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

Faculty and research associates made over 170 presentations at professional meetings, in special symposia and as invited lecturers. This year's campus lectures included the University of Hawaii, Cornell University, University of California-San Diego, Howard University, Chicago Public Schools, Furman University, University of Alabama, University of Arizona, Northwestern University, University of Oklahoma, Georgia Tech, Spelman College, University of Chicago, Colorado State University, University of Colorado, University of Wyoming, Auburn University, Syracuse University, University of North Alabama, and Georgetown University.

Sal Alaimo

presented "Volunteer Management and Evaluation: Teaming up for Success" as the featured speaker for the Council of Volunteer Administrators (COVA) for metro Atlanta's monthly program, April 22, 2003.

James Alm

served as discussant at a session at the American Economic Association Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., January 2003.

gave a seminar at Spelman College, Atlanta, Ga., January 2003.

presented “Family Decisions and the Design of the Individual Income Tax” (with Yongsheng Xu) at the Public Choice Society and Economic Sciences Association Annual Meetings, Nashville, Tenn., March 21-23, 2003.

presented "'Sizing' the Problem of the Hard-to-tax” (with Jorge Martinez-Vazquez) at a conference on "The Hard to Tax: An International Perspective," organized by the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, International Studies Program, held at Stone Mountain Park, Stone Mountain, Ga., May 2003.

gave an invited presentation on Decentralization in Indonesia at the Permanent Consulate of the Government of Indonesia, New York City, N.Y., May 28, 2003.

presented "Reputation, Information Signals, and Willingness to Pay for Heterogeneous Goods in Online Auctions" (with Mikhail I. Melnik**) at the Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings in San Antonio, Texas, November 2003.

Jay Bae

See Glenn Landers.

Roy Bahl

presented “Fiscal Decentralization” lectures at a World Bank course, Washington, D.C., March 2003.

presented “Public Policy Schools and the Community” at a conference “Sustainability Policies: Developing Policy Issues and Program Actions for a Sustainable Hawaii,” sponsored by the University of Hawaii and the State of Hawaii, April 2003.

presented a paper at a conference on “The Hard to Tax: An International Perspective,” organized by the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, International Studies Program, Stone Mountain Park, Ga., May 2003.

participated in a teleconference with the World Bank on Indian Economic policy in June 2003.

Grant Black**

presented “The Importance of Foreign Ph.D. Students to U.S. Science” at the conference on Science and the University, Cornell Higher Education Research Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., May 20-21, 2003.

presented “Contrasting the Job Markets for Masters and Doctorate Bioscience Graduates” and served on the panel "Challenges Facing Professional Masters Programs" at the conference on Master’s Education in the Sciences and Mathematics: Its Value, Importance, and Growth, sponsored by the Commission on Professionals in Science Technology and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Washington, D.C., October 2-3, 2003.

presented “Locational Decisions of Foreign-born Ph.D.s and the Export of U.S. Knowledge” at the annual meeting of the Southern Economic Association, San Antonio, Texas, November 21, 2003.

co-organized with Paula Stephan and served as a discussant in the session on “How to Use NSF’s SESTAT Data to Inform Policy” at the annual meeting of the Southern Economic Association, San Antonio, Texas, November 21, 2003.

see also Paula Stephan.

Marco Castillo

presented “Identifying Social Interactions in Economic Field Experiments,” and served as a discussant and Chair, at the International Economic Science Association Meetings, Pittsburgh, Penn., June 2003.

presented "An Experimental Approach to Social Capital in South Africa" at a workshop on the Legacies of Inequality at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, D.C., December 3-5, 2003.

Ronald G. Cummings

presented “Offset Banking: An Innovative Approach to ‘Green’ Development” to the Soil and Water Conservation Commission’s Annual Meetings, Savannah, Ga., January 4, 2003.

presented “Market Mechanisms For Managing Water Resources In Georgia” to the Georgia Public Policy Forum, Commerce Club, Atlanta, Ga., January 29, 2003.

(with Paul J. Ferraro) presented “Does Culture Matter in Economic Behavior? An Exploration of Inter-Cultural Relationships and Their Effects on Behavior” at the Southern Economic Association annual meeting, San Antonio, Texas, November 21-23, 2003.

see also Paul J. Ferraro.

Rebecca Curtis

See Deon Locklin.

Kelly Edmiston

presented “Local Government Competition for Economic Development” at the annual conference of the Southern Economic Association, San Antonio, Texas, November 23, 2003; at the Applied Econometrics Workshop at Georgia State University, Atlanta, Ga., August 29, 2003; and at the annual conference of the Allied Social Sciences Association, Washington, D.C., January 3, 2003.

served as discussant for “Sector Experiences in the Taxation of the Hard to Tax” at the Andrew Young School's Third Annual Conference on Public Finance Issues in an International Perspective, "The Hard to Tax: An International Perspective,” Stone Mountain, Ga., May 15, 2003.

served as discussant for “Rainy Day Funds” at the annual conference of the National Tax Association, Chicago, Ill., November 13, 2003.

served as discussant for “Econometrics and Applications” at the annual conference of the Southern Economic Association, San Antonio, Texas, November 23, 2003.

Robert Eger III

presented “Evaluation of Transportation Organization Outsourcing” at the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago, Ill., April 2003; and (with Deborah A. Knudson, Justin Marlowe and Elizabeth Ogard) also at the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., January 2003.

(with Deborah A. Knudson, Justin Marlowe and Amy Klemm Verbos) presented “Agricultural Off-Road Fuel Tax: Midwestern Comparative Analysis and Assessment” at the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., January 2003.

presented “Housing Bonds: Measuring the Impact of Government Defaults” and (with Deborah A. Carroll and Justin Marlowe) presented “Management Practices and Local Municipal Credit: Does Management Matter?” at the Western Social Science Association Annual Conference, Las Vegas, Nev., April 2003.

presented “An Examination of Total Debt and Income as Indicators of Debt Stability” and (with Uk Heo) presented “Paying for Security?: The Political Economy of U.S. Military Spending” at the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago, Ill., April 2003.

presented “Examining the Role of Financial Stability in Public Entities;” presented (with Deborah A. Carroll and Justin Marlowe) “Outsourcing in Transportation: Just a Contract?;” served as Chair for “Transportation Infrastructure;” and served as Chair for “Local Government Debt: Management and Uses” at the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., September 18-20, 2003.

presented (with Deborah A. Carroll and Justin Marlowe) “Management Practices and Local Municipal Credit: Does Management Matter?” and served as discussant for “Recent Issues in the Capital Markets” at the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., September 2003.

presented “Examining Financial Behavior in Special Purpose Entities,” and served as Chair for “Financial Management in a Time of Deficit and Budgetary Shortfalls,” at the Southeastern Conference on Public Administration, Savannah, Ga., October 2003.

Alan Essig

served as panelist on the Women’s Policy Forum Legislative Conference panel on the state budget, Atlanta, Ga., May 19, 2003.

, David L. Sjoquist and Sally Wallace presented to the Georgia Senate Appropriations Committee, Atlanta, Ga., Novermber 18, 2003.

Paul G. Farnham

and Angela Hutchinson* presented "Cost-Effectiveness of HIV Testing Strategies in the Emergency Room/Urgent Care Setting" at the 2003 National HIV Prevention Conference, Atlanta, Ga., July 27-30, 2003.

, Angela Hutchinson* and Ann Bostrom presented "A Health Technology Assessment of HIV Counseling and Testing Technologies in the Emergency Room/Urgent Care Setting" as the poster presentation at the Society for Medical Decision Making Annual Meeting, Chicago, Ill., October 19-22, 2003.

Paul Ferraro

presented “Know Thyself: Incompetence and Overconfidence” at the annual international meetings of the Economic Science Association, Pittsburgh, Penn., June 2003.

and Toshihiro Uchida* presented “Voluntary Approaches to Pollution Control: Evaluating Japan’s New Pollutant Release and Transfer Register” and “The Adoption of Environmental Management Systems and their Effect on the Environment: Evidence from Japanese Manufacturers" at the Annual Meetings of the Southern Economics Association, San Antonio, Texas, November 2003.

served as Chair of the session “Experimental Analyses of Inter-Ethnic and Inter-Racial Effects on Economic Behavior,” and was discussant on the paper “On the Role of the Hostage in Ultimatum Bargaining Games” (Schmitt, Shupp and Swope) at the Annual Meetings of the Southern Economics Association, San Antonio, Texas, November 2003.

and Ronald G. Cummings presented “Elucidating inter-cultural conflict in economic decision-making: an experimental approach” at the annual international meetings of the Economic Science Association, Pittsburgh, Penn., June 2003, and at the Annual Meetings of the Southern Economics Association, San Antonio, Texas, November 2003.

was an invited speaker at the Workshop on International Financing of Biodiversity Conservation in Developing Countries, and presented “Experiences with Direct and Indirect Financial Transfers for International Conservation and an Agenda for Empirical Research” at the University of California-San Diego, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, December 5-6, 2003. He was also a discussant on “Voluntary Offsets as a Mechanism for Financing Habitat Conservation."

see also Ronald G. Cummings.

Douglas Greenwell

presented on the Evaluation of Community Services at the Corporation for National Service Conference, Washington, D.C., June 2003.

Shiferaw Gurmu

organized and chaired a session on “Econometrics and Applications” and served as a discussant in a session on “Spatial Econometrics” at the 73rd Annual Conference of the Southern Economic Association, San Antonio, Texas, November 21-23, 2003.

see also Paula Stephan.

Carol D. Hansen

(with C. Kontoghiorghes**) presented "Prioritizing Organizational Behavior, Sociotechnical, Continuous Improvement, and Learning Organization Dimensions in Terms of Rapid Change Adaptation. An Empirical Study that is Based on Data from Five Different Organizations," at the 2003 Annual Academy of Human Resource Development conference, Minneapolis, Minn., March 2003.

Laura W. Henderson

(with Bentley D. Ponder* and Andrew J. Mashburn*) presented “Outcomes and Impacts of Georgia’s Pre-K Program: Report of the Findings from the Early Childhood Study, 2001-02” at the National Association for the Education of Young Children Annual Conference, Chicago, Ill., November 5, 2003.

Gary T. Henry

gave the keynote speech on "Optimizing the Influence of Evaluation Findings on Policy" at the Atlanta-area Evaluation Association meeting, Atlanta, Ga., March 20, 2003.

gave the keynote speech on "Beyond Use: Understanding the Influence of Evaluation on Attitudes and Actions" at the Eastern Evaluation Research Society meeting, Atlantic City, N.J., April 29, 2003; and at the Evaluation Training Institute, Howard University, Washington, D.C., June 24, 2003.

presented “Influencing Policy” at a meeting of the Oral Health Division Grantees, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Ga., September 30, 2003.

presented “Outcomes and Impacts of Georgia’s Pre-K Program” at Florida Children’s Forum Conference, Orlando, Fla., October 16, 2003.

(with Craig Gordon*) was invited to present “Early Childhood Study: Explaining Differences in Universal Pre-K, Head Start, and Private Preschool Outcomes” at the National Science Foundation Conference on High-Quality Educational Evaluations, Reno, Nev., November 5, 2003.

was invited to present on the panel “The Quantitative Perspective on the Qualitative – Quantitative Debate in Evaluation” at the American Evaluation Association annual meeting, Reno, Nev., November 5, 2003.

was invited to present major findings from the "Report of the Findings from the Early Childhood Study: 2001-02" at Chicago Public Schools, Chicago, Ill., November 7, 2003.

presented a seminar at the CDC National Expert Seminar Series on "Planning Influential Evaluations: Linking Purpose, Questions, and Design" at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Ga., December 1, 2003.

co-presented at American Education Finance Association meetings, Midwest Political Science Association meetings, Association for Policy Analysis and Management, and National Association for Educators of Young Children.

see also Andrew Mashburn.

Julie Hotchkiss

presented "A Closer Look at the Employment Impact of the Americans with Disabilities Act" at the Southern Economic Association Meetings, San Antonio, Texas, November 21-23, 2003; Bureau of Labor Statistics, Washington, D.C., May 2003; and American Economic Association Meetings, Washington, D.C., January 2003.

(with M. Melinda Pitts) presented "Female Labor Force Intermittency and Current Earnings: A Switching Regression Model with Unknown Sample Selection" at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Micro Conference, Chicago, Ill., June 2003, and American Economic Association Meetings, Washington, D.C., January 2003.

served as Conference Session Organizer for the Eastern Economic Association Meetings, New York, February 2003.

(with Robert E. Moore and M. Melinda Pitts) presented "Freshman Learning Communities, College Performance, and Retention" at the Eastern Economic Association Meetings, New York, February 2003.

(with Mary Graham) presented "Which Industries are the Best Employers for Women? An Application of a New Equal Employment Opportunity Index" at Furman University, Greenville, S.C., October 2003.

(with M. Melinda Pitts and John C. Robertson) presented "The Ups and Downs of Jobs in Georgia: What Can we Learn about Employment Growth from State Administrative Data?" at the Federal Reserve System Regional Meetings, Boston, Mass., October 2003, and at Furman University, Greenville, S.C., October 2003.

presented "Growing Part-time Employment Among Disabled Workers: Opportunity or Marginalization?" at the Southern Economic Association, San Antonio, Texas, November 21-23, 2003.

and Olga Pavlova* presented "The Impact of 9/11 on Hours of Work in the U.S." at the Southern Economic Association, San Antonio, Texas, November 21-23, 2003.

Janet L. Johnson

See David M. Van Slyke.

Bill Kahnweiler

presented “Working With Difficult Clients: Change Starts at Home” for The Society for Human Resource Management meeting, Atlanta, Ga., February 11, 2003.

presented “Writing for Publication in the Organization Development Journal and Other Blind Peer Reviewed Journals” for The Organization Development Institute at its 33rd Annual Global Conference, Williamsburg, Va., May 20-23, 2003.

Bruce Kaufman

served as Chair for the “IRRA/AILR Best Papers Session,” Industrial Relations Research Association meetings, Washington, D.C., January 4, 2003.

Claudia Lacson

presented and served as discussant of “Rural Health Network Technical Assistance” at the annual meeting of the California State Rural Health Association, Sacramento, Calif., December 2-5, 2003.

Glenn Landers

attended the "National Health Policy Conference," sponsored by Academy Health, Washington, D.C., January 22-23, 2003.

(with James P. Cooney, Jr.) was invited to present “Redefining Long-Term Care: Turning Barriers into Opportunities” at the American Medical Directors’ Annual Meeting, Orlando, Fla., April 2003.

presented the work of the GEORGIA Collaborative to Improve End-of-Life Care to the Georgia Hemlock Society, Atlanta, Ga., May 4, 2003.

(with James P. Cooney, Jr.) presented “Policy and Ethics in Health and Hospital Administration: Using the Graduate Classroom to Experience Reality” at the Hawaii International Conference on Business, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 2003.

(with Jay P. Bae, David Rein, James P. Cooney, Jr., and Robert Curry) presented “Risk and Costs in Georgia LTC Programs: Comparative Examination of Nursing Facility and Home & Community-Based Care using Medicare and Medicaid Data” and “Using an Integrated Medicare and Medicaid Database to Comparatively Assess Care and Cost Outcomes among a State’s Traditional and Waiver Long-Term Care Programs” at the Academy Health Annual Research Meeting, Nashville, Tenn., June 2003.

attended "Fast Forward: A National Conference for End-of-Life Coalition Leaders," sponsored by AARP, Kansas City, Mo., June 3-5, 2003.

attended the Annual Meeting of the National Academy for State Health Policy, Portland, Ore., June 3-5, 2003.

attended the "Long-Term Care Research Briefing," sponsored by Academy Health, Washington, D.C., June 18, 2003.

organized and facilitated with Georgia Health Policy Center staff, the "Georgia Health Care Access Forum," sponsored by the National Conference of State Legislatures and the National Association of Counties, Atlanta, Ga., August 27-28, 2003.

was an invited participant at the "Rallying Points National Meeting," sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Boston, Mass., November 16-17, 2003.

Susan K. Laury

presented “Further Reflections on Prospect Theory” at the University of Alabama, March 2003.

presented “Making Money” at the Conference on Classroom Experiments, University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz., May 2003.

presented “Designing an Auction Mechanism to Reduce Irrigation During Severe Drought” at the North American Meeting of the Economic Science Association, Tucson, Ariz., November 2003.

Gregory B. Lewis

presented “Public Opinion and State Gay Rights Laws” and (with Marc A. Rogers and Kenneth Sherrill) presented “Sexual Identity, Sexual Behavior, and Group Socialization: Does Gay Sex Turn People into Liberal Democrats?” at the annual meeting of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Nashville, Tenn., May 2003.

presented “Baby Boom, Clerical Crash, and Quiet Crisis: The Changing Shape of the Federal Civil Service” and “Political Tolerance, Traditional Sexual Morality, Homophobia, and Public Attitudes toward Government Spending on the Arts” at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, Penn., August 2003.

presented “Contentious and Consensus Gay Rights Issues: Public Opinion and State Laws on Discrimination and Same-Sex Marriage” at the annual meeting of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Washington, D.C., November 2003.

Deon Locklin

presented "Leadership Frameworks" (March 18), "Leadership and Values" (August 20), "Organizational Culture" (September 17), and "Conflict Resolution" (November 13) at Leadership Redwood – Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation, 2003.

presented "Ethics," a three-part videotaped presentation for emerging leaders within the South Carolina Vocational Rehabilitation Department, Columbia, S.C., March 20, April 29, and May 29, 2003.

, Sally Siewert and Chip Kenney attended the Spring Conference of the Council of State Administrators of Vocational Rehabilitation (CSAVR), Bethesda, Md., March 30-April 2, 2003.

presented “Creating a Leadership Succession Program” for the University of Arkansas Rehabilitation Continuing Education Center, Dallas, Texas, April 14-15, 2003.

facilitated a pre-conference session of the Region IV Employment Conference in Atlanta, Ga., May 28, 2003. The session provided a forum for dialogue among state vocational rehabilitation agency directors and employers from private industry, to explore training and employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities.

was invited to present “Leadership and Empowerment” at the South Carolina Vocational Rehabilitation Department’s Issues Institute, Columbia, S.C., June 9, 2003.

facilitated a Statewide Leadership Forum for Georgia Department of Labor – Vocational Rehabilitation Program administrators and vendors, Macon, Ga., June 11, 2003.

conducted “Leadership Frameworks” for the South Carolina Vocational Rehabilitation Department’s Organizational Leadership Series in Columbia, S.C., July 9, 2003.

presented “Creating a Leadership Succession Program” for the Assumption College Rehabilitation Continuing Education Program, Worcester, Mass., October 8, 2003.

, Rebecca Curtis and Chip Kenney attended the National Rehabilitation Education Conference, Washington, D.C., October 19-21, 2003.

presented “Region IV Recruitment Initiative Update” at the National Rehabilitation Education Conference in Washington, D.C., October 21, 2003.

, Sally Siewert and Chip Kenney attended the Fall Conference of the Council of State Administrators of Vocational Rehabilitation (CSAVR), San Francisco, Calif., November 9-12, 2003.

facilitated a planning session of Human Resource Development Specialists of the Georgia Department of Labor-Rehabilitation Services Program, Lake Lanier, Ga., December 2-3, 2003.

Jorge Martinez-Vazquez

served as Key Speaker for thematic sessions "Tax Policy and Tax Administration" and "Fiscal Decentralization" at the World Bank LCSPS/World Bank one-week training, Washington, D.C., January 2003.

served as a presenter for the Latin American and Caribbean Region Public Sector Training program, World Bank, Washington, D.C., January 2003.

see also James Alm.

see also Wasseem Mina.

Andrew Mashburn*

and the CITY Project Study Team presented "HIV Testing Among MSM and the Moderating Effect of Setting" as the poster presentation at the 2003 meeting of the Society for Community Research and Action, Highlands, N.M., June 2003.

and Gary T. Henry presented "Teachers’ Ratings of Children’s Readiness: Findings from Preschool and Kindergarten" at the 2003 meeting of the National Association for the Education of Young Children, Chicago, Ill., November 2003.

see also Laura Henderson.

Mikhail I. Melnik**

was an invited participant and panelist at the First Interdisciplinary Symposium on Online Reputation Mechanisms, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Mass., April 2003.

see also James Alm.

Wasseem Mina**

and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez presented “Some Effects of IMF Lending Programs in the MENA Countries" at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Social Security Association meetings, Washington D.C., January 2003.

Karen Minyard

presented “From Playing Checkers to Three Dimensional Chess” at Creating ONE CARE in Southwest Virginia, sponsored by the Virginia Department of Social Services, Western Region, Abington, Va., April 1-2, 2003.

presented “The Future of the Rural Health Movement: Where Do We Go From Here?” at the Southern Rural Access Program Spring 2003 Grantee Conference, sponsored by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in partnership with the Office of Rural Health Policy, Memphis, Tenn., April 23-25, 2003.

presented “Regional Networking: More is Better” at the Louisiana Summer Conference, sponsored by the Louisiana Rural Health Access Program, Lafayette, La., July 17-18, 2003.

presented “Better Health for More People for Less Cost” to the Governor’s Budgetary Responsibility Oversight Committee, Atlanta, Ga., August 5, 2003.

presented “Georgia Health Care Coverage Project” at the Georgia Health Care Access Forum, co-sponsored by the National Conference of State Legislatures and the National Association of Counties, Atlanta, Ga., August 26-27, 2003.

presented “Milestones in Network Development” at the Delta State Rural Development Network Local Grantee Conference, sponsored by the Mississippi and Arkansas Delta State Rural Development Networks, Jackson, Miss., October 2, 2003.

provided specialized technical assistance and opportunities for enhanced peer learning at "Community Health in Challenging Times: Proven Practices, Promising Innovations," a national conference sponsored by Communities Joined in Action and the Association for Community Health Improvement, Nashville, Tenn., October 23-25, 2003.

presented “Georgia Health Care Coverage Project” at the 2003 Georgia Women’s Assembly, sponsored by the Women’s Policy Group and Education Fund, Atlanta, Ga., November 21, 2003.

presented an overview of Georgia’s Health Care Coverage Project at the Health Care Access Forum, co-sponsored by the Atlanta Regional Health Forum, the Georgia Health Policy Center, and the Regional Business Coalition, Atlanta, Ga., December 4, 2003.

Robert E. Moore

and Sasatra Sudsawasd** presented "Investment under Trade Policy Uncertainty: An Empirical Investigation" at the Southern Economic Association Meeting in San Antonio, Texas, November 2003.

see also Julie L. Hotchkiss.

Harvey K. Newman

and David M. Van Slyke presented “The Role of the East Lake Community Foundation in Redeveloping Public Housing in Atlanta” at the annual meeting of Urban Affairs Association (UAA), Cleveland, Ohio, March 27, 2003.

Lloyd G. Nigro

presented "Georgia Civil Service Reform" to the Georgia Political Science Association, Pine Mountain, Ga., November 2003.

Judith M. Ottoson

presented "Logic Models: A Useful Tool in Program Evaluation," Western Michigan University, Summer Evaluation Institute, Kalamazoo, Mich., June 16-18, 2003.

presented "The AEA Affiliates: Exploring Model of Affiliation" at the annual conference of American Evaluation Association, Reno, Nev., November 6, 2003.

Ragan Petrie

was an invited Workshop Participant at the National Science Foundation Workshop on Classroom Experiments, Tucson, Ariz., May 2003.

presented “Beauty, Gender, and Stereotypes: Evidence from Laboratory Experiments” at the International Economic Science Association Meetings, Pittsburgh, Penn., June 2003.

presented “Trusting Appearances and Reciprocating Looks: Evidence from Laboratory Experiments” and served as a discussant at the Southern Economics Association Meetings, San Antonio, Texas, November 2003.

Bentley D. Ponder*

see Laura W. Henderson.

David Rein

see Glenn Landers.

Mark Rider

presented “Examination of Broad-Based Taxes as a Source of Local Government Finance” to students of the Indonesia’s Masters Program, January 2003.

served as discussant at a session of “Taxing the Hard to Tax” Conference, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Ga., May 2003.

Felix Rioja

served as panelist, "Latin America and the FTAA - No More Messiahs" at the World Times' Conference, Atlanta, Ga., February 2003.

(with Gerhard Glomm) presented "Populist Budgets and Long Run Growth” at the Midwest Macroeconomics Conference, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago, Ill., May 2003, and at the Econometric Society, North American Summer Meetings, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., June 2003.

(with Neven Valev) presented “Stock Markets, Banks, and the Sources of Economic Growth” at the University of Oklahoma, Department of Economics Seminar, Norman, Okla., November 2003.

(with Gerhard Glomm) presented "Populist Budgets and Long Run Growth” at The World Bank, Washington, D.C., December 2003.

Christine Roch

and Nevbahar Ertas* presented “The Limits of Interpersonal Influence: Market Mavens in Private and Local Public Goods Markets,” at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Ill., April 3-6, 2003.

served as discussant for the session, “Satisfaction in Service Delivery” at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Ill., April 3-6, 2003.

Michael Rushton

presented “Earmarked Taxes for the Arts: U.S. Experience and Policy Implications” at workshops at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Ga., and the University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.

Bruce A. Seaman

was invited to present at the annual Wichita Workshop, Appraisal for Ad Valorem Taxation of Communications, Energy and Transportation Properties, National Tax Association, Wichita, Kan., July 2003.

presented “Contingent Valuation vs. Economic Impact: Substitutes or Complements?” at the North American Regional Science Association Meetings, Philadelphia, Penn., November 20-22, 2003.

Sally Siewert

presented "Tools and Resources for Employer Outreach" at the Rehabilitation Services Administration Region IV Employment Conference, Atlanta, Ga., April 29, 2003.

presented "ABC’s of Marketing" at the Alabama Division of Rehabilitation Services Employment Conference, Mobile, Ala., June 12, 2003.

(with Craig Colvin) presented "Effective Employer Relationships" at the Southeastern Region National Rehabilitation Association conference, Asheville, N.C., August 25, 2003.

presented "Succession Planning" and "Team Building" at the Florida Department of Vocational Rehabilitation Supervisor Conference, Orlando, Fla., September 30, 2003.

and Chip Kenney taught "Project Management Training" at the Kentucky Department of Vocational Rehabilitation and Department for the Blind, Lexington, Ky., November 2003.

see also Deon Locklin.

David L. Sjoquist

(with Sally Wallace) presented “Changing Tax Structures: An Analysis of the Adoption of a Local Sales Tax” at the Allied Social Science Association, Washington, D.C., January 3, 2003.

(with Sally Wallace) presented “Capital Gains: Its Recent, Varied, and Growing (?) Impact On State Revenues” at the Conference State Fiscal Crisis: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions, Urban Institute, Washington, D.C., April 3, 2003.

(with Mary Beth Walker) presented “The Supply of Private Schools” at the Southern Economics Association, San Antonio, Texas, November 2003.

organized and chaired the session on “The Economics of Education,” Southern Economics Association meeting, San Antonio, Texas, November 2003.

see also Alan Essig.

Tina Anderson Smith

presented “Building Community Health Partnership: A Grassroots Strategy for Improving Health and Access to Care in Rural Areas” at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Ga., July 2003.

facilitated “Rural Health Network Technical Assistance Program Overview” at the 2003 Rural Health Network and Delta State Network Development Grantees Conference, Washington, D.C., August 2003.

Charlotte Steeh

presented “Explaining the Resiliency of the State Flag Controversy in Georgia” at the Annual Meeting of the Georgia Political Science Association, Savannah, Ga., January 31, 2003.

presented “Surveying by Cell Phone: Initial Findings” at the Cell Phone Summit hosted by Nielsen Media Research, New York City, N.Y., February 13, 2003. This small working group was made up of representatives from major survey organizations, both public and private, throughout the country including the U.S. Census Bureau, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan, and Westat.

participated in a roundtable presentation of “Surveying by Cell Phone: Initial Findings,” and presented the paper “Surveys Using Cellular Telephones: a Feasibility Study,” at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Nashville, Tenn., May 18, 2003.

Paula Stephan

(with Shiferaw Gurmu, A.J. Sumell* and Grant Black**) presented “Patenting and Publishing: Substitutes or Complements for University Faculty?” at the American Economic Association, Washington D.C., January 2003.

served as discussant of a paper by Katherine Shaw at the American Economic Association, January 2003.

presented “Underlying Science and Technical Workforce Statistics and Trends” at the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, Durham, N.C., February 27, 2003.

attended an organized session of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Denver, Colo., February 2003.

presented “Retention and Recruitment of Women and Minorities in the IT Workforce” at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kan., March 13, 2003.

attended "Research Policy as an Agent of Change" project, funded by the National Science Foundation, Tucson, Ariz., October 2003.

presented “Capturing Knowledge: The Placement of New Ph.D.s Working with Firms” at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Program on Higher Education, Washington, D.C., November 2003, and at the Roundtable on Engineering Entrepreneurship Research (REER), Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga., November 2003.

served as discussant of paper by Diana Hicks at the REER conference, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga., November 2003.

presented “The Nanotech Workforce," at the National Science Foundation Conference on Nanotechnology, Washington, D.C., December 2003.

presented “Measurement Issues Concerning the Scientific Workforce, A Researcher’s Perspective,” Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), Washington, D.C., December 2003.

see also Grant Black.

Laura O. Taylor

presented “Provision Rules and the Incentive Compatibility of Choice Surveys” at the American Economic Association Annual Meetings, Washington, D.C., January 2003, and at the University of Colorado Summer Workshop on Environmental and Resource Economics, Boulder, Colo., July 2003.

presented “Revealed Preference Evidence on the Value of Reducing Mortality Risks: Does the Source of Risk Matter?” at the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics Seminar Series, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colo., October 2003, and at the Department of Economics and Finance Seminar Series, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wy., November 2003.

Erdal Tekin

was invited to present “Child Care Subsidies, Wages, and Employment of Single Mothers” at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Child Care Meetings, Washington, D.C., April 2003.

served as discussant for the paper "Crime and Young Men: The Role of Arrest, Criminal Experience, and Heterogeneity" by Susumi Imai, Hajime Katayama, and Kala Krishna, Southern Economic Association, Economics of Crime Section, San Antonio, Texas, November 2003.

served as discussant for the paper “What Happens When Punishment Changes? Substitution Patterns in Criminal Activity" by Christopher Cornwell and William Trumbull, Southern Economic Association, Economics of Crime Section, San Antonio, Texas, November 2003.

John Clayton Thomas

presented the paper “E-Democracy, E-Commerce, E-?: How Citizens Connect with Governments via the Internet” at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Public Administration, Washington, D.C., March 2003.

was an invited guest at “Colloquium: Using the Internet for Citizen Service Requests: Current Practice and Future Dissemination,” presented by the Connecticut Policy and Economic Council with funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Hartford, Conn., December 4-5, 2003.

Benno Torgler***

(with Christoph A. Schaltegger) was invited to present “Tax Amnesty and Political Participation,” Public Choice Society and Economic Science Association Meeting, Nashville, Tenn., March 2003.

presented “Cross-Culture Comparison of Tax Morale and Tax Compliance: Evidence from Costa Rica and Switzerland” at the National Tax Association 96th Annual Conference on Taxation, Chicago, Ill., November 13-15, 2003.

Neven Valev

presented a paper on "The Maturity of International Credit" at the Department of Economics at Auburn University, Auburn, Ala., April 2003.

see also Felix Rioja.

David M. Van Slyke

, Janet L. Johnson and Christopher Horne* presented “Attitudes Toward Public Funding for Faith-Based Organizations and the Potential Impact on Private Giving,” at The Roundtable on Religion and Social Welfare Policy/Independent Sector Spring Research Conference, Washington, D.C., March 2003.

(with Sarah L. Eschholz) presented “New Evidence About Women and Philanthropy: Findings from Metropolitan Atlanta” at the Women in Philanthropy Summit, Atlanta, Ga., May 2003.

served as panel discussant of "Building Volunteer Capacity: The Drivers of Successful Corporate and Service Partnerships at City Year” at the Gifts of Time in America’s Communities symposia, The Maxwell School at Syracuse University, Campbell Public Affairs Institute, Nonprofit Studies Program, Syracuse, N.Y., October 24, 2003.

presented “Agents or Stewards: Using Theory to Understand How the Government-Nonprofit Social Services Contracting Relationship is Managed” at the National Public Management Conference, Washington, D.C., October 2003.

and Janet L. Johnson presented “Linking Individual Volunteering and Giving: The Giving Behaviors of Volunteers and the Volunteering Behaviors of Givers” at the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA), Denver, Colo., November 2003.

see also Harvey K. Newman.

Mary Beth Walker

organized the “Applications in Spatial Econometrics” session and presented "GMM Estimation of Fiscal Policy Interdependence Across States" at the Southern Economic Association Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas, November 2003.

served as discussant in the sessions “Issues in Educational Policy,” “Measurement Error in Economics: Theory” and “Econometrics and Applications” at the Southern Economic Association Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas, November 2003.

see also David L. Sjoquist.

Sally Wallace

and Richard Bird*** presented “Is It Really So Hard to Tax the Hard-to-Tax? The Context and Role of Presumptive Taxes” at Taxing the Hard to Tax, International Studies Program Conference, Stone Mountain, Ga., May 14-15, 2003.

attended the State Tax Reform: Practice and Politics Conference at the National Tax Association Spring Symposium, Washington, D.C., May 2003.

see also Alan Essig.

see also David L. Sjoquist.

William L. Waugh, Jr.

was a panelist on “Security on University Campuses,” (National Audio Conference), Paperclip Communications, March 3, 2003.

presented on Political Writing, at the T.S. Stribling Fine Arts Festival, University of North Alabama, Florence, Ala., March 7, 2003.

presented “Organizing for Extreme Events: The Issue of Cultural Interoperability” at the 28th Annual Hazards Research and Applications Workshop at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo., July 13-16, 2003.

presented “Teaching Disaster Policy and Emergency Management” as part of a short course on Disaster Policy at the annual conference of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, Penn., August 27-31, 2003. The course was co-taught with Tom Birkland (SUNY-Albany), George Busenberg (University of Colorado at Denver), Wayne Blanchard (FEMA), and Richard Sylves (University of Delaware).

participated in the FEMA Multi-Hazard Community Assessment Forum, an expert panel co-sponsored by FEMA/DHS, ICMA, and ISO to examine the feasibility of a community hazard mitigation rating system, Washington, D.C., September 16, 2003.

was an invited participant in the Workshop on Professional Education for Emergency Management, University of Colorado at Denver, October 22-24, 2003.

was an invited participant in the Workshop on Emergency Management in a Homeland Security Environment, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., November 19-20, 2003.

Verna Willis

co-presented and co-led discussion of her co-authored book, Action Learning: Images and Pathways, at a Breakfast Symposium.

Katherine G. Willoughby

presented “Performance Measurement and Budgeting in the States: Managing in Bad Times” at the annual conference of the American Society for Public Administration, Washington, D.C., March 18, 2003.

presented “Organizing the Governor’s Office: Current Choices and Influence on Executive Budget Activity” at the annual conference of the Association of Budgeting and Financial Management, Washington, D.C., September 17, 2003.

presented “When Does Performance Matter for Budgeting? Perspectives of State Budgeters and Agency Staff” (written with Julia Melkers) at the annual conference of the Association of Budgeting and Financial Management, Washington, D.C., September 18, 2003.

(with Julia Melkers) presented “What Counts in Performance Measurement Use? Empirical Models in U.S. State Governments” at the annual conference of the National Public Management Research Conference, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., October 11, 2003.

Yongsheng Xu

presented a paper on “Non-Welfaristic Policy Assessment” at the Annual Meetings of the Public Choice Society, Nashville, Tenn., March 21-23, 2003.

see also James Alm.


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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