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Awards/honors/grants

Susan Laury (economics) received a $10,000 supplement to a National Science Foundation (Professional Opportunities for Women in Research and Education) grant, which will be used to fund travel expenses for 10 junior psychology professors from around the country to attend the fall Economic Science Association meetings in Tucson, Ariz.

Gregory B. Lewis (public administration & urban studies) served as program chair for the public administration section of the American Political Science Association annual conference Aug. 31-Sept. 3 in Washington, D.C.

Ross Rubenstein (public administration & urban studies) won the Joseph S. Wholey Distinguished Scholarship Award for best scholarly paper on performance-based governance for "Using Adjusted Performance Measures for Evaluating Resource Use" from the American Society for Public Administration in March.

Jeanie Thomas (Fiscal Research Program) has been invited to serve a second term as chair of the Public Policy Research Committee of the Georgia Association of Economic Developers.

Neven Valev (economics), with mentor Jorge Martinez (International Studies Program), received a $10,000 faculty mentoring grant to analyze foreign direct investment in transitional economies.

New publications

Jim Alm and Sally Wallace (economics), "Are the Rich Different?," The Economic Consequences of Taxing the Rich, Joel Slemrod, ed. (New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 2000), 165-187. Alm's publication list also includes "Wedding Bell Blues: The Income Tax Consequences of Recognizing Same-Sex Marriage," with co-authors M. V. Lee Badgett and Leslie A. Whittington, in the National Tax Journal, Vol. 53, No. 2 (June 2000), 201- 214.

Arthur Brooks (public administration & urban studies/economics), "Who Opposes Government Arts Funding?," forthcoming in Public Choice; "Genetic Algorithms and Public Economics," forthcoming in the Journal of Public Economic Theory; and "Cultural Districts and Urban Development," forthcoming in International Journal of Arts Management.

Paul G. Farnham (economics) and co-author George M. Guess, a book, Cases in Public Policy Analysis, 2nd ed., Georgetown University Press, 2000.

Shiferaw Gurmu (economics), "The Relative Efficiency of the Between Estimator with Respect to the Within Estimator," in Econometric Theory, 16 (2000); and, with John Elder, "Generalized Bivariate Count Data Regression Models," in Economics Letters, 68 (2000).

Bill Kahnweiler (public administration & urban studies), and co-author Gary May, "The Effect of a Mastery Practice Design on Learning and Transfer in Behavioral Modeling Training," in Personnel Psychology. Kahnweiler and co-author C.D. Lee published "The Effect of a Mastery Practice Learning Technique on the Performance of a Transfer of Training Task," in Performance Improvement Quarterly 13 (2000): 3-17.

Bruce Kaufman (economics), and co-author Daphne Taras, a book, Nonunion Employee Representation: History, Contemporary Practice and Policy, M.E. Sharpe, 2000.

Julia Melkers and Katherine Willoughby (public administration & urban studies), "Budgeters' Views of State Performance Budgeting Systems: Distinctions across Branches," forthcoming in Public Administration Review.

Christine Roch (public administration & urban studies) with co-authors John Scholz and Kathleen McGraw, "Social Networks and Citizen Response to Legal Change," in the American Journal of Political Science, 49 (2000).

  Greg Streib (public administration & urban studies), Bert Slotkin (public administration & urban studies/Applied Research Center) and Mark Rivera (Applied Research Center), "Public Administration Research from a Practitioner Perspective," forthcoming in Public Administration Review.

Neven Valev (economics), "Credibility of a New Monetary Regime: The Current Board in Bulgaria," with co-author John Carlson, in the Journal of Monetary Economics.

Bill Waugh (public administration & urban studies), with co-author Carla Robinson-Barnes, "The Logic and Pathologies of Regional and Local Economic Development Strategies," International Journal of Public Administration 23 (2000): 1273-1297.

Verna J. Willis (public administration & urban studies), "Invited Reaction: Learning on Their Own," Human Resource Development Quarterly, 11 (2000): 127-131; and "Strategy and the Chief Learning Officer," with co-author Gary L. May, in Leading Knowledge Management and Learning (Arlington, Va.: ASTD Press).

Katherine Willoughby (public administration & urban studies), a review of The Future of State Taxation, David Brunori, ed. (Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, 1998) in the summer issue of Public Budgeting and Finance.

Yongsheng Xu (economics), "Characterizations of Consequentialism and Non-consequentialism,'' with Kotaro Suzumura, forthcoming in Journal of Economic Theory; and "Welfarist-Consequentialism, Similarity of Attitudes and Arrow's General Impossibility Theorem,'' with Kotaro Suzumura, forthcoming in Social Choice and Welfare.

Recent presentations

Jim Cooney (Georgia Health Policy Center), "Repetitive Patterns of Inter-Institutional Transfers among Nursing Home Patients," with Glenn Landers (Georgia Health Policy Center), at the Association of Health Services Researchers Annual Meeting in Los Angeles in June.

Jennifer Edwards (Georgia Health Policy Center), "Why Georgia's CHIP program is Beating Enrollment Projections," co-written by Mary Ann Phillips (Georgia Health Policy Center) and the Georgia Division of Medical Assistance, at the annual meeting of the Association of Health Services Researchers in June in Los Angeles. Edwards also presented "Medicaid Spending for Children with Special Health Care Needs and the Added Burden of Mental Illness," co-written by doctoral students Nicole Fehrenbach and Katherine Gardner.

Julie Hotchkiss (economics), the results-to-date of her analysis of the labor market impact of the Americans with Disabilities Act at the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research in July in Kalamazoo, Mich.

Harvey Newman (public administration & urban studies), "Atlanta's Tourist Bubble," at the annual meeting of the Urban Affairs Association May 5 in Los Angeles.

Felix Rioja (economics), "Macroeconomic Effects of Maintenance vs. New Investments in Infrastructure," at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City in July.