- Center for Policy Research - Education Finance and Accountability Program
- Center for Policy Research - Policy Briefs
- Center for Policy Research - Reports
- Center for Policy Research - Working Papers
- Center for Policy Research - Aging Studies Program Papers
- Center for Policy Research - Income Security Policy
- Center for Policy Research - Metropolitan Studies Program
- Center for Policy Research - Papers in Microsimulation
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.
2025
Estimation and Testing in a Fixed Effects Panel Data Model with Serially Correlated Error Component Disturbances, Badi H. Baltagi and Long Liu
How Can Public Sector Employers Improve the Effectiveness of Email Recruitment?, Leonard M. Lopoo, Robert Bifulco, Hannah Patnaik, Ashraf Haque, Christine Ashby, and George Theoharis
Two-Stage Least Squares Estimation in a Spatial Lag Model under a Complete Bipartite Network, Badi H. Baltagi and Long Liu
Nonstationary Heterogeneous Panels with Multiple Structural Changes, Badi H. Baltagi, Qu Feng, and Wei Wang
Do Schools Have the Capacity to Provide Free Meals to Every Student?, Michah W. Rothbart, Jeehee Han, and Zac Reeves
2024
The Meatpacking Industry Needs Stronger Worker Protections and Enhanced Oversight, India Luxton and Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern
Waiving Physical Presence Requirements During the COVID-19 Pandemic Increased WIC Caseloads, Colleen Heflin, William Clay Fannin, Leonard M. Lopoo, and Camille Barbin
How Can We Improve Educational Experiences for Refugee Students in Poland?, Iwona B. Franczak and Amy C. Lutz
How Does the Reauthorization of the Farm Bill Impact SNAP?, Colleen Heflin and Camille Barbin
Participating in Childcare Subsidy Programs Increases Employment and Annual Earnings for Working Parents, William Clay Fannin, Colleen Heflin, Taryn Morrissey, and Siobhan O'Keefe
Testing for Spatial Correlation under a Complete Bipartite Network, Badi H. Baltagi and Long Liu
States’ COVID-19 Restrictions were Associated with Increases in Drug Overdose Deaths in 2020, Douglas A. Wolf, Shannon M. Monnat, Jennifer Karas Montez, Emily E. Wiemers, and Elyse Grossman
Risk Perception, Dread, and the Value of Statistical Life: Evidence from Occupational Fatalities, Perry Singleton
Adopting the Standard Medical Deduction Increased State SNAP Enrollment and Benefits, Yuwei Zhang, Jun Li, Dongmei Zuo, and Colleen Heflin
Waiving SNAP Interviews during the COVID-19 Pandemic Increased SNAP Caseloads, Colleen Heflin, William Clay Fannin, Leonard M. Lopoo, and Siobhan O'Keefe
Tax Streams, Land Rents, and Urban Land Allocation, Yugang Tang, Zhihao Su, Yilin Hou, and Zhendong Yin
2023
Stronger Regulations on Air Pollution Could Reduce Cardiovascular Disease Mortality Rates, Yue Sun
Behavioral Science Interventions Could Increase SNAP Comprehension and Awareness Among Military Families, Colleen Heflin, Hannah Patnaik, Leonard M. Lopoo, and Siobhan O'Keefe
The Mundlak Spatial Estimator, Badi H. Baltagi
Treatment for Mental Health and Substance Use: Spillovers to Police Safety, Monica Deza
Unemployment, Alcohol, and Tobacco Use: Separating State Dependence from Unobserved Heterogeneity, Monica Deza
COVID-19 Has Strengthened the Relationship Between Alcohol Consumption and Domestic Violence, Monica Deza, Aaron Chalfin, and Shooshan Danagoulian
COVID-19 Mortality Rates were Higher in States that Limited Governments from Enacting Public Health Emergency Orders, Xue Zhang, Mildred Warner, and Gen Meredith
Beyond the “Model Minority” Mirage: How Does Positive Bias Affect Asian Students and Other Students of Color?, Ying Shi and Maria Zhu
Affirmative Action is a Successful Policy for Diversity in College Graduation, Amy Lutz, Pamela R. Bennett, and Rebecca Wang
How Did Healthcare Affordability Change for U.S. Adults with Intellectual Disability After the Implementation of the Affordable Care Act?, Nastassia Vaitsiakhovich
Moving Policies Toward Racial and Ethnic Equality: The Case of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, Hugo B. Jales, Judith Liu, and Norbert L. Wilson
Medicaid-Insured Older Adults on SNAP May Have Stronger Medication Adherence, Colleen Heflin, Chinedum O. Ojinnaka, Irma A. Arteaga, Leslie Hodges, and Gabriella Alphonso
The Two-way Mundlak Estimator, Badi H. Baltagi
Children in Economically Disadvantaged Households Have Lower Early Literacy Skills than their Higher-Income Peers, Michah W. Rothbart, Colleen Heflin, and Gabriella Alphonso
Racial Disparities in School Poverty and Spending: Examining Allocations Within and Across Districts, Robert Bifulco and Sarah Souders
America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth: A Fireside Chat with Sam Quinones, Sam Quinones
2022
Robust Dynamic Space-Time Panel Data Models Using ε- contamination: An Application to Crop Yields and Climate Change, Badi H. Baltagi, Georges Bresson, Anoop Chaturvedi, and Guy Lacroix
The Fiscal Sustainability of Retiree Health Care Benefits Among New York State School Districts, Robert Bifulco, Minch Lewis, and Iuliia Shybalkina
“Model Minorities” in the Classroom? Positive Evaluation Bias towards Asian Students and its Consequences, Ying Shi and Maria Zhu
Cities in a Pandemic: Evidence from China, Badi H. Baltagi, Ying Deng, Jing Li, and Zhenlin Yang
Beyond the Classroom: The Broader Effects of Public Preschool Expansion on Children’s Early Educational Experiences and Early Literacy Skills, Michah Rothbart and Taryn Morrissey
The Conditional Mode in Parametric Frontier Models, William C. Horrace, Hyunseok Jung, and Yi Yang
LASSO for Stochastic Frontier Models with Many Efficient Firms, William C. Horrace, Hyunseok Jung, and Yoonseok Lee
Bayesian Estimation of Multivariate Panel Probits with Higher-order Network Interdependence and an Application to Firms' Global Market Participation in Guangdong, Badi H. Baltagi, Peter H. Egger, and Michaela Kesina
Spatial Wage Curves for Formal and Informal Workers in Turkey, Badi H. Baltagi and Yusuf Soner Başkaya
Health Policy, Equity, and the Lead Poisoning Crisis: A Conversation with Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, Mona Hanna-Attisha
The Link Between Gentrification, Children’s Egocentric Food Environment, and Obesity, Christopher Rick, Jeehee Han, Spencer Shanholtz, and Amy Ellen Schwartz
2021
Towering Intellects? Sizing Up the Relationship Between Height and Academic Success, Stephanie Coffey and Amy Ellen Schwartz
Using Pupil Transportation Data to Explore Educational Inequities and Outcomes: A Case Study from New York City, Sarah Cordes, samantha Trajkovski, Christopher Rick, Meryle Weinstein, and Amy Ellen Schwartz
What Makes a Classmate a Peer? Examining Which Peers Matter in NYC Elementary Schools, William C. Horrace, Hyunseok Jung, Jonathan L. Pressler, and Amy Ellen Schwartz
Behavioral Bias in Occupational Fatality Risk: Theory, Evidence, and Implications, Perry Singleton
Robust Dynamic Panel Data Models Using ��-Contamination, Badi H. Baltagi, Georges Bresson, Anoop Chaturvedi, and Guy Lacroix
Depth-Weighted Forecast Combination: Application to COVID-19 Cases, Yoonseok Lee and Donggyu Sul
Trimmed Mean Group Estimation, Yoonseok Lee and Donggyu Sul
The Effect of Industrial Robots on Workplace Safety, Ling Li and Perry Singleton
Dynamic and Non-Neutral Productivity Effects of Foreign Ownership: A Nonparametric Approach, Yoonseok Lee, Mary Lovely, and Hoang Pham
2020
Technical Efficiency of Public Middle Schools in New York City, William C. Horrace, Michah W. Rothbart, and Yi Yang
Health Have, Health Have Nots in a Time of COVID-19, Sandro Galea
The Effects of Vietnam-Era Military Service on the Long-Term Health of Veterans: A Bounds Analysis, Xintong Wang, Carloa A. Flores, and Alfonso Flores-Lagunes
A Panel Data Model with Generalized Higher-Order Network Effects, Badi Baltagi, Sophia Ding, and Peter Egger
Genetic Risks, Adolescent Health and Schooling Attainment, Vikesh Amin, Jere R. Behrman, Jason M. Fletcher, Carlos A. Flores, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, and Hans-Peter Kohler
Growth Empirics: A Bayesian Semiparametric Model with Random Coefficients for a Panel of OECD Countries, Badi Baltagi, Georges Bresson, and Jean-Michel Etienne
Density Deconvolution with Laplace Errors and Unknown Variance, Jun Cai, William C. Horrace, and christopher parmeter
Nonparametric Tests of Tail Behavior in Stochastic Frontier Models, William C. Horrace and Yulong Wang
Labor Market Policies in a Roy-Rosen Bargaining Economy, Hugo Jales and Zhengfei Yu
Does Proximity to Fast Food Cause Childhood Obesity? Evidence from Public Housing, Jeehee Han, Amy Ellen Schwartz, and Brian Elbel
Paying for Free Lunch: The Impact of CEP Universal Free Meals on Revenues, Spending, and Student Health, Michah W. Rothbart, Amy Ellen Schwartz, and Emily Gutierrez
Network Competition and Team Chemistry in the NBA, William C. Horrace, Hyunseok Jung, and Shane Sanders
Forecasting with Unbalanced Panel Data, Badi Baltagi and Long Liu
Inference in Threshold Models, Yoonseok Lee and Yulong Wang
Nonparametric Sample Splitting, Yoonseok Lee and Yulong Wang
Do Foster Care Agencies Discriminate Against Gay Couples? Evidence from a Correspondence Study, Mattie Mackenzie-Oiu, David Schwegman, and LEONARD M. LOPOO
New York State Economic Status of Regions and Development Programs, Michael J. Wasylenko
2019
Strategies to Build Economic Strength in Lagging Areas: Investment, Tax Incentives, Wage Subsidies, Worker Training, and Education, Michael J. Wasylenko
Marijuana Legalization: Beyond Yes or No., Keith Humphreys
Holding Hospitals Accountable? Evidence on the Effectiveness of Minimum Charity Care Provision Laws, Michah W. Rothbart and Nara Yoon
California Paid Family Leave and Parental Time Use, Samantha Trajkovski
The Impact of BMI on Mental Health: Further Evidence from Genetic Markers, vikesh Amin, Carlos A. Flores, and Alfonso Flores-Lagunes
How School Aid in New York State Penalizes Black and Hispanic Students, John Yinger
How Equitable is The Education Finance System in New York State?, John Yinger
How New York State Stole $20 Billion from School Children in New York City, Part 2, John Yinger
How New York State Stole $20 Billion from School Children in New York City, John Yinger
Structural Changes in Heterogeneous Panels with Endogenous Regressors, Badi Baltagi, Qu Feng, and Chihwa Kao
The Effects of EITC Exposure in Childhood on Marriage and Early Childbearing, Katherine Michelmore and Leonard M. Lopoo
Testing for Shifts in a Time Trend Panel Data Model with Serially Correlated Error Component Disturbances, Badi Baltagi, Chihwa Kao, and Long Liu
2018
Who Benefits from Accountability-Driven School Closure? Evidence from New York City, Robert Bifulco and David Schwegman
Unequal Hopes, Lives, and Lifespans in the USA: Lessons from the New Science of Well-Being, Carol Graham
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
How Fair Is the New York State Education Aid System?, John Yinger and Emily Gutierrez
Rental Market Discrimination against Same-Sex Couples: Evidence from an Email Correspondence Audit, David Schwegman
2017
Let Them Eat Lunch: The Impact of Universal Free Meals on Student Performance, Amy Ellen Schwartz and Michah W. Rothbart
Updated Pupil Weights for New York's Foundation Aid Formula, John Yinger and Emily Gutierrez
The Opioid Epidemic: A Practice and Policy Perspective, Gail D'Onofrio
Robust Linear Static Panel Data Models Using ε-Contamination, Badi H. Baltagi, Georges Bresson, Anoop Chaturvedi, and Guy Lacroix
Network Effects on Labor Contracts of Internal Migrants in China- A Spatial Autoregressive Model, Badi H. Baltagi, Ying Deng, and Xiangjun Ma
Determinants of Firm-Level Domestic Sales and Exports with Spillovers: Evidence from China, Badi H. Baltagi, Peter H. Egger, and Michaela Kesina
Pregnancy Medicaid Expansions and Fertility: Differentiating between the Intensive and Extensive Margins, Lincoln H. Groves, Sarah Hamersma, and Leonard M. Lopoo
Labor Unions and Occupational Safety: Event-Study Analysis Using Union Elections, Ling Li, Shawn Rohlin, and Perry Singleton
Financing Central Cities: The Economics Underlying Fiscal Strategy Options, Michael Wasylenko
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
The Effect of Workplace Inspections on Worker Safety, Ling Li and Perry Singleton
The Effects of State and Federal Mental Health Parity Laws on Working Time, Jinqi Ye
Research Informs Debate on Cuomo’s Excelsior Scholarship Proposal, John Yinger, Robert Bifulco, and Ross Rubenstein
2016
Measuring the Financial Shocks of Natural Disasters: A Panel Study of U.S. States, Qing Miao, Yilin Hou, and Michael Abrigo
