At the Center for Policy Research (CPR), experts from diverse fields explore policy issues through a range of different disciplinary lenses—primarily economics, public administration, political science, and sociology.

Our community includes faculty, research staff, and students who conduct and support research on pressing problems related to education, labor, health, social welfare, the environment, and more. Our goal is to develop knowledge that enables leaders to break through complexity in order to make meaningful policy decisions and provide effective solutions.

CPR is the home of the Center for Policy Design and Governance (CPDG), the Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion and Population Health, the Maxwell X Lab, and the Program on Educational Equity and Policy (PEEPs).

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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2018

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Contagious Exporting and Foreign Ownership: Evidence from Firms in Shanghai using a Bayesian Spatial Bivariat Probit Model, Badi H. Baltagi, Peter H. Egger, and Michaela Kesina

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How Fair Is the New York State Education Aid System?, John Yinger and Emily Gutierrez

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Rental Market Discrimination against Same-Sex Couples: Evidence from an Email Correspondence Audit, David Schwegman

2017

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Let Them Eat Lunch: The Impact of Universal Free Meals on Student Performance, Amy Ellen Schwartz and Michah W. Rothbart

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Updated Pupil Weights for New York's Foundation Aid Formula, John Yinger and Emily Gutierrez

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The Opioid Epidemic: A Practice and Policy Perspective, Gail D'Onofrio

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Robust Linear Static Panel Data Models Using ε-Contamination, Badi H. Baltagi, Georges Bresson, Anoop Chaturvedi, and Guy Lacroix

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Network Effects on Labor Contracts of Internal Migrants in China- A Spatial Autoregressive Model, Badi H. Baltagi, Ying Deng, and Xiangjun Ma

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Determinants of Firm-Level Domestic Sales and Exports with Spillovers: Evidence from China, Badi H. Baltagi, Peter H. Egger, and Michaela Kesina

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Pregnancy Medicaid Expansions and Fertility: Differentiating between the Intensive and Extensive Margins, Lincoln H. Groves, Sarah Hamersma, and Leonard M. Lopoo

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Labor Unions and Occupational Safety: Event-Study Analysis Using Union Elections, Ling Li, Shawn Rohlin, and Perry Singleton

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Financing Central Cities: The Economics Underlying Fiscal Strategy Options, Michael Wasylenko

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What are the Financial Implications of Public Quality Disclosure? Evidence from New York City’s Restaurant Food Safety Grading Policy, Rachel Meltzer, Michah W. Rothbart, Amy Ellen Schwartz, Thad Calabrese, Diana Silver, Tod Mijanovich, and Meryle Weinstein

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The Effect of Workplace Inspections on Worker Safety, Ling Li and Perry Singleton

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The Effects of State and Federal Mental Health Parity Laws on Working Time, Jinqi Ye

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Research Informs Debate on Cuomo’s Excelsior Scholarship Proposal, John Yinger, Robert Bifulco, and Ross Rubenstein

2016

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Measuring the Financial Shocks of Natural Disasters: A Panel Study of U.S. States, Qing Miao, Yilin Hou, and Michael Abrigo

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Retention Heterogeneity in New York City Schools, Douglas Almond, Ajin Lee, and Amy Ellen Schwartz

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The Identification and Estimation of a Large Factor Model with Structural Instability, Badi H. Baltagi, Chihwa Kao, and Fa Wang

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The Health Care Expenditure and Income: A Global Perspective, Badi H. Baltagi, Raffaele Lagravinese, Francesco Moscone, and Elisa Tosetti

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Stationary Points for Parametric Stochastic Frontier Models, William C. Horrace and Ian A. Wright

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The Academic Effects of Chronic Exposure to Neighborhood Violence, Amy Ellen Schwartz, Agustina Laurito, Johanna Lacoe, Patrick Sharkey, and Ingrid Gould Ellen

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Incentivizing Healthy Eating in Children: An Investigation of the “Ripple” and “Temporal” Effects of Reward-Based Interventions, Saied Toossi

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A Roadmap For Reducing Gun Violence in America, Daniel Webster

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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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So Many Hospitals, So Little Information: How Hospital Value Based Purchasing is a Game of Chance, Andrew I. Friedson, William C. Horrace, and Allison F. Marier

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A Framework for Measurement Error in Self-Reported Health Conditions, Ling Li and Perry Singleton

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Longitudinal Student Data and State Education Aid Formulas, John Yinger

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Undermining Educational Equity in New Jersey, John Yinger

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The Dynamic Effect of Disability on Marriage: Evidence from the Social Security Disability Insurance Program, Ling Li and Perry Singleton

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A Petition for Education Scholars, John Yinger

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New York State’s Missing Data, John Yinger

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Asymptotic Power of the Sphericity Test Under Weak and Strong Factors in a Fixed Effects Panel Data Model, Badi H. Baltagi, Chihwa Kao, and Fa Wang

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Prediction in a Generalized Spatial Panel Data Model with Serial Correlation, Badi H. Baltagi and Long Liu

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Bayesian Spatial Bivariate Panel Probit Estimation, Badi Baltagi, Peter H. Egger, and Michaela Kesina

2015

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The Behavioral Impacts of Property Tax Relief: Salience or Framing?, Phuong Nguyen-Hoang and 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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Cointegration of Matched Home Purchases and Rental Price Indexes –Evidence from Singapore, Badi Baltagi and Jing Li

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

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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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Catching Up on California, John Yinger

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

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The Renter Effect Part 3: Policy Implications, John Yinger

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The Renter Effect Part 2: Evidence, John Yinger

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The Renter Effect Part 1: Explanation, John Yinger

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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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Averaged Instrumental Variables Estimators, Yoonseok Lee and Yu Zhou

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

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Estimation of Heterogeneous Panels with Structural Breaks, Badi Baltagi

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A Circuit Breaker for New York State?, John Yinger

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

2014

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

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

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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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School Spending Matters!, John Yinger

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

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

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

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Poverty and Proficiency in New York State, John Yinger

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

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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Health Information and Social Security Entitlements, Perry Singleton

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

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

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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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Introduction: Education Finance in New York State, John Yinger

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

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

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

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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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Redlining in California School Bond Ratings, John Yinger

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

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A Tribute to William D. Duncombe, John Yinger

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Pathways to Tax Reform Revisited, Leonard E. Burman

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

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

2012

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

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A Missed Opportunity in California, 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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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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Reforming State Education Aid in New York State, John Yinger

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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