Martin School of Public Policy and Administration

Martin School of Public Policy and Administration

Spring 2011

Date	Speaker	Paper Title
January 19	Dwight Dension Martin School University of Kentucky	Indirect and direct subsidies for cost of government capital: Comparing tax-exempt bonds and Build America Bonds
February 2	Nora Gordon Georgetown University	Do public agencies learn from the experiences of others? Evidence from contracting out comprehensive school reform
February 9	Hon. John Rogers U.S. Courts	How do appellate courts achieve consistency from one appeal to the next?
February 16	Robert Weech-Maldonado U. of Alabama, Birmingham	Cultural Competency and Patient Experiences with Care
February 23	Scott Hankins College of Public Health University of Kentucky	Is Direct Access to OB/GYNs Effective at Improving Maternal Health Behaviors?
March 2	Susan Dudley	Regulatory Oversight and Reform
March 9	Sergio Fernandez Indiana University	Empowerment, Innovativeness and Performance in the U.S. Federal Bureaucracy
March 16	Spring Break No Seminar
March 23	Adetokunbo Oluwole Martin School University of Kentucky	The Effects of Health Insurance Coverage on Access to Healthcare among Non-Elderly Populations
March 28 1:30PM Student Center Rm 211	Fransico Ramirez Stanford University (Joint with College of Education)	Accounting for Excellence: Transforming Universities into Organizational Actors
March 30	Emily Beaulieu Political Science University of Kentucky	Sovereign Debt and Regime Type: Reconsidering the Democratic Advantage
April 6	Thomas Ahn Economics University of Kentucky	Optimal Matching of Teachers and Schools Under Accountability Pressure
April 13	J.S. Butler Joshua Cowen Eugenia Toma Martin School University of Kentucky	Teacher Retention and Education Reform in Appalachian Schools
April 15 10:00AM Lexmark Room, Main Building	Jeffrey Wenger University of Georgia	If you build it: State unemployment insurance trust solvency and benefit generosity

Fall 2010

Date	Speaker	Paper Title
September 1	David Wildasin Martin School University of Kentucky	Dynamic Fiscal Competition, Tax Incidence and Political Economy
September 8	Rich Milich Department of Psychology University of Kentucky	Understanding Bullying and Peer Victimization in the Moment
September 15	Evan Hillebrand Patterson School of Diplomacy University of Kentucky	Backtracking from Globalization
September 22	Josh Cowen Martin School University of Kentucky	Parameters, Treatments, Compliance and Choice: The Special Challenges of Unpacking the "Black Box" in Voucher Experiments
September 29 NASPAA	Seth Sanders Sponsored by the Poverty Center	Workplace Concentration of Immigrants
October 6 ABFM	Martin School PhD Students Practice Presentations for SECOPA
October 13	Henry Braun Lynch School of Education Boston College	The landscape of value-added analysis: A NRC report and some personal reflections
October 20	Mark Peffley Department of Political Science University of Kentucky	Justice in America: The Separate Realities of Blacks and Whites
October 27	Neal Hutchens College of Education University of Kentucky	Off the Tenure Track: The Changing Employment Landscape in Higher Education and Increasing Institutional Reliance on Contingent Faculty
November 3 APPAM	No Seminar
November 10	Monika Causholli Department of Accounting University of Kentucky	Is audit quality influenced by propsective non-audit service fees?
November 17 NTA	Karen Blumenshein College of Pharmacy University of Kentucky	Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs: Lessons Learned from an Evaluation of the Kentucky All Schedule Prescription Eletronic Reporting (KASPER) Program
November 24 Thanksgiving	No Seminar
December 1 Political Science Conference Room 16th Floor, POT	Nicolai Petrovsky Martin School University of Kentucky	Does Managerial Quality Determine whether Easy Money will Increase Organizational Slack? Testing the Rentier Hypotheses in Colombian Local Governments

Spring 2010

Date	Speaker	Paper Title
January 20	David Hulse Von Allman School of Accounting University of Kentucky	Incentive Effects of Bonus Depreciation
January 27	John Garen Department of Economics University of Kentucky	Using 'Local' Knowledge in Setting Teaching Compensation: Contrasting Competitive Outcomes to Mandated Reward Systems
February 3	Andrew Haughwout Microeconomic and Regional Studies Research and Statistics Group Federal Reserve Bank of New York	The Homeownership Gap - and - Second Chances: Subprime Mortgage Modification and Re-Default
February 9	Eric Hanushek Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow Hoover Institution Stanford University	Will U.S. Schools Drag Us Down?
February 17	David Figlio Institute for Policy Research Northwestern University	Competitive Effects of Means-Tested School Vouchers
February 24	James Marton Andrew Young School of Policy Studies Georgia State University	A Tale of Two Cities? The Heterogeneous Impact of Medicaid Managed Care in Kentucky
March 10	Scott Bauries College of Law University of Kentucky	State Constitutions and Individual Rights: 'Lockstepping' and the Lessons of School Finance
March 24	Len Burman Maxwell School Syracuse University	Is the United States Heading for a Catastrophic Budget Failure?
March 31	Keith Provan Eller College of Management University of Arizona	Conducting Research on Whole Networks: Preliminary Findings from Two Studies
April 14	Katharine Strunk Rossier School of Education University of Southern California	Do Districts Implement the Right Economic Incentives to Attract and Retain the Teachers Districts Want? The Relationship Between California School Districts’ Staffing Needs, Economic Incentive Policies and Teacher Recruitment and Retention
April 21	Kirk Stark College of Law University of California - Los Angeles	The Federal Role in State Tax Reform

Fall 2009

Date

Speaker

Paper Title

September 1	Amy Bonami College of Education and Human Ecology Ohio State University	Healthcare Utilization and Costs Associated with Intimate Partner Violence
September 2	Joshua Cowen Martin School University of Kentucky	The Second Year of the Longitudinal Educational Growth Study of the Milwaukee Parental Choice (Voucher) Program
September 24	David Freshwater Department of Agricultural Economics University of Kentucky	The Interaction Between Unemployment Benefits and Journey to Work: Fish Plant Employment in Rural Newfoundland
September 30	Nikolai Petrovsky Martin School University of Kentucky	Does Public Service Motivation Predict Higher Public Service Performance? A Research Synthesis
October 7	Eugenia Toma Martin School University of Kentucky	School Attributes and Distance: Tradeoffs in the School Choice Decision
October 14	David Hamilton Department of History University of Kentucky	Why those New Deal Farm Production Controls? Henry A. Wallace and the Quest for a Modern Agriculture
October 21	Thomas Ahn Department of Economics University of Kentucky	Does No Child Left Behind Have Teeth? Examining the Impact of Federal Accountability Sanctions in North Carolina
November 4	TK Logan Department of Behavioral Science University of Kentucky	Private Versus Public: The Truth About the Costs of Partner Violence
November 24	April Wu Harris School of Public Policy University of Chicago	Why Do So Few Elderly Use Food Stamps?
December 1	Samuel Kleiner Heinz College Carnegie Mellon University	Do Strikes Kill? Evidence from New York State
December 2	James Ziliak Deparment of Economics University of Kentucky	Down from the Mountain: Skill Upgrading and Wages in Appalachia
December 7	Nikola Mirilovic The Elliot School of International Affairs George Washington University	Explaining the Politics of Immigration: Dictatorship, Development, and Defense
December 9	Per Fredriksson Department of Economics University of Louisville	Partisan Governors and Economic Policy

Spring 2009

Date

Speaker

Paper Title

February 11	William Hoyt Martin School University of Kentucky	State Income Taxes and Residential Location in Multi-State Metropolitan Areas
February 18	Richard Fording Department of Political Science University of Kentucky	Deciding to Discipline: Race, Choice, and Punishment at the Frontlines of Welfare Reform
February 25	John Thelin Educational Policy Studies Unviersity of Kentucky	Higher Education and Public Policies in the United States
March 4	Adetokunbo Oluwole Martin School Unversity of Kentucky	Distributional Effects of Programmatic Features of Medicaid/SCHIP on Transitions from Private Insurance Coverage Among U.S. Low-Income Children: A Dynamic Approach
March 11	Chris Jepsen Department of Economics University of Kentucky	Labor Market Returns to Community College Degrees, Diplomas, and Certificates
March 24	Lawrence Prybil College of Public Health University of Iowa	Board Oversight of Community Benefit in Nonprofit Community Health Systems
April 1	Ed Jennings Martin School University of Kentucky	Evidence-Based Practice and the Use of Information in State Agency Decision-Making
April 8	Dennis Epple Heinz College Carnegie Mellon University	Inefficiencies from Metropolitan Political and Fiscal Decentralization: Failures of Tiebout Competition
April 15	Julie Zimmerman Community and Leadership Development University of Kentucky	Rural Prices in Rural Places: Examining the Cost of Living