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Joseph Boskovski ’14 MPA helps governments make effective policy
Maxwell names Montgomery Gruber Professor, O'Hanley Faculty Scholars
Andrew Wender Cohen, professor of history, has been announced as the recipient of the Montgomery Gruber Professorship. Additionally, the O’Hanley Faculty Endowed Fund for Faculty Excellence, which serves to help recognize, reward and retain excellent teachers at the school, announced three new scholars: Azra Hromadžić, associate professor of anthropology; Natalie Koch, associate professor of geography; and Rebecca Schewe, assistant professor of sociology.
Shannon Monnat named Lerner Chair for Public Health Promotion
“Shannon Monnat is committed to disciplinary and interdisciplinary scholarship that informs, benefits, and influences public policy and the public good,” says David M. Van Slyke, dean of the Maxwell School. “She brings timely and important research, a public orientation and unbounded energy to the intellectual leadership of the Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion."
Pralle research on flood maps, politics cited in Washington Post and Slate
"Here’s the big lesson from Hurricane Harvey: The U.S. government’s flood zone designation, and the maps based on it, may not predict future flood risks accurately, particularly as climate change alters sea levels and weather patterns," writes Sarah Pralle, associate professor of political science.
Burman article on corporate tax income published in National Tax Journal
Model for evaluating the broad economic costs and benefits of air pollution regulation
“This is a tremendously costly endeavor, and that’s why we haven’t done it already,” says Pete Wilcoxen, director of the Center for Environmental Policy and Administration, about revising the EPA's model for evaluating the broad economic costs and benefits of air pollution regulations.
Monnat's research on deaths of despair, voting patterns cited in Associated Press
The map of Trump’s victory looked eerily similar to her documentation of deaths of despair, according to Shannon Monnat, associate professor of sociology and Lerner Chair of Public Health Promotion, from New England through the Rust Belt to the rural coast of Washington.
Ma study on race and gender in STEM degree attainment published in Social Sciences
Burman shares his proposal for tax policy on TaxVox Blog
According to Leonard Burman, professor of public administration and international affairs, "enlightened policy should aim to make work pay and help workers adapt. Better education and training will help. But a permanent solution would create a mechanism to automatically translate economic growth into higher wages."
Baltagi article on domestic sales and exports with spillovers published in Journal of Econometrics
Jales paper on the effects of the minimum wage in a developing country published in Jour of AE
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Maxwell School honors new graduates at 2017 MPA Convocation
Rothbart, Schwartz article on financial implications of public quality disclosure published in PFR
Lopoo wins 2017 Birkhead-Burkhead Award
Leonard M. Lopoo, professor of public administration and international affairs and director of the Maxwell School’s Center for Policy Research, is the 2017 recipient of the Birkhead-Burkhead Teaching Excellence Award and Professorship. The Birkhead-Burkhead Award and Professorship is an annual award that recognizes outstanding teaching in PAIA.
Baltagi article on health care expenditure published in Health Economics
Hou weighs in on China's property tax in Financial Times
"I like to stay on the optimistic side to assume that though this seems to have stalled on the surface, ground work has never stopped," says Yilin Hou, professor of public administration and international affairs. "The Chinese style is, once something is announced, everything has been already done."
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