Public Policy Working Group: Douglas Harris

About the Speaker

Harris is an economist whose research explores how the level and equity of student educational outcomes are influenced by education policies such as desegregation, standards, teacher certification, test-based accountability, school choice, privatization, and school finance. As director of Era-New Orleans, his current work focuses on the effects of the unprecedented school reforms that emerged in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

Public Policy Working Group: Trey Dronyk-Trosper

About the Speaker

Trey Dronyk-Trosper is the postdoctoral fellow for the Public Finance Policy Program. Originally from the small town of Bartlesville in northeastern Oklahoma, he received both his bachelor’s degree and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Oklahoma. Dr. Dronyk-Trosper’s main concentrations are on public economics and public finance at the state and local levels. Currently, his projects include research on municipal budgets and financing, environmental and water policy issues, and questions regarding human capital accumulation.

Public Policy Working Group: Patrick Button

About the Speaker

Dr. Button researches in three areas. First, he researches discrimination in labor markets on the basis of age or disability. He is currently working on a field experiment to quantify how much discrimination older workers face, and what factors influence the amount of discrimination. He also studies the impact of employment non-discrimination laws on older or disabled workers. Second, Button studies how tax incentives for economic development affect where firms operate, using tax incentives for the film industry as a case study.

Public Policy Working Group: Douglas Harris

About the Speaker

Harris is an economist whose research explores how the level and equity of student educational outcomes are influenced by education policies such as desegregation, standards, teacher certification, test-based accountability, school choice, privatization, and school finance. As director of Era-New Orleans, his current work focuses on the effects of the unprecedented school reforms that emerged in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

Public Policy Working Group: Wei Long

About the Speaker

Dr. Long’s research concentrates on financial econometrics, time series and applied econometrics. His current work focuses on model selection and model averaging. For example, Dr. Long has studied dependence structures among different financial markets by implementing a model averaging method on the mixture copula model. He has used the model averaging method to estimate the treatment effect of social policy (e.g., Virginia’s justice reform in 1995). And he has researched the explosive behavior in the gold market since the 1960s.

Public Policy Working Group: Patrick Button

About the Speaker

Dr. Button researches in three areas. First, he researches discrimination in labor markets on the basis of age or disability. He is currently working on a field experiment to quantify how much discrimination older workers face, and what factors influence the amount of discrimination. He also studies the impact of employment non-discrimination laws on older or disabled workers. Second, Button studies how tax incentives for economic development affect where firms operate, using tax incentives for the film industry as a case study.

Public Policy Working Group: Monica Hernandez

About the Speaker

Mónica Hernández is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Education Research Alliance of New Orleans (ERA-New Orleans) and Tulane University’s Department of Economics. Her fields of interest include economics of education, development economics, labor economics and early childhood education. Her research examines the role that outside of school settings play on educational inequality gaps, in the context of both developing and developed countries.

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