Earlier Papers in Conference Proceedings
Earlier Reviews, Reports, Monographs, Public Testimony
& Reprinted Articles
``Factors Influencing School District Financial Reporting Practices'', with Rajiv D. Banker and Beverly Bunch, Research in Governmental and NonProfit Accounting, 5 (1989), 27-56.
``Price and Quantity Effects of Tax Reform: An Application to West Virginia'' with Uriel Wittenberg, National Tax Journal, 40, 1 (March, 1987), 83-94.
``The Net Fiscal Impact of Selected Federal Block Grant Programs,'' with Peter B. Harkins, Journal of Regional Science, 26, 1 (February, 1986), 63-85.
``A Comparative Application of Data Envelopment Analysis and Translog Methods: An Illustrative Study of Hospital Productions,'' with Rajiv D. Banker and Robert F. Conrad, Management Science, 32, 1 (January,1986), 30-44.
``Some New Evidence on Teacher and Student Competency,'' with Elizabeth A. Sawyer, Economics of Education Review, 5, 1 (1986), 41-48.
``A Multiple-Output Multiple-Input Model of the Hospital Industry in North Carolina,'' with Robert F. Conrad, Applied Economics, 15, 3 (June, 1983), 341-352.
``Salary Patterns of Agricultural Economists in the early 1980's,'' with Michael Tarr, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 64, 5 (December, 1982), 1053-1061.
``U.S. Industrial Employment Patterns by Race and Sex: 1960-1970,'' with Peter Schmidt, Metroeconomica, 31, 2 (June, 1979), 195-209.
``A Mixed Logit Model of the Relationship between Unionization and Right-to-Work Legislation,'' with Ronald S. Warren, Journal of Political Economy, 87, 3 (April, 1979), 648-655.
``Modeling the Earnings and Research Productivity of Academic Economists,'' with W. Lee Hansen and Burton A. Weisbrod, Journal of Political Economy, 86, 4 (August, 1978), 89-97.
``Information and Participation in a Public Transfer Program,'' Journal of Public Economics, 8, 3 (December, 1977), 385-396.
``Overhauling the Federal Aid System: Redesigning General Revenue Sharing and Countercyclical Aid Programs,'' National Tax Journal, 29, 3 (September, 1976), 341-55.
``A New Approach to the Demand for Public Goods,'' with G. David Hughes, Journal of Public Economics, 6, 1 (Fall, 1976), 191-204.
``The Impact of Municipal Electric Profits on Local Public Finance,'' with Kenneth L. Wertz, National Tax Journal, 29, 1 (March 1976), 22-30.
``Wage Rate Differences by Race and Sex in the U.S. Labor Market: 1960-1970,'' with Francis Horvath, Economica, 43, 171 (August, 1976), 287-298.
``The Effect of Unions on Earnings and Earnings on Unions: A Mixed Logit Approach,'' with Peter Schmidt, International Economic Review, 17, 1 (February 1976), 204-212.
``Estimation of Models with Jointly Dependent Qualitative Variables: A Simultaneous Logit Approach,'' with Peter Schmidt, Econometrica, 43, 4 (July, 1975), 745-755.
``The Prediction of Occupation Using Multiple Logit Models,'' with Peter Schmidt, International Economic Review, 16, 2, (June, 1975), 71-86.
``The Impacts of Population Undercounts on General Revenue Sharing in New Jersey and Virginia,'' with Peter B. Harkins, National Tax Journal, 26, 4, (December, 1974), 617-624.
``The Impact of Block Grants on Local Expenditures and Property Tax Rates,'' Journal of Public Economics, 4, 1 (Fall, 1974), 269-284.
``Analyzing Economic Discrimination against Women and Blacks with the Public Use Samples,'' with Francis Horvath, Review of Public Data Use, 1, 4 (October, 1973), 10-18.
``Revitalizing Our Federal System: The Case for General Revenue Sharing,'' DePaul Law Review, 21, 4 (May, 1972), 889-901.
``The Geographic Heterogeneity of Local Public Expenditure Functions,'' with William J. Scanlon, Review of Economics and Statistics, 14, 2 (May, 1972), 191-194.
``Industrial Patterns of Male Negro Employment,'' Journal of Human Resources, 8, 1, (Winter, 1971), 111-118.
``A Note on the Public Sector of the Coastal Plains,'' Journal of Regional Science, 2, 3 (December 1971), 369-375.
Earlier Papers in Conference Proceedings
``Federal Tax Policy and the Market for Corporate Control: Relationships and Consequences,'' in David McGee (editor), Takeovers: Issues in Public and Corporate Policy, (New York, Praeger Press, 1989), 116-143.
``Reforming State Business Taxes,'' in Steven Gold (editor). State Tax Policy. (Denver: National Conference of State Legislatures, December, 1986), 231-258.
``The Horizontal and Vertical Characteristics of the Federal Individual Income Tax: 1966-1977,'' with Marcus C. Berliant, in Martin David and Timothy Smeeding (editors). Horizontal Equity, Uncertainty, and Economic Well-Being. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985), 179-214.
``Measuring the Distribution of Personal Taxes,'' with Marcus C. Berliant, in Richard J. Zeckhauser and Derek Leebaert (editors), What Role for Government? (Duke University Press, 1983), 97-115.
``The Quality of Financial Reporting by General Local Governments: An Empirical Study,'' with William D. Haseman, in Allan R. Drebin, James L. Chan, and Lorna C. Ferguson (editors), Objectives of Accounting and Financial Reporting for Governmental Units: A Research Study, Volume II, (National Council on Government Accounting, Chicago, 1981), 23-46.
``Thinking Strategically About the Federal Budget Cuts,'' in Southern Growth Policies Board. A New Human Services Agenda for the South, (Raleigh, North Carolina: 1981), 47-62.
``Incremental versus Comprehensive Welfare Reform'' in James Gallagher and Ronald Haskins, (editors), Models for Analysis of Social Policy (Ablex Publishing Company, 1981), 174-203.
``Discussion'' of `Educational Vouchers and Social Policy', by Henry M. Levin, in James Gallagher and Ronald Haskins, (editors), Care and Education of Young Children in American: Policy, Politics and Social Science, (Ablex Publishing Company, 1980), 56-62.
``Comment'' on paper by Barbara Bergmann and Robert Bennett, ``Policy Explorations with a Transactions Model of the U.S. Economy,'' in Robert Haveman and Kevin Hollenbeck (editors), Microeconomic Simulation Models in Public Policy Analysis, (New York: Academic Press, 1980), 2, 44-48.
``Interdependent National Budgets: A Model of U.S.- Soviet Defense Expenditures,''
in W. Ladd Hollist, (editor), Exploring Competitive Arms Processes: Applications
of Mathematical Modeling and Simulations in Arms Policy Analysis, (New
York: arcel-Dekker,
1978, 89-97.
Earlier Reviews, Reports, Monographs, Public Testimony & Reprinted Articles
``Local Tax Reform in Pennsylvania: Prospects and Problems,'' Testimony before the Committee on Special Legislation of the Special Session on Local Tax Reform, Senate of Pennsylvania, February 10, 1988.
A Study of Alternative Tax Structures for the State of Washington. (Olympia, Washington: Washington Department of Revenue, July 16, 1987). pp. 222.
Taxation of Financial Institutions in Washington State: A Study of the Legal and Fiscal Issues, with Edward L. Symons. (Olympia, Washington: Washington Department of Revenue, July 1, 1987). pp. 61.
The Financial Position of Municipalities in the Steel Valley Council of Governments, with Beverly Bunch. (Steel Valley Council of Governments, June 1987), p. 243., reprinted in part in U.S. Congress, Senate Finance Committee, Subcommittee on Economic Policy, Hearings on Regional Economic Development, Summer, 1987.
``SPSS on the Pro 350: An Old Friend s a New Career on a Micro,'' Personal and Professional, 2, 2 (August / September, 1984), 11-18.
Business Taxes in West Virginia: A Research Report to the West Virginia Tax Study Commission. (Charleston, West Virginia: West Virginia Tax Study Commission, January, 1984), p.170.
``Strategies for Western Pennsylvania's Economy,'' Hearings before the House Committee on Banking,Housing, and Urban Affairs, Subcommittee on Economic Stabilization, 98th Congress, House of Representatives, December 21, 1983, 22-36.
Personal Taxation: A Task Force Report to the Pennsylvania Tax Commission, with Charles G. Kopp, (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, March, 1981), p. 99.
``Financing Local Government in the 1980's,'' Hearings before the House Committee on Banking and Finance and Urban Affairs, Subcommittee on Economic Stabilization, 97th Congress, 1st Session (September 25, 1981), Serial 97-ll, Part 4.
Review of Revenue Sharing: Methodological Approaches and Problems, (Caputo and Cole, editors) in Growth and Change 8, 4 (October, 1977), 189-191.
``The Impact of Alternative Interpretations of the Floor and Ceiling Provisions of the State and Local Assistance Act of 1972,'' Hearings before the Joint Economic Committee, Subcommittee on Fiscal Policy, 94th Congress, 1st Session, June, 1975, 63-68, also 9-106.
A Study of the Supplemental Security Income and Public Assistance Programs in North Carolina, with Colin Cornett, (Raleigh, North Carolina: North Carolina Department of Administration, December 1974), p. 112.
The 1970 Census Undercount and Revenue Sharing: Effect on Allocations in New Jersey and Virginia, with Peter B. Harkins, (Washington, D.C.: Joint Center for Political Studies, June 1974), p. 69.
``Intergovernmental Relations in Germany since 1891,'' Hearings before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, 92 Congress, 1st Session, Part I (June 2, and 3, 1971), 160-164.
``Revenue Sharing and Local Expenditures: A Simulation Study of the Wisconsin Shared Revenue System,'' with William J. Scanlon, Social System Research Institute, Workshop Papers (December, 1969), p. 22.