The William Penn Foundation and Howard Heinz Endowments to study the effects of teacher certification and program approval reforms in Pennsylvania: 2006-8.
The Lincoln Land Institute: to study the effects of the elimination of the two tier real estate assessment system in Pittsburgh: 2006.
The Employment Policies Institute: to complete a monograph on the distributional, employment, and budgetary effects of living wage ordinances: 2005-6.
Board of Education of the Pittsburgh Public Schools: to analyze the real estate tax appeals in Pittsburgh: 2005-7.
Board of Education of the Pittsburgh Public Schools: to analyze internal and external assessments of students in the Pittsburgh Public Schools: 2005-7.
The Fannie Mae Foundation: to study the fairness of real estate assessments in four urban counties: 2002-4.
US Department of Labor: to study the economic efficiency effects of living wage legislation: 2002-4.
The Pittsburgh Foundation: to study the market for substitute classroom teachers in SW Pennsylvania: 2002-3.
Milken Family Foundation: to write a short monograph on the supply and demand for school administrators in Pennsylvania, 2000-2.
US Department of Housing and Urban Development: to examine urban migration and income distributions, 1998-2000, 2000-3.
The Fordham Foundation: to write a short monograph on teacher preparation and selection for their publication and distribution, 1998.
The Walker Foundation: to support research on the effects of government programs on the demographic composition of the population, 1997-8; 2000-3.
Buhl Foundation, Grable Foundation, Vira I. Heinz Endowment, Frick Fund of the Buhl Foundation, and the Pennsylvania State Board of Education: for the study of teacher preparation, program approval and teacher selection in Pennsylvania, 1997-8.
Vira I. Heinz Endowment: for the study of teacher preparation and selection in Pennsylvania, Summer, 1996.
USX Foundation: for studies in consumption based taxation, 1992-3.
Westinghouse Electric Corporation for studies in consumption based taxation, 1992-3.
The Pew Charitable Trust: to study the supply and demand for teachers in Pennsylvania, 1990-3.
Howard Heinz Endowment: to study the high school science, mathematics, and computing curricula in Western Pennsylvania, 1989-90.
Pennsylvania Department of Education: to study the supply and demand for teachers in Pennsylvania, partial funding, 1989.
Howard Heinz Endowment and Ben Franklin Partnership: to study the high school science, mathematics, and computing curricula in Western Pennsylvania, 1988-9.
Steel Valley Council of Governments and consortium of private foundations: to study the financial condition of 10 mill towns in Allegheny County, 1986-1987.
Washington State Department of Revenue: to study alternatives to Washington State's current personal and business tax structure, 1986-7.
Center for Public Financial Management: funding from consortium of Pennsylvania-based corporations and labor unions, 1984-92.
West Virginia Tax Department: to study alternatives to current business tax structure, 1984-1985.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Social Security Administration: to study the vertical and horizontal characteristics of Federal personal and payroll taxes, 1981-1982.
U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Health Care Financing Agency: to study hospital cost functions {with Robert F. Conrad, Duke University}, 1979-1980.
U.S. Department of Treasury, Office of Tax Analysis: to study index numbers for tax policy analysis, 1979-1980.
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development: to study the relationship between major federal block grant programs and Federal tax collections, 1979-1980.
U.S. Labor Department: to study the occupational differences of men and women, 1974-1975.
National Science Foundation: to study the impact of alternative interpretations of the floor and ceiling provisions of the general revenue formula, 1973-1975.