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2006 Calendar of Events
at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies
| Date & Location | Description of Event | Type of Event |
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January 2006 <<< |
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| January 2 | New Year's Day - GSU Holiday | |
| January 11, 10:30am, Room 507 | Zhenhua Hu, Final Oral Examination, Ph.D. in Public Policy | |
| January 13, 3pm, 7th Floor Seminar Room | Howard Chernick (CUNY) will present on "Redistribution: Consequences for Economic Growth in U.S. states" (paper on intranet) | Fiscal Research Center Seminar |
| January 16 | Martin Luther King Day - GSU Holiday | |
| January 17, 12:30-2pm, Room 749 | Eric Twombly will present "Privatization and devolution" | Nonprofit Studies Program Brown-Bag Seminar Series |
| January 18, 10am, Room 417 | Mercy Mvundura, Dissertation Defense, Ph.D. in Economics | |
| January 20, 1pm, Room 507 | Hyun Jung Park, Dissertation Defense, Ph.D. in Public Policy | |
| January 23, 3pm, Seminar Room 749 | Job candidate "UR/State and Local" seminar (Vitae / Paper on intranet) | Economics |
| January 25, noon | MPA Advisory Board meeting | |
| January 25, 3pm, Seminar Room 749 | Job candidate seminar (Vitae / Paper on intranet) | Environmental Economics |
| January 27, 3pm, Seminar Room 749 | Job candidate "UR/State and Local" seminar (Vitae / Paper on intranet) | Economics |
| January 30, 3pm, Seminar Room 749 | Job candidate "UR/State and Local" seminar (Vitae / Paper on intranet) | Economics |
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February 2006 <<< |
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| Thursday, February 2, 1:30pm, Seminar Room 749 | Job candidate seminar (Vitae / Paper on intranet) | Environmental Economics |
| February 2-3 | The Georgia State University Law Review and the Center for Comparative Study of Metropolitan Growth at GSU present a public symposium on "What Kind of Metropolitan Areas do We Want?" (with opening reception and tour of Atlantic Station by Jacoby Development, Inc.). | Reception and Seminar: more information and registration form |
| Friday, February 10, 3pm, Seminar Room 749 | Job candidate seminar (Vitae / Paper on intranet) | Environmental Economics |
| February 20, 10am, Room 507 | Edward B. Sennoga, Final Oral Examination, Ph.D. in Economics | |
| February 21, 12:30-2pm, Room 749 | Harvey Newman will present "Faith and philanthropy in Atlanta" | Nonprofit Studies Program Brown-Bag Seminar Series |
| February 22, 3pm, Seminar Room | Job candidate seminar (Vitae / Paper 1/ Paper 2 on intranet) | Experimental Economics |
| February 24 | Ai-Ru Cheng (University of California, Santa Cruz) will present "A Central Limit Theorem for Computation of Option Prices for Stochastic Volatility Models" (paper on intranet) | Applied Econometrics Workshop |
| February 27-March 3, Room 749 | USAID/Fiscal Reform Project Training Program on Fiscal Policy Reform | International Studies Program |
| February 28, 2:30pm, Room 417 | D. Djeskia Amendah, Dissertation Defense, Ph.D. in Economics | |
| March 2, 2pm, Room 417 | Paul Kagundu, Final Oral Examination, Ph.D. in Economics | |
| March 15, 3-5pm, Seminar Room 749 | David Reiley (University of Arizona) will present "The War for the Fare: How Driver Compensation Affects Bus System Performance." (paper and abstract) | Experimental Economics Seminar Series |
| March 16, 6:30pm, 7th Floor AYSPS | Benjamin R. DeCosta, Aviation General Manager at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, will present "Leadership Strategies for a High Performance Organization" | PAUS Spring Leadership Lecture Series |
| March 17, 3pm, Room 749 | Ajay Subramanian (RMI, RCB, Georgia State) will present "Asymmetric Beliefs, Agency Conflicts, and Venture Capital Investment" (paper on intranet) | Microeconomics Seminar |
| March 21, 12:30-2pm, Room 749 | Susan Laury will present "Applications of experimental economics to nonprofit fund development" | Nonprofit Studies Program Brown-Bag Seminar Series |
| March 21, 3-4:30pm, Seminar Room | Price Fishback (University of Arizona) will present "The Effect of Internal Migration on Local Labor Markets: American Cities During the Great Depression" (paper on intranet) | Economics Seminar Series |
| March 22, 3pm, Room 749 | Klara Sabirianova Peter will present "Public Sector Pay and Corruption: Measuring Bribery from Micro Data" (paper on the intranet) | Economics Seminar |
| March 24, 3pm, Room 749 | Erdal Tekin (Georgia State University) will present "Does Child Abuse Cause Crime?" (paper | tables on intranet) | Applied Econometrics Workshop |
| March 24, 3pm, Room 417 | John W. Matthews, Final Oral Examination, Ph.D. in Public Policy | |
| March 27, 3pm, Room 749 | Job candidate seminar (Vitae | Paper | Schedule on intranet) | Labor Economics |
| March 30, 12:20-2pm, Room 749 | Pablo Saavedra (World Bank) will present. | GSA meeting |
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| April 12, 8am-1pm, 7th Floor Seminar Room | The 2006 Nonprofit Roundtable with speaker Virginia Hodgkinson (by invitation only) | Nonprofit Studies Program |
| April 12, 6pm, Room 507 | Jose Rene Rendon-Garza, Final Oral Examination, Ph.D. in Economics | |
| April 13, 10-11:30am, 7th Floor Seminar Room | Virginia Hodgkinson (Georgetown University) will present "The Nonprofit Sector and Public Policy" | Open to all | Nonprofit Studies Program seminar |
| April 14, 3pm, Room 749 | Duncan James (Fordham University) will present on "The Stability of Risk Preference Parameter Estimates within the Becker-DeGroot-Marschak Procedure" (paper on intranet) | Environmental/ Experimental Economics Seminar |
| April 17, 3pm, Room 749 | Nonprofit job candidate seminar (Vita/paper on intranet) | PAUS |
| April 18, 12:30-2pm, Room 749 | Gary Henry, Dana Rickman, and Kevin Fortner will present "The impacts of foundations on higher education policy " | Nonprofit Studies Program Brown-Bag Seminar Series |
| April 19, 3pm, 309 Aderhold Learning Center | Rod Garratt (University of California-Santa Barbara) will present "Bank runs as coordination failures: An experimental study" (paper on intranet) | Experimental Economics Seminar |
| April 20-21, Room 750, 8am-5pm | Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations/Recent Trends in Local Governments - Two-Day Conference open to all with RSVP (flyer) | Department of Economics and Fiscal Research Center - Contact Dorie Taylor at 404-651-2782 |
| April 25, 11am, Room 749 | Nonprofit job candidate seminar | PAUS |
| April 25, 2-3 pm, Room 750 | Spring Faculty Meeting | |
| April 27, 10:30am, 5th Floor Conference Room | Coffee and Conversation with Dr. Alan B. Krueger | Open to all | Part of the W.J. Usery Distinguished Lecture Series |
| Thursday, April 27, 2pm, Room 750 | Second W.J. Usery Distinguished Lecture with Alan B. Krueger of Princeton University on "Whither the Social Safety Net?" | Open to all | W.J. Usery Distinguished Lecture Series |
| April 27, Student Center Ballroom | 10th Annual Honors Day | Contact OAA |
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| May 4, 2pm, Room 507 | Vid Adrison, Dissertation Defense, Ph.D. in Economics | |
| May 10, 1pm, Room 507 | Asmaa E. El-Ganainy, Final Oral Examination, Ph.D. in Economics | |
| May 13 | Spring 2006 Commencement | |
| May 15-16 | Child Policy Group - Conference | CPG/GHPC |
| May 19 , 9:45am, Room 507 | Ki-Whan Choi, Final Oral Examination, Ph.D. in Economics | |
| May 23, 10am, Room 417 | Robert Salvino, Dissertation Defense, Ph.D. in Economics | |
| May 25, 10am, Room 417 | Ikuho Kochi , Dissertation Defense, Ph.D. in Economics | |
| May 25, 2:30pm, Room 417 | Kyoungwoo Lee, Dissertation Defense, Ph.D. in Economics | |
| May 29 | Memorial Day - GSU Holiday | |
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| June 6, 2pm, Room 506 | Ming-Hung Yao, Dissertation Defense, Ph.D. in Economics | |
| June 8-9 | Flat Tax Conference | ISP/Economics Dept. |
| June 8-11 | GSU hosts the 2006 International Meeting of the Economic Science Association | Economics conference |
| June 13, 10am, Room 507 | Jungbu Kim, Dissertation Defense, Joint Ph.D. in Public Policy | |
| June 21, 1pm, Room 417 | Steven Buigut, Final Oral Examination, Ph.D. in Economics |
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| June 26-July 7, Seminar Room | Public Policy Summer Training Courses - Development Macroeconomics | ISP |
| June 29, 1pm, Room 507 | Mamadou L. Sow, Final Oral Examination, Ph.D. in Economics | |
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July 2006 <<< |
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| July 3, 11am, Room 507 | Xinye Zheng, Final Oral Examination, Ph.D. in Economics | |
| July 4 | Independence Day - GSU Holiday | |
| July 7, 2pm, Room 507 | Mohammad Yunus, Final Oral Examination, Ph.D. in Economics | |
| July 7-15, Seminar Room 750 | Summer School in Public Economics | ISP |
| July 10-28, Seminar Room | Public Policy Summer Training Courses - Fiscal Decentralization and Local Governance | ISP |
| July 19, noon-2pm, Student Center Auditorium | Creatively Speaking Forum. AYSPS will co-host "Living the Legacy: A Conversation with Jason Carter, grandson of Former President Jimmy Carter, and Zaziwe Dlamini Manaway, Granddaughter of Former President Nelson Mandela" in conjunction with the National Black Arts Festival. | |
| July 26, 10am, Room 507 | Muliadi Widjaja, Dissertation Defense, Ph.D. in Economics | |
| July 26, 2pm, Room 750 | Summer Faculty Meeting | |
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| July 31-August 11, Seminar Room | Public Policy Summer Training Courses - Tax Policy, Fiscal Analysis and Revenue Forecasting | ISP |
| August 2, 11am, Room 507 | Raul Ponce, Dissertation Defense, Ph.D. in Economics | |
| August 4, 1pm, Room 303, DM Smith Building, 685 Cherry Street | Hector Ordonez, Dissertation Defense, Ph.D. in Public Policy | |
| August 6 | Summer 2006 Commencement | |
| August 14-25 | Public Policy Summer Training Courses - Public Budgeting and Fiscal Management | ISP |
| August 16, Room 632 | Management Committee Meeting | |
| August 25, 3-4:30pm, Room 750 |
Inas Rashad (AYSPS) will present on "The Effects of Retirement on Physical and Mental Health Outcomes." (paper) | Economics Seminar |
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| September 4 | Labor Day - GSU Holiday | |
| September 5, 10:30am, Room 507 | Riatu Qibthiyyah, Dissertation Proposal Defense, Ph.D. in Economics | |
| September 5, 2pm, Room 507 | Guevera A. Yao, Final Oral Examination, Ph.D. in Economics | |
| September 5 | PAUS Open House | |
| September 6, Noon, Room 507 | Doug Krupka will be presenting "Neighborhood Dynamics and Price Effects of Superfund Site Clean-up" at the Urban, Regional and Environmental Economics Colloquium | To get on the URE listserv, e-mail Doug Krupka |
| September 11, 2pm, Room 417 | Shena R. Ashley, Dissertation Proposal Defense, Ph.D. in Public Policy | |
| September 12, 1pm, Room 507 | Eric M. Sarpong, Final Oral Examination, Ph.D. in Economics | |
| September 14, 11:30-1pm, Room 749 | Pizza and Policy - Session for undergraduates to find out more about policy degrees and careers | Contact OAA for more information |
| September 14, noon to 1pm, Room 750 | Dmitry Shishkin (Georgia State) will present “The Potential Price Effects of Intergovernmental Equalization Programs.” All faculty, staff, and graduate students are invited to attend. |
Economics “Brown Bag” seminar |
| September 19, Room 632 | Management Committee Meeting | |
| September 22, 3pm, Room 749 | Glenn Harrison (University of Central Florida) will present "Expected Utility Theory and Prospect Theory: One Wedding and a Decent Funeral" (pdf) | Experimental Economics and Microeconomic Theory Seminar |
| September 27, 10:30am, Room 507 | Shiyuan Chen, Dissertation Proposal Defense, Ph.D. in Economics | |
| September 28, noon, Room 750 | Monica Ospina (Econ Ph.D student) will present "The Effect of Social Spending on Income Inequality: An Analysis for Latin American Countries." | Economics Brown Bag Seminar series |
| September 29, 3pm, Room 749 | Don Fullerton (University of Texas) will be presenting "The General Equilibrium Incidence of Environmental Mandates" (ppt, paper) | Domestic Programs Seminar |
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| October 3, 12:30-2pm, Room 749 | Dennis R. Young (Georgia State) will present on "How Nonprofit Organizations Manage Risk"; students, faculty and interested members of the community are welcome to join in the discussion. |
Nonprofit Studies Program's Brown Bag Seminar Series in Nonprofit Research |
| October 3, 2:30-4:30pm, Room 749-750 | The Office Research Services and Administration's workshop on new/ revised policies and procedures that govern the management of sponsored projects | ALL PIs, Staff who administer sponsored projects, and chairs must attend a workshop |
| October 6, 3pm, Room 749 | Jeffrey DeSimone (University of South Florida) will present "High School Alcohol Use and Young Adult Labor Market Outcomes" (paper) |
Economics Seminar |
| October 10, Room 632 | Management Committee Meeting | |
| October 12, 3pm, 7th Floor | "Reflections on the Development of Atlanta," roundtable discussion with John Portman, Charlie Loudermilk, and Andrew Young | Open to all |
| October 13, 2pm, Room 203, DM Smith Building, 685 Cherry Street | Wenbin Xiao, Dissertation Proposal Defense, Ph.D. in Public Policy | |
| Saturday, October 14, Student Center | Coca-Cola Student Leadership Conference | Contact Avani Raval for more info |
| October 15-17, Stone Mountain Park | ISP Property Taxation Conference at the Evergreen Conference Center in Stone Mountain | ISP/Lincoln Land Institute |
| October 20, 1:30pm, Room 507 | Olga Pavlova, Final Oral Examination, Ph.D. in Economics | |
| October 20, 3pm, Room 749 | Frans van Winden (University of Amsterdam) will present on "Dynamic Choice, Independence and Emotions" (paper) | Experimental Economics and Microeconomic Theory Seminar |
| October 23, 9am-4:30pm, Room 750 | One-day conference on "Strategic Management using the Balanced Scorecard" | PPM event. Contact Maxine Kwofie or call 404-651-3499 for info |
| October 24, 3pm, 7th Floor | 3rd Annual Dan Sweat Lecture hosts Jane Hannaway (director of the Education Policy Center at The Urban Institute), who will present "Accountability and the Classroom: A New Light Inside the Black Box of Schooling." | Domestic Programs' Dan E. Sweat Lecture Series |
| October 27, 3:30-5:30pm, Room 749 | UPS Lecture on Nonprofit Leadership, Governance and Economic Stewardship with lecturer Herrington Bryce, College of William & Mary, on the "Challenges of Nonprofit Leaders in a Time of Scarcity and Scrutiny" | Nonprofit Studies Seminar |
| October 30, 2pm, Room 507 | Monica Oliver, dissertation proposal defense, Ph.D. in Public Policy | |
| October 31, 10:30am, Room 507 | Michael T. Tasto, dissertation proposal defense, Ph.D. in Economics | |
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| November 3, 10am, Room 507 | Abdu Muwonge, final oral examination, Ph.D. in Economics | |
| November 3, 12:30pm, Room 417 | Raul Alberto Ponce, final oral examination, Ph.D. in Economics | |
| November 3, 3pm, Room 749 | Ronald S. Warren ( The University of Georgia)
will present "The Impact of Youth Criminal Behavior on Adult Earnings" (paper) |
Economics Seminar |
| November 6, 10am, Room 507 | Eunice Heredia, final oral examination, Ph.D. in Economics | |
| November 7, 10:30am, Room 507 | Christine Ega Mbakile-Moloi, final oral examination, Ph.D. in Economics | |
| November 7, 12:30pm, Room 417 | Artidiatun Adji, final oral examination, Ph.D. in Economics | |
| November 8, 3pm, Room 507 AYSPS | Hyung Jung (Amy) Park, final oral examination, Ph.D. in Public Policy | |
| November 9, 8am- 2pm, R. Charles Loudermilk Center at 40 Courtland Street | The Regional Atlanta Civic League at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies invites you to participate in the upcoming Randolph W. Thrower Annual Public Forum on "Faces of Immigration." |
For information, visit www.racl.info or contact Elisabeth Gross at 404.651.1385 |
| November 9, noon-1:30pm, 7th Floor | W.J. "Bill" Usery will present on "Competition, Cooperation, and Lost Opportunities: The American Automobile Industry in the Global Marketplace." Open to all; lunch will be served. | Economics Graduate Student Association lecture |
| November 9, 4:30-7pm, Rooms 749-750 | Government Career Fair and MPA Board Meeting: Career Panel and Reception, with Q&A from students | PAUS |
| November 14, noon, Room 507 | Sarah Jacobson will present "Inconsistent Choices in Lottery Experiments: Evidence from Rwanda" | Economics Brown Bag Seminar Series; bring your lunch |
| November 14, Room 632 | Management Committee Meeting | |
| November 15, 10am, Room 417 | Roy Wada, Final Oral Examination, Ph.D. in Economics | |
| November 16, 11am, Room 749 | PAUS faculty candidate seminar (CV), open to all |
Contact Elsa at elsa@gsu.edu |
| Nov. 23-24 | Thanksgiving - GSU Holiday | |
| November 28, 12:30-2pm, Room 749 | Bruce Seaman will present “The Relationship Among Regional Economic Impact Models: The Case of Cultural Assets” | Brown Bag Seminar Series in Nonprofit Research; bring your lunch |
| November 30, 11am-12:30pm, Room 750 | Cynthia Searcy will present "Are adolescent eating and exercise behaviors in school contributing to youth obesity in the United States?" | |
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| December 1, 11:30am, Room 507 | Hanji Wu, Final Oral Examination, Ph.D. in Economics | |
| December 1, 3pm, Room 507 | Dennis Keith Burns, Dissertation Proposal Defense, Ph.D. in Public Policy | |
| December 1, 3pm, Room 749 | David C. Ribar (University of North Carolina Greensboro) will present on "Earning Volatility and the Reasons for Leaving the Food Stamp Program." (paper) | Economics Seminar |
| December 4, Room 749 | Fall Faculty Meeting | |
| December 5, 2-3:30pm, Room 750 | Jason Grissom will present "The Redistribution of State and Local Education Policy Authority: Contrasting Examples of Accountability and School Finance Reform." | PAUS seminar |
| December 6, 10am, Room 507 | Velma Zahirovic-Herbert, Final Oral Examination, Ph.D. in Economics | |
| December 8, 11am, Room 749 | Sara Markowitz (Rutgers University) will present "The Effectiveness of Cigarette Regulations in Reducing Cases of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome" as part of the Child Policy Seminar Series. | Hosted by Georgia Health Policy Center and the Department of Economics |
| December 11, 1pm, Room 507 | Kwaw Andam, Dissertation Proposal Defense, Ph.D. in Public Policy | |
| December 11, Rooms 749-750 | Paul Wolfowitz, President of the World Bank, in a roundtable discussion | |
| December 14, Room 632 | Management Committee Meeting | |
| December 15, 12:30-2pm, Room 749 | Jeff Brudney and Young-Joo Lee (UGA Public Administration & Policy Program) and Michael Wald (U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics) will present "All in a Day’s Work?
Testing a Benefits-Costs Approach to Volunteering." |
Nonprofit Studies Program Brown Bag Seminar Series in Nonprofit Research |
| December 16 | Fall 2006 Commencement | |
| December 25-29 | Winter Break - GSU Holiday | |