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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."
Wang article on fixed-k asymptotic inference About tail properties published in JASA
Popp wins AERE award for paper on induced innovation and energy prices
Bifulco paper on place based scholarship and urban revitalization published in EEPA
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Schewe article on social forces on climate change behavior published in Rural Sociology
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Monnat article on teaching to the opioid epidemic published in Medical Teacher
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Heflin study on food insecurity, childhood health and cognitive development published in JFI
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Wasylenko appointed Maxwell Advisory Board Professor of Economics
Ma discusses China's influence on US education on CNN
"Their (Chinese) classroom participation patterns right now really have pushed a lot of professors to think about how they can adjust the way they teach," says Yingyi Ma, associate professor of sociology and O'Hanley Faculty Scholar.
Burman op-ed on Trump's tax reform plan in Fortune
According to Leonard Burman, professor of public administration and international affairs, "Trump’s 'tax reform plan' isn’t tax reform and it isn’t a plan. To borrow an analogy from the president’s favorite sport, he should take a mulligan and swing again at tax reform after he’s brought on a tax policy team and they’ve had a chance to do their homework."
Rosenthal article on homeownership, housing capital gains and self-employment published in JUE
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Baltagi article on asymptotic power of the sphericity test published in Econometric Reviews
Burman weighs in on President Trump's tax plan in Forbes and on WCNY
“I think at the end of the day, you’re not going to see either the Trump or the House GOP tax plan. It will look a little more like George W. Bush’s 2001 tax bill—mostly just rate cuts,” says Leonard Burman, Paul Volcker Chair in Behavioral Economics.
Lee article on adaptive elastic net GMM estimation published in Jour of Business & Econ Statistics
Burman analysis of House GOP tax plan in Columbia Journal of Tax Law
"An Analysis of the House GOP Tax Plan," co-authored by Len Burman, Paul Volcker Chair in Behavioral Economics, examines the House GOP tax reform blueprint, which would significantly reduce marginal tax rates, increase standard deduction amounts, repeal personal exemptions and most itemized deductions, and convert business taxation into a destination-based cash flow consumption tax.
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Burman comments on Trump's tax plan in New York Times
Leonard Burman, professor of public administration and international affairs, opines that President Reagan "got people excited about the idea of fixing our broken tax system. It’s hard to imagine President Trump doing that.”
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Dr. Brigitte Madrian (Brigham Young University) will present the Sixth Annual Paul Volcker Lecture in Behavioral Economics, titled "Applying Behavioral Insights to the Design of Public Policy".
Dr. Madrian is the Dean and Marriott Distinguished Professor in the Brigham Young University Marriott School of Business where she has a joint appointment in the Department of Finance and the George W. Romney Institute of Public Service and Ethics. Her current research focuses on behavioral economics and household finance, with a particular focus on household saving and investment behavior. Her work in this area has impacted the design of employer-sponsored savings plans in the U.S. and has influenced pension reform legislation both in the U.S. and abroad. She also uses the lens of behavioral economics to understand health behaviors and improve health outcomes.
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