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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