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Awards/Honors/Grants

Department of Economics

Roy Bahl served as an external examiner for the economics department at the University of Mauritius.

Paul Ferraro received a $55,000 grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to conduct an evaluation of global initiatives to protect marine turtles.

Shif Gurmu and William J. Smith received a grant from the University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research to work on the project, “Barriers to Employment and Welfare-To-Work: Evidence from Georgia.”

Bruce Kaufman’s book, Industrial Relations to Human Resources and Beyond, was selected as one of the Noteworthy Books in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics of 2003 by the Industrial Relations Section at Princeton University.

Department of Public Administration & Urban Studies

The 2004 NASPAA (National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration) Annual Dissertation Award went to Carolyn Bourdeaux for her paper, “Can Public Authorities Just Get Things Done? An Analysis of Politically Buffered Institutions in a Contentious Policy Arena.” This award recognizes significant research conducted by a doctoral candidate in the field of public administration.

Amy Helling was appointed associate editor of the Journal of the American Planning Association.

Bill Waugh was appointed to the Planning Commission of the City of Decatur after serving two years on the city’s Waste Management Advisory Board.

New Publications – A Selection

Department of Economics

James Alm with Sally Wallace and Fitzroy Lee. “How Fair: Federal Income Tax Progressivity 1978-1998.” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (forthcoming); with Amanda Lee. “The Clean Air Act Amendments and Firm Investment in Pollution Abatement Equipment.” Land Economics 80(3): 433-447; with Mikhail Melnik. “Sales Taxes and the Decision to Purchase Online.” Public Finance Review (forthcoming).

Roy Bahl with Sally Wallace. “Fiscal Decentralization and Fiscal Equalization within Regions: The Case of Russia.” Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management (forthcoming).

Paul Ferraro. “Targeting Conservation Investments in Heterogeneous Landscapes: A distance function approach and application to watershed management.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 86(4): 905-918.

Ragan Petrie, with Jean-Paul Chavas and Michael Roth. “Farm Household Production Inefficiency in the Gambia: Resource Constraints and Market Failures.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics (forthcoming).

Department of Public Administration & Urban Studies

Carolyn Bourdeaux. “A Question of Genesis: An Analysis of the Determinants of Public Authorities.” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (forthcoming).

Carol Hansen with C. Kontoghiorghes. “Identification of key predictors of rapid change adaptation in a service organization: An exploratory study that examines the link between rapid change adaptation and organizational capability.” Organizational Development Journal (forthcoming).

Judith Ottoson, Greg Streib, John Clayton Thomas, Mark Rivera, and Beth Stevenson. “Evaluation of the National School Health Coordinator Leadership Institute.” Journal of School Health 74(5): 170-176.

Centers & Programs

Tina Anderson Smith and Karen Minyard. (GHPC) “The Role of Targeted External Facilitation and Technical Assistance in Improving the Clinical Relevance and Financial Viability of Rural Health Systems.” Health Systems in the World: From Evidence to Policy. Papazisis Publishers: Athens, Greece 2004.

Presentations

Department of Economics

James Alm presented a paper with William Kaempfer on the “Incidence of State Income Taxes,” at the Western Economic Association Annual Meeting in July.

Roy Bahl presented “Fiscal Decentralization in India” at the Fiscal Decentralization to Rural Governments in India meeting in New Delhi, India, in June co-sponsored by NIPFP and The World Bank; he presented two days of lectures on Fiscal Decentralization to the Provincial Finance Commissions in Lahore, Pakistan, in August.

Paul Ferraro was the plenary speaker at the 21st Biannual Workshop of the Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia in Hanoi, Vietnam, in May; in August he presented, “Measuring the Effectiveness of Listing under the U.S. Endangered Species Act” with Monica Ospina (a graduate student in economics) at the 12th Annual CAMP Resources Workshop in Wilmington, N.C.

Shif Gurmu presented, “Patents, R&D and Lag Effects: Evidence from Flexible Individual Effects Count Data Models” at the 11th International Conference on Panel Data at Texas A&M University in June.

Susan Laury presented, “Altruism Spillovers” at the Annual Meeting of the Economic Science Association in Amsterdam, Holland, in June; in August she presented, “Altruism Spillovers” at the Public Economic Theory Meetings in Beijing, China.

Bruce Seaman was invited to open the annual meeting of the Federation of Tax Administrators, where he presented, “The Economics of Cigarette Taxation: Lessons for Georgia.” The meeting convened in Newport, R.I., in August.

In July, Paula Stephan presented “Early Careers of Life Scientists” at the National Research Council Board on Higher Education and Workforce Board Meeting in Washington, D.C.; her report, “Adding Salary Data to the SED,” at the National Science Foundation’s Salary Panel Meeting for the Survey of Earned Doctorates in Arlington, Va.; and “Capturing Knowledge: The Placement of New Ph.D.s Working with Firms” at the Centre de Recherches Economiques de l’universite de Saint-Etienne in France.

Department of Public Administration & Urban Studies

Carolyn Bourdeaux presented, “Legislative Barriers to Budgetary Reform” and “Structure, Behavior and Financial Performance: An Empirical Analysis of American Airports” (with Alasdair Roberts) at the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management Conference in Chicago, Ill. in October.

Carol Hansen presented on qualitative research methods to doctoral students at the Graduate School of Business (Les Hautes Etudes Commerciales – HEC), University of Lausanne, Switzerland, in June. She also served as an external expert for a University of Lausanne doctoral committee.

Bill Kahnweiler spoke about career development for human resource professionals at the 2004 Workforce Planning and Development Conference hosted by the Georgia Merit System in Atlanta in September.

In October, Gary Henry presented his research, “School Readiness and Universal Pre-K” at forums organized by People for the American Way in Albuquerque and Los Angeles to get media coverage for the New Mexico and Los Angeles initiatives for universal preschool.

Philadelphia’s National Public Radio station, WHYY, in April invited Michael Rushton to talk about his research of arts funding in U.S. cities to respond to the city’s plan to drastically cut arts funding.

Bill Waugh was a plenary speaker on “Hazards and Disasters in a Homeland Security Environment: Consequences of Federal Level Changes,” and also spoke on “The National Response Plan: Implications for the Emergency Management Community,” at the 29th Annual Natural Hazards Workshop, University of Colorado, Boulder, in July.

Centers & Programs

Glenn Landers (GHPC) presented “Using a Risk Adjustment Model to Compare the Costs of Nursing Facility Care with Four Medicaid Long-term Care Waiver Programs” at the 10th Annual International Symposium and Workshop of the International Society for Research in Healthcare Financial Management in Baltimore in August.

Chris Parker (GHPC) presented “African Americans in America and What’s Working” at Morehouse College’s Holistic Wellness and Healing Conference for African Americans.