Maxwell School News and Faculty Media, Opinion and Analysis

Hamersma article on information shocks and social programs published in JPAM

David N. Figlio, Sarah Hamersma & Jeffrey Roth

July 16, 2015

Heflin article on racial and ethnic disparities in food insufficiency published in JSSWR

Yunju Nam, Jin Huang, Colleen Heflin & Michael Sherraden

June 30, 2015

See related: Food Security

Wilmoth, London, Heflin study on VA disability benefit programs published in DHJ

Janet Wilmoth, Andrew London & Colleen Heflin

June 30, 2015

See related: Veterans

Career Head Start

The Presidential Management Fellowship and Excelsior Service Fellowship provide promising top grads (including more than a few from Maxwell) entrée into government careers.

June 28, 2015

Maxwell’s Kristi Andersen is part of a small cast of Central New York scholars who convene weekly to reflect on public events and issues — all for the benefit of a local television audience. This they have done now more than 500 times!

June 28, 2015

Baltagi article on African banks published in Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics

Svetlana Andrianova, Badi H. Baltagi, Panicos Demetriades & David Fielding

May 31, 2015

WP 181 The Impact of Child Medicaid Expansions on High School Completion Rates

Lincoln H. Groves

This paper explores whether public health insurance expansions to low-income children led to a greater number of high school completers in the 2000s.

May 31, 2015

Ma article comparing China and the US' educational systems published in ASA

Yingyi Ma

May 24, 2015

See related: China

Zhu study on affirmative action in undergraduate education published in Annual Review of Economics

Peter Arcidiacono, Michael Lovenheim & Maria Zhu

May 5, 2015

Baltagi article on productivity spillovers in China published in Journal of Applied Econometrics

Badi H. Baltagi, Peter H. Egger & Michaela Kesina

Authors assess intrasectoral spillovers in total factor productivity across Chinese producers in the chemical industry using panel data on firms from 2004-2006.

May 3, 2015