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Center for Policy Research

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.

Center for Policy Research - Education Finance and Accountability Program

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:

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

Camp Econometrics

2015 2015

A Circuit Breaker for New York State?, John Yinger

Catching Up on California, John Yinger

Income Sorting, John Yinger

In Memory of Wallace Oates, John Yinger

The Renter Effect Part 1: Explanation, John Yinger

The Renter Effect Part 2: Evidence, John Yinger

The Renter Effect Part 3: Policy Implications, John Yinger

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

2014 2014

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Poverty and Proficiency in New York State, John Yinger

School Spending Matters!, John Yinger

The Final Verdict on STAR?, John Yinger

The Graduation Rate Tragedy in New York State, John Yinger

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

2013 2013

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

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

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

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

Pathways to Tax Reform Revisited, Leonard E. Burman

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Health Information and Social Security Entitlements, Perry Singleton

A Tribute to William D. Duncombe, John Yinger

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

Introduction: Education Finance in New York State, John Yinger

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

Redlining in California School Bond Ratings, John Yinger

2012 2012

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Missed Opportunity in California, John Yinger

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

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

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

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

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

Reforming State Education Aid in New York State, John Yinger

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

2011 2011

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2010 2010

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Palliative Care: A Novel Solution to the Healthcare Crisis, R. Sean Morrison

2009 2009

Testing the Fixed Effects Restrictions? A Monte Carlo Study of Chamberlain's Minimum Chi-Squared Test, Badi H. Baltagi, Georges Bresson, and Alain Pirotte

A Generalized Spatial Panel Data Model with Random Effects, Badi H. Baltagi, Peter Egger, and Michael Pfaffermayr

Testing for Sphericity in a Fixed Effects Panel Data Model (Revised July 2009), Badi H. Baltagi, Qu Feng, and Chihwa Kao

A Note on the Application of EC2SLS and EC3SLS Estimators in Panel Data Models, Badi H. Baltagi and Long Liu

Universal Health Insurance Coverage: Progress and Issues., Jonathan Gruber

Policy Relevant Heterogeneity in the Value of Statistical Life: New Evidence from Panel Data Quantile Regressions, Thomas J. Kniesner and W. Kip Viscusi

Physician Sovereignty: The Dangerous Persistence of an Obsolete Idea, David M. Lawrence

The Value of Statistical Life: Pursuing the Deadliest Catch, Kurt E. Schnier, William C. Horrace, and Ronald G. Felthoven

The Effective Target of the Social Security Disability Benefits Reform Act of 1984, Perry Douglas Singleton

Hedonic Markets and Explicit Demands: Bid-Function Envelopes for Public Services, Neighborhood Amenities, and Commuting Costs, John Yinger

2008 2008

New Evidence on the Dynamic Wage Curve for Western Germany: 1980-2004, Badi H. Baltagi, Uwe Blien, and Katja Wolf

Financial Development and Openness: Evidence from Panel Data, Badi H. Baltagi, Panicos O. Demetriades, and Siong Hook Law

Testing for Heteroskedasticity and Serial Correlation in a Random Effects Panel Data Model, Badi H. Baltagi, Byoung Cheol Jung, and Seuck Heun Song

Testing for Random Effects and Spatial Lag Dependence in Panel Data Models, Badi H. Baltagi and Long Liu

Testing for Heteroskedasticity and Spatial Correlation in a Random Effects Panel Data Model, Badi H. Baltagi, Seuck Heun Song, and Jae Hyeok Kwon

Public School Choice and Integration: Evidence from Durham, North Carolina, Robert Bifulco, Helen F. Ladd, and Stephen Ross

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