Center for Policy Research
CPR

Center for Policy Research

Faculty List

Badi H. Baltagi
Distinguished Professor of Economics
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1979
Econometrics

Robert Bifulco
Associate Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 2001
Public finance, budgeting and financial management

Leonard E. Burman
Daniel Patrick Moynihan Professor of Public Affairs
Professor of Practice in Public Administration and International Affairs
(with courtesy appointments in Economics and Law)
Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research
Affiliated Scholar, Urban Institute
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1985
Federal tax policy, health care, budget reform

Thomas H. Dennison
Professor of Practice, Public Administration and International Affairs
Director, Program in Health Services Management and Policy
Associate Director, CNY MPH
Director, Lerner Center for Public Health
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1987
Health care management, health care finance, home and community based care, non-profit governance

William D. Duncombe
Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1989
Public budgeting and finance, quantitative methods, education costs and finance, elderly migration

Gary V. Engelhardt
Professor, Economics
Melvin A. Eggers Economics Faculty Scholar
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993
Housing markets and policies, taxation, saving behavior, pensions, Social Security, and aging

Madonna Harrington Meyer
Professor, Sociology
Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence
Ph.D., Florida State University, 1991
Aging, life course, health care, gender, social policy

Christine L. Himes
Maxwell Professor of Sociology
Director, Center for Policy Research
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1989
Demography of aging, social gerontology, body size and disability, family

William C. Horrace
Professor, Economics
Melvin A. Eggers Economics Faculty Scholar
Research Co-Director, Upstate Health Research Network
Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1996
Applied and theoretical econometrics

Chihwa Kao
Professor and Chair, Economics
Ph.D., State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1983
Econometrics of panel data, financial econometrics

Eric R. Kingson
Professor of Social Work
CPR Senior Research Associate

Sharon N. Kioko
Assistant Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs
Ph.D., Indiana University, 2008
Public budgeting and finance, municipal bond market, state and local financial management policy, and quantitative methods

Thomas J. Kniesner
Krisher Professor of Economics
Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 1974
Labor economics, applied economics, program evaluation, and health economics

Jeffrey D. Kubik
Associate Professor, Economics
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996
Public finance, labor economics

Andrew S. London
Professor and Chair, Sociology
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1993
Sociology of medicine, demography, HIV/AIDS, sociology of mental health, health services and policy research, welfare reform, welfare policy

Leonard M. Lopoo
Associate Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2001
Child and family policy, economic demography

Amy Lutz
Associate Professor, Sociology
Ph.D., University of Albany, State University of New York, 2002
Race and ethnicity, immigration, bilingualism, educational inequality, Latin American studies

Jerry Miner
Professor Emeritus, Economics
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1958
Public economics, human resources economics, school finance

Jan Ondrich
Professor, Economics
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1983
Econometrics, labor economics, urban economics

John L. Palmer
University Professor and Dean-Emeritus
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1971
Public policy, public management, public finance, U.S. and comparative social policy, Medicare and Social Security

David Popp
Associate Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs
Ph.D., Yale University, 1997
Environmental economics, economics of technological change

Gretchen Purser
Assistant Professor, Sociology
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2009
Work and labor, urban poverty, punishment, ethnography, social theory

Christopher Rohlfs
Assistant Professor, Economics
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2006
Public economics, applied microeconomics

Stuart Rosenthal
Professor, Economics
Maxwell Advisory Board Professor of Economics
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1986
Urban economics, state and local public economies, real estate finance and housing

Ross Rubenstein
Associate Dean and Chair, Public Administration and International Affairs
Ph.D., New York University, 1997
Judicial politics, U.S. Supreme Court, constitutional development, litigation & social change

Perry Singleton
Assistant Professor, Economics
Ph.D., University of Maryland, 2007
Public finance, health economics

Margaret Usdansky
Assistant Professor, Sociology
Ph.D., Princeton University, 2004
Families, gender, paid and unpaid work, and mixed methods

Michael J. Wasylenko
Professor, Economics
Senior Associate Dean for Academics and Administration
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1975
Public finance, public finance in developing countries, urban economics

Jeffrey Weinstein
Assistant Professor, Economics
Ph.D., Yale University, 2008
Public economics, economics of education, urban economics

Peter Wilcoxen
Associate Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs, and Economics
Director, Center for Environmental Policy and Administration
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1989
Natural resource and environmental economics

Janet Wilmoth
Professor, Sociology
Director, Aging Studies Institute
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1995
Sociology of aging and the life course, demography, health

Douglas A. Wolf
Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs
Gerald B. Cramer Professor of Aging Studies
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1977
Aging and public policy, population studies, quantitative methods

John M. Yinger
Trustee Professor of Economics and Public Administration and International Affairs
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1974
State and local government finance, education, urban policy


 

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