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

Faculty and research associates made over 183 presentations at professional meetings, in special symposia and as invited lecturers. This year's campus lectures included Berry College, Davidson College, Texas A&M University, Northwestern University, Syracuse University, College of William and Mary, Emory University, Virginia Tech University, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Chicago, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, University of Colorado, University of Delaware, University of New Orleans, Southern Methodist University, and Tulane University.

James Alm

served as a discussant at the American Economic Association Annual Conference, San Diego, Calif., January 2004.

presented "Audit Information Dissemination, Taxpayer Communication, and Compliance: An Experimental Approach" at the Internal Revenue Research Conference, Washington, D.C., June 2-3, 2004.

chaired a session on "Human Capital in China" and served as discussant at the Chinese Economic Society Annual Conference, Atlanta, Ga., July 2004.

served as a discussant at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, 26th Annual Research Conference, Atlanta, Ga., October 20, 2004.

presented "Shacking Up or Shelling Out; Income Taxes, Marriage, and Cohabitation" at Berry College, Rome, Ga., November 9, 2004.

presented "Estimating the 'Spillover' Effects of Audits Using Experimental Methods" (with Michael McKee) and was a discussant at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association, New Orleans, La., November 21-23, 2004.

Roy Bahl

presented a series of three lectures: “Global Experience and Framework for Decentralization," “Decentralization and Intergovernmental Fiscal Reform” and “Intergovernmental Transfers: Theory and Practice” at a Decentralization and Intergovernmental Fiscal Reform workshop sponsored by the Decentralization Thematic Group, PRMPS and World Bank Institute, Washington, D.C., March 29-31, 2004.

served as a discussant on “Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers” at a Roundtable on Fiscal Federalism in Russia, The World Bank, Washington, D.C., May 6-7, 2004.

participated in the roundtable session “Crafting Fiscal Decentralization Policy in Developing and Transition Economies: A Comparative Perspective" at 26th Annual Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Annual Conference, Atlanta, Ga., October 28-30, 2004.

presented a discussion on Rural Development in India at a World Bank Special Seminar, Washington, D.C., December 7, 2004.

Jameson Boex

presented “Controlling Corruption through Fiscal Reform Projects: Anti-Corruption Policies in Tanzania” at the Promoting Economic Growth in a New Era Conference, U.S. Agency for International Development, Washington, D.C., June 30, 2004.

see also Andrey Timofeev.

Carolyn Bourdeaux

presented “Legislative Barriers to Budgetary Reform” at the Western Social Science Association Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, April 21-24, 2004, and at the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management Conference, Chicago, Ill., October 7-9, 2004.

presented “Can Public Authorities 'Just Get Things Done'? An Analysis of Politically Buffered Institutions in a Contentious Policy Arena” at the Federation of New York State Solid Waste Associations Conference, Lake George, N.Y., May 2-5, 2004, and at the American Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago, Ill., September 2, 2004.

presented “Structure, Behavior and Financial Performance: An Empirical Analysis of American Airports” at the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management Conference, Chicago, Ill., October 7-9, 2004.

Robert Eger III

presented “Highway Preventive Maintenance Implementation: Comparing Challenges, Processes, and Solutions in Three States” at the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., January 2004.

presented “Fixed Price v. Price Index Contracts: Financial Benefit for State Government?” at the Western Social Science Association Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, April 21-24, 2004.

presented “Examining Financial Behavior in Special Purpose Entities” (with Deborah A. Carroll) and “Changes in Law Enforcement: Public Policy and Injury Crashes” at the 62nd Annual National Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Ill., April 15-18, 2004.

served as Chair of the panel “Management Innovation and Privatization,” as Chair of the panel “Cops and Administration: Policing in the New Era,” and presented “Price Index Contracts: Reducing the Cost of State Infrastructure?” and “Public Policy and Injury Crashes” at the Southeastern Conference on Public Administration, Charlotte, N.C., October 3-5, 2004.

served as Chair of the “Graduate Student Panel,” served as discussant, and presented “Criteria and Concerns in the Decision to Outsource” (with Deborah A. Carroll) and “Financing Infrastructure: Fixed Price v. Price Index Contracts” (with Hai Guo*) at the 16th Annual Conference of the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management, Chicago, Ill., October 7-9, 2004.

was invited to present “A Study of Liquid Asphalt Price Indices Applications to Georgia Pavement Contracting” at the Transportation Estimators Association Meeting, Mobile, Ala., October 8-10, 2004.

presented “Implications of Tax Incremental Financing on Disadvantaged Families” (with Deborah A. Carroll) at the 26th Annual Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Research Conference, Atlanta, Ga., October 28-30, 2004.

Paul G. Farnham

presented the poster “Updated Estimates of Health Care Utilization and Costs in Perinatally HIV-Infected Children and Young Adults in the United States” (with Stephanie Sansom, John Anderson, Thomas Sukalac, Sada Soorapanth, Jill Clark, and Ken Dominguez) at the 26th Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making, Atlanta, Ga., October 17-20, 2004.

Paul J. Ferraro

presented “The Economics of Biodiversity Protection” at the capstone seminar for Davidson College’s Senior Session for Economics class, Davidson, N.C., March 2004.

presented “Measuring the Effectiveness of Listing under the U.S. Endangered Species Act” (with Monica Ospina*) at the 12th Annual CAMP Resources Workshop, Wilmington, N.C., August 2004.

presented “Part-time Behavioral Economist” at the Inaugural Roundtable for Atlanta-Area Experimentalists, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Ga., October 1, 2004.

presented “The Dynamics of Other-regarding Preferences and Decision Error: What’s Really Going on in Voluntary Contributions Mechanism Experiments?” (with Christian Vossler) at the North American Regional Meeting of the Economic Science Association, Tucson, Ariz., November 4-7, 2004, and at the 74th Annual Southern Economic Association Meeting, New Orleans, La., November 21-23, 2004.

chaired the session “Learning and Group Dynamics” and served as a discussant on two papers at the 74th Annual Southern Economic Association Meeting, New Orleans, La., November 21-23, 2004

Shelby Frost

attended the National Science Foundation Workshop on Economics Experiments in the Classroom, Williamsburg, Va., May 20-22, 2004.

Douglas Greenwell

presented on Evaluation and Access to Health Care, Asheville, N.C., October 2004.

Craig S. Gordon

See Dana K. Rickman.

Shiferaw Gurmu

presented “An Empirical Analysis of Tobacco Consumption in a Developing Economy" at the 5th International Conference of the International Academy of African Business and Development, Atlanta, Ga., April 7-10, 2004.

presented "Patent, R&D and Lag Effects: Flexible Methods for Panel Count Data on Manufacturing Firms" at the 11th International Panel Data Conference, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, June 4-7, 2004.

presented “Who’s Patenting in the University? Evidence from a Survey of Doctorate Recipients" at the Midwest Econometric Group Meeting, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., October 15-16, 2004.

presented “Semiparametric Competing Risks Analysis: An Application to the Study of Premarital Birth Among Hispanic Women" at Syracuse University, Department of Economics, Syracuse, N.Y., November 12, 2004.

served as discussant in a session on "Econometrics: Theory and Applications" at the 74th Annual Conference of the Southern Economic Association, New Orleans, La., November 21-23, 2004.

Amy Helling

presented "Linking Public Health and Planning: Examining Physical Activity in Urban Parks" (with Karen Mumford, Howard Frumkin and Steve French) at the annual conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Portland, Ore., October 21, 2004.

presented "The Travel/Physical Exercise Connection: The Role of Age and Gender" at the Conference for Research on Women’s Transportation Issues, Chicago, Ill., November 19, 2004.

Gary T. Henry

presented “Comparing Universal and Targeted Policies: The Quality and Outcomes of Alternative Early Education Policies” (with Dana K. Rickman and Craig S. Gordon) at the 29th Annual American Education Finance Association Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, March 11-13, 2004, and at 26th Annual Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Annual Conference, Atlanta, Ga., October 28-30, 2004.

presented “Linkages between High Stakes Accountability and Student Performance: Systemic Responses in Six Southern States” (with Darleen Opfer) at the 29th Annual American Education Finance Association Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, March 11-13, 2004.

presented “The Impact of High Stakes Accountability on Teachers Efforts to Improve Instruction” (with Darleen Opfer) at the American Education Research Association Meeting, San Diego, Calif., April 12, 2004.

presented “The Influence of Research and Evaluation on Policy” at the Lumina Foundation for Education Seminar Series, Indianapolis, Ind., May 27, 2004.

presented “Orchestrating the Research: Perspectives, Methods and Outcomes” and “Evaluating Universal Preschool Investments” at the Research and Evaluation Conference, Los Angeles Universal Preschool Initiative, Los Angeles, Calif., October 8, 2004.

presented “Coming Full Circle: Assessing Evaluation’s Influence on Program Performance” at the 26th Annual Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Annual Conference, Atlanta, Ga., October 28-30, 2004, and at the American Evaluation Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, Ga., November 3-6, 2004.

presented “Changing for the Better: Explaining Evaluation Influence,” “Social Betterment through Evaluation: Impacts of Evaluation on Policy,” and “A Proposal to Evaluate the Da Vinci Learning Model” at the American Evaluation Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, Ga., November 3-6, 2004.

Julie L. Hotchkiss

presented "Earnings Growth Among Job-Changers in Georgia: Insight from State Administrative Data" (with M. Melinda Pitts and John C. Robertson) at the American Economic Association Meetings, San Diego, Calif., January 3-5, 2004.

presented "Freshman Learning Communities, College Performance, and Retention" (with Robert E. Moore and M. Melinda Pitts) at the Open House on Learning Communities, Atlanta, Ga., March 26, 2004.

presented "Wage Gains Among Job Changers Across the Business Cycle: Insight from State Administrative Data" (with M. Melinda Pitts and John C. Robertson) at the 9th Annual Society of Labor Economists Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, April 30-May 1, 2004; at the Federal Reserve System Regional Conference, New York, N.Y., October 2004; and at the 74th Annual Southern Economic Association Meeting, New Orleans, La., November 21-23, 2004.

served as session chair and as session discussant at the 74th Annual Southern Economic Association Meeting, New Orleans, La., November 21-23, 2004.

William M. Kahnweiler

was invited to present a paper on "Writing for Publication in the Organization Development Journal and Other Blind Peer Reviewed Journals" for the Organization Development Institute at its 34th Annual Global Conference, Chicago, Ill., May 18-21, 2004.

presented “Career Development for Career Development Professionals: Walking Our Talk” (with Jennifer B. Kahnweiler) at the annual international conference of The National Career Development Association, San Francisco, Calif., July 2, 2004.

Bruce E. Kaufman

presented “Employment Relations and the Employment Relations System” at the Annual Meeting of the Industrial Relations Research Association, San Diego, Calif., January 4, 2004.

Patricia Kota

co-facilitated and presented at the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Rural Health Policy, Planning Grantee Conference, Chicago, Ill., March 21, 2004.

co-facilitated and presented at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Rural Health Policy, Network Development and FLEX Grantee Conference, Chicago, Ill., June 14-17, 2004.

facilitated the Summit for Rural Health Network Development, Luling, Texas, June 21-23, 2004.

presented "Building Critical Access Hospital Leaders," McLean, Wa., August 24-25, 2004.

presented "Developing a Critical Access Hospital Network," Anchorage, Alaska, August 25-27, 2004.

presented "Developing a Rural Health Network," Clinton, Ark., November 2004.

presented "Rural Health Network Models across the U.S.," Lancaster, N.H., November 12, 2004.

Douglas J. Krupka

presented "Location-Specific Human Capital, Amenities and Migration" at the 26th Annual Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Research Conference, Atlanta, Ga., October 28-30, 2004.

Glenn M. Landers

attended the National Health Policy Conference sponsored by Academy Health, Washington, D.C., January 27-29, 2004.

attended the State Planning Grant Meeting sponsored by the Health Resources and Services Administration, Washington, D.C., February 2-3, 2004.

presented "Policy Implications of Cost and Care Outcome Differences among Dual Eligibles Using Alternative Organizational Models for Long-Term Care" and "Comparing Medicaid Long-Term Care Waiver Programs" (with James P. Cooney, Jr.) at the Academy of Health Annual Research Meeting, San Diego, Calif., June 6-8, 2004.

presented "Using a Risk Adjustment Model to Compare the Costs of Nursing Facility Care with Four Medicaid Long-term Care Waiver Programs" and served as discussant at the International Society for Research in Healthcare Financial Management's 10th Annual International Symposium and Workshop, Baltimore, Md., August 5-7, 2004.

presented "Safety Net Issues: Georgia’s Indigent Care Trust Fund" at the State Planning Grant Meeting sponsored by the Health Resources and Services Administration, Washington, D.C., November 9, 2004.

Susan K. Laury

presented “Classroom Games: Voluntary Provision of Public Goods” at the National Science Foundation Sponsored Workshop on Classroom Experiments, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., May 21, 2004.

presented “Risk Aversion and Incentive Effects: New Data without Order Effects” at the North American Meeting of the Economic Science Association, Tucson, Ariz., November 5, 2004.

Gregory B. Lewis

served as a discussant on “Mentoring Conversations: Responding to the Work of Junior Colleagues,” at the 100th Annual Meeting and National Conference of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, Ill., September 2-5, 2004.

presented “Contentious and Consensus Gay Rights Issues: Public Opinion and State Laws on Discrimination and Same-Sex Marriage” to the Center for Policy Research of the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y., December 2, 2004.

Jorge Martinez-Vazquez

See Andrey Timofeev.

Karen Minyard

gave a plenary speech on disparities and aging at the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging, Atlanta, Ga., June 2004.

presented preliminary findings of a Commonwealth Fund study on "The Role of Community Initiatives in Making Coverage for the Uninsured" to the National Academy for State Health Policy, St. Louis, Mo., August 2004.

and Tina Anderson Smith presented an overview of Georgia Health Policy Center’s work with communities at the 2004 Campus-Community Partnership for Health/Towards Unity for Health Conference, Seattle, Wash., October 2004.

presented at the American Academy of Family Physicians State Legislative Conference, Savannah, Ga., November 5-6, 2004.

presented to the National Conference of State Legislatures, Savannah, Ga., December 8, 2004.

presented to the American Medical Association, Washington, D.C., December 2004.

presented on the state of Georgia’s health care system at the Legislative Biennial, an event for Georgia’s legislators to become familiar with issues and trends facing the state, Atlanta, Ga., December 2004.

Robert E. Moore

served as discussant on "Mexico's Labor Market: The Importance of Education -- Occupation Matching on Wages and Productivity in Developing Countries" at the Eastern Economic Association Meetings, Washington, D.C., February 20, 2004.

see also Julie L. Hotchkiss.

Harvey K. Newman

presented “Religious Organizations and the City: Outline of a Research Agenda for Urban Scholars” and moderated a panel session on “A Neglected Context: Religion and the City” for the Urban Affairs Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., March 31, 2004.

Lloyd G. Nigro

served as Chair of the Section on Public Administration at the 100th Annual Meeting and National Conference of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, Ill., September 2-5, 2004.

Chris Parker

served as discussant at an inaugural symposium on Public Health Law at Emory University's Law School, Atlanta, Ga., November 2004.

presented "African Americans in America and What’s Working" at Morehouse College’s Holistic Wellness and Healing Conference for African Americans: Conventional and Complementary Approaches for Optimum Health, Atlanta, Ga., September 2004.

Ragan Petrie

served as a discussant in the session “Beauty” and presented “Beauty, Gender and Stereotypes: Evidence from Laboratory Experiments” at the Allied Social Science Association Meetings, San Diego, Calif., January 3-5, 2004.

presented “Trusting Appearances and Reciprocating Looks: Experimental Evidence on Gender and Race Preferences” at Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, Va., February 2004, and at the Allied Social Science Association Meetings, San Diego, Calif., January 3-5, 2004.

presented “Social Context to Decision Making” at the Roundtable for Atlanta-Area Experimentalists, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Ga., October 1, 2004.

presented “An Economic Response to Drought: Experience from Georgia” at Emory University, Environmental Studies Seminar Series, Atlanta, Ga., September 30, 2004.

presented "Revealing Preferences for Fairness in Ultimatum Bargaining” at the 74th Annual Southern Economic Association Meeting, New Orleans, La., November 21-23, 2004, and at the North American Regional Meeting of the Economic Science Association, Tucson, Ariz., November 4-7, 2004.

Theodore H. Poister

presented “Strategic Management in State Transportation Departments” at the annual conference of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., January 12, 2004.

presented “Ride Quality Thresholds from the Motorists’ Perspective” at the annual meeting of the American Society for Public Administration, Portland, Ore., March 29, 2004, and was invited to present it at the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials’ Standing Committee on Quality, Santa Fe, N.M., April 14, 2004.

was invited to present “Performance Measurement in Transportation: State of the Practice” to the Second Annual National Conference on Performance Measurement, sponsored by the Transportation Research Board, Irvine, Calif., August 22, 2004.

see also Christine H. Roch.

Bentley D. Ponder

presented “Empirical Indicators of Social Capital and/or their Validity in Predicting School Success” at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, Calif., August 14-17, 2004.

presented "Talking With the Parents: Use of Qualitative Methods in Understanding High-Risk Children's Environments” at the American Evaluation Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, Ga., November 3-6, 2004.

Inas Rashad

presented “Fast Food Advertising on Television and Its Influence on Childhood Obesity” at the Eastern Economics Association Conference, Washington, D.C., February 20-24, 2004; at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Conference, Atlanta, Ga., October 28-30, 2004; and at the 74th Annual Southern Economic Association Meeting, New Orleans, La., November 21-23, 2004.

served as a discussant for the session “Industrial Organization and Health Care Markets” at the 74th Annual Southern Economic Association Meeting, New Orleans, La., November 21-23, 2004.

Dana K. Rickman

presented “Comparing Universal and Targeted Policies: The Quality and Outcomes of Alternative Early Education Policies” at the 26th Annual Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Annual Conference, Atlanta, Ga., October 28-30, 2004.

presented “For the Many or for the Few: Comparing the Effects of Universal and Targeted Programs on Child Outcomes” and “How Parents View Success for Their Children: A Q-Sort Analysis” (with Craig S. Gordon) at the American Evaluation Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, Ga., November 3-6, 2004.

see also Gary T. Henry.

Felix Rioja

presented “Populist Budgets and Long Run Growth” (with Gerhard Glomm) at the World Bank, Washington, D.C., July 2004.

Christine Roch

presented “Understanding the Adoption and Innovation of State Education Finance Reform: Changing Information and Interaction Between Courts and Legislatures” (with Robert Howard) at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans, La., January 8-10, 2004.

presented “Using Citizens' Judgments as an Accountability Mechanism in Democratic Governance: Considering Perceptions of Personal and Collective Experience” and served as discussant on “Schools: Choices, Charters, and Children” and “We Built this City” at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Ill., April 15-18, 2004.

presented “Citizens, Accountability, and Service Satisfaction: The Influence of Expectations” (with Theodore H. Poister) at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, Ill., September 2-5, 2004.

Michael Rushton

served as participant in a symposium on “Economic Impact of the Arts”, organized by the Cultural Policy Center of the University of Chicago, Pocantico, N.Y., May 12-14, 2004.

presented “Who Supports Increased Public Spending on Culture? Evidence from a Referendum in Metropolitan Detroit” at the Association for Cultural Economics International Biennial Conference, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Ill., June 3-5, 2004.

served as Chair of the session “Creating Evidence on the Connections Between the Location of Social Service Provision and Low-Income Populations” at the 26th Annual Association for Public Policy and Management Annual Conference, Atlanta, Ga., October 28-30, 2004.

presented “Government Contracting with Faith-based Providers: An Economic Perspective” at the Association for Research in Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Activity Annual Conference, Los Angeles, Calif., November 18-20, 2004.

Bruce A. Seaman

presented “The Supply Constraint Problem in Economic Impact Studies: A Sports-Arts Disparity” at the Conference on Economic Impact Studies, sponsored by the Culture Policy Center of the University of Chicago, Tarrytown, N.Y., May 12-14, 2004.

served as discussant and assisted in the organization of the Biennial International Conference of the Association for Cultural Economics, International, Chicago, Ill., June 2-5, 2004.

served as Keynote Speaker on “The Economics of Tobacco Taxation” at the Annual Meeting of the Federation of Tax Administrators, Tobacco Division, Newport, R.I., August 30, 2004.

presented “The Economics of Super Bowls” as part of a panel sponsored by the Jacksonville Business Chronicle, Jacksonville, Fla., October 26, 2004.

Sally Siewert

presented on “Building Effective Employer Relationships” at the New Hampshire Vocational Rehabilitation State Conference, Watersville Valley, N.H., June 3, 2004.

served as a panelist for “Designing a National Vocational Rehabilitation Business Network” and co-presented “Databases that Track Employer Development” at the Employment and Disability 2004 National Conference, Washington, D.C., August 16, 2004.

David L. Sjoquist

presented "Initial Results of a HOPE VI Evaluation" at the 26th Annual Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Research Conference, Atlanta, Ga., October 28-30, 2004.

see also Sally Wallace.

Tina Anderson Smith

presented at the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Rural Health Policy, Conference on National Technical Assistance Centers, Rockville, Md., September 2004.

see also Karen Minyard.

Charlotte Steeh

presented “Changes in Telephone Methodology” at the Washington, D.C. Chapter of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Washington, D.C., March 17, 2004.

presented “A New Era for Telephone Surveys” and “Is It the Young and the Restless Who Only Use Cellular Phones?” at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Phoenix, Ariz., May 13-16, 2004.

presented “Cellular Telephones: The Salvation of Telephone Surveys?” at the International Field Directors and Technologies Conference, Scottsdale, Ariz., May 17, 2004.

presented “Do Cellular Telephone Interviews Provide Quality Data?” at the Federal Committee on Statistical Methods Seminar, Washington, D.C., June 21, 2004.

Paula E. Stephan

attended the American Economic Association Meetings, San Diego, Calif., January 3-5, 2004.

presented “The Growing Postdoctorate Population at U.S. Universities” at the 3 R’s Conference, TIAA-CREF Institute, New York, N.Y., April 1-2, 2004.

attended the National Bureau of Economic Research Higher Education Conference, Cambridge, Mass., April 30, 2004.

chaired a session at the Science, Engineering and Workforce Project, National Bureau of Economic Research, Washington, D.C., May 2004.

presented ”Unpacking the Demographic Data: Factors Contributing to the Increasing Age of First Grant” at the National Research Council Bridges to Independence Meeting, National Academies of Science, Washington, D.C., June 16, 2004.

presented “Adding Salary Data to the SED” at the National Science Foundation’s Salary Panel Meeting for the Survey of Earned Doctorates, Arlington, Va., July 16, 2004.

presented “Retention and Recruitment of Women and Minorities in the IT Workforce” at Bringing Women and Minorities into the IT Workforce: The Role of Nontraditional Educational Pathways, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C., July 21, 2004.

presented “Early Careers of Life Scientists” at the National Research Council Board on Higher Education and Workforce Board Meeting, Washington, D.C., July 29, 2004.

attended the Technology Transfer Society (T2S) Annual Conference on Emerging Issues in Technology Transfer, Albany, N.Y., September 29-30, 2004.

served as discussant for the session “Evaluating U.S. Science Centers” at the 26th Annual Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Annual Conference, Atlanta, Ga., October 28-30, 2004.

served as discussant on “Defying Distance” at the Roundtable for Engineering Entrepreneurship Research, College of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga., December 4, 2004.

Laura O. Taylor

presented “Altruism Spillovers: Can Behavior in the Laboratory Predict Altruism Towards Naturally Occurring Public Goods?” at the American Economics Association Annual Meetings, San Diego, Calif., January 3-5, 2004.

presented “Labor Market Reactions to Risk: Does the Source of Risk Matter?” at Syracuse University, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse, N.Y., February 19, 2004.

presented “Labor Market Reactions to Risk: Does the Source of Risk Matter?” at the University of Tennessee, Department of Economics Seminar Series, Knoxville, Tenn., March 2004.

Erdal Tekin

attended the Spring Health Economics Meetings, Spring Labor Economics Meetings, and the Summer Institute of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Mass., March, April, and July 26-29, 2004.

presented “Guns, Drugs, and Juvenile Crime: Evidence from a Panel of Siblings and Twins” at the 9th Annual Society of Labor Economics Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, April 30-May 1, 2004, and “Guns and Juvenile Crime” at the 26th Annual Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Annual Conference, Atlanta, Ga., October 28-30, 2004.

presented “Single Mothers Working at Night: Child Care Subsidies and Standard Employment with Implications for Welfare Reform” at the 74th Annual Southern Economic Association Meeting, New Orleans, La., November 21-23, 2004, and at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Meetings, Atlanta, Ga., October 28-30, 2004.

served as discussant at the 74th Annual Southern Economic Association Meeting, New Orleans, La., November 21-23, 2004.

John Clayton Thomas

organized and chaired the panel “Deliberative Processes and Public Participation in Public Administration” and presented “Rethinking Public Involvement in Administrative Decision Making: A Proposal to Test a New Theory” at the National Conference of the American Society for Public Administration, Portland, Ore., March 28-30, 2004.

Andrey Timofeev

presented “An Assessment of the Recent Sub-Federal Fiscal Reforms in the Russian Federation” (with Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Jameson Boex) at the 97th Annual Conference on Taxation, Minneapolis, Minn., November 11, 2004.

Geoffrey K. Turnbull

presented “Spatial Competition and Shopping Externalities: Evidence from the Housing Market” (with Jonathan Dombrow) at the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association Conference, San Diego, Calif., January 5, 2004.

Mary Beth Walker

presented “Panel Data Evidence on State Variations in Public Spending on Education” at the Department of Economics, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, Lincoln, Neb., March 2004.

attended the 11th International Panel Data Conference, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, June 4-6, 2004.

presented "Testing for Spatial Correlation in Panel Data Models" at the 74th Annual Southern Economic Association Meeting, New Orleans, La., November 21-23, 2004.

Sally Wallace

presented "Who Moved My Corporate Income Tax" (with David L. Sjoquist, Gary Cornia and Kelly Edmiston) at the Spring Symposium of the National Tax Association, Washington, D.C., May 21, 2004.

see also James Alm.

see also Roy Bahl.

William L. Waugh, Jr.

presented “Building a Seamless Homeland Security: The Cultural Interoperability Problem” at the National Conference of the American Society for Public Administration, Portland, Ore., March 28-30, 2004.

presented “Professional Education for Homeland Security Managers and Policymakers” at The National Academies/Department of Homeland Security Workshop on Educational Paradigms for Homeland Security, Washington, D.C., April 26, 2004.

presented “Disaster Research: Theory Building and Conceptualization in Public Administration” at the Disaster Research and the Social Sciences: Lessons Learned and Future Trajectories (NSF) Conference and 40th Anniversary of the Disaster Research Center, University of Delaware, Newark, Del., April 29-May 1, 2004.

presented “Professional Development Opportunities in Emergency Management” (with David Casto) and “Emergency Management Standards & Accreditation: What’s In It For You?” (with Emily DeMers) at the Florida Governor’s Hurricane Conference, Tampa, Fla., May 25-28, 2004.

presented “The Future Emergency Manager: Déjà Vu All Over Again?” and “Homeland Security and Emergency Management” at the 7th Annual Federal Emergency Management Agency Higher Education Conference, National Emergency Training Center, Emmitsburg, Md., June 8-10, 2004.

presented “Terrorism and the All-Hazards Model” at the Industry IDS, Inc., Emergency Management On-Line Conference, June 28-July 16, 2004.

was a plenary speaker and panelist on “Hazards and Disasters in a Homeland Security Environment: Consequences of Federal Level Changes” and presented “The National Response Plan: Implications for the Emergency Management Community” at the 29th Annual Natural Hazards Workshop, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo., July 11-14, 2004.

was the conference keynote speaker on “Emergency Management Standards and Accreditation” at the Virginia Emergency Management Association Conference on Accreditation, Certification, and Other Professional Standards, Richmond, Va., August 11-13, 2004.

delivered the DeBlois Lecture on “The Future of Homeland Security” at the College of Urban and Public Affairs, University of New Orleans, La., October 21, 2004.

Katherine G. Willoughby

presented “Public Budgeting and Business Practice: The Case of Charlotte, North Carolina” at the 16th Annual Conference of the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management, Chicago, Ill., October 7-9, 2004.

Yongsheng Xu

presented “Rationalizability of Choice Functions by Game Trees” at the Department of Economics, Tulane University, New Orleans, La., October 29, 2004, and at the Department of Economics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, November 12, 2004.


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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