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Awards/honors/grants

Jennifer N. Edwards (Georgia Health Policy Center) and colleagues from Emory University and the University of Alabama received a $1.2 million, three-year grant from the federal Agency for Health Care Policy and Research to look at physician participation in children's health insurance programs and how it affects access to care.

Julie Hotchkiss (economics) recently began work on the "Labor Market Impact of the Americans with Disabilities Act," a one-year, $44,000 project funded by the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. Hotchkiss and colleague Shif Gurmu (economics) recently received a $40,000 extension from the U.S. Department of Labor, through the University of Baltimore, to collaborate with five other states in examining welfare-to-work transitions. The project uses data gathered through the Georgia Administrative Data Project, directed by Hotchkiss and funded by the Fiscal Research Program.

Paula Stephan (associate dean) was appointed by the National Science Foundation to serve on the Societal Dimensions of Engineering, Science and Technology panel and the Committee on Equal Opportunities in Science and Engineering.

James Stephens (Program for Rehabilitation Leadership) recently was chosen as an honorary Switzer Scholar in Rehabilitation by the National Rehabilitation Association. He and 19 other U.S. experts were selected for their leadership, expertise and achievements in disability policy. Switzer scholars participate in a three-day strategic discussion at Michigan State University, where they examine ways to enhance the employment and independence of people with disabilities.

Laura Taylor (economics) was awarded a one-year, $93,000 grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to study Atlanta's brownfields.

Jeanie Weathersby (Council for School Performance) received the "Outstanding Educator Award for 1999" from the Georgia Association of Educational Leaders, and the "Distinguished Staff Developer Award for 1999" from the Georgia Staff Development Council.

Andrew Young (public affairs professor of policy studies) received the Policy Studies Organization's 1999 Hubert H. Humphrey Award for being an outstanding public policy practitioner. Bill Waugh (public administration & urban studies) acted as host for the organization's annual meeting on the Georgia State campus in September, which was held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association.

New publications

Jim Alm (economics), "Tax Compliance and Tax Administration," in Handbook On Taxation, W. Bartley Hildreth and James A. Richardson, eds. (New York, N.Y.: Marcel Dekker Inc., 1999); "The Size, Nature and Causes of Budget Deficits in Developing Countries," in Budget Deficits And Debt, Siamack Shojai, ed. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 1999); and "What is an 'Optimal' Tax System?," in Tax Policy In The Real World, Joel Slemrod, ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).

Fiscal Research Program, reports on "Road Construction and Regional Development," by Felix Rioja (economics); "An Analysis of Franchise Fees in Georgia," by Bruce Seaman (economics); and "Manufactured Housing in Georgia: Trends and Fiscal Implications," by L. Kenneth Hubbell and David L. Sjoquist (Fiscal Research Program).

Julie L. Hotchkiss (economics), with co-authors Mary E. Graham and Barry Gerhart, "Discrimination by Parts: A Fixed-effects Analysis of Starting Pay Differentials Across Gender," forthcoming in the Eastern Economic Journal.

Bill Kahnweiler (public administration & urban studies) and co-author R.J. Riordan, "Job and Employee Support Groups," in Manchester Review.

Bruce Kaufman and Julie Hotchkiss (economics), The Economics of Labor Markets, The Dryden Press Series in Economics, 5th edition.

Bruce Kaufman (economics), "Does the NLRA Constrain Employee Involvement and Participation Programs by Non-Union Companies?: A Reassessment," in the summer 1999 issue of the Yale Law and Policy Review.

Theodore H. Poister and Gregory D. Streib (public administration & urban studies), "Strategic Management in the Public Sector: Concepts, Models and Processes," in the March 1999 issue of Public Productivity & Management Review; "Performance Measurement in Municipal Government: Assessing the State of the Practice," in the July/August 1999 issue of Public Administration Review; and "Assessing the Validity, Legitimacy and Functionality of Performance Measurement Systems in Municipal Governments," in the June 1999 issue of The American Review of Public Administration.

Ross Rubenstein (public administration/educational policy studies), "School-Level Resource Allocation in the Chicago Public Schools," in Developments in School Finance, 1998, National Center for Education Statistics. He also co-authored "Measuring School Efficiency Using School-Level Data: Theory and Practice," with Leanna Stiefel and Amy Ellen Schwartz, in School-Based Financing, 1999 Yearbook of the American Education Finance Association, A. Odden and M.E. Goertz, eds.

Paula Stephan (associate dean), "Are the Foreign-Born a Source of Strength for U.S. Science?," with Sharon Levin, in the Aug. 20, 1999, issue of Science.

Laura Taylor (economics), "Estimating the Demand for Protecting Freshwater Lakes from Eutrophication," with Kevin Boyle and Joan Poor, forthcoming in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics.

Neven Valev, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, Felix Rioja and Sam Skogstad (economics) "IMF Conditionality and Objections: The Russian Case," in the August 1999 Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress of ISINI.

Yongsheng Xu (economics), and co-author Wulf Gaertner, "On Rationalizability of Choice Functions: A Characterization of the Median," in Social Choice and Welfare; "Rationality and External Reference," in Rationality and Society; and "On the Structure of Choice under Different External References," forthcoming in Economic Theory.

Recent presentations

Paul G. Farnham (economics) moderated the panel "Behavioral Research Synthesis," Aug. 31 at the 1999 National HIV Prevention Conference, sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Amy Helling (public administration & urban studies), "Is Planning for the Future Worthwhile for Metropolitan Areas? Sewer/Water Quality Planning in Atlanta and Milwaukee," at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Conference in October in Chicago. She also presented "A Tale of Two Cities: Opposite Approaches to Sewer/Water Quality Planning in Atlanta and Milwaukee Under a Common Federal Policy" at the Association of Public Policy and Management Annual Research Conference in Washington, D.C., in November.

Gary Henry (Applied Research Center), "Living with HOPE: Impacts of the HOPE Scholarship on Students and Higher Education Institutions," at the Governor's Blue Ribbon Commission on Higher Education meeting Sept. 28 at Tidewater Community College in Norfolk, Va.

Bill Kahnweiler (public administration & urban studies), "An Empirical Analysis of Career Development Support Groups: Emerging Models, Processes and Outcomes," at the International Careers Guidance Conference in August at the University of Warwick in England.

Shannon Mudd (economics) spoke on the topic of sustainable development during the kickoff of the Southern Center for International Studies' Annual Conference on Africa.

Gregory B. Lewis (public administration & urban studies), "Discrimination against Lesbian and Gay Teachers: The Role of Public Opinion" and "Public Opinion and State Sodomy Laws," at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in Atlanta.

Ross Rubenstein (public administration/educational policy studies), "Georgia's HOPE Scholarship: Good Policy?," co-authored with Gary Henry and Dan Bugler (Applied Research Center), at the American Political Science Association conference Sept. 3 in Atlanta.

Laura Taylor (economics), "Violence in the Workplace and the Value of a Statistical Life," at the Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop at the University of Colorado in July. She also presented "Subjective vs. Objective Measures of Environmental Amenities: Implications for Valuing Water Quality with the Hedonic Model" at the Seventh Annual Triangle Camp Resources, Duke University, in August.

Jeanie Weathersby (Council for School Performance), "Accountability and School Report Cards," at the National Conference of State Legislators June 18 in Washington D.C.; "Team Building for Collective Inquiry and Collaboration," a workshop at the Georgia Staff Development Council annual conference in September; and "Are Changes Needed in Staff and Professional Development Programs in Georgia?" before the Governor's Education Reform Study Commission on Sept. 22.