National Economic Association

NewsLetter - November 2001

It's Official

Five new Ph.D.s submitted applications for the Rhonda M. Williams Doctoral Dissertation Award:

• Gbenga O. Ajilore (Claremont Graduate University), "The Impact of Federal Tax Policy on State Tax Structure"
• Nancy Dubosse (New School University, NY), "Price Dispersion in the Retail Trade Sector"
• Lawrance Lee Evans, Jr. (University of Massachusetts at Amherst), "What Drives Equity Values: Fundamentals or Net Flows? An Empirical Analysis of the 1982-1999 U.S. Stock Market Boom"
• Linda Loubert (University of Texas), "The Political Economy of Public School Finance"
• Lashawn Richburg Hayes (Princeton University), "Do the Poor Pay More for Food? Three Essays of the Existence of a Poor Price Differential"

Darrick Hamilton won the 2001 Rhonda M. Williams Dissertation Award.  Dr. Hamilton is currently a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Research Fellow at Yale University.

Dr. Bernard E. Anderson was recently appointed Whitney M. Young Professor of Management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Anderson was the Assistant Secretary for the Employment Standards Administration, U.S. Department of Labor during the Clinton Administration.

Dr. Alfred Edwards retired as the NEA Secretary-Treasurer and as Professor Emeritus of Business Administration at the University of Michigan.

Dr. Patrick Mason was elected NEA President-Elect, Dr. Jessica Gordon Nembhard was elected NEA Treasurer, and Dr. Mark D. Turner was elected NEA Secretary.

Dr. Mark D. Turner was conferred the Dr. Alfred Edwards Award for outstanding contribution in the creation and maintenance of the NEA web page.

Kaye Husbands Fealing, NEA President, selected a committee to identify nominees for president-elect (2002-2003) and the board of directors.  The committee nominated:

President-Elect:  

William M. Rodgers, III (The College of William and Mary)

Board:  

Djeto D. Assané (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

Andrew F. Brimmer (University of Massachusetts-Amherst)

William A. Darity, Jr. (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Debby Ann Lindsey (Howard University)

Michael A. Stoll (UCLA)

Romie Tribble, Jr. (Spelman College)

Next Steps: 

• 3rd week in November, election ballots mailed to NEA members

• 3rd week in December, election ballots due

• January 5, 2002 at NEA Business Meeting, election results announced

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