susan Laury.
Kelly Edmiston
presented "Incentive Targeting, Tax Structure, and Foreign Direct Investment,"
at the Annual Meetings of the Allied Social Science Association (joint
NTA-AEA session), Boston, Mass., January 8, 2000.
presented "A Single-Rate Sales Tax: The Gordian Knot of Simplicity?"
at the Joint Sales Tax Seminar: Transaction Taxation & Electronic Commerce,
Institute for Professionals in Taxation, Sarasota, Fla., January 24, 2000.
presented "Incentive Targeting, Influence Peddling, and Foreign Direct
Investment" at the Public Policy Seminar Series, University of Tennessee,
February 25, 2000.
participated in the Eleventh Annual Business-Government Dialogue on State
Tax Uniformity, Multistate Tax Commission, Washington, D.C., November
15, 2000.
Jennifer Edwards
presented (with S. Nicole Fehrenbach* and Katherine Gardner**)
"Medicaid Spending for Children with Special Health Care Needs and the
Added Burden of Mental Illness," (poster), and presented (with Mary
Ann Phillips) "Why Georgia's CHIP program is Beating Enrollment Projections,"
(poster) at the Association for Health Services Research annual meeting,
Los Angeles, Calif., June 27, 2000.
presented, "Facing the Challenges of Evaluating Your CHIP program," at
"Beyond Implementation: Children's Health Insurance Programs," meeting,
Savannah, Ga., June 29, 2000.
and David Rein* presented "Does Primary Care Case Management work
for Publicly Insured Children with Special Health Care Needs," at the
American Public Health Association meetings in Boston, Mass., November
15, 2000.
presented "How PeachCare Children are Faring Compared to Georgia's Medicaid
Children," to the Healthy Kids meeting, Tallahassee, Fla., December 5,
2000.
Shelby Frost
(with Anna Alberini) presented "Forcing Firms to Think About the Future:
Economic Incentives and the Fate of Hazardous Waste" at the Eastern Economics
Association Meetings, Washington, D.C., March 2000.
Atef Ghobrial
participated in the annual meeting of the Aviation Policy Group, sponsored
by the Aviation Foundation at the George Washington University, Washington
D.C., December 2000.
Douglas Greenwell
(with Dorothy Herring of Georgia Power Company and Donna Dodd of Sprint)
presented "Learning from Corporate Partnerships," and (with Michael Giles
of Emory University and Brenan Stearns of Georgia Tech) presented "Three
Approaches to Evaluating Community Capacity Building" to the National
Conference on Community Research sponsored by The Loka Institute in Atlanta,
Ga., June 17, 2000.
presented "Community Capacity Building Through The Atlanta Project" to
the Senior Managers Forum on Building Community Capacity, in Winnipeg,
Manitoba, Canada, November 1, 1999.
issued the keynote address to the National Summit on Grassroots Resource
Development sponsored by Norris Associates in Atlanta, Ga., November 29,
2000.
Shiferaw Gurmu
presented "Estimation of Multivariate Count Regression Models with Applications
to Health Care Utilization" at the University of Colorado, Boulder, April
21, 2000.
presented "Premarital Birth, First Marriage, and the Role of Welfare
and Marriage Market Factors: A Non-parametric Competing Risks Analysis,"
at The Murray F. Johnson Conference, University of Texas, Austin, April
15-16, 2000, at Indiana University, Bloomington, April 25, 2000, and at
the Tenth Midwest Econometric Group Meetings, University of Chicago, Ill.,
October 20-21, 2000.
organized and chaired a session on "Econometrics and Applications" at
the 70th Annual Conference of the Southern Economic Association, Washington,
D.C., November 10-12, 2000.
Carol D. Hansen
served as Human Resource Program Chair for the 2001 Eastern Academy of
Management Global Conference.
Amy Helling
presented, "A Framework for Understanding Telework," at the U.S. Department
of Labor Symposium on Telework and the New Workplace of the 21st Century
in New Orleans, La., October 2000.
presented, "Having the Cake or Eating It: Improving Regional Accessibility
Versus the Central City," at the Association of Collegiate Schools of
Planning annual conference, Atlanta, Ga., November 2000.
Gary T. Henry
presented "The Impact of the HOPE Scholarship," at the 53rd Annual Meeting
of the National Educational Writers Association, Atlanta, Ga., April 15,
2000.
presented "Assessing the Impacts of Universal Pre-K: The Case of Georgia,"
at the Conference on the Evaluation of New York's Universal Pre-Kindergarten
Program, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., May 15, 2000.
and Craig Gordon* presented "Measuring the Issue-Attention Cycle,"
at the American Association of Public Opinion Research, Portland, Oreg.,
May 20, 2000.
presented "Policy Infrastructure for Universal Pre-K: Lessons from Georgia,"
at the Forum for Early Childhood Organization and Leadership Development,
Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership, University of Missouri-Kansas
City, June 17, 2000.
presented "Optimizing the Use of Evaluation Findings for Policy," "Cost
Effective Techniques for Sampling," and "Graphical Display of Data for
Presentations and Analysis" at the Evaluators' Institute, George Washington
University, Washington, D.C., July 2000.
and Craig Gordon* presented "Measuring the Issue-Attention Cycle:
Specifying the Dynamics of the Public Agenda," at the 96th Annual Meeting
of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September
1, 2000.
presented "Evaluation: An Integrated Framework for Understanding, Guiding,
and Improving Policies and Programs," and "Publishing Evaluation Studies,"
at the Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention (OAPP) Program Conference, Office
of Population Affairs, New Orleans, La., October 2, 2000.
See also Ross Rubenstein.
Julie Hotchkiss
presented the results-to-date of her analysis of the labor market impact
of the Americans with Disabilities Act at the W.E. Upjohn Institute for
Employment Research in Kalamazoo, Mich., July 2000.
Bruce Kaufman
presented "The Employee Participation/Representation Gap: An Assessment
and Proposed Solution" at the symposium on Richard Freeman and Joel Rogers,
What Workers Want, at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Philadelphia,
Penn., April 7, 2000.
presented "The Institutional Theory of Trade Unionism and Collective
Bargaining," at the History of Economics Society Conference, Vancouver,
Canada, July 1, 2000.
Glenn Landers
See James P. Cooney, Jr.
Susan Laury
and Ron Cummings presented "Tax Compliance Experiment,"
School of Law, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., February 18, 2000.
chaired a session on "Trust and Reciprocity" at the Annual Meeting of
the Public Choice Society, Charleston, S.C., March 10, 2000.
presented "Private Costs and Public Benefits: Unraveling the Effects
of Altruism and Noisy Behavior" (co-authored with Jacob Goeree and Charles
Holt***) at the Department of Economics, College of William and Mary,
Williamsburg, Va., February 4, 2000, and at the Annual Meeting of the
Public Choice Society, Charleston, S.C., March 11, 2000.
, Ron Cummings and Laura
Taylor presented "Experiments on Compliance and Public Goods," at
the Resources for the Future Meeting, Washington, D.C., May 15, 2000,
and for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., May
16, 2000.
presented "Risk Aversion and Incentive Effects in Lottery Choices" (co-authored
with Charles Holt***) at the Annual Meeting of the Economic Science
Association, New York City, N.Y., June 16, 2000.
chaired a session on "Individual Decision-Making" and served as discussant
in a session on Individual Decision Making at the Annual Meeting of the
Economic Science Association, New York City, N.Y., June 18, 2000.
served as co-organizer of the conference program (with James Andreoni
and Charles Holt***) for the North American Regional Meeting of
the Economic Science Association, Tucson, Arizona, September 2000.
presented "Further Reflections on Prospect Theory" (co-authored with
Charles Holt***) at the Department of Economics, University of
South Carolina, Columbia, S.C., September 15, 2000, and at the North American
Regional Meeting of the Economic Science Association, Tucson, Ariz., September
29, 2000.
participated as a peer-reviewer at the Jet Propulsion Lab (NASA) Mission
Acquisition Meeting, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif.,
October 24, 2000.
organized four sessions, and presented "Individual Motives for Giving
in Public Goods Experiments," Southern Economic Association Meetings,
Washington, D.C., November 12, 2000.
presented "Incentives in Public Goods Experiments: Implications for the
Environment" (co-authored with Jacob Goeree and Charles Holt***)
at the UCF/Center International Conference on Environmental Economics,
Orlando, Fla., December 2, 2000.
Gregory B. Lewis
presented "Black-White Differences in Attitudes Toward Homosexuality
and Gay Rights" at the annual meeting of the Western Political Science
Association, San Jose, Calif., March 24, 2000.
served as program chair for the Public Administration section of the
American Political Science Association for its 2000 annual meeting, Washington,
D.C., August 31-September 3, 2000.
Jorge Martinez-Vazquez
presented at the session on Stability of Intergovernmental Transfers
and Local Own-Source Revenue Generation, at the conference, Subnational
Capital Markets: Challenges at the National and Local Level in the 21st
Century, New York City, N.Y., February 15-17, 2000.
See James Alm.
Karen Minyard
presented "Turning Data into Information: Resources and Methods" for
the North Country Health Consortium, Inc., Lancaster, N.H., August, 23,
2000, and again at the Strategic Planning for Rural Health Networks meeetings,
conducted by The Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy,
and sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Seattle, Wash., July
24 and 25, and Boston, Mass., August 24 and 25, 2000.
presented "Using Information to Mobilize Community Health System Development"
at the 8th Annual West Virginia Rural Health Conference, Morgantown, W.V.,
October 26, 2000.
presented "Engaging Community Partners" at the Community Access Program
(CAP) Grantee Meeting, Sponsored by the Health Resources and Service Administration,
Washington, D.C., October 30, 2000.
presented "Community Led Efforts to Care for the Uninsured" at the Galveston
Health Care Leadership Campaign, Health Resources and Services Administration,
Bureau of Primary Health Care, Galveston, Tex., November 29, 2000.
Harvey K. Newman
presented "Atlanta's Tourist Bubble" at the Annual Meeting, Urban Affairs
Association, Los Angeles, Calif., May 5, 2000.
presented "Atlanta: Race, Class and Urban Expansion" at the Annual Meeting,
Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Atlanta, Ga., November
3, 2000.
Lloyd G. Nigro
served as discussant on the Panel on Managing Today's Workforce, National
Conference of the American Society for Public Administration, San Diego,
Calif, April 2000.
served as discussant of "Human Resources Management: Issues and Trends
for the New Century" at the NASPAA Annual Conference, Richmond, Va., October
2000.
and William Waugh presented "State and Local Government
Responses to Workplace Violence: A Comparison of Policies and Programs"
at the Southeastern Conference on Public Administration, Greensboro, N.C.,
October 5-7, 2000.
Judith M. Ottoson
presented "Developing Evaluation Capacity in Foundations: The Early Stages,"
at the American Evaluation Association, Honolulu, Hawaii, November 2,
2000.
presented "Touting Team Attendance in Training: Does it Make a Difference?"
at the American Public Health Association, Boston, Mass., November, 2000.
M. Melinda Pitts
presented "The Female-Dominated Wage Penalty" and "Can a Letter do the
Trick? The Influence of a Simple Prescribing Report on Physician Behavior"
(with Brian S. Armour and Jeff Etchason) at the Southern Economic Association
Annual Meeting, Crystal City, Va., November 10-12, 2000.
presented "Influencing Physician Behavior: Does Medicare Status Hinder
or Help?" (with Brian S. Armour and Jeff Etchason) at the 53nd Annual
Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Washington,
D.C., November 17-21, 2000.
Theodore H. Poister
organized and moderated a panel on "Innovative Approaches to Performance
Measurement in Transportation Agencies" at the American Society for Public
Administration, San Diego, Calif., April 2000.
facilitated a session on "Research Needs Regarding Strategic Management"
at the CEO Workshop on Managing Change in State Departments of Transportation,
Minneapolis, Minn., June 2000.
Felix Rioja
presented "Filling Potholes: Macroeconomic Effects of Maintenance Versus
New Investments in Public Infrastructure" at the Federal Reserve Bank
of Atlanta in March 2000, at the Midwest Macro Meetings in Iowa City,
Ia., March 2000, and at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Kans.,
July 2000.
Mark D. Rivera
served as a Volunteer Presider for "Connecting at the CrossRoads," National
Education Computing Conference 2000, Georgia World Congress Center, June
26-28, 2000. Also served in evaluation of the conference.
Christine H. Roch
presented "Equity as a Policy Criterion: Considering the Effects of Choice
in New York City's District 4," and served as discussant and Chair for
the panel, "The Role of Group Involvement in Political Behavior," at the
Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago Ill.,
April 27-30, 2000.
presented "Social Networks as Problem Solving Tools: Changing Networks
in Response to Crime" at the Annual Meeting of the Urban Affairs Association,
Los Angles, Calif., May 3-6, 2000.
presented "Policy, Networks, and Information: The Role of Opinion Leaders
in the Flow of Information About Education" and served as Chair for the
panel "Reinvigorating Democracy," at the Annual Meeting of the American
Political Science Association, Washington D.C., August 31 - September
3, 2000.
(with Robert Howard) presented "Policy Change and the State Courts: The
Case of Education Finance Reform" and served as discussant for the panel,
"Change in Local Government Structures and Their Consequences," at the
Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Atlanta,
Ga., November 9-11, 2000.
Ross Rubenstein
presented "Who Pays and Who Benefits? Examining the Distributional Consequences
of the Georgia Lottery for Education." (with Benjamin
Scafidi) at the annual conference of the American Education Finance
Association, Austin Tex., March 2000.
presented "Paying for Grades: Impacts of Merit-Based Financial Aid on
Educational Quality," (with Gary T. Henry) at the
annual meeting of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management,
Seattle, Wash., November 2000.
presented "Internal Resource Allocation Practices and the Impact on Student
Gains in Performance" (with P. Iatarola) for the conference "Improving
Education Productivity: Lessons from Economics," sponsored by the Laboratory
for Student Success, Mid Atlantic Regional Educational Laboratory at Temple
University, Washington, D.C., November 2000.
Benjamin P. Scafidi
presented "What's Happening to the Price of College? Aid- and Quality-Adjusted
Price Indices for Four Year Colleges" (with Amy Ellen Schwartz) at the
following conferences: National Bureau of Economic Research Spring Productivity
Workshop, March; Brookings Institution Conference on Productivity in Education,
April; Bureau of Labor Statistics Annual Research Conference, June; National
Bureau of Economic Research Winter Higher Education Workshop, November
2000.
See also Ross Rubenstein.
Bruce A. Seaman
presented "Transactions Taxes Under Electricity Deregulation" at a conference
on Taxation and Deregulation, jointly sponsored by the National Tax Association
and the Institute for Professionals in Taxation, Sarasota, Fla., January
23-25, 2000.
presented "Economic Analysis of Arts Labor Markets: Lessons from Sports?"
at the International Atlantic Economic Society Conference, Charleston,
S.C., October 15-18, 2000.
served as discussant of four papers in the session, How Do We Target
Economic Development?, at the 42nd Annual Association of Collegiate Schools
of Planning Conference, Atlanta, Ga., November 2-5, 2000.
David Sjoquist
participated in the Community Partnership Initiative, Annual Working
Group Meeting, Fannie Mae Foundation, March 23-24, 2000.
served as a discussant at The Urban Institute Center on Nonprofits and
Philanthropy's conference, Property-Tax Exemption for Charities: The War
Within the States, Washington, D.C., June 6-7, 2000.
participated in the Workshop on Property Taxation in South Aftrica, Lincoln
Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, Mass., September 13-15, 2000.
participated in the 93rd Annual Conference on Taxation, El Dorado Hotel,
Santa Fe, N.M., November 9-11, 2000.
Tina Anderson Smith
presented "Making the Most of the Critical Access Hospital Designation:
The Importance of Community Development" at the Southern Regional meeting
of the National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health, sponsored
by the Office of Rural Health Policy, HRSA, Destin, Fla., March 22, 2000.
presented "Community Development: Building the Foundation for Relevant,
Viable Rural Health Systems" at the Kentucky Rural Health Association
Annual Conference, Bowling Green, Ky., October 27, 2000.
Charlotte Steeh
presented (with Brian Cannon) "Threat or Opportunity?: Cellular Telephone
Use by Households" at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for
Public Opinion Research, Portland, Ore., May 18-21, 2000.
presented "Technological Challenges to Telephone Surveys" at the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance
System, Atlanta, Ga., July 27, 2000.
Paula Stephan
served as participant in "Some Disagreements in the Economics of
Higher Education," The Atlantic Philanthropic Service Company, Inc.,
New York City, N.Y., January 16-18, 2000.
served as participant of the Study Panel for Science and Engineering
Workforce Data 2000, National Science Foundation, Arlington, Va., January
31 - February 1, 2000.
presented "Testimony to the Subcommittee on Basic Research" at the U.S.
House Subcommittee on Science Hearing on the National Science Foundation,
FY 2001 Budget Authorization Requests, Part III: A View from Outside,
NSF, Washington, D.C., March 15, 2000.
served as participant at the Workshop on Assessing the Impact of NSF
Funding of Economics (within a GPRA Framework), National Science Foundation,
Arlington, Va., March 17, 2000.
presented "Using Human Resource Data to Illuminate Innovation and Research
Utilization" at the Workshop on Economic Indicators for Academic Science,
BioSTAR Project, University of California, Berkeley, Calif., March 23-24,
2000.
presented "Imported Brains in Science and Engineering: Employment Consequences
for U.S.- Citizens" (with Sharon Levin) at the Conference on Migration
and Development, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., May 4-6, 2000.
presented "Educational Implications of University-Industry Technology
Transfer" at the Organizational Issues in University Technology Transfer
Conference, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind., June 9-11, 2000.
served as participant at the Conference on Higher Education Access, National
Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., Cambridge, Mass., September 7-8, 2000,
and again as discussant, November 9-10, 2000.
served as participant at the Social, Behavioral and Economic (SBE) Advisory
Committee Meeting, National Science Foundation, Arlington, Va., November
8-9, 2000.
Gregory Streib
, Bert Slotkin*, and Mark Rivera
presented "Public Administration Research from a Practitioner Perspective"
at the American Society of Public Administration (ASPA) Georgia Chapter
Annual Academic Conference at Kennesaw State University, Atlanta, Ga.,
March 3, 2000.
Laura Taylor
presented "New Evidence on the Value of a Statistical Life," (with Carol
Scotton), American Economic Association Annual Meetings, January 2000.
presented "Risk Measurement and the Value of a Statistical Life," Department
of Economics Seminar Series, University of Kentucky, Lexington, April
2000.
See Susan Laury.
John Clayton Thomas
served as principal representative for the Master of Public Administration
Program in the Department of Public Administration and Urban Studies at
the Annual Meeting of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs
and Administration, Richmond, Va., October 19-21, 2000.
Neven Valev
Presented "Credibility of a New Monetary Regime: The Currency Board in
Bulgaria," and served as discussant at the Session on the Bulgarian Economy,
Eastern Economic Association Meetings, Washington D.C., March 2000.
David M. Van Slyke
presented "An Absence of Performance Measurement and its Impact on Managing
Third-Party Relationships in Social Services" and "Managing Government
Nonprofit Contracting Relationships for Social Services Under Devolution"
for the Southeastern Conference for Public Administration (SECOPA), Greensboro,
N.C., October 2000.
presented "Are Individual Donations to Faith-Based Charities Designed
to Reduce the Governmental Role? Evidence from the Atlanta Area," and
served as discussant of "Nonprofit and Government Collaboration and Coordination"
at the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary
Action (ARNOVA) conference, New Orleans, La., November 2000.
presented "The Mythology of Privatization in Contracting for Social Services;"
presented (with Charles A. Hammonds)"A Privatization Paradox: Politicization
and Smart Buyers;" and served as discussant for "How Transitions into
Employment Affect Families and Children," at the Association for Public
Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Conference, Seattle, Wash., November
2000.
Mary Beth Walker
presented "The Demand for Prenatal Care Revisited" for the Economics
Department at Tulane University, New Orleans, La., April 7, 2000.
presented "Robust Covariance Estimators for Spatially Correlated Errors
in Fixed Effects Models: Finite Sample Performance," with Mary G. McGarvey,
and (with Chris Bollinger, University of Kentucky) organized five sessions
on econometrics, Southern Economic Association Conference, Washington
D.C., November 10-12, 2000.
Sally Wallace
See James Alm.
See Roy Bahl.
William L. Waugh, Jr.
presented "War of the Worlds: The Professional Roots of Emergency Management,"
and chaired the panel, "Challenges to Environmental Management," at the
National Conference of the American Society for Public Administration
in San Diego, Calif., April 2000.
chaired the panel, "Current Issues in Environmental Management," at the
National Conference of the American Political Science Association, Washington,
D.C., August 31-September 3, 2000.
See also Lloyd G. Nigro.
Verna J. Willis
presented "Action Learning: The Reflective Imperative," at the International
Alliance for Learning Conference, Atlanta, Ga., January 14, 2000.
presented "Searching for Meaning in Complex Action Learning Data: What
Environments, Acts, and Words Reveal," and was one of six presenters on
"Metaphors in Human Resource Development," at the International Academy
of Human Resource Development conference, Research Triangle Park, N.C.,
March 2000.
(with Gary L. May) was an honored author and panel discussant for the
May launching of the case book, Leading Knowledge Management and Learning,
at the international conference of the American Society for Training and
Development in Dallas, Tex., May 21, 2000.
co-presented (with Robert L. Dilworth) "Transformative Learning in an
International Action Learning Context: From the Learners' Perspective"
at the Third Annual Transformative Learning Conference, Columbia University,
New York City, N.Y., October 26, 2000.
Katherine G. Willoughby
presented "Budget Reform and Performance Budgeting," as online guest
lecturer for a graduate class in the MPA program at the University of
Nebraska-Omaha. She talked about performance budgeting initiatives in
the states and fielded student questions specific to her article co-authored
with Julia Melkers, "Implementing PBB: Conflicting Views of Success,"
online chat session, September 28, 2000.
presented "Teaching the Right IT Skills: How and What?" (teaching roundtable
sole presentation) and "Performance Measurement in Government: Enhancing
Successful Application Across Levels and Programs" at the12th Annual Conference
of the Association of Budgeting and Financial Management, "Budgeting and
Financial Management in the Era of Devolution," Kansas City, Kans., October
5-7, 2000.
Yongsheng Xu
presented "Normative Migration Theory: A Social Choice Theoretic Approach,"
in the Political Economy of Migration Meetings, Murphy Institute of Political
Economy, Tulane University, March 2000.
presented "Preferences over the Bargaining Problem: On the Optimality
of the Nash Bargaining Solution," 2000 Southeast Economic Theory and International
Economics Conferences, Rice University, October 27-29, 2000.
presented "Functionings, Capabilities and the Standard of Living," to
the Department of Economics, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Ala.,
Nov 3, 2000.
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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