The Maxwell School Center for Policy Research (CPR) conducts a broad range of interdisciplinary research and other activities related to public policy, involving graduate students as assistants and junior colleagues. The Center includes faculty from several departments within the Maxwell School, mainly Economics, Public Administration, and Sociology. This collection of specialists brings a depth of experience and skill to research. We believe this interdisciplinary approach can provide the most comprehensive assessment of many social problems thereby serving as a resource to policymakers, allowing them to make informed decisions. CPR is the home of the Education Finance and Accountability Program (EFAP) and houses the Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion and the Maxwell X Lab.

Camp Econometrics is an annual conference that brings together econometricians and empirical economists from a wide range of universities and institutions around the world. It is hosted by Professor Badi Baltagi and the Center for Policy Research. The goals of the conference each year are to:

  1. discuss issues in econometrics, both applied and theoretical;
  2. present papers for comments by participants;
  3. stimulate student interest in econometrics and;
  4. help students develop their technical presentation skills by encouraging them to participate in the meetings, contribute to poster sessions, and present papers.

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2016

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Accounting for Disadvantaged Students in Foundation Aid Formulas, John Yinger

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All New Yorkers Would Benefit from a Fairer School Aid Formula, John Yinger

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A Petition for Education Scholars, John Yinger

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Longitudinal Student Data and State Education Aid Formulas, John Yinger

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New York State’s Missing Data, John Yinger

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Undermining Educational Equity in New Jersey, John Yinger

2015

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Estimation of Heterogeneous Panels with Structural Breaks, Badi Baltagi

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Estimation and Identification of Change Points in Panel Models with Nonstationary or Stationary Regressors and Error Term, Badi H. Baltagi, Chihwa Kao, and Long Liu

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Testing for Spatial Lag and Spatial Error Dependence in a Fixed Effects Panel Data Model Using Double Length Artificial Regressions, Badi H. Baltagi and Long Liu

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Cointegration of Matched Home Purchases and Rental Price Indexes –Evidence from Singapore, Badi Baltagi and Jing Li

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Adaptive Elastic Net GMM Estimation with Many Invalid Moment Conditions: Simultaneous Model and Moment Selection, Mehmet Caner, Xu Han, and Yoonseok Lee

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Wrong Skewness and Finite Sample Correction, Qu Feng, William C. Horrace, and Guiying Laura Wu

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Still “Saving Babies”? The Impact of Child Medicaid Expansions on High School Completion Rates, Lincoln H. Groves

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Estimating the Effects of the Minimum Wage in a Developing Country: A Density Discontinuity Design Approach, Hugo Jales

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Averaged Instrumental Variables Estimators, Yoonseok Lee and Yu Zhou

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The Behavioral Impacts of Property Tax Relief: Salience or Framing?, Phuong Nguyen-Hoang and John Yinger

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Health, Medical Innovation and Disability Insurance: A Case Study of HIV Antiretroviral Therapy, Perry Singleton

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A Circuit Breaker for New York State?, John Yinger

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Catching Up on California, John Yinger

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Income Sorting, John Yinger

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In Memory of Wallace Oates, John Yinger

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The Renter Effect Part 1: Explanation, John Yinger

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The Renter Effect Part 2: Evidence, John Yinger

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The Renter Effect Part 3: Policy Implications, John Yinger

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Unequal Access to Good Schools in New York State, John Yinger

2014

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Identification and Estimation of Outcome Response with Heterogeneous Treatment Externalities, Tiziano Arduini, Eleonora Patacchini, and Edoardo Rainone

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Sources of Productivity Spillovers: Panel Data Evidence from China, Badi H. Baltagi, Peter H. Egger, and Michaela Kesina

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On Testing for Sphericity with Non-normality in a Fixed Effects Panel Data Model, Badi H. Baltagi, Chihwa Kao, and Bin Peng

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The Spatial Polish Wage Curve with Gender Effects: Evidence from the Polish Labor Survey, Badi H. Baltagi and Bartlomiej Rokicki

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Hospital Treatment Rates and Spill-over Effects: Does Ownership Matter?, Badi H. Baltagi and Yin -Fang Yen

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Welfare Reform and Children’s Health, Badi H. Baltagi and Yin -Fang Yen

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Random Effects, Fixed Effects and Hausman’s Test for the Generalized Mixed Regressive Spatial Autoregressive Panel, Badi Baltagi and Long Liu

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Improving Public Health Safety Nets after an Economic Recession, Sanjay Basu

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Firm-level Productivity Spillovers in China’s Chemical Industry: A Spatial Hausman-Taylor Approach, Peter H. Egger, Badi H. Baltagi, and Michaela Kesina

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Endogenous Network Production Functions with Selectivity, William C. Horrace, Xiaodong Liu, and Eleonora Patacchini

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A Laplace Stochastic Frontier Model, William C. Horrace and Christopher F. Parmeter

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Treatment Effects with Unobserved Heterogeneity: A Set Identification Approach, Sung Jae Jun, Yoonseok Lee, and Youngki Shin

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Test of Hypotheses in a Time Trend Panel Data Model with Serially Correlated Error Component Disturbances, Chihwa Kao, Badi H. Baltagi, and Long Liu

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Poverty and Proficiency in New York State, John Yinger

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School Spending Matters!, John Yinger

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The Final Verdict on STAR?, John Yinger

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The Graduation Rate Tragedy in New York State, John Yinger

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The Impact of Education Finance Reform on Student Achievement in Massachusetts, John Yinger

2013

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Hedonic Housing Prices in Paris: An Unbalanced Spatial Lag Pseudo-Panel Model with Nested Random Effects, Badi H. Baltagi, Georges Bresson, and Jean-Michel Etienne

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Spatial Lag Models with Nested Random Effects: An Instrumental Variable Procedure with an Application to English House Prices, Badi H. Baltagi, Bernard Fingleton, and Alain Pirotte

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Heteroskedasticity and Non-Normality Robust LM Tests for Spatial Dependence, Badi H. Baltagi and Zhenlin Yang

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The Effects of School Desegregation on Teenage Fertility, Robert Bifulco, Leonard M. Lopoo, and Sun Jung Oh

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Pathways to Tax Reform Revisited, Leonard E. Burman

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Effects of Increased Variety on Demand, Pricing, and Welfare, William C. Horrace, Rui Hang, and Jeffrey M. Perloff

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Expected Efficiency Ranks from Parametric Stochastic Frontier Models, William C. Horrace and Seth Richards-Shubik

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Health Promotions 2.0: The Future of Wellness Programs in America, Rajiv Kumar

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Model Selection in the Presence of Incidental Parameters, Yoonseok Lee and Peter C.B. Phillips

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Measuring Social Unrest Based on Income Distribution, Yoonseok Lee and Donggyun Shin

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The Allocation of Time in Sleep: A Social Network Model with Sampled Data, Xiaodong Liu, Eleonora Patacchini, and Edoardo Rainone

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Palliative Care and the Health Care Crisis in the United States: A Candid Conversation With Dr. Diane Meier, Diane E. Meier

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Medicaid Expansion, Long-Term Care Financing in Retirement States and the Post World War II Birth Cohort, Toni P. Miles

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Peer Effects in the Demand for Housing Quality, Eleonora Patacchini and Giuseppe Venanzoni-Sapienza

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Health Information and Social Security Entitlements, Perry Singleton

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A Tribute to William D. Duncombe, John Yinger

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Casinos Would Not Help New York’s Schools, John Yinger

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Introduction: Education Finance in New York State, John Yinger

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More Trouble for the New York State Education Finance System, John Yinger

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Redlining in California School Bond Ratings, John Yinger

2012

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Integrating Care: Improving Overall Health by Integrating Behavioral/Mental Health Care into Primary Care, Macaran A. Baird

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A Robust Hausman-Taylor Estimator, Badi Baltagi and Georges Bresson

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Small Sample Properties and Pretest Estimation of a Spatial Hausman-Taylor Model, Badi Baltagi, Peter H. Egger, and Michaela Kesina

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A Lagrange Multiplier Test for Cross-Sectional Dependence in a Fixed Effects Panel Data Model, Badi Baltagi, Qu Feng, and Chihwa Kao

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On the Estimation and Testing of Fixed Effects Panel Data Models with Weak Instruments, Badi Baltagi, Chihwa Kao, and Long Liu

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Estimation and Prediction in the Random Effects Model with AR(P) Remainder Disturbances, Badi Baltagi and Long Liu

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The Hausman-Taylor Panel Data Model with Serial Correlation, Badi Baltagi and Long Liu

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Standardized LM Test for Spatial Error Dependence in Linear or Panel Regressions, Badi Baltagi and Zhenlin Yankg

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Testing for Breaks in Cointegrated Panels, Chihwa Kao, Lorenzo Trapani, and Giovanni Urga

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Testing for Instability in Covariance Sturctures, Chihwa Kao, Lorenzo Trapani, and Giovanni Urga

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Family Structure and the Economic Wellbeing of Children, Leonard M. Lopoo and Thomas DeLeire

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Quality of Life for All Ages, By Design. A Conversation with Patricia Moore, Patricia Moore

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A Missed Opportunity in California, John Yinger

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Four Flaws in New York State’s Property Taxes and How to Fix Them: Levy Limits, John Yinger

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Four Flaws in New York State’s Property Taxes and How to Fix Them: Small Assessment Units, John Yinger

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Four Flaws in New York State’s Property Taxes and How to Fix Them: STAR, John Yinger

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Four Flaws in New York State’s Property Taxes and How to Fix Them: The Homestead Option, John Yinger

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Holding Tax Shares Constant Is a Bad Idea: What the Homestead Tax Option in New York Can Teach Us about Romney’s Income Tax Proposal, John Yinger

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Reforming State Education Aid in New York State, John Yinger

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Still Unknown: The Impact of School Capital on Student Performance, John Yinger

2011

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The Turkish Wage Curve; Evidence from the Household Labor Force Survey, Badi H. Baltagi, Yusuf Soner Baskaya, and Timur Hulagu

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Test of Hypotheses In Panel Data Models When The Regressor And Disturbances Are Possibly Nonstationary, Badi H. Baltagi, Chihwa Kao, and Sanggon Na

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Instrumental Variable Estimation of a Spatial Autoregressive Panel Model with Random Effects, Badi H. Baltagi and Long Liu

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Medical Technology And The Production Of Health Care, Badi H. Baltagi, Francesco Moscone, and Elisa Tosetti

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Losers and Losers: Some Demographics of Medical Malpractice Tort Reforms, Andrew I. Friedson and Thomas J. Kniesner

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Social Interactions in the Labor Market, Andrew Grodner, Thomas J. Kniesner, and John A. Bishop

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Testing for Breaks in Cointegrated Panels with Common and Idiosyncratic Stochastic Trends, Chihwa Kao, Lorenzo Trapani, and Giovanni Urga

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Electronic Health Records; Delivering the Right Information to the Right Health Care Providers at the Right Time., William M. Tierney

2010

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A Dynamic Spatial Panel Data Approach to the German Wage Curve, Badi H. Baltagi, Uwe Blien, and Katja Wolf

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Health Care Expenditure and Income in the OECD Reconsidered: Evidence from Panel Data, Badi H. Baltagi and Francesco Moscone

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Panel Data Inference under Spatial Dependence, Badi H. Baltagi and Alain Pirotte

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Panel Data Inference under Spatial Dependence, Badi H. Baltagi and Alain Pirotte

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Seemingly Unrelated Regressions with Spatial Error Components, Badi H. Baltagi and Alain Pirotte

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Can Propensity Score Analysis Relplicate estimates based on random evaluations of school choice? a within-study comparison, Robert Bifulco

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Our Grandparents, Our Parents, Our Future Selves: Optimizing Function in Old Age., Thomas Michael Gill

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Alternative Technical Efficiency Measures: Skew, Bias, and Scale, William Clinton Horrace and Qu Feng

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The Value of a Statistical Life: Evidence from Panel Data, Thomas J. Kniesner, W. Kip Viscusi, and Christopher Woock