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

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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