Graduate Student Activities
at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies

Our graduate students were professionally active in 2005, earning an early start on their policy analysis careers with a record number of activities. Jointly with faculty and on their own, they have published or have had accepted 34 scholarly papers and have another 12 under review. They presented 63 papers at professional conferences. For Ph.D.'s awarded, see the academic, degrees section of this report.

Scholarly Activities

Vid Adrison (Ph.D. in Economics)

presented “Big-Bang Decentralization in Indonesia” at the Decentralization and Local Governance Seminar during the Fiscal Policy Summer Training, Atlanta, Ga., July 22, 2005.

Kwaw Andam (Joint Ph.D. in Public Policy)

(with Paul J. Ferraro). "The Impact of Race on the Use of Retirement Plans by Married Women," Journal of Women and Aging, under review.

Bulent Anil (Ph.D. in Economics)

has been invited to present "Differences in Public Support for Tobacco-free Policies between Native and Immigrant Population in the United States" (with Nevbahar Ertas) at the 77th Annual Southern Political Science Association (SPSA) Conference, Atlanta, Ga., January 5-7, 2006.

Shena R. Ashley (Joint Ph.D. in Public Policy)

served as Guest Lecturer on Benefit-Cost Analysis in an undergraduate course in Environmental Policy at Emory University, Spring 2005.

worked as a Research Consultant with the Schapiro Research Group, an Atlanta-based research firm, conducting interviews and focus groups for qualitative studies throughout 2005. Projects included an African Americans in Philanthropy Phase II study and Fulton County Public Schools innovative school idea project.

worked as a Strategic Planning Consultant to The Study Hall at Emmaus House, leading Strategic Planning workshops and producing a report, Summer 2005.

worked as a consultant to the USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service to analyze the impact of water quality on real estate prices in the Detroit Lakes, Minn., region.

presented "Minority Trust in Nonprofit Organizations" at the AYSPS Speakers Series, Atlanta, Ga., March 18, 2005.

presented "Findings from African American Philanthropy Study (Phase II)," Atlanta, Ga., June 7, 2005.

served as Guest Speaker on the importance of academic excellence and opportunities for college scholarships at the Brownwood Recreation Center, Summer Youth Program, Atlanta, Ga., July 12, 2005.

(with Janet Johnson). “The 2005 Metro Atlanta Tri-Jurisdictional Collaborative Homeless Survey Report,” a study of the characteristics, circumstances and needs of Atlanta’s homeless population, based on a questionnaire administered to 800 homeless adults, conducted for Pathways Community Network, October 2005.

presented "Bridging the Gap Between the 'I' and 'We' in Focus Groups" (with Monica Oliver) at the American Evaluation Association Annual Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 2005.

presented "Findings From 2005 Metro Atlanta Homeless Survey" (with Janet Johnson) at the Symposium on Homelessness, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Ga., November 2, 2005.

presented "Philanthropy in the Knowledge Economy: The Incubation of Intellectual Ideas" (with David M. Van Slyke) at the 34th Annual Conference of the Association for Research in Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Activity (ARNOVA), Washington, D.C., November 16-19, 2005.

served as Discussant on Methodological Approaches to Measuring Tax Data at the 34th Annual Conference of the Association for Research in Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Activity (ARNOVA), Washington, D.C., November 16-19, 2005.

earned the 2005 ARNOVA Travel Award.

earned the 2005 Diversity in Academia Workshop Attendance Award from the National Association of Schools of Public Administration and Affairs.

Peter Bluestone (Ph.D. in Economics)

(with John Matthews, David L. Sjoquist, William J. Smith, Sally Wallace and Laura Wheeler). "Financing an Increased State Role in Funding K-12 Education: An Analysis of Issues and Options," Fiscal Research Center Report No. 114, September 2005.

"What Georgians are Thinking about Taxes III," Fiscal Research Center Brief No. 105, April 2005.

(with Sally Wallace). "What Georgians are Thinking about Taxes II," Fiscal Research Center Brief No. 104, April 2005.

(with Sally Wallace). "What Georgians are Thinking about Taxes I," Fiscal Research Center Brief No. 101, March 2005. The Fiscal Research Center sponsored telephone surveys of Georgians in the spring of 2003 and in the fall of 2004 to take the pulse of public opinion on a variety of fiscal issues.

presented "Regional Environmental Quality and Metropolitan Statistical Area Government Fragmentation, Some Preliminary Results” at the Georgia State Urban Fellows Meeting, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Ga., November 8, 2005.

Steven Buigut (Ph.D. in Economics)

(and Neven T. Valev). "Eastern and Southern Africa Monetary Union Integration: A Structural Vector Autoregression Analysis," Review of Development Economics, forthcoming.

(and Neven T. Valev). "Is the East Africa Community an Optimal Currency Area? A Structural Vector Autoregression Analysis," World Development, Vol. 33, No. 12, 2005.

presented "Implications of Credibility and Uncertainty for Monetary Union" (with Neven T. Valev) at the 75th Annual Southern Economic Association conference, Washington, D.C., November 18-20, 2005.

presented "Eastern and Southern African Monetary Integration: A Structural VAR Analysis" (with Neven T. Valev) at the 12th International Conference of The Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics on Statistics, Combinatorics, Mathematics, and Applications, Auburn University, Auburn, Ala., December 2-4, 2005.

D. Keith Burns (Joint Ph.D. in Public Policy)

served as a Visiting Instructor at the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, October 2005. This trip was the second in two years and was sponsored by the International Center for Democratic Governance at the University of Georgia (Athens), which provides instructors from American universities to several institutes in the Republic of Georgia and other former Soviet states.

Grace Chikoto (Joint Ph.D. in Public Policy)

(with Carolyn Bourdeaux). “Legislative Influences on Performance Management Reform,” Public Administration Review, revise and resubmit.

Ki-Whan Choi (Ph.D. in Economics)

(with David L. Sjoquist). "An Analysis of Land Value Versus Capital Value Property Tax in Jamaica," chapter in Jamaica Tax Reform Project Report, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, 2005.

presented preliminary results of the dissertation "Economic effects of land value taxation in an urban area with large lot zoning: an urban computable general equilibrium approach" at the Dissertation Fellow Symposium, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, June 6, 2005.

"Survey of literature on land value taxation," The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, $5,000 consultant's fee/grant, October 2005.

Glenda Crunk (MPA)

was awarded the Torch of Peace Award at the 22nd Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Convocation, Atlanta, Ga., January 2005.

Musharraf R. Cyan (Ph.D. in Economics)

(with Douglas J. Porter). "From Central to Local: Removing Constraints on Local Accountability," a study of Pakistan's fiscal decentralization experience, Policy Paper, Asian Development Bank, 2005.

"Fiscal Architecture-A Fetter on New Local Governments in Pakistan?" International Journal of Public Administration, Special Issue on Comparative Asian Public Administration, forthcoming.

Amy DeGroff (Joint Ph.D. in Public Policy)

presented “The Challenges of Performance Measurement in Networked Environments: An Example from Public Health” at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Fall Conference, Washington, D.C., November 3-5, 2005.

presented "The Evaluation Challenges of Performance Measurement in Networked Public Management Contexts: An Example from Public Health" at the American Evaluation Association Annual Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 29, 2005.

co-authored the presentation (with Judith Ottoson, Mark Rivera, Sara Hackley) "Partnerships for Diabetes: The Key to Understanding a Model of Influence" at the American Public Health Association annual conference, Philadelphia, Penn., December 11-14, 2005.

(with Judith Ottoson, Mark Rivera, Sara Hackley, and Cindy Clark). “On the Road to the National Objectives: A Case Study of Diabetes Prevention and Control Programs,” Public Health Management and Practice, revise and resubmit.

received the 2005 AYSPS public policy doctoral student of the year award.

Abel Embaye (Ph.D. in Economics)

(with James Alm). “Apartheid, Country Shocks, and Government Spending in South Africa,” Journal of South African Economics, revise and resubmit.

Nevbahar Ertas (Joint Ph.D. in Public Policy)

(with Christine H. Roch). "The Boundaries of Interpersonal Influence: Opinion Leaders in Private and Local Public Goods Markets," Political Communication, under review.

gave the poster presentation "Public School Responses to Charter School Presence" at the 27th Annual Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Conference, Washington, D.C., November 3-5, 2005.

was awarded a dissertation grant from the American Educational Research Association grants program, which is supported by the National Science Foundation and the National Center for Education Statistics of the Institute of Education Sciences.

has been invited to present "Do Charter Schools Leave the Poor Behind?" and "Differences in Public Support for Tobacco-free Policies between Native and Immigrant Population in the United States" (with Bulent Anil) at the 77th Annual Southern Political Science Association Conference, Atlanta, Ga., January 5-7, 2006.

has been invited to present “The Role of Geography in Charter School Competition” at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Ill., April 20-23, 2006.

Emily Evans (MPA)

(with Katherine Willoughby, Hai David Guo, Katie Sobush, and David Weir). “A Report Card on Government Performance: Grading the States 2005,” Governing Special Issue, February 2005.

C. Kevin Fortner (Joint Ph.D. in Public Policy)

presented regarding data analysis procedures utilized in “Report of the Findings from Georgia’s Third Grade Retention Policy,” a report by Gary T. Henry, Dana K. Rickman, C. Kevin Fortner, and Christopher C. Henrich, to the Georgia General Assembly's House Committee on Education, Atlanta, Ga., March 23, 2005.

(with Gary T. Henry, Dana K. Rickman, and Christopher C. Henrich). “Report of the Findings from Georgia’s Third Grade Retention Policy,” FRC Research Report, September 2005.

presented “The Policy of Enforcement: Red Light Cameras and Law Enforcement Officers” (with Robert J. Eger, III and Catherine P. Slade) at the 27th Annual Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Research Conference, Washington, D.C., November 3-5, 2005.

attended the 27th Annual Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Research Conference, Washington, D.C., November 3-5, 2005.

Sue A. Frank (Joint Ph.D. in Public Policy)

presented “What Can Federal Employees Teach Us About Productivity Improvement?” (with Gregory B. Lewis) at the 101st Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September 1-4, 2005.

Juan Luis Gomez-Reino (Joint Ph.D. in Public Policy)

presented "Effective Fiscal Decentralization in Viet Nam" (with Jorge Martinez-Vazquez) at the 98th Annual Conference on Taxation, National Tax Association, Miami, Fla., November 17-19, 2005.

(with Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Guevera Yao). "Assessment of Fiscal Decentralization in Lao P.D.R.," International Studies Program Working Paper, forthcoming.

Hai David Guo (Joint Ph.D. in Public Policy)

presented “The Policy of Trade-Offs: The Use of Price Index Contracts in Transportation” (with Robert J. Eger III) at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Conference, Washington, D.C., November 3-5, 2005.

presented “Which Are More Efficient: Public Authorities or Municipalities?” (with Robert J. Eger III) at the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., November 10-12, 2005.

(with Robert J. Eger III). “Financing Infrastructure: Fixed Price v. Price Index Contracts,” Journal of Public Procurement, forthcoming.

(with Katherine Willoughby, David Weir, Katie Sobush, and Emily Evans). “A Report Card on Government Performance: Grading the States 2005,” Governing Special Issue, February 2005.

Eunice Heredia-Ortíz (Ph.D. in Economics)

served as a Research Associate with the International Studies Program.

(with Mark Rider). "India’s Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfer System and Fiscal Condition of the States," National Tax Association, Conference on Taxation Proceedings, forthcoming.

(with Jameson Boex, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, Andrey Timofeev and Guevara Yao). “Fighting Poverty through Fiscal Decentralization,” United States Agency for International Development (USAID), working paper.

(with Roy Bahl, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Mark Rider). “India: Fiscal Conditions of the States, International Experience, and Options for Reform,” USAID Report, April 2005.

lectured on "A Review of Concepts and Application for Bangladesh," part of an in-country Training Course on Fiscal Decentralization for government officials in Bangladesh, a one-week training program funded by UNCDF/Bangladesh, April 7-13, 2005.

lectured on “Delivery of Education” at the Annual Fiscal Decentralization Course, International Studies Program, Atlanta, Ga., June 2005.

lectured on "A Review of Concepts and Application for Timor-Leste," part of an in-country Training Course on Fiscal Decentralization for government officials in East Timor, a one-week training program funded by UNCDF/East Timor, October 10-14, 2005.

presented "India’s Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfer System and Fiscal Condition of the States" (with Mark Rider) at the 98th Annual Conference on Taxation, National Tax Association, Miami, Fla., November 17-19, 2005.

Christopher S. Horne (Joint Ph.D. in Public Policy)

serves as Assistant Professor of Public Administration, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Ga.

successfully defended his dissertation "Toward an Understanding of the Revenue of Nonprofit Organizations," November 2005.

(with David M. Van Slyke and Janet Johnson). "Public Support for Government Funding of Faith-Based Organizations and the Potential Impact on Private Giving," International Journal of Public Administration, forthcoming.

(with John Clayton Thomas and David M. Van Slyke). "Public Opinion for Public Managers: The Case of Charitable Choice," Administration and Society, Vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 1-24, 2005.

was awarded the Kennesaw State University Community Based-Learning Award, January 2005.

(with David M. Van Slyke and Janet Johnson). "Do Charitable Donors Know Enough -- and Care Enough -- for Government Subsidies to Affect Private Giving to Nonprofit Organizations?" Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 136-149, 2005, featured in a Stanford Social Innovation Review article, Fall 2005.

presented "Contracting with Nonprofit Organizations: Lessons Learned from the U.S. Experience and Implications for Policy and Management in China" to government officials and students by invitation, Hangzhou, China, May 2005.

presented "Strategic Management Training" to the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice Leadership Training program, Kennesaw State University, A.L. Burruss Institute of Public Service, June 2005.

presented "The Effects of Government Funding on Nonprofit Organizations: Evidence to Inform Policy Design in an Era of 'Third-Party Government'" at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management conference, Washington, D.C., November 3-5, 2005.

presented "'Crowding Out' Debunked: New Evidence and Explanations for a Positive Effect of Government Funding on Charitable Giving" at the 34th Annual Conference of the Association for Research in Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Activity (ARNOVA), Washington, D.C., November 16-19, 2005.

Zhenhua Hu (Joint Ph.D. in Public Policy)

(with Gregory B. Lewis). “Information Technology Workers in the Federal Service: More than a Quiet Crisis?” Review of Public Personnel Administration, Vol. 25, pp. 207-224, September 2005.

Taehyun Jung (Joint Ph.D. in Public Policy)

presented “A Demand-side Analysis of Local E-government in the U.S.” at the RVM-Public Management Conference 2005, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga., March 11, 2005.

presented “Crossing the Chasm Between the Follower and the Innovator: A Case Study of Korea’s Mobile Equipment Manufacturing Industry” at the second PRIME Doctoral Conference, The Freeman Centre, Brighton, U.K., June 20-21, 2005.

attended The Agent 2005 Conference on “Generative Social Processes, Models, and Mechanisms” at the Gleacher Center, Chicago, Ill., October 13-15, 2005.

Margaret Mather Kelly (MPA)

"Meeting the Challenge: Using Policy to Improve Children's Health," American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 95, No. 11, pp. 1904-1909, November 2005.

Jungbu Kim (Joint Ph.D. in Public Policy)

presented “District Fixed Effects on Public Health Expenditure Decisions: Further Exploration of Recent Development in Budgeting Structures” (with Catherine P. Slade) at the Doctoral Speaker Series, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, September 2005, and at the Southeast Conference on Public Administration (SECoPA), Little Rock, Ark., October 5-8, 2005.

presented “Determining Factors in State Tax Incentives for Businesses” (with Wenbin Xiao) at the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., November 10-12, 2005.

presented “Impacts do Matter for Public Policy Decision: 'Impact Estimation Calculators' for Public Health Expenditures" (with Robert J. Eger III and Catherine P. Slade) at the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., November 10-12, 2005.

presented “Local Public Health Budgeting and Performance Measurement: Structuring a Framework to Promote Flexibility and Accountability” (with Valerie A. Hepburn, Robert J. Eger III, and Catherine P. Slade) at the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., November 10-12, 2005.

Ikuho Kochi (Ph.D. in Economics)

received a Georgia State University Dissertation Grant.

was selected to participate at Graduate Workshop in Experimental Economics at George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.

Jason P. Lee (MPA)

(with Gregory Streib, Katherine Willoughby, and Samira Outler). “Identity Theft and Georgia Citizens: Threats Posed and Possible Solutions,” report prepared for the Georgia Governor’s Office of Consumer Affairs, December 19, 2005.

John Matthews (Joint Ph.D. in Public Policy)

(with Carolyn Bourdeaux). “Georgia’s Redevelopment Powers Law: A Guide to the Evaluation and Use of Tax Allocation Districts,” State Tax Notes [special report], December 12, 2005.

(with Geoffrey K. Turnbull). “Neighborhood Street Layout and Property Value: The Interaction of Accessibility and Land Use Mix,” Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, under review.

Abdu Muwonge (Ph.D. in Economics)

serves as a Research Intern with the National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS), Uganda, September 2005-April 2006.

served as Rapporteur with the African Development Bank (AfDB)/Government of Uganda Operational Workshop with Project Implementation Units (PIUs) of AfDB-Funded Public Sector Operations in Jinja, Uganda, October 2005.

received a Dissertation Travel Grant from the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University.

received a Dissertation Award for $8,400 under the Competitive Grants Program of the Strategies and Analysis for Growth and Access (SAGA) project. SAGA is a project of Cornell and Clark-Atlanta universities for research and technical assistance in Africa, funded by a cooperation agreement with USAID.

was the recipient of the 2005 Dan E. Sweat Dissertation Fellowship ($5,000).

Ignacio Navarro (Joint Ph.D. in Public Policy)

(with Gregory Streib). “Citizen Demand for Interactive E-Government: The Case of Georgia Consumer Services,” American Review of Public Administration, forthcoming.

(with Mark Rivera and Gregory Streib). “Performance on the ICMA Applied Knowledge Assessment: Trends and Patterns,” The Municipal Yearbook 2005, Washington, D.C.: ICMA, pp. 34-40, 2005.

has been invited to present "Representative Bureaucracy and Organizational Performance: the Link Between Representative Bureaucracy and the Use of Policy Tools" (with Christine Roch) at the 64th Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Ill., April 20-23, 2006.

worked as a Research Assistant with the Georgia Department of Education in the Policy and Research division from August 2004-2005.

worked as a Research Assistant with the Federal Reserve Bank (Atlanta) in the Research Department, Latin America and Regional Group, since September 2005.

earned his Master's of Arts in Economics from the Andrew Young School in 2005.

Seong Soo Oh (Joint Ph.D. in Public Policy)

presented “How Valuable is the MPA? New Evidence from the Federal Civil Service” (with Gregory B. Lewis) at the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., October 13-15, 2005.

Monica Oliver (Joint Ph.D. in Public Policy)

presented "Making Markets Work for the Poor" as an invited speaker for the Innovations in Economic Development Speaker Series, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga., March 15, 2005.

received Best Poster award for Ivan Allen College, Graduate Research Symposium, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga., April 2005.

gave a poster presentation on "More Than Bean Counting: NGOs in the World Coffee Market" at the Graduate Research Symposium, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga., April 8, 2005.

presented "Evaluation for Multiple Stakeholders in International Development: Lessons Learned from CARE" at the American Evaluation Association Annual Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 29, 2005.

presented "Bridging the Gap Between the 'I' and 'We' in Focus Groups" (with Shena Ashley) at the American Evaluation Association Annual Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 29, 2005.

attended the "Summit for a Healthy Georgia," a Georgia Department of Human Resources Division of Public Health conference, Atlanta, Ga., November 2005.

gave the poster presentation "An Evaluation of Remembering When: A Fire and Fall Prevention Program for Older Adults" (with Judith Ottoson and Mark Rivera) at the American Public Health Association annual conference, Philadelphia, Penn., December 11-14, 2005.

has been invited to present "NGOs in the World Coffee Market" at the Southern Political Science Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, Ga., January 5, 2006.

served as a reviewer for Public Policy, a forthcoming textbook from AB/Longman.

served as a Community Accountability Board Member with the Balanced and Restorative Justice Program in Newton County, Ga.

Gonzalo Ordoñez-Matamoros (Joint Ph.D. in Public Policy)

presented the paper "Impact of International Research Collaboration on the Quality of Research Output in Colombia” at the Harvard-MIT Colombian Colloquium - First STI Colombia Conference: Science, Technology and Innovation in Colombia, Cambridge, Mass., November 18-19, 2005.

Monica Ospina (Ph.D. in Economics)

presented "The Effectiveness of Listing Under the U.S. Endangered Species Act: An econometric analysis using matching methods" (with Paul Ferraro) as part of the Environmental/ Experimental Economics Seminar series, Atlanta, Ga., September 2, 2005.

coauthored (with Paul Ferraro) the paper on "The Effectiveness of Listing Under the U.S. Endangered Species Act: An econometric analysis using matching methods," presented at the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Workshop on Natural Resources at Risk, Grand Teton National Park, Wyo., June 12-14, 2005, at the Audubon Society, Atlanta, Ga., August 2005, and at the 8th Occasional California Workshop on Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, University of California-Santa Barbaras Bren School, Santa Barbara, Calif., October 28-29, 2005.

(with Craig McIntosh and Paul Ferraro). "The Effectiveness of Listing Under the U.S. Endangered Species Act: An Econometric Analysis Using Matching Methods," Science, under review.

Samira Charepoo Outler (MPA)

(with Gregory Streib, Katherine Willoughby, and Jason P. Lee). “Identity Theft and Georgia Citizens: Threats Posed and Possible Solutions,” report prepared for the Georgia Governor’s Office of Consumer Affairs, December 19, 2005.

Hyun Jung Park (Joint Ph.D. in Public Policy)

received a Georgia State University Dissertation Grant.

presented "A Study on the Factors that Determine Water Losses” at the post section of the American Water Works Association Annual Conference & Exposition, San Francisco, Calif., June 12-16, 2005, and at the GW&PCA Annual Conference, Savannah, Ga., July 17-20, 2005.

Olga Pavlova (Ph.D. in Economics)

"The Impact of 9/11 on Hours of Work in the U.S.," Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Working Paper #2004-16a, September 2004, Social Science Quarterly, under review.

Angye Rincon-Castillos (MPA)

presented “Sex, Neglect, and Abuse: The Probability of Reunification for Georgia’s Foster Youth” (with Amanda Wilsker and Tammy Wilsker) at the Child Policy Symposium, Clayton College and State University, Morrow, Ga., September 30, 2005.

Eric Sarpong (Ph.D. in Economics)

presented "Alcohol Consumption and Retirement Outcomes: Evidence From the Health and Retirement Survey" at the 75th Annual Southern Economic Association Conference, Washington, D.C., November 18-20, 2005.

Edward B. Sennoga (Ph.D. in Economics)

(with James Alm and Mark Skidmore). “Perfect Competition, Spatial Competition, and Tax Incidence in the Retail Gasoline Market,” Economic Inquiry, under review.

presented "Who Pays the Gasoline Tax?" (with James Alm and Mark Skidmore) at the Allied Social Science Associations meeting, Philadelphia, Penn., January 7-9, 2005.

presented “The Pre-and Post-Recession U.S. Southeast Economy” at the Fourth Biannual Economic Forecasting Center Sponsor Seminar, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Ga., April 13, 2005.

presented “Perfect Competition, Spatial Competition, and Tax Incidence in the Retail Gasoline Market” (with James Alm and Mark Skidmore) at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Knoxville, Tenn., September 2005, and at University of Oklahoma, Norman, Okla., October 28, 2005.

presented “Who Benefits from Tax Evasion? The Incidence of Tax Evasion” at the 75th Annual Southern Economic Association Conference, Washington, D.C., November 18-20, 2005.

received the 2005 Andrew Young School of Policy Studies Department of Economics Travel Grant.

received the 2005 AYSPS Excellence in Teaching Economics award.

Catherine P. Slade (Joint Ph.D. in Public Policy)

presented “District Fixed Effects on Public Health Expenditure Decisions: Initial Exploration of Recent Development in Budget Decisions Structures” (with Robert J. Eger III and Jungbu Kim) at the Southeast Conference on Public Administration, Little Rock, Ark., October 5-8, 2005.

presented “The Policy of Enforcement: Red Light Cameras and Law Enforcement Officers” (with Robert J. Eger III and C. Kevin Fortner) at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Conference, Washington, D.C., November 3-5, 2005.

presented “Impacts do Matter for Public Policy Decisions: 'Impact Estimation Calculators' for Public Health Expenditures and An Analysis of State Public Health Expenditures: Focusing on the Linkages of Georgia’s Program Expenditures to Direct/Population Health Services” (with Robert J. Eger III and Jungbu Kim) at the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management conference, Washington, D.C., November 10-12, 2005.

presented “District Fixed Effects on Public Health Expenditure Decisions: Initial Exploration of Recent Development in Budget Decisions Structures” (with Robert J. Eger III, Valerie Hepburn and Jungbu Kim) at the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management conference, Washington, D.C., November 10-12, 2005.

taught PAUS 4031, Undergraduate Public Policy Research Methods II, in Summer and Fall semesters in 2005.

R. Brian Smith (MA in Economics)

(with William L. Waugh). “Economic Development and Reconstruction on the Gulf After Katrina,” Economic Development Quarterly, forthcoming.

Katie Sobush (MPA)

(with Katherine Willoughby, Hai David Guo, David Weir, and Emily Evans). “A Report Card on Government Performance: Grading the States 2005,” Governing Special Issue, February 2005.

Zeynep E. Tanyildiz (Joint Ph.D. in Public Policy)

was admitted to the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) Research Participation Programs at the Centers for Disease Control, administered by ORISE.

(with Valerie Rock and Jennifer Bombard from CDC). “Sustaining State Programs for Tobacco Control Data Highlights 2006,” CDC publication, forthcoming.

Angelino Viceisza (Ph.D. in Economics)

(with Ragan Petrie and Geoffrey Turnbull). ECON 8120 Lectures and Exercises in Microeconomics, forthcoming.

(with Glenn M. Landers, Clare Richie, David Sjoquist and Sally Wallace). "Georgia’s Aging Population: What to Expect and How to Cope?" FRC Report/Brief No. 116, Georgia Healthcare Foundation, October 2005.

participated in the "Experimental Finance: Individuals, Firms, and Financial Institutions" seminar organized by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, September 22-23, 2005.

participated in the "Housing, Mortgage Finance and the Macroeconomy" seminar organized by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, May 19-20, 2005.

served as Graduate Teaching Assistant, ECON 8730 Econometrics I: Statistical Foundations and ECON 8120 Optimization and Partial Equilibrium Analysis, Georgia State University.

earned his Master's of Arts in Economics from the Andrew Young School in 2005.

Wesley W. Waugh (Joint Ph.D. in Public Policy)

(with William L. Waugh, Jr.). “Phenomenology and Public Administration,” chapter in the Handbook of Organization Theory and Management: The Philosophical Approach, Thomas Lynch and Peter Cruise (eds.), New York, N.Y.: CRC Press, 2005.

David Weir

(with Katherine Willoughby, Hai David Guo, Katie Sobush, and Emily Evans). “A Report Card on Government Performance: Grading the States 2005,” Governing Special Issue, February 2005.

Amanda L. Wilsker (Joint Ph.D. in Public Policy)

(with Robert J. Eger III). “CEA and Transportation: Practices, Problems, and Proposals,” Transportation Research Record, revise and resubmit.

(with Robert J. Eger III, Adjo Amekudzi, Michael Meyer, Gordon Kingsley, Paul Chinowsky, and Sooho Lee). “Feasibility Study of Comprehensive Maintenance Contracting in GDOT," GDOT Report 04-03, 2005.

presented “I’m a Giver: Religious Attitudes and Religious Donations” at the AYSPS – PAUS Student Seminar Series, February 4, 2005.

presented “Sex, Neglect, and Abuse: The Probability of Reunification for Georgia’s Foster Youth” (with Angye Rincon and Tammy Wilsker) at the Child Policy Symposium, Clayton College and State University, Morrow, Ga., September 30, 2005.

presented “Exactly What are Your Motives? Assessing the Impact of Self Interest and Altruism on Private Donation Patterns” (with Robert J. Eger III) at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Fall Conference, Washington, D.C., November 3-5, 2005.

presented “No Place Like Home: Explaining Stability in Georgia’s Foster Care System” at the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management, Washington, D.C., November 10-12, 2005.

has been invited to present “CEA and Transportation: Practices, Problems, and Proposals” (with Robert J. Eger III) at the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C., January 22-26, 2006.

has been invited to present “The Influence of Evaluations of Personal and Collective Experiences: Considering Parents' Evaluations of their Children's Schools” (with Christine Roch) at the Midwest Political Science Association National Annual Conference, Chicago, Ill., April 20-23, 2006.

has been invited to present “Policy in the Courts: Applying PET to Judicial Decisions” (with Tammy Wilsker) at the Midwest Political Science Association National Annual Conference, Chicago, Ill., April 20-23, 2006.

Lei Zhang (Joint Ph.D. in Public Policy)

presented “Rogers’ Replication Framework Revisited: Navigating the Complexity of Health Networks” (with Karen Minyard) at the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, Boston, Mass., June 2005.

(with Inas Rashad). "Time Preference and Obesity: Are We Getting the Biggest Bang for the Buck?" Journal of Population Economics, under review.