2001 - Publications and Working Papers
at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies

Georgia Health Policy Center Child 2001 Policy Briefs
Kinship Care, Dental Health, Child Care, Special Needs, School Health

Water Policy Working Paper #2001-005
Cost-effective Targeting of Riparian Buffers in Georgia when Water Quality Benefits are Difficult to Measure, Paul J. Ferraro, December 2001

Water Policy Working Paper #2001-004
Water Quality Protection and the Cost-effective Targeting of Riparian Buffers in Georgia, Paul J. Ferraro, December 2001

Fiscal Research Program Report #67
Does Growth Pay for Itself? Property Tax Trends for School Systems in Georgia, Richard R. Hawkins, December 2001

Fiscal Research Program Report #66
Are Small Urban Centers Magnets for Economic Growth? , Benjamin Scafidi, William Joseph Smith, Mary Beth Walker, December 2001

Fiscal Research Program Report #65
Changes in the Geographic Distribution of County-level Sales, Tax Bases in Georgia, William J. Smith, December 2001

Environmental Policy Program Working Paper #2001-006
The Local Costs of Establishing Protected Areas in Low-Income Nations: Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar, Paul J. Ferraro, December 2001 (35 pp.)

Environmental Policy Program Working Paper #2001-004
The Impact of Insurance Prices on Decision-Making Biases: An Experimental Analysis, Susan K. Laury and Melayne Morgan McInnes, December 2001

Georgia Health Policy Center
Kinship Care Report: Review and Analysis of Federal and State Laws, Policies, and Procedures, Mary Margaret Oliver and Lynn Grindall (Barton Child Law and Policy Clinic) for GHPC, December 2001

Environmental Policy Program Working Paper #2001-005
Endangered Ecosystem Conservation: The dynamics of direct and indirect transfers, Jon M. Conrad and Paul J. Ferraro, November 2001 (41 pp.)

Environmental Policy Program Working Paper #2001-003
Risk Aversion and Incentive Effects, Charles Holt and Susan K. Laury, November 2001

International Studies Program Working Paper # 01-12
Mexico: An Evaluation of the Main Features of the Tax System, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, November 2001

Research Atlanta report
Reinventing Municipal Governance: Programmatic Innovations From the New Generation of Big-City Mayors, November 2001

Fiscal Research Program Report #64
Employment Trends in Georgia Border Counties, Saloua Sehili, October 2001

International Studies Program Working Paper # 01-11
Fiscal Architecture and the Analysis of Public Expenditure Needs and Revenue Capacity, Sally Wallace, October 2001

Is There a "Singles Tax"? The Relative Tax Treatment of Single Households, James Alm, Leslie A. Whittington and Jason Fletcher, October 2001

Georgia Health Policy Center
Regional Child Care Trends: Comparing Georgia to its Neighbors, Lauren Waits, Malina Monaco, Lisa Beck, and Jennifer Edwards, September 2001

Georgia Health Policy Center
Benefits Associated with Improved Child Care in Georgia, Laura Wheeler and Lauren Waits, September 2001

Water Policy Working Paper #2001-001
Water Rights Transfers: Options for Institutional Reform, Ronald G. Cummings, Nancy A. Norton, and Virgil A. Norton, September 2001 (38 pp.)

Water Policy Working Paper #2001-002
Enhancing In-Stream Flows in the Flint River Basin: Does Georgia Have Sufficient Policy Tools?, Ronald G. Cummings, Nancy A. Norton, and Virgil A. Norton, September 2001 (22 pp.)

Water Policy Working Paper #2001-003
Changing Rules for Agricultural Water Use: Policy Options Related to Metering and Forfeiture for Non-use, Ronald G. Cummings, Nancy A. Norton, Virgil Norton and David A. Eigenberg, September 2001 (13 pp.)

Fiscal Research Program Report #63
The Application of Local Economic Development Incentives in Georgia, Julia E. Melkers, Francis W. Rushing, Jeanie Thomas, August 2001

Fiscal Research Program Report #62
Where has the Money Gone? Part II: The Supplemental Budget, Alan Essig, August 2001

Georgia Health Policy Center
Report on Findings from Child Care Focus Groups, Georgia Health Policy Center with Gerogia Health Decisions, August 2001

International Studies Program Working Paper # 01-10
The Impact of Budgets on the Poor: Tax and Benefit Incidence, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, August 2001

Fiscal Research Program Report #61
Racial Disparities in School Finance Adequacy: Evidence from Georgia and the Nation, Ross Rubenstein, July 2001

Fiscal Research Program Report #60
An Analysis of Plant Closings in Georgia's Textile and Apparel Industries, Julia E. Melkers, Francis W. Rushing and David L. Sjoquist.

Fiscal Research Program Report #59
Public Opinion on Issues of Tax Fairness, David L. Sjoquist, June 2001

International Studies Program Working Paper # 01-9
Expenditure Management and Fiscal Restraint: Lessons from Kazakhstan 1997 - 2000, Kelly Edmiston, June 2001

International Studies Program Working Paper # 01-8
Short Term Macro Monitoring: Leading Indicator Construction-Mexico, Stephen Everhart and Robert Duval-Hernandez. June 2001

International Studies Program Working Paper # 01-7
Fiscal Decentralization, Revenue Assignment, And The Case For The Property Tax In South Africa, Roy Bahl, June 2001

Georgia Health Policy Center
Access to Care for Children with Special Health Care Needs in Primary Care Case Management, Jennifer N. Edwards, and Janet Bronstein, June 2001

Fiscal Research Program Report #58
Interstate Banking and Georgia-based Banks, Dileep R. Metha, May 2001

Long Term and End of Life Care report
Improving Care at the End of Life: A Long Term Care Initiative At a Glance; The Georgia Collaborative to Improve End of Life Care, May 2001

Georgia Health Policy Center
Kids and Dental Providers in Georgia: The Gap Between Demand and Supply, Kathleen Hoza Lysak, Katherine Gardner, and Jennifer N. Edwards, May 2001

International Studies Program Working Paper # 01-6
Equitable Vertical Sharing And Decentralizing Government Finance In South Africa, Roy Bahl, May 2001

International Studies Program Working Paper # 01-5
Tax Uncertainty and Investment: A Cross-Country Empirical Investigation, Kelly D. Edmiston, April 2001

International Studies Program Working Paper # 01-4
VATs in Federal States: Experiences and Emerging Possibilities, Richard Bird and Pierre-Pascal Gendron, April 2001

International Studies Program Conference Papers
Public Finance in Developing and Transition Countries: A Conference in Honor of Richard Bird. Evergreen Hotel and Resort, Stone Mountain, Georgia, April 5-6, 2001

Fiscal Research Program Report #57
Urban Welfare-to-work Transitions in the 1990s: Patterns in Six Urban Areas, John Baj, Julie Hotchkiss, Christopher T. King, Peter R. Mueser, Phillip S. Rokicki, David W. Stevens, April 2001

Pre-Kindergarden Longitudinal Study 1999-00 School Year - Report 4, April 2001

International Studies Program Working Paper # 01-3
Cross Cultural Comparisions of Tax Compliance Behavior, Ronald G. Cummings, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Michael McKee, March 2001

Fiscal Research Program Report #56
The Georgia Sales Tax Revenue Impact from Electronic Commerce, Richard R. Hawkins, March 2001

Georgia Health Policy Center
Improving School Health in Georgia: Results of a School Superintendent Survey, Jennifer N. Edwards and Jennifer Antinozzi, March 2001

Research Atlanta report
What Is Social Capital and Why Does It Matter? March 2001

Networks for Rural Health report
Rural Health in Georgia: A Framework for Success, a report of the Rural Healthcare Committee of the Georgia Rural Development Council, February 2001

Can Indonesia Decentralize Successfully? Plans, Problems, and Prospects, James Alm, Robert Aten and Roy Bahl, February 2001

Georgia Health Policy Center
The Health Care System for Medicaid Children with Special Health Care Needs Report, Jennifer N. Edwards and S. Nicole Fehrenbach, January 2001

Long Term and End of Life Care report
Rough Passages for Long-Term Care: The Churning Effect, James P. Cooney, Jr., Glenn M. Landers, Jeff Etchason, Julianna Williams, January 2001

Long Term and End of Life Care report
Collaborative Communique-A publication of the Georgia Collaborative to Improve End of Life Care, January 2001, Vol. 3, No. 1

International Studies Program Working Paper # 01-2
NAFTA and Mexico's Tax Policy Reform, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Duanje Chen, January 2001

International Studies Program Working Paper # 01-1
Fiscal Decentralization and Economic Growth, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Robert McNab, January 2001

Fiscal Research Program Report #55
A Single Factor Sales Apportionment Formula in the State of Georgia, Kelly D. Edmiston, January 2001

Fiscal Research Program Report #54
Estimates of the Effects of Education and Training on Earnings, William J. Smith, January 2001

Fiscal Research Program Report #53
Impact of the 1996 Summer Olympic Games on Employment and Wages in Georgia, Julie L. Hotchkiss, Robert E. Moore, and Stephanie M. Zobay, January 2001

Environmental Policy Program Working Paper #2001-002
Externality Effects of Small-Scale Hazardous Waste Sites: Evidence from Urban Commercial Property Markets, Keith R. Ihlanfeldt and Laura O. Taylor, January 2001 (37 pp.)

Research Atlanta report
The Metro Atlanta Statistical Profile, 2001

Research Atlanta report
Individual Philanthropy Patterns in Metro Atlanta, January 2001

Georgia Welfare Leavers Study - Life After Welfare, and Georgia Welfare Leavers Study - (Life After Welfare) Technical Appendix, prepared for the Georgia Department of Human Resources Division of Family and Children Services, January 2001