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Invitations to Present or Write Papers in CY2005
at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies

James Alm

has been invited to present a paper (with Edward Sennoga* and Mark Skidmore) at the Allied Social Science Associations meetings in Philadelphia, Penn., January 7-9, 2005.

Roy Bahl

has been invited to present on intergovernmental fiscal relations at a conference in Cairo, Egypt, January 31-February 3, 2005.

has been invited (with Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Mark Rider) to participate in a seminar on fiscal decentralization in Delhi, India, February 2005.

Paul G. Farnham

has been asked by the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to develop a white paper, “The Case for Business Involvement in HIV Prevention.”

and Angela Hutchinson** (with Don Ekwueme, Hazel Dean, and Scott Kellerman) submitted the proposal, “The Economic Burden of HIV/AIDS in Racial and Ethnic Minority Communities,” to be presented at the annual meeting of the International Health Economics Association, July 2005.

Paul J. Ferraro

and Ragan Petrie have been invited to write “Experimental Approaches to Studying Inter-Ethnic and Inter-Racial Effects on Economic Behavior” for the Southern Economic Journal.

has been invited to make a presentation at the International Workshop on Payments for Environmental Services (PES) – Methods and design in developing and developed countries, hosted by the Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn and Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia, July 2005.

has been invited to speak on his research to the Skyline Civitan organization, Atlanta, Ga., January 2005.

has been invited to present “Direct Payments for Sea Turtle Conservation” at the 25th Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation, Savannah, Ga., January 16-22, 2005.

has been invited to present “Know Thyself: Incompetence and Overconfidence” at the Department of Economics in Emory University, Atlanta, Ga., February 6, 2005.

Shelby Frost

has been invited to present “Economics All Around Us: Student Submissions of Economic Concepts in the Media” in the session “Teaching & Learning Economics from the Popular Media” at the Association of Private Enterprise Education meeting, Orlando, Fla., April 2005.

Amy Helling

has been invited to present “The Food Sector and Local Economic Development in the U.S.” at the national conference of the American Planning Association, San Francisco, Calif., March 2005.

Gary T. Henry

has been invited to present the keynote lecture on "Toward an Evidence-based Practice of Evaluation: Building Better Evaluation for Governance and Democracy" at the Annual Meeting of the Danish Evaluation Society, Denmark, September 7-10, 2005.

Julie L. Hotchkiss

has been invited to present "Smoking and Wage for Older Female Workers" (with Brian S. Armour and M. Melinda Pitts) at the Eastern Economic Association Meeting, New York, N.Y., March 2005.

has been invited to present "Employment and Earnings on the Technology Roller Coaster: Insight from State Administrative Data" (with M. Melinda Pitts and John C. Robertson) at the Eastern Economic Association Meeting, New York, N.Y., March 2005; and at the American Economic Association Meetings, Philadelphia, Penn., January 2005.

Susan K. Laury

has been invited to work on the project “Developing and Testing the Role of Salinity and Other Market-Based Instruments to Improve Agricultural and Environmental Outcomes in the Face of Climatic Variability,” Adelaide, Australia, May-June 2005.

see also Ragan Petrie.

Gregory B. Lewis

has been invited to present "Moral Condemnation of Homosexuality and Opposition to Same-Sex Marriage" at the Southern Political Science Association meeting, New Orleans, La., January 7, 2005.

Deon Locklin

was invited to serve as an Institute on Rehabilitation Issues (IRI) Scholar in 2005, to write a monograph on the topic of “Leading and Managing Change in the Public Vocational Rehabilitation Program.”

Jorge Martinez-Vazquez

See Roy Bahl.

See Andrey Timofeev.

Robert E. Moore

has been invited to present "International Trade and Economic Development: Can Foreign Direct Investment Be Predicted?" (with Bruce A. Seaman) at the Eastern Economic Association Meeting, New York, N.Y., March 2005.

Ragan Petrie

has been invited to present “Trusting Appearances and Reciprocating Looks: Experimental Evidence on Gender and Race Preferences” at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt., April 2005.

has been invited to submit a paper on charitable contributions (with Susan K. Laury) to an edited volume of Research in Experimental Economics.

see also Paul J. Ferraro.

Theodore H. Poister

has been invited to prepare a chapter on “Strategic Planning and Management” to be included in the Handbook on Transportation Policy, Jeremy Plant (ed.), Marcel Dekker, Inc.

Inas Rashad

has been invited to present “Obesity and Depression” and “Are We Paying Too Little for Sugar and Its Substitutes? The Role of Price in Preventing Diabetes” at the Eastern Economics Association Conference, New York, N.Y., March 2005.

has been invited to present “Urban Sprawl’s Effect on Obesity and Cancer in Georgia” at the Emerging Issues Along Urban/Rural Interfaces: Linking Science and Society Conference, Atlanta, Ga., March 2005.

has been invited to present “Fast Food Advertising and Its Influence on Childhood Obesity” at the International Health Economics Association Conference, Barcelona, Spain, July 2005.

Mark Rider

has been invited to present “A Review and Critique of Official Distributional Tables” (with Luc Noiset) at the Association of Private Enterprise Education meeting, January 2005.

see also Roy Bahl.

Felix Rioja

has been invited to give a seminar at the University of Georgia in fall 2005.

see also Neven Valev.

Christine H. Roch

See Michael Rushton.

Michael Rushton

has been invited to present “Government Financing of Nonprofit Activities” (with Arthur Brooks) at the symposium “A Comprehensive Approach to Nonprofit Finance: Practical Principles derived from Theory,” National Center on Nonprofit Enterprise, Cleveland, Ohio, January 14-15, 2005.

and Christine H. Roch have been invited to present “Social Networks and Voting over Taxes: Evidence from a Referendum in Alabama” at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Ill., April 7-10, 2005.

Bruce A. Seaman

has been invited to present a paper on arts economics, Bogotá, Colombia, February 2005.

see also Robert E. Moore.

David L. Sjoquist

has been invited to present “Patterns of Change in Private Schools in Georgia" (with Mary Beth Walker) at the 30th Annual Conference of the American Education Finance Association, Louisville, Ky., March 17-19, 2005.

has been invited to present “A Perspective on the Multistate Tax Commission" (with Bart Hildreth and Matt Murray) at the NTA Spring Symposium, Washington, D.C., May 19-20, 2005.

Charlotte Steeh

has been invited to present “Data Quality in Cellular Surveys” at the Second Cell Phone Summit hosted by Nielsen Media Research, New York City, N.Y., February 3-4, 2005. 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.

has been invited to write “Telephone Surveys in the Twenty-first Century,” Chapter 12 in The International Handbook of Survey Methodology, Joop Hox, Edith de Leeuw, and Don Dillman (eds.).

has been invited to present “Accommodating New Technologies: The Way to Rejuvenate Telephone Surveys?” and to write a monograph chapter for the 2nd International Conference on Telephone Survey Methodology, January 2006.

Paula E. Stephan

has been invited to present at the European Forum on the role of Universities in Innovation Systems, held at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, May 5, 2005.

has been invited to present at the First World Conference on the Future of Science, sponsored by the Umberto Veronesi Foundation, Venice, Italy, September 21-23, 2005.

has been invited to serve as a discussant at the “Academic Science and Entrepreneurship: Dual Engines of Growth?” conference sponsored by National Bureau of Economic Research, Sante Fe, N.M., April 1-2, 2005.

has been invited to present “Leaving Careers in IT: Differences in Retention by Gender and Minority" at the Science and Engineering Workforce Project, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Mass., January 14, 2005.

has been invited to present “The Growing Postdoctorate Population at U.S. Universities” at the American Economic Association meetings, Philadelphia, Penn., January 2005.

has been invited to visit Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, March-May 2005.

Erdal Tekin

has been invited to attend the Spring Meetings of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Mass., April 2005.

Andrey Timofeev

has been invited to present "Regional-Local Dimension of the Federal Equalization Policy in Russia" (with Jorge Martinez-Vazquez) at the Western Social Science Association Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, N.M., April 13-16, 2005.

Geoffrey K. Turnbull

has been invited to present “Price Formation under Small Numbers Competition: Evidence from Singapore Land Auctions” (with Joseph T. L. Ooi and C. F. Sirmans) at the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association meetings, Philadelphia, Penn., January 8, 2005.

Neven Valev

has been invited to present two papers, “Tolerance for High Unemployment during Transition” and “Financial Structure and the Sources of Economic Growth,” at the Eastern Economic Association Conference, New York, N.Y., March 2005.

and Felix Rioja have been invited to write a chapter in a book, to be published by the Fiscal Research Center, on the effects of the growing Hispanic population in Georgia, 2005.

Mary Beth Walker

has been invited to present “Factors Affecting Agglomeration in Computer Software: Spatial Estimation at the U.S. Metro County Level" (with Penelope Prime and Don Grimes) at the Eastern Economic Association meetings, New York, N.Y., March 2005.

see also David L. Sjoquist.

William L. Waugh, Jr.

has been invited to write a chapter on “New Dimensions: Terror as Disaster” for the Handbook of Disaster Research, Havidan Rodriguez, E.L. Quarantelli and Russell R. Dynes (eds.), Springer-Verlag, forthcoming.

has been invited to deliver a lecture on “The Challenges of Homeland Security” at the Security, Terrorism, and Governance Seminar at the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, January 2005.

has been invited to write a chapter on “Incident Management in a Network Environment” for a book on Security, Terrorism and Governance: A Nexus for New Thinking, forthcoming.

has been invited to lead a session on Homeland Security education at the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Annual Higher Education Conference held at the National Emergency Training Center, Emmitsburg, Md., June 9-11, 2005.

Katherine G. Willoughby

has been invited to contribute a chapter on state government revenues and gubernatorial agendas in The Book of the States 2005, published by the Council of State Governments.

Yongsheng Xu

has been invited to present at a session on Novel Approaches to Welfare Economics and Measurement, Allied Social Sciences Associations meetings, Philadelphia, Penn., January 7-9, 2005.

 

 

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