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APPAM PhD Dissertation Award Recipients

2006-2007:
Christopher Herbst, University of Maryland-College Park, School of Public Policy
Title: Effects of Social Policy Reforms and the Economy on Welfare Participation and Employment of Single Mothers

Honorable Mentions:
Douglas Carr, University of Kentucky
Stephanie Cellini, University of California-Los Angeles

2005-2006:
Kilkon Ko, University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
Title: Behaviors of Policy Analysts in Public Investment Decisions: How Policy Analysts Make Decisions

Honorable Mentions:
Leah Brooks, University of California-Los Angeles
Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal, Northwestern University

2004-2005:
Asim Zia, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Public Policy
Title: Cooperative and Non-Cooperative Decision Behaviors in Response to the Inspection and Maintenance Program in the Atlanta Airshed, 1997-2001

Honorable Mentions:
Margaret Patrick Haist, University of Kentucky
Sergio Fernandez, University of Georgia

2003-2004:
Shreyasi Jha, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Department of Public Policy
Title: Linkages Between Trade and Liberalization and Environmental Policy: Evidence from India

Honorable Mentions:
Zhong Yi Tong, University of Maryland
Jesse Levin, University of Amsterdam and Tinbergen Institute

2002-2003:
Rucker Johnson, University of Michigan, Department of Economics
Title: Essays on Urban Spatial Structure, Job Search and Job Mobility

Honorable Mentions:
R. Karl Rethemeyer, Harvard University
Gail Corrado, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

2001-2002:
Mark Long, University of Michigan, Department of Economics
Title: The Effects of Education Policy on College Entry and Household Savings

Honorable Mentions:
Brian Jacob, University of Chicago
Katherine Magnuson, Northwestern University

2000-2001:
Jacob Hacker, Yale University, Department of Political Science
Title: Boundary Wars: Political Struggle Over Public and Private Social Benefits in the U.S.

Honorable Mentions:
Jean Marie Abraham, Carnegie Mellon University
Shanti Rabindran Gamper, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1999-2000:
Susanna Loeb, University of Michigan, Department of Economics
Title: Economic Analyses of Elementary and Secondary School Resource Provision

Honorable Mentions:
Laura J. Dugan, Carnegie Mellon University
Patrick McEwan, Stanford University

1998-1999:
Meredith Phillips, Northwestern University, Department of Sociology
Title: Early Inequalities: The Development of Ethnic Differences in Academic Achievement During Childhood

Honorable Mentions:
Karen Baehler, University of Maryland
Carol Silva, University of Rochester

1997-1998:
Kevin Volpp, University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School
Title: Market-based Reforms and the Impact on Quality of Care: An Examination of the Quality Impacts of the Transition from Hospital Rate-Setting to Price Competition in New Jersey

Honorable Mentions:
Kim Rueben, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Katherine Baicker, Harvard University

1996-1997:
Xavier De Souza Briggs, Harvard University, JFK School of Government
Title: Brown Kids in White Suburbs: Housing Mobility, Neighborhood Effects and the Social Capital of Poor Youth

Honorable Mentions:
Ingrid Gould Ellen, New York University
Rebecca London, Northwestern University

1995-1996:
Sheila E. Murray, University of Maryland, College Park-Department of Economics
Title: Two Essays on the Distribution of Education Resources and Outcomes

1994-1995:
Johannes M. Bos, New York University--Wagner School of Public Service
Title: The Labor Market Value of Remedial Education: Evidence from Time Series Data on an Experimental Program for School Dropouts

1993-1994:

1) Kathryn A. Foster, Princeton University-Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Title: Special Districts and the Political Economy of Metropolitan Service Delivery

2) Thomas J. Nechyba, University of Rochester-Department of Economics
Title: Fiscal Federalism and Local Public Finance: A General Equilibrium Approach with Voting

1992-1993:
Kenneth Langa, University of Chicago, Harris School of Policy Studies
Title: Medicaid Cost-Containment in the 1980s: Did It Encourage Interpayer Differences in Hospital Care?

1991-1992:
Thomas J. Kane, Harvard University, JFK School of Government
Title: College Entry by Blacks Since 1970: The Role of Tuition, Financial Aid, Local Economic Conditions and Family Background

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