PERSONAL: Born: July 29, 1953; married, two children
 

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Fiscal Federalism, Local Public Goods, Public Choice, Urban Economics
 

EDUCATION
 

Graduate: University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D., 1981

        Dissertation: "The Allocation of Police: Causes and Consequences"
 

                National Tax Association - Tax Institute of America

                Dissertation Award finalist
 

Fields: Public Finance, Development
 
 
 

Undergraduate: Cornell University, A.B., June, 1975

Magna Cum Laude in Economics

The City University, London, 1973-74
 

EMPLOYMENT
 
 
 

University of Houston: Professor of Economics, 1997-present; Associate Professor of Economics, 1988-97; Assistant Professor of Economics, 1981-88;

Center for Public Policy: Senior Research Associate, 1996-98; Director of Community Modelling, 1994-1996; Research Associate, 1982-1993

Institute for the Study of Political Economy.
 

Hunter College, City University of New York: Associate Professor of Economics, 1990-91;

Manhattan Institute: Wriston Citicorp Fellow, 1991.
 

University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School: Visiting Lecturer, 1982.
 

University of Pennsylvania, Economics Department: Instructor and Teaching Fellow, 1977-81;

Public Enterprise Research Program: Research Associate, 1980-82.
 

Haverford College, Economics Department: Instructor, 1980;
 

Bryn Mawr College, Economics Department: Instructor, 1979.
 

World Bank: Technical Assistant, 1978.
 

United States Treasury: Economist, 1975-77.

PUBLICATIONS
 

"Quantile Estimates of Employment and Population Density Functions," (with P. Ng), Journal of Urban Economics, forthcoming, 2000.
 

"The Influence of Low Income Assistance Policies on State Government Design of Unemployment Insurance" (with M. Palumbo), Research in Employment Policy, Vol II, JAI Press, forthcoming, 2000.
 

"The Forward and Backward flow of Technology: The Relationship Between Foreign Suppliers and Domestic Technological Advance," (with T. DeGregori), Technovation, 20, August, 2000, pp. 403-12 (lead article).
 

"Policy Variation in State Government Provision of Unemployment Insurance," (with M. Palumbo), Journal of Regional Science, 39, May, 1999, 245-274.
 

"Protecting Genetic Privacy by Permitting Employer Access Only to Job-Related Employee Medical Information: A Multi-Disciplinary Analysis of a Unique Minnesota Law," (with M. Rothstein and B. Gelb) American Journal of Law and Medicine, 24, January, 1999, 399-416.
 

"Efficient Inequality: Differential Allocation in the Local Public Sector," (with C. Holsey), Regional Science and Urban Economics, 27, Nov, 1997, 763-84.
 

"How A City Can Survive a Boom and Bust Cycle Without Bankruptcy: The Case of Houston," National Tax Association Proceedings: 1996, 1997, 90-95.
 

"Donor Preferences and Recipient Fiscal Behavior: A Simultaneous Analysis of Foreign Aid" (with P. Cashel-Cordo), Economic Inquiry, 35, 1997, 653-71.
 

"Should States be Responsible for New Directions in Health Provision: Lessons from Other Policy Areas," Health Policy, Federalism, and the American States (R. Rich and W. White, eds.) The Urban Institute Press, Washington, 1996, 221-252.
 

"State Versus Federal Health Care Policy Control: Lessons from Other Policy Arenas" (with J. Sakowski), Public Economics Review, 1, 1996, 69-104.
 

"Local Public Good Provision Under Uncertainty: Do Monopoly Bureaus Wield Carrots- or Sticks?" (with E. W. T. Hsieh), Journal of Urban Economics, 36, September, 1994, pp. 184-208.
 

"Chaos Theory and Microeconomics: An Application to Model Specification and Hedonic Estimation," (with J. E. Kohlhase and D. H. Papell), Review of Economics and Statistics, 73, May, 1991, pp. 208-15.
 

Reprinted in W. Davis Dechert (ed), Chaos Theory in Economics: Methods, Models, and Evidence, Edward Elgar, 1996, pp. 583-90.
 

"Three Nested Fiscal Impact Measures: Theory and Application," (with E. J. Heikkila), Journal of Regional Science, 31, Feb., 1991, pp. 65-81.
 

"Welfare Policy: Spending and Program Structure," in Therese J. McGuire and Dana W. Naimark (eds), State and Local Finance for the 1990s: A Case Study of Arizona, Arizona State University Press, Tempe, 1991, pp. 259-294.
 

"The Public Sector Impact of International Resource Transfers," (with P. Cashel-Cordo), Journal of Development Economics, 32, February, 1990, pp. 17-42.
 

"Urban Safety in Vancouver: Allocation and Production of a Congestible Public Good," (with E. J. Heikkila), The Canadian Journal of Economics, 22, November, 1989, pp. 867-884.
 

"Donors, Development, and Debt: The Role of External Assistance and External Indebtedness," (with P. Cashel-Cordo), in Thomas R. DeGregori (ed), Development Economics: Theory, Practice, and Prospects, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 1989, pp. 231-283.
 

"State Government Purchases in a Federalist Economy," (with Joel W. Sailors), Public Choice, 56 (2), February, 1988, pp. 121-30.
 

"The Deterrent Impact of Police: An Examination of a Local Public Service," Journal of Urban Economics, 21, May, 1987, pp. 298-311.
 

"The Impact of Congestion on Local Public Good Production," Journal of Public Economics, 32, April, 1987, pp. 331-353.
 

"The Distribution of Public Services: An Exploration of Local Government Preferences," (with Jere R. Behrman), American Economic Review, 77, March, 1987, pp. 37-49.
 

"Interstate Trade Barriers and the Constitution," (with Joel W. Sailors), The Cato Journal, Vol. 6, (3), Winter, 1987, pp. 819-836.
 

"Education, Welfare, and the `New' Federalism: State Budgeting in a Federalist Public Economy," (with R. P. Inman) in Harvey S. Rosen (ed), Studies in State and Local Public Finance, Chicago University Press, 1986 (also NBER Working Paper #1562).
 

"Why There is Not a Unified Welfare System: Fiscal Federalism From an Agency Approach," (with J. Kohlhase ) in J. Quigley (ed), Perspectives on Local Public Finance and Public Policy, Vol. 2, JAI Press, 1985, pp. 81-99.
 

"Federal Aid and Local Education: An Empirical Look at the New Fiscal Federalism" (with R. P. Inman), Review of Economics and Statistics, 64, November, 1982, pp. 541-552, (lead article).
 
 
 

WORKING PAPERS
 

"The Impact of Bank Structure on Small Business and Small Farm Lending," (with P. Hardee), under revision for the Journal of Entrepeneurial Finance
 

"Local Revenue Hills: A General Equilibrium Specification with Evidence from Four U.S. Cities," (with A. Haughwaut, R. Inman and T. Luce), NBER Working Paper #7603, March, 2000, submitted.
 

"Employment Subcenters and the Distribution of Economic Activity," (with J. Kohlhase), March, 1999.
 

"Big City Budgets and Suburban Competition" (with A. Austin), August, 2000
 

"Federal Imbalances with the States and Fiscal Federalism: How Federal Intervention Distorts Local Governmental Behavior," April, 1999
 

"The Impact of Bank Structure on Small Business and Small Farm Lending," (with P. Hardee), March, 1999, submitted.
 

"Beyond Insurance, Towards Redistribution: An Analysis of State Government Design of Unemployment Insurance," (with M. Palumbo), January, 1998.
 

"Public Choices and Public Safety: Crime and Criminal Deterrence," (with A. Satterlee), March, 1997.
 

"The Demand for Judicial Sanctions: Voter Information and the Election of Judges," (with A. Satterlee), November, 1996.
 

"Fiscal Relief or Programmatic Change: The Impact of Federal Low Income Assistance Aid on State Government Behavior," August, 1995,
 

OTHER PUBLICATIONS
 
 
 

"Taxopolis," City Journal, Spring, 2000, p.7.
 

"New York's Million Missing Jobs," (with D. A. Austin) City Journal, 7, Autumn, 1997, 43-51.
 

Reprinted in Myron Magnet (ed), The Millennial City: A New Urban Paradigm for 21rst-Century America, Ivan Dee, New York, 2000.
 

"NYC's Million Missing Jobs," (with D. A. Austin), New York Post, November 4, 1997.
 

Final Population Forecasts by Age, Race, and Ethnicity for the Five County Houston Metropolitan Area: 1990-2030, Center for Public Policy, November, 1996.
 

Final Population and Employment Forecasts for the Five County Houston Metropolitan Area: 1990-2030, Center for Public Policy, June, 1995.
 

"Dumping on Free Trade Agreements," Journal of Commerce, June 16, 1995.
 

"Oil Patch Would Pay High Price for Protecting Steel," Houston Business Journal, June 16, 1995.
 

"Property Tax Abatements: Economic Boon or Boondoggle?" Houston Economics, Center for Public Policy, June, 1995.
 

"Slash Welfare Benefits -- For Bureaucrats," (with J. Taranto), New York Times, February 17, 1995, p. A1.
 

1. Work Trip Behavior and Attitudes of UH Employees, (with J. Kohlhase, R. Murray, and K. Tedin), Center for Public Policy, September, 1994.
 

"Zoning Bureaucrats Need Not be Evil to be Terrible," Houston Chronicle, September 26, 1993, p. F1.
 

"Crack in the Firewall-- Budget Bill Opens Can of Taxbreak Worms," (with C. Wlezian), Houston Chronicle, August 15, 1993, p. F1.
 

"Economic Cost of Occupational Injury and Illness in Texas," (with A. Austin, J. Kohlhase, and M. Palumbo), in Occupational Injury and Illness in Texas, Health Law and Policy Institute, March, 1993, pp. 149-86.
 

"Is the City of Houston Too Deeply in Debt?" Houston Economics, October, 1992 (9), pp. 4-6.
 

"A Report Card on State Spending," NY: The City Journal, 2, Summer, 1992, pp. 25-36.
 

"Where the City's Money Goes," NY: The City Journal, 1, Autumn, 1991, pp. 35-46.
 

Book Review of: Houston in Political and Economic Perspective by Joe Feagin, for the Journal of Regional Science, 30, February, 1990 pp. 139-40.
 

"New Taxes in Texas? Your Pocketbook and Economic Development at Risk," Houston Update, 3, February, 1989, pp. 1-2 (lead article).
 

Book Review of: Bahl and Miller (ed.), Local Government Finance in the Third World, for Journal of Development Economics, 17, 1985, pp. 315-318.
 

"A Destructive Trade War Between the States," (with J. W. Sailors), The Wall Street Journal, February 5, 1985, p. 26.
 

CONFERENCE PAPERS (last five years)

"Big City Budgetary Behavior," Southern Economic Association Meetings, 1998, Public Choice Society, 2000.
 

"Employment Subcenters and the Distribution of Economic Activity," Regional Science Meetings, Western Economic Association Meetings, 1998, AURUEA Meetings (ASSA), 2000.
 

"The Fiscal Environment of Our Largest Cities," invited speaker at "Livable Cities Conference," Washington, DC, 1998, sponsored by a variety of policy organizations.
 

"Quantile Estimates of Employment and Population Density Functions," (with Pin Ng), Econometric Society, 1997; Texas Econometrics Conference, Feb, 1996.
 

"The Impact of Land Use Restrictions in a Multicentric City," (with J. Kohlhase and S. Pitts), American Economic Association, 1997; Western Regional Science Association, 1997.
 

"Public Choices and Public Safety: Crime and Criminal Deterrence," Public Choice Society Meetings, 1997.
 

"Demographics and Economics versus Politics and Institutions: Fiscal Lessons from Three American Cities," Public Choice Society, March, 1995; American Economic Association, January, 1995; APPAM Meetings, November, 1994.
 

"Beyond Insurance, Towards Redistribution: An Analysis of State Government Design of Unemployment Insurance," invited presentation at a Department of Labor conference on Unemployment Insurance, August, 1994, and presented at the Public Choice Society, March, 1994.
 

"Should States be Responsible for New Directions in Health Provision: Lessons from Other Policy Areas," invited presentation at a conference on Health Care Reform and the Role of the States at the Institute of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois, Chicago, April, 1994.
 

GRANT AWARDS
 

"Population Forecasts Using the Small Area Model- Harris County," Harris County Budget Office, 1997-99,
 

"Land Use Forecasts Using the SAM Model," U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1998.
 

"Measuring the Effects of a Unique Law Limiting Employee Medical Examinations to Job-Related Matters," (with M. Rothstein and B. Gelb), U.S. Department of Energy, 1997-98.
 

"Small Area Model- Houston" U.S. Department of Education and others (with the Center for Public Policy), principal investigator, 1994-6.
 

Principal Investigator for "AEA/Federal Reserve Board Minority Graduate Fellowship," awarded to Roberto Trevino, 1994-6.
 

"The Impact of Immigration on Urban Locational Choice," Center for Immigration Research, University of Houston, 1996.
 

"Beyond Insurance, Towards Redistribution: An Analysis of State Government Design of Unemployment Insurance," (with M. Palumbo), U.S. Department of Labor, 1994-5.
 

"The Political Economy of City Government Budgeting," Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 1994.
 

"Should States be Responsible for New Directions in Health Provision: Lessons from Other Policy Areas," Institute of Government Affairs, University of Illinois, Chicago, 1994.
 

"The Economics and Politics of the New Federalism," University Coordinating Board of Texas, 1991-3; plus a "Minority Supplement," 1994.
 

"The Impact of the Form of Government on Airport Behavior," Limited Grant in Aid, University of Houston, 1993.
 

"Occupational Injury and Illness Study: The Economics of the Worker's Compensation Program," Health Law and Policy Institute, University of Houston (with J. Kohlhase, A. Austin, and M. Palumbo), 1992
 

"The Impact of the Food Stamp Program on State Government Low Income Assistance Policies," US Department of Agriculture, 1989-91.
 

"Chaos Theory and the Houston Housing Market: Assessing the Social Cost of Toxic Waste Sites," (with J. Kohlhase), University Coordinating Board of Texas, 1989-91.
 

"State Government Budgeting in the New Fiscal Environment: Will Education and Welfare be the New Sacrificial Lambs?" Research Facilitation Grant, Center for Public Policy, 1989.
 

"The Interaction Between County Governments and County Hospitals: A Principal Agent Analysis," Limited Grant-in-Aid, University of Houston, 1989.
 

"The Growth and Decline of State Public Assets: A Study in Institutional Political Economy" (with R. Inman and J. Jackson), National Science Foundation, 1987-88.
 

"Corporate Tax Burdens in Large Cities" (with R. Crew), Houston Chamber of Commerce, 1987.
 

"Taxes and Deficits: Causes of Boom or Bust" (with Gerald Dwyer), Foundation for Business, Politics, and Economics, 1986.
 

"Local Public Service Provision: An Economic Analysis of Police Services in Vancouver," Canadian Studies Faculty Research Grant Programme, 1985-86.
 

"The New Federalism and Federal-State-Local Assistance for Low Income Households," National Bureau of Economic Research, 1984 (with R. P. Inman).
 

"The New Federalism and Its Impact on Assistance for Low Income Households," Research Initiation Grant, University of Houston, 1984.
 

REFEREE
 

American Economic Review Journal of Development Economics

Journal of Political Economy National Tax Journal

Review of Economics and Statistics Public Finance/Finances Publique

Journal of Public Economics Economic Geography

Journal of Urban Economics Economics of Education Review

Journal of Regional Science Social Science Quarterly

American Journal of Political Science Eastern Economic Journal

Regional Science and Urban Economics Economics and Politics

Journal of Business and Economic Statistics National Science Foundation

Evaluation Review (associate editor) International Economic Journal

Southern Economic Journal (associate editor) International Review of Law and Economics
 
 
 

SERVICE
 
 
 

Department:

Current: Undergraduate Director, 1997-present

Executive Committee, 1998-present

Political Economy Workshop; 1991-present
 

Past: Executive Committee, 1994-1997

Microeconomics Seminar Coordinator; 1987, 1991- 1999

Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Chair, 1994-1997

Executive Committee, 1988-1990

Acting Chair; Summer, 1988

Departmental Secretary and Historian; 1984-1990

Principals Coordinator; 1983, 1985, 1987-1990,1994-1997

Recruiting Committee; 1983, 1984, 1988 (micro chair), 1996, 1998

Computer Committee; 1984-85

Comprehensive Exam Committee; 1982, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1992, 1994, 1995,1997, 1998

Field Exam Committee Chair; Public Finance, Development Economics, Health Economics
 

Dissertation Chair: Cheryl Holsey (Claremont Graduate School), Peter Cashel-Cordo (Southern Indiana Univ), Edward W. T. Hsieh (Cal State Los Angeles), Russel Burge (Center for Health Economics Research), Jose Lopez (Internal Revenue Service, ABD), Manzur Tipu (East-West Univ, Bangladesh), Alan Satterlee (AT&T), Julie Sakowski (Texas Women's Univ), Roberto Trevino (Affiliated Systems), Manuel Ontiveros (Mexican government), Pollee Hardee (complete), Jean-Jose Padou (complete).

Dissertation Committee: Daniel Rich (Illinois State U.), Susan Coldwell (Western Washington accounting), Janet Tillinger (Texas A&M accounting), Shawn Novack (Lamar U. accounting), Huldah Bramble (Hunter College accounting), Thomas Tolin (West Chester State U.), Miles Finney (Cal State, LA), Steven Pitts (Houston Comm Coll).
 

University: College of Social Sciences Curriculum Committee

College of Social Sciences Committee on Committees

Ad Hoc Committee on Garrison Gym Renovations

Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Legislative and Community Affairs Committee

Faculty Senate Faculty Affairs Committee

College of Social Sciences Policy Committee

Ad Hoc Research Awards Committee

Faculty Advisory Committee for the Center for Public Policy

Accounting Department Comprehensive Exam Committee

Small Area Model Faculty Advisory Team