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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2005

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The Unintended Consequences of Property Tax Relief, John Yinger

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School District Consolidation, John Yinger

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Whole-School Reform, John Yinger

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A Failing Grade for 13 Governors, John Yinger

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Holding Accountability Programs Accountable, John Yinger

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On the Estimation and Inference of a Panel Cointegration Model with Cross-Sectional Dependence, Jushan Bai and Chihwa Kao

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Joint LM Test for Homoskedasticity in a One-Way error Component Model, Badi H. Baltagi, Georges Bresson, and Alain Pirotte

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Estimating Models of Complex FDI: Are There Third-Country Effects?, Badi H. Baltagi, Peter Egger, and Michael Pfaffermayr

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Do Credit Market Barriers Exist for Minority and Women Entrepreneurs?, Lloyd Blanchard, Bo Zhao, and John Yinger

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Labor Supply with Social Interactions: Econometric Estimates and Their Tax Policy Implications, Andrew Grodner and Thomas Kniesner

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Ranking Inequality: Applications of Multivariate Subset Selection, William C. Horrace, Joseph T. Marchand, and Timothy M. Smeeding

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Simulation-Based Two-Step Estimation with Endogenous Regressors, Kamhon Kan and Chihwa Kao

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Cox-McFadden Partial and Marginal Likelihoods for the Proportional Hazard Model with Random Effects, Jan Ondrich

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Allocating Resources within a Big City School District: New York City after Campaign for Fiscal Equity v. New York, Ross Rubenstein and Lawrence Miller

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Spending Health Care Dollars Wisely: Can Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Help?, Milton C. Weinstein

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Calculating the Added Costs of Educating Disadvantaged Students, John Yinger

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Why Do Real Estate Brokers Continue to Discriminate? Evidence from the 2000 Housing Discrimination Study, Bo Zhao, Jan Ondrich, and John Yinger

2004

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Estimating the Cost of an Adequate Education, John Yinger

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The CFE Case, John Yinger

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The Effect of Income Taxation on Consumption and Labor Supply, James P. Ziliak and Thomas J. Kniesner

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Social Interaction and the Health Insurance Choices of the Elderly, Eldar Beiseitov, Jeffrey D. Kubik, and John R. Moran

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Are the Benefits of Medicine Worth What We Pay for It?, David M. Cutler

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How Much More Does a Disadvantaged Student Cost?, William D. Duncombe and John Yinger

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Education Finance Reform in New York: Calculating the Cost of a 'Sound Basic Education' in New York City, William Duncombe and John Yinger

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Welfare State Expenditures and the Distribution of Child Opportunities, Irwin Garfinkel, Lee Rainwater, and Timothy M. Smeeding

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Do We Invest Less Time in Children? Trends in Parental Time in Selected Industrialized Countries Since the 1960's, Anne H. Gauthier, Timothy M. Smeeding, and Frank F. Furstenberg

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Taxes, Deadweight Loss and Intertemporal Female Labor Supply: Evidence from Panel Data, Anil Kumar

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Duration Data from the National Long-Term Care Survey: Foundation for a Dynamic Multiple-Indicator Model of ADL Dependency, James N. Laditka and Douglas A. Wolf

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Maternal Employment and Adolescent Self-Care, Leonard M. Lopoo

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Income and the Use of Prescription Drugs by the Elderly: Evidence from the Notch Cohorts, John R. Moran and Kosali Ilayperuma Simon

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Social Integration of Older Immigrants in 21st Century America, Janet Wilmoth

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School Finance, Equivalent Educational Expenditure, and Income Distribution: Equal Dollars or Equal Chances for Success?, Kathryn Wilson, Kristina T. Lambright, and Timothy M. Smeeding

2003

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Does Whole-School Reform Boost Student Performance? The Case of New York City, Robert Bifulco, William Duncombe, and John Yinger

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On the Measurment of Job Risk in Hedonic Wage Models, Dan Black and Thomas J. Kniesner

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Do Public Expenditures Improve Child Outcomes in the U.S.? A Comparison across Fifty States, Kristen Harknett, Irwin Garfinkel, Jay Bainbridge, and Timothy Smeeding

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Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth: The Proof Is in the Productivity, Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Chihwa Kao

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Data Mining Mining Data: MSHA Enforcement Efforts, Underground Coal Mine Safety, and New Health Policy Implications, Thomas J. Kniesner and John D. Leeth

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Psychotherapy in Antidepressant Patients, Thomas J. Kniesner, Regina H. Powers, and Thomas W. Croghan

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The Changing American Hospital in the Twenty-first Century, Ralph W. Muller

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Agglomeration, Labor Supply, and the Urban Rat Race, Stuart S. Rosenthal and William C. Strange

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Geography, Industrial Organization, and Agglomeration, Stuart S. Rosenthal and William C. Strange

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Helping Outstanding Pupils Educationally: Public Policy Issues of the Georgia HOPE Scholarship Program and the Lottery for Education, Ross Rubenstein

2002

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Why Relative Economic Position Does not Matter: A Cost Benenit Analysis, Thomas J. Kniesner and W. Kip Viscusi

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Provider Type and Depression Treatment Adequacy, Thomas J. Kniesner, Regina H. Powers, and Thomas W. Croghan

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Contracting with Limited Commitment: Evidence from Employment-Based Health Insurance Contracts, Keith J. Crocker and John R. Moran

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Pharmaceuticals: Access, Cost, Pricing, and Directions for the Future, Patricia M. Danzon and Stephen B. Soumerai

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Estimating the Cost of an Adequate Education in New York, William Duncombe

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Looking the Other Way: A Critique of the Fair-Lending Enforcement System and a Plan to Fix It, Stephen L. Ross and John Yinger

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Globalization, Inequality, and the Rich Countries of the G-20: Evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), Timothy M. Smeeding

2001

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Explicit Versus Implicit Income, Thomas J. Kniesner and James P. Ziliak

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Have 401(k)s Raised Household Savings? Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study, Gary V. Engelhart

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Pre-Retirement Lump-Sum Pension Distributions and Retirement Income Security: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study, Gary V. Engelhart

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Intergenerational Labor Market and Welfare Consequences of Poor Health, Thomas J. Kniesner and Anthony T. LoSasso

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Intergenerational Labor Market and Welfare Consequences of Poor Health, Thomas J. Kniesner and Anthony T. LoSasso

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Determinants of Medical Costs Following a Diagnosis of Depression, Regina H. Powers, Thomas J. Kniesner, and Thomas W. Croghan

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Unfinished Business: Inadequate Health Coverage for Privately Insured, Seriously Ill Children, Nancy Swigonski, Eleanor D. Kinney, Deborah A. Freund, and Thomas J. Kniesner

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The Role of Microsimulation in Longitudinal Data Analysis, Douglas A. Wolf

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Private Philanthropy and the Economics of Public Radio, Arthur C. Brooks

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Does School District Consolidation Cut Costs?, William Duncombe and John Yinger

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Nominal Loss Aversion, Housing Equity Constraints, and Household Mobility: Evidence from the United States, Gary Engelhardt

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How Does Dipping into Your Pension Affect Your Retirement Wealth?, Gary V. Engelhardt

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Asymptotic Inference in Censored Regression Models Revisited, Chihwa Kao

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Geography, Industrial Organization, and Agglomeration Heteroskedasticity Models with Estimates of the Variances of Foreign Exchange Rates, Chihwa Kao

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Some New Approaches to Formulate and Estimate Friction-Bernoulli Jump Diffusion and Friction-GARCH, Chihwa Kao

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Can Policy Changes Be Treated as Natural Experiments? Evidence from State Excise Taxes, Jeffrey D. Kubik and John R. Moran

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Lethal Elections: Gubernatorial Politics and the Timing of Executions, Jeffrey D. Kubik and John R. Moran

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United States Poverty in a Cross-National Context, Timothy Smeeding, Lee Rainwater, and Gary Burtles

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Fixing New York's State Education Aid Dinosaur: A Proposal, John Yinger

2000

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Antidepressent Treatment for Depression: Total Charges and Therapy Duration, Deborah G. Dobrez, Catherine A. Melfi, Thomas W. Croghan, Thomas J. Kniesner, and Robert L. Obenchain

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Personal Income Taxes and the Growth of Small Firms, Robert Carroll, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Mark Rider, and Harvey S. Rosen

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Chasing the Elderly: Can State and Local Governments Attract Recent Retirees?, William Duncombe, Mark Robbins, and Douglas A. Wolf

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Association between Body Size and Mortality in Later Life, Christine L. Himes

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Patterns of Time use of People Age 55 to 64 Years Old: Some Cross-National Comparisons, Anne H. Gauthier and Timothy M. Smeeding

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Nonstationary Panels, Cointegration in Panels and Dynamic Panels: A Survey, Badi H. Baltagi and Chihwa Kao

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Slippery When Wet: The Effects of Local Alcohol Access Laws on Highway Safety, Reagan Anne Baughman, Michael Edward Conlin, Stacy Dickert-Conlin, and John V. Pepper

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How Well Can We Track Cohabitation Using the SIPP? A Consideration of Direct and Inferred Measures, Reagan Anne Baughman, Stacy Dickert-Conlin, and Scott Houser

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Are We Understating the Impact of Economic Conditions on Welfare Rolls?, Dan A. Black, Terra G. McKinnish, and Seth G. Sanders

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Microdata Panel Data and Public Policy: National and Cross-National Perspectives, Richard V. Burkhauser

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Microdata Panel Data and Public Policy: National and Cross-National Perspectives, Robert Carroll, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Harvey S. Rosen, and Mark Rider

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Testing for Structural Change of a Time Trend Regression in Panel Data, Jamie Emerson and Chihwa Kao

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Medicaid, Managed Care, and Kids. 12th Annual Herbert Lourie Memorial Lecture on Health Policy, Deborah A. Freund

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The Impact of Hospital Quality-Related Practices on Health Outcomes, Deborah A. Freund and Frank R. Lichtenberg

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Pharmaceuticals and the Elderly: A Comparative Analysis, Deborah A. Freund, Don Wilson, Grant D. Reeher, and Bernie O'Brien

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Health Promotion for Older Adults: What Is the Potential?, Linda P. Fried

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Generational Conflict, Human Capital Accumulation, and Economic Growth, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Mary E. Lovely, and Mehmet Serkan Tosun

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Wavelet-Based Testing for Serial Correlation of Unknown Form in Panel Models, Chihwa Kao

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Workplace Safety Policy: Past, Present, and Future, Thomas J. Kniesner and John D. Leeth

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Tax Reform and Automatic Stabilization, Thomas J. Kniesner and James P. Ziliak

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Now You See It, Now You Don't: Why Do Real Estate Agents Withhold Available Houses from Black Customers?, Jan Ondrich, John Yinger, and Stephen Ross

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Chronic Illness and Health Insurance-Related Job Lock, Kevin T. Stroupe, Eleanor D. Kinney, and Thomas J. Kniesner

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Does Chronic Illness Affect the Adequacy of Health Insurance Coverage?, Kevin T. Stroupe, Eleanor D. Kinney, and Thomas J. Kniesner

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Worldwide Population Aging: Endogenous Policy Formation and Capital Market Transmissions in the Presence of Symmetric Demographic Shocks, Mehmet Serkan Tosun

1999

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Shrinking Kin Networks in Italy Due to Sustained Low Fertility, Cecilia Tomassini and Douglas A. Wolf

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Demographics of the Gay and Lesbian Population in the United States: Evidence from Available Systematic Date Sources, Dan Black, Gary Gates, Seth Sanders, and Lowell Taylor

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Employee-Based Versus Employer-Based Subsidies to Low-Wage Workers: A Public Finance Perspective, Stacy Dickert-Conlin and Douglas Holtz-Eakin

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Estimating the Income Effect on Retirement, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, David Joulfaian, and Harvey S. Rosen

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Exploring the Effect of Welfare Reform Implementation on the Attainment of Policy Goals: An Examination of Michigan's Counties, Jodi Sandfort

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Stability and Change in the Living Arrangements of Older Italian Women, 1990-1995, Cecilia Tomassini and Douglas A. Wolf

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A Time-Series Econometric Model of the Upstate New York Economy, Donald H. Dutkowsky, James Follain, and Seth Giertz

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The Evolving Practice of Medicine: A View from the Front Line, Robert M. Corwin, Thomas H. Dennison, Patricia B. Franklin, and Paul B. Ginsburg