Department of Economics
Faculty Presentations & Exhibits at Professional Meetings
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- * “Income Inequality, the Median Voter, and the Support for Public Education,” National Bureau of Economic Research, Economics of Education Program. Caroline Hoxby, organizer. Cambridge, MA, April 1, 2004.
- “Income Inequality, the Median Voter, and the Support for Public Education,” American Education Finance Association 29th Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, March 11-13, 2004.
- “Education Finance Reform and Private School Enrollment, 1970 – 2000,” American Education Finance Association 29th Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, March 11-13, 2004.
- * “Income Inequality, the Median Voter, and the Support for Public Education,” University of the Pacific, March 25, 2004.
- * “Changing Labor Market Opportunities for Women and the Quality of Teachers, 1957 – 2000,” American Economic Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, January 2004.
- * “Changing Labor Market Opportunities for Women and the Quality of Teachers,” California State University Sacramento, RAND, College of the Holy Cross, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Economic Policy Institute.
- “Changing Labor Market Opportunities for Women and the Quality of Teachers,” Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Fall Research Conference, Washington, D.C., November 2001.
- Health Information and Cigarette Consumption: Supply and Spatial Considerations, Western Social Science Association Meetings, April 2003.
- Cigarette Demand: A Meta-Analysis of Elasticities, European Conference on Health Economics, July 2002.
- Public Policy and Behavior in the Cigarette Industry, Western Social Science Meetings, April 2001.
- The Effects of the Business Cycle and Advertising on Competition in the Beer Industry, Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting, November 1998.
- Cigarette Demand and the Health Scare: New Evidence using a Gradual Switching Regression Technique, Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting, November 1997.
- Public Policy and Market Power in the 1930s Rayon Industry, Western Economic Association Annual Meeting, July 1997.
- Conduct in the U.S. Steel Industry: 1950-1988, Atlantic Economic Society Meetings, October 1995.
- Oligopoly Coordination and Demand Fluctuations in the U.S. Rayon Industry, Atlantic Economic Society Meetings, October 1994.
- “The Ideology of the Laissez-Faire Program.” Association of Institutionalist Thought/Western Social Science Association, April, 2003.
- “Economics is an Historic Discipline.” Association of Institutionalist Thought/Western Social Science Association, April, 2003.
- “When Exports are a Cost and Imports are a Benefit: The Conditions Under Which Free Trade is Beneficial.” With Stephanie A. Bell. Association of Institutionalist Thought/Western Social Science Association, April, 2003.
- Roundtable Discussion on “Viability of Capitalism.” Association of Institutionalist Thought/Western Social Science Association, April, 2003.
- “The Origins of Money: Egypt as a Case Study.” Association
for Institutionalist
Thought/Western Social Science Association, April, 2002. - “Enabling Myths: A Critique of Dugger and Sherman, Reclaiming Evolution. Association for Institutionalist Thought/Western Social Science Association, April, 2001.
- “Is the Working Class Working under New Capitalist Forms of Organization? A Critique of Hodgson’s View of the Labor Contract.” Association for Evolutionary Economics/ American Economics Association, January, 2001. (With Stephanie Bell)
- “John Locke on Property, Accumulation, and Money: A Chartalist Critique.” Association for Institutionalist Thought/Western Social Science Association, April, 2000. (With Stephanie A. Bell and L. Randall Wray)
- “New Wine in Old Bottles: Keynes’s Economic Program, Social Institutions, Ideology, and Property Rights.” Association for Evolutionary Economics/American Economics Association, January, 2000.
- “Ayres and Landes: From the Perspective of the History of Economic Thought.” Association for Institutionalist Thought/Western Social Science Association, April, 1999 (in absentia)
- “Hospitality Versus Exchange: The Limits of Monetary Economies,” with Stephanie Bell. Eastern Economics Association, March, 1999 (in absentia)
- “What Does a Keynesian Economy Look Like? The Keynesian Program and Property Rights.” Association for Institutionalist Thought/Western Social Science Association, April 1998
- “Property and Theory: The Origins of the Neoclassical Perspective.” Association for Institutionalist Thought/Western Social Science Association, April, 1997
- "John Bates Clark, the Professionalization Process, and Limits to Academic Freedom." CSUS University Association of Research Scholars, Oct., 1994
- "God and the Marginal Product: Religion and the Development of J. B. Clark's Theory of Distribution." History of Economics Session, American Economic Association Meetings, Jan., 1992
- "The Politics of the Productivity Theory of Distribution."
Conference on Employment,
Distribution and Markets, Jerome Levy Economics Institute, Sept., 1992
- “When the #$@# Hits the Land: Implications for US Agriculture when Land Application of Manure is Constrained,” (with R. Johansson) Selected paper, American Agricultural Economics Association Meeting, Montreal, Canada July 27-30, 2003.
- “A Carrot and Stick Approach to Environmental Improvement: Marrying Conservation Payments and Water Quality Regulations,” (with R. Johansson) Selected paper, 2003 Northeast Agricultural Economics Association Post Conference Workshop, Linkages of Agricultural and Conservation Policies, Portsmouth, NH, June 10-11, 2003.
- “Conservation Compliance on Highly Erodible Land: An Empirical Auditing Game,” (with Konstantinos Giannakas) Selected paper, American Agricultural Economics Association Meeting, Long Beach, CA, July 28-31, 2002.
- “Estimating an Empirical Auditing Game,” (with Konstantinos Giannakas) Selected paper, World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists, Monterey, CA, June 24-27, 2002.
- “Improving Water Quality through Nutrient Management Planning: Industry and Environmental Effects,” (with Robert C. Johansson and Mark Peters) Selected paper, World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists, Monterey, CA, June 24-27, 2002.
- “Water Quality Protection: The Case of Prevention versus Utilization of Manure Nutrients,” Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, November 9, 2001.
- “Prevention versus Utilization of Excess Nutrients from Animal Feeding Operations: The Case of Managing Nutrient Uncertainty,” Selected paper, American Agricultural Economics Association Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, August 5-8, 2001.
- “Public Management of Nonpoint Source Pollution: An Application to Redwood Creek,” (with Richard E. Howitt and Y. Hossein Farzin), Selected paper, American Agricultural Economics Association Meeting, Tampa, Florida, July 30-August 2, 2000.
- “Perennial Crop Supply Response: An Application of the Sequential Entropy Filter to California Wine Grapes,” (with Richard E. Howitt), Selected paper, American Agricultural Economics Association Meeting, Tampa, Florida, July 30-August 2, 2000.
- "A Sequential Entropy Filter for Reconstructing Nonpoint Source Pollution Parameters," (with Richard E. Howitt), Short paper, Fourth Occasional California Workshop on Environmental and Resource Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara, October 16-17, 1998.
- "Entropy Filters and Bayesian Estimation: An Application to Nonpoint Source Pollution Control," Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, September 4, 1998.
- "Optimal Management of Nonpoint Source Pollution under Incomplete and Costly Information," (with Y. Hossein Farzin), Selected paper, American Agricultural Economics Association Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah Aug. 2-5, 1998.
- "Optimal Information Acquisition from Noisy Nonpoint Source Pollution Data," (with Richard E. Howitt), Selected paper, American Agricultural Economics Association Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, Aug. 2-5 1998.
- "Optimal Information Acquisition in an Ill-Posed World," (with Richard E. Howitt), Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis, CA. May 11, 1998.
- "Nonpoint Source Pollution Control under Incomplete and Costly Information," Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley, March 4, 1998, and Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis, Feb. 25, 1998.
- "Maximum Entropy and Efficiency Gains in Nonpoint Source Pollution." (with Richard E. Howitt Selected paper, American Agricultural Economics Association Meeting, Toronto, Ontario. July 27-30, 1997
- "Nonpoint Source Pollution, Incomplete Information, and Learning: An Entropy Approach." (with Richard E. Howitt), Selected paper, Western Agricultural Economics Association Meeting, Reno, Nevada,. July 13-16, 1997.
- "Optimal Nonpoint Source Monitoring: An Application to Sediment Loading and Forestry Practices," Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis, CA. January 1997.
- "Costs of Managing Waste: Maine Case Study Results," Selected paper, Redefining Resources: the Thirteenth Annual New England Resource Recovery Conference and Exposition, Portland, ME. June 13, 1994.
- "The Cost of Recycling Maine's Municipal Solid Waste," Invited paper, First Annual Maine Recyclathon, Bangor, ME. May 4, 1994.
- Fall 2003 “How Our Nation’s High
Schools Rank Their Students and the Impact on Student Enrollment”
Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) 28th Conference - Fall 2003 “Is College Major a Signal?”
Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) 28th Conference - Fall 2003 “College Majors, Job Types,
and the Labor Market: Is College Major a Signal?”
Society of Labor Economists (SOLE) 8th Annual Meeting - Summer 2003 “Class Rank, GPA, and Valedictorians:
How High Schools Rank Their Students”
Western Economic Association International (WEAI) 78th Annual Conference - Summer 2002 “Financial Aid and Student
Bargaining Power”
19th Annual National Association of State Grant and Aid Programs (NASGAP) Financial Aid Research Conference - Spring 2001 “Financial Aid and Student
Bargaining Power”
Society of Labor Economists (SOLE) 6th Annual Meeting - Fall 2000 “Financial Aid and Student
Bargaining Power”
Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) 25th Conference - Spring 2000 “Financial Aid and Student
Bargaining Power”
Southern Economic Association (SEA) Annual Conference - Spring 2000 “Financial Aid and Student
Bargaining Power”
Association for Institutional Research (AIR) Forum - Spring 2000 “Financial Aid and Student
Bargaining Power”
Midwest Economics Association (MEA) 64th Annual Meeting - Summer 1999 “Estimating the Effects
of Field of Study on Earnings”
Western Economic Association International (WEAI) 74th Annual Conference - Spring 1997 “Accurate and Fair Class
Ranks”
Arizona Educational Research Organization (AERO) Annual Conference - Fall 2003 Northern California Academic Decathlon Coaches Workshop
- Fall 2003 Southern California Academic Decathlon Coaches Workshop
- Fall 2003 Household International World of Credit Workshop for Teachers
- Fall 2003, Fall 2002 Mathematics and Economics Workshop for Teachers
- Fall 2003, Fall 2002 Financial Fitness for Life Workshop for Teachers
- “Job Creation in California’s Enterprise Zones” presented at the Federal Reserve Sustainable Community Development Conference, Washington DC, March 28, 2003.
- “Economic Forecast for Greater Sacramento and How It Will Affect You” presented to the Sacramento Chapter of American Women in Radio and Television, January 16, 2003.
- “A Living Wage for Sacramento: Assessing Benefits and Costs” presented to the Sacramento City Council, January 9, 2003.
- “Benefits and Costs of a Living Wage” presented to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Annual Government Affairs Conference, San Francisco, November 21, 2002.
- “Job Creation in California’s Enterprise Zones” presented to the West Sacramento City Council and the California Association of Enterprise Zones, January and March, 2002.
- “Health Insurance Coverage of California’s Working Latinos” presented at University of Southern California conference California’s Working Latinos and Health Insurance: New Facts and Policy Challenges, October 5, 2001.
- “Locational Choice of AFDC Recipients Within California” presented at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) conference, Seattle, WA, November 2000.
- “Linking Performance Measures to Policy.” Presented at the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) Conference, Sacramento, CA, March 2000.
- "Inflationary Expectations and the Fisher Effect Prior
to World War I"
Western Economic Association Meetings, July 2002 - "Inflationary Expectations and the Fisher Effect Prior
to World War I"
University of California, Davis, October 2001 - "Characterizing Monetary Policy Using Real-time Data."
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, June 2000. - “Truth and Robustness in Cross-country Growth Regressions.”
University of Victoria, Economics Department, February 2000. - “Revised or Real-time Data: What should be used to
characterize the FOMC’s information set?”
Western Economic Association Meetings, July 1999. - “Why Does the NIARU Change over Time?”
Western Economic Association Meetings, July 1998.
- Western Economic Association International Conference, July 2003
- Professors for the Futures Panel Discussion, University of California, Davis, January 2003
- Economic History Workshop, Northwestern University, September 2002
- NBER Summer Institute, Development of the American Economy, July 2002
- Western Economic Association International Conference, July 2002
- Department of Economics Seminar, Williams College, May 2002
- Department of Economics Seminar, Williams College, April 2002
- Productivity, Growth, Trade in Foods, and Living Standards across Centuries and Countries Conference, University of California, Davis, December 2001
- Macroeconomics/International Economics Seminar, University of California, Davis, November 2001
- Economic History Seminar, University of California, Davis, October 2001
- Department of Economics Seminar, Bates College, March 2000
- Williams Club, New York City, January 2000
- Department of Economics Seminar, Union College, April 1999
- Department of Economics Seminar, Williams College, November 1998
- Western Economic Association International Conference, July 1998
- Department of Economics Seminar, Williams College, April 1998
- Economic History Association, September 1997
- Department of Economics Seminar, University of Tennessee, February 1997
- Economic History Workshop, Harvard University, October 1996
- All-University of California Group in Economic History, University of California, Davis, November 1995
- All-University of California Group in Economic History, University of California, Berkeley, April 1994
- “Circling the Wagons: The Fed’s Response to 9/11,” Western Economics Association International (WEAI) Annual Conference in Denver, CO, July 2003.
- “Is Timing Everything? Evaluating U.S. Monetary Policy with Interest Rate Rules,” WEAI Annual Conference in Seattle, WA, July 2002
- “Policy Rule or Data Descriptor: An Exposition of Taylor Rules,” WEAI Annual Conference in Vancouver, BC, July 2000
- Department of Economics Workshop
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, May 11, 2000; paper. - Mid-West International Economics Meetings
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, May 19-21, 2000; paper. - Western Economic Association International Conference
San Francisco, CA, July 4-8, 2001; paper, discussant. - Western Economic Association International Conference
Seattle, WA, June 29 - July 3, 2002; paper, discussant. - Mid-West International Economics Meetings
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, May 2-4, 2003; paper.
