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Alumni and Friends: La Follette Notes Fall 2006
Prost! Professor, student meet in Munich
La Follette School professor Robert Haveman, left, traveled to Munich this summer for a meeting of the Scientific Advisory Council of the large German economic research institute CES/IFO. When institute Director Hans-Werner Sinn, right, invited board members to a World Cup party at his home, Haveman stretched the invitation to include La Follette School student Julius Svoboda, who was in Munich as an intern with the Bavarian State Ministry for the Environment, Health and Consumer Protection.
Faculty news
Menzie Chinn is to be a discussant at the International Monetary Fund’s sixth Annual Research Conference in November. In October, he presented papers at the Society of Government Economist’s biennial conference, and the National Bureau of Economic Research conference on China’s Growing Role in World Trade. He also talked about measuring currency misalignment at the U.S. Treasury. In the summer, Chinn spent one week at the Federal Reserve Board and another week at the IMF. He presented at conferences in Frankfurt, Germany; Delphi, Greece; Dubrovnik, Croatia; and Santa Cruz, California. Chinn also participated in a Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research conference, at which Charles Engel gave the keynote.
Andrew Reschovsky participated in a discussion at the Conference on Assessment Administration held by the International Association of Assessing Officers in October. Reschovsky also spoke at a July meeting of the National Center for Education Statistics in Washington, D.C.
Carolyn Heinrich and co-authors Pascal Courty and Gerald Marschke have won the June Pallot Award for Best Article from the editorial group of the International Public Management Journal. The article, Setting the Standard in Performance Measurement Systems, appeared in 2005’s volume 8, issue 3. Courty is with the European University Institute, and Marschke is with the University at Albany, State University of New York. Heinrich also traveled to Jamaica in October to give a performance management workshop for public and private sector managers.
Karen Holden explored Social SecurityPast, Present and Future in a session for University of Wisconsin-Madison employees in October. Social Security benefits are an important part of every employee’s retirement planning.
David Weimer is serving on a National Research Council Committee on Radiation Source Use and Replacement, which is looking at ways to reduce the risk of isotope use in industrial and medical applications. He presented a paper estimating smokers’ willingness to pay to eliminate tobacco addiction at a conference on benefit-cost analysis, sponsored by the Evans School at the University of Washington in Seattle. Weimer also has received a $120,000 grant from the MacArthur Foundation to assess cost-benefit analyses of social programs and policies designed to improve people’s skills and abilities. Weimer and Aidan Vining of Simon Fraser University will evaluate studies of programs to identify well-done cost-benefit analyses. This, in turn, will highlight which human capital programs are the best investments and provide endorsement for further application of the quality interventions.
Robert Haveman also attended the Seattle conference and presented a paper on the OHare airport expansion. He also participated in a conference sponsored by the Andrew Young School of Public Affairs of Georgia State University.
Barbara Wolfe discussed three papers tied to children’s health at the Georgia State conference. She and Haveman both participated in the annual congress of the International Institute of Public Finance in Paphos, Cyprus.
Joe Soss and two co-authors won a 2006 award for the best policy studies paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. Soss, Richard Fording of the University of Kentucky and Sanford F. Schram of Bryn Mawr won for “The Color of Devolution: The Politics of Local Punishment in the New World of Welfare,” presented at ASPA’s 2005 annual meeting.
Index for La Follette Notes fall 2006