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“I realize that there are some

businessmen who feel they want only to be left alone—that government and politics are none of their affairs—that

the balance sheet and profit rate of their own corporation are of more

importance than the worldwide balance of power or the nationwide

rate of unemployment. But I hope it is not rushing the season to recall to

you the passage from Dickens' Christmas Carol, in which Ebenezer Scrooge is terrified by the

ghost of his former partner, Jacob Marley. And Scrooge, appalled by Marley's story of ceaseless wandering, cries out, 'But you were always a good man of business, Jacob!' And the ghost of Marley,

his legs bound by a chain of cashboxes and ledgers, replies: 'Business! Mankind was my business. The common welfare was

my business; charity, mercy, forbearance and benevolence were all my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in

the comprehensive ocean of my business!’

Members and guests of the Florida Chamber of Commerce—whether we work in the White House, or in the State House, or in a house of industry or commerce, mankind is our business. And if we

work in harmony instead of hostility—if we can understand each other’s problems and position—if we can respect each other’s roles

and responsibilities—then, surely, the business of mankind will prosper. And your children and mine, and children all over the

world will share that prosperity in an age of peace and abundance."

— John F. Kennedy, remarks to the Florida Chamber of Commerce,

November 18, 1963, four days before his death. [At HTTP://WWW.JFKLIBRARY.ORG/ASSET-VIEWER/ARCHIVES/JFKPOF-048-010.ASPX]

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I am Thomas Good.

For the past 30 years, I've been enriching the

writing experience of more than 100 different

authors. They include those who hold

doctorates from prestigious universities, as

well as those who are nationally or

internationally recognized experts in their

fields. They also include those who are just

beginning to climb their career ladder, as

well as those whose native language is not

English.

I’ve helped people who write well already. And I’ve helped people who do not.

In all cases, I’ve enhanced their reputation and credibility by enabling them to

create documents that make a difference—spurring debate, informing policy,

explaining theory, supporting evaluation, and illuminating thought.

Their documents have made a difference because they have one thing in common—

they were effective.

Effective writing is effective because it is compelling, clear, and inspiring—

• It captures attention— it stirs the imagination and intellect of the reader.

• It communicates— it tells a story, sends a message, provides a lesson.

• It is memorable — readers want to use it in their own business, research, or

daily affairs.

I can help you become a more effective

author.

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Thomas Good tmgood@comcast.net

1999 – 2010 Writer and Editor, Private Clients 1992 – 1999 Editorial Consultant, World Bank, IMF, and American Writing Corp. 1980 – 1992 Editor, Mathematica Policy Research, Princeton, NJ PROJECTS FOR AND WITH —

• Multilateral Institutions — The World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)

• Financial Institutions — HSH Nordbank, NYC • Social Research Organizations — Mathematica Policy Research, Research Triangle Institute,

Abt Associates, the Urban Institute, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research • Government Agencies — U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service (FNS);

U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (ETA) and Bureau of Labor Statistics; U.S. Department of Education; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); Social Security Administration (SSA); U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT); Pennsylvania Department of Aging; New Jersey Department of Labor

• Academic Presses — Harvard University Press, Wisconsin University Press, ILS Press, Cornell University Press, Lexington Books, Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co.

• Private Companies — MHB Technology, Peterson’s Guides, Inc., R.R. Bowker and Sons, American Writing Corp.

PRIMARY EXPERIENCE

Research on World Bank lending operations in developing and emerging economies—“Fast-Track” evaluation précis for the Executive Board, country assistance reviews, country strategy papers, and performance audit reports. I have experience with the following countries:

Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Burundi, Cambodia, Chile, China, Cote d’Ivoire, Ecuador, El Salvador, Eritrea, Gambia, Ghana, Haiti, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Korea, Lebanon, Malawi, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Senegal, Singapore, Taiwan (China), Tanzania, Uganda, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Zaire

Research on U.S. social and welfare policy— project reports on impact analysis of program

regulations and eligibility rules; benefit formulas; participation rates and the determinants of participation; operations and administrative systems; and the demographic characteristics of participants. I am familiar with the following programs:

AFDC, Food Stamps, and WIC; National School Breakfast and Lunch programs; Child Support Enforcement Program; pre-1992 Employment & Training Programs (including Job Corps, CETA & JOBS, and Workfare for

minority single mothers and teenage AFDC recipients); Medicare, Medicaid, and pre-1992 health-care initiatives (including HMOs and alternative health plans, home-based and long-term care, and respite services for the caregivers of Alzheimer’s patients); Unemployment Insurance & reemployment programs (including trade

adjustment assistance and dislocated worker initiatives); and Americans with Disabilities Act, with emphasis on transitional employment for mentally challenged persons.

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GHOSTWRITING — ENSURING VOICE AND IMPACT

• Synthesizing raw data, research, or even ideas into polished narrative or review drafts.

• Rewriting preliminary or rough drafts to rationalize and sharpen lines of argument. • Adopting narrative techniques that epitomize organizational mission and target

the appropriate audience. • Preparing concise, penetrating abstracts and executive summaries that are not

replicas of existing copy. • Extracting constructive, positive messages, lessons, and recommendations, and

using bullet-lists and standalone textboxes to amplify them. • Structuring the titles of all chapters, sections, graphs, and textboxes into

statement-driven messages.

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EDITING — ENSURING CLARITY AND APPEAL

• Applying a strong command of grammar, syntax, and vocabulary to economize language, streamline narrative, and optimize wording.

• Adapting readily to any prose style so that authors retain "ownership" of their work—their distinctive, vivid voice.

• Reconfiguring tables, graphs, and figures to enhance their visual appeal and power.

• Rephrasing chapter, heading, and table titles to capture contextual imperatives. • Preparing substantive indexes so that readers have ready access to specific

subject matter. • Copyediting or proofreading text for presentation to printers or publishers.

RESEARCH — ENSURING DEPTH AND VALIDITY

• Steering investigation to the core research essential to both authors and their audience.

• Double-checking narrative and statistical material to corroborate evidence and substantiate argument.

• Reconciling conflicting or arcane data from Government websites (particularly Treasury, Federal Reserve, BLS, and Census data) to permeate the fog of communal brainpower.

• Synthesizing strands of inquiry into distinct, unified spheres of analysis. • Harmonizing salient research highlights into messages, lessons, and

recommendations. • Determining how raw data can best be presented visually in text, graphs, lists, or

textboxes.

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PROFESSIONAL Quantitative and descriptive program and project evaluations ♦ Policy

review, position, and issue papers ♦ Précis, abstracts, executive summaries, and briefs ♦ Tradebooks and university press editions ♦ Literature and book reviews and annotated bibliographies ♦ Speeches and op-eds ♦ Conference

and seminar presentations ♦ Congressional and other testimony ♦ Transcripts of focus-group and panel discussions

ACADEMIC Journal and manuscript submissions of theory or analysis — in

econometrics, economics, history, literature, and current affairs ♦ Analysis and survey design plans, including the econometric and statistical

methodologies underlying them ♦ The application and treatment of information extracted from the major extant databases, including Vital Statistics, Current Population Survey, Survey of Income and Program

Participation, and Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor Statistics records ♦ Doctoral dissertations, master's theses, and undergraduate papers

INFORMATIONAL AND PROMOTIONAL Research-contract proposals and statements of organizational and team

qualifications ♦ Company-specific style manuals for writers and editors ♦ Resumes and blurbs for executives, senior- and junior-level staff, and

independent professionals ♦ Organizational newsletters, brochures, and catalogues ♦ Training manuals and user guides

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Government is competent when all who compose it work as

trustees for the whole people. It can make constant progress when it

keeps abreast of all the facts. It can obtain justified support and

legitimate criticism when the people receive true information of all that

government does.

If I know aught of the will of our people, they will demand that these

conditions of effective government shall be created and maintained.

They will demand a nation uncorrupted by cancers of injustice and, therefore, strong among the nations in its example of the will to peace. . . .

In every land there are always at work forces that drive men apart and forces that draw men together. In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up, or else we all go down, as one

people.

— Franklin Roosevelt, 2nd Inaugural Address, January 20, 1937.

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The following pages list most of the publications and projects on which I’ve been involved as a writer, editor, or researcher. The sections are arrayed chronologically by career segment — most recently as a ghostwriter, previously as a consultant, and beginning as a full-time social-research editor. Textboxes shaded in blue provide more information on specific publications that are highlights of my work.

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GHOSTWRITING, EDITING, AND RESEARCH— PRIVATE CLIENTS

For the past several years, I have chosen to work with authors who wish to make a difference independently of their specific organizational affiliation. They have been devoted to helping the people first and foremost, whether by making poverty-alleviation efforts more effective and transparent, by providing reasoned theoretical constructs to overcome global wealth and income inequalities, or by actively engaging in research to revive and rebuild middle-class society, including the overwhelmed middle class in the United States. I am currently co-author of a book tentatively entitled Fair Opportunity Capitalism, slated for publication by a university press in 2015. The book discusses the tenets of a new economic paradigm for narrowing global income inequalities. I am also currently the author of a companion manuscript entitled The Bully Principals: How Wall Street and Big Business Usurp the Social Contract from the Middle Class.

1. Chile: The Neoliberal Trap, Andrés Solimano, Cambridge University Press, 2012.

• An examination of how the “Economic Miracle” of Chile—inspired by the free-trade and globalization dogma of the Neoliberal economic paradigm, and imposed as the pet experiment of Milton Friedman during the brutal regime of Pinochet— may have transformed Chile into an economic powerhouse in South America, but, more than 30 years later, is reflected in ongoing social unrest in the country and recent calls for Constitutional change.

2. Speech on “Governance, Economic Growth, and Energy Security,” private client (prepared for

the La Jolla Energy Conference, Institute of the Americas, May 2012).

3. “Assessment of Aid Program in Rural Ecuador.” (Sections and analysis drafted for report for private client, prepared for aid agency, 2012.)

4. “Assessment of Aid Program in Rural Ghana.” (Chapters drafted for report for private client,

prepared for aid agency, 2011.)

5. International Migration in an Age of Globalization and Crisis, Andrés Solimano, Cambridge University Press, 2010.

• Prepared a complete reorganization and rewrite of a book manuscript on “Why Transnationals Migrate

to Other Countries, and the Costs They Weigh To Do So.” The book comprises a transhistorical analysis focusing on immigration to the United States, as well as a case study of immigration patterns between Spain/Italy and Argentina. The analysis examined the impacts of global migration on economic development, labor supply, and income inequality, as well as the mobility of labor and capital flows, including remittances.

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6. “Evaluation Insight: Why Decentralized Project Implementation Can Work Despite National

Coordination by the Central Government.” (Précis edited for private client, prepared for aid agency, 2010.)

7. “Kenya: The Road Sector Requires a Prioritization Mechanism to Promote Rapid and

Sustainable Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction.” Research report drafted and edited for private client, prepared for the World Bank, 2010.

8. “Why Some Developing Countries Suffer from the ‘Resource Curse’ of Extractive Industries.”

Research report drafted and edited for private client, prepared for the World Bank, 2009.

• Prepared the draft of an analysis that examined why five countries abundant in oil, natural gas, and/or mineral resources (Bolivia, Ecuador, Ghana, Kazakhstan, and Papua New Guinea) are prey to a “resource curse”—lower rates of GDP and higher rates of poverty than in other countries without a resource “blessing.”

The purpose of the report was to enable the World Bank to refine its assistance strategy so that countries with an EI-dominant economy could diversify their exports and balance their trade regime while also withstanding external shocks. The recommendation was that Bank lending to these countries be predicated on whether a Government met three preconditions: (1) that it pursued sound revenue management; (2) that it protect property rights, implement environmental safeguards, and provide social safety nets, and (3) that it adhere to the principle of strong, transparent government institutions.

9. “Finalizing Property Rights in Peru: Grassroots Initiative Helps Overcome Inertia by Property Institutions,” E. Panaritis, 2006.

• Edited a draft book manuscript that examined the economic underpinnings of institutional

“informality” as it pertains to the economics, markets, and social structures of property rights in developing countries, and specifically why reforms to institutionalize property rights meet resistance by central governments.

The research pointed to a success story—detailing the results of a World Bank project in Peru in which a grassroots initiative was able to overcome governmental inertia by creating a Registro Predial, an organization that formalized property rights throughout the country. The author, now an influential decision-driver in Greece, developed her story into Prosperity Unbound: Building Property Markers with Trust, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Her site — WWW.PROSPERITYUNBOUND.COM

10. “Is History Doomed to Repeat? Inordinate Debt and the Looming Economic Crisis.” H. Cortés-Douglas (Luksic Scholar, Harvard University), 2004.

• Edited the draft of a conference presentation which correctly theorized that the lack of domestic

savings from low interest rates, in combination with the stock market and real estate bubbles, would lead to economic pessimism and then to recession in the United States. (Presented at various conferences among alternative economic thinkers.)

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11. “Toward a New Understanding of Boom, Recession, and Depression.” H. Cortés-Douglas (Luksic Scholar, Harvard University). In Pioneering Studies in Socionomics, ed. Robert Prechter, Jr. Gainesville, GA: New Classics Library, 2003; pp. 256–65.

• Edited the draft of an article in which the author forecast economic contractions using a fractal

mathematical model (enhanced by Robert Prechter, Jr.) that goes beyond traditional theoretical constructs. The model successfully projected the trend breaks in the stock markets of Thailand, Korea, and Indonesia and their ensuing recessions (the so-called “Asian crisis”), the Russian and Brazilian crises, and the recession in Japan; the author accurately predicted the same crisis for the United States.

12. “Reforming the Pay-As-You-Go Pension System in Romania,” S.I. Hossain (private client),

background research prepared for the World Bank, 2002.

• Rewrote/edited the draft of a paper that examined government initiatives in Romania—one of the first Eastern European countries to undertake a comprehensive reform of its planned economy—to reform its pay-as-you-go pension system. The paper discussed efforts to unify Romania’s five pension systems, improve system transparency, and undertake multi-tier, “pillar” reforms that would provide universal coverage, including retired and disabled workers.

13. “The Public-Private Mix of Funding for Secondary and Higher Education in the Developing

World,” S.I. Hossain (private client), background research prepared for the World Bank, 2001.

• Rewrote/edited the draft of a cross-country analysis of advanced education that examined successful government policies to ensure that the public sector does not “crowd out” the private sector, that public expenditures are targeted equitably and not politically, and that public decisionmaking in the educational sector is decentralized.

14. “Pakistan: Five Successful Rural and Urban Education Models for Girls and Young Women.”

S.I. Hossain (private client), background research prepared for the World Bank, 2000. 15. Interim, sustenance-maintaining work with the accumulation of private clients—

• Licensed life & health insurance agent, 2007–08. • Editorial Consultant, HSH Nordbank, New York City, 2005—Rewrote and edited an English

translation of a German database of 400 financial instruments offered by the Kiel and Schleswig-Holstein branches of HSH Nordbank.

• Private Client, 2003–04—inventoried the estate of one of the founders of consumer-credit banking in the United States.

• MHB Technology (a security-systems company), 2002—Designed and wrote the company’s brochure, advertisements, and advance articles for trade magazines and business journals. Prepared trade-show material and edited an instructional manual and a user’s guide for the company’s main product—a computer-based access security control system.

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EDITORIAL CONSULTANT — THE WORLD BANK

I began working with the World Bank when the president of one of its contractors, the American Writing Corporation, offered me a subcontract while I was still working full-time at my then-employer Mathematica Policy Research (see p. 27). After a six-month period in which I helped MPR stabilize its editorial department, I accepted the offer full-time. My first dozen or so assignments were World Bank discussion papers and Country Economic Memorandums, which were economic and advisory reports on World Bank mission work in developing countries. I was then assigned to two major Bank projects—the “Conference on Sustainable Development” (see p. 20) and “Infrastructure Strategies in East Asia” (see p. 19)—and was one of three people chosen to lead a writing workshop for program operators whose native language was not English. I was then assigned to edit a Country Assistance Review (CAR) for Argentina, which was then in the midst of financial crisis. These CARs are the nuts-and-bolts evaluation of World Bank lending operations in specific developing countries, encompassing structural adjustment loans (SALs), technical assistance loans (TALs), economic and sector work (ESW), and Debt and Debt Service Reduction (DDSR) loans. They are prepared by the independent Operations Evaluation Department of the Bank (now called the Independent Evaluation Group, or IEG). The World Bank began issuing Country Assistance Reviews in 1994, and the CAR for Argentina was the sixth in the series. The Argentina CAR was an honest critique of how the World Bank’s mission team in that country had failed to respond adequately to the Government’s fiscal mis-management that had led to rampant macroeconomic instability, marked by uncontrolled fiscal deficits and skyrocketing inflation. After reviewing the several previous CARs released by the Bank—which were ponderous, windy documents with oceans of figures and graphs that had only little waves of impact—I suggested that economists consolidate their findings into a concise 50-page report that highlighted all main criticisms as messages that would yield positive lessons for change in the Bank’s response to crisis management, backed only by narrative, graphs, and textboxes to justify those messages.

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The format of this CAR for Argentina has since become the standard model for all subsequent CARs and CAR authors working in the Bank’s evaluation division—for its format, content, and narrative style. [A sample of the original report is available at: HTTP://WWW-WDS.WORLDBANK.ORG/EXTERNAL/DEFAULT/WDSCONTENTSERVER/WDSP/IB/1996/06/28/000009265_3961219132259/RENDERED/PDF/MULTI0PAGE.PDF.] With a change in the directorship of OED just two months later, I was invited to join the Division as an editorial consultant directly, where I was assigned to work on other CARs and Performance Audit Reports, examining the impacts of specific lending/nonlending activities in various developing countries, to support Bank decisionmaking in formulating its country-assistance strategies. After being released from work on subsequent editions of a CAR for Bolivia a couple of years later (see p. 17), I was asked to join the Bank’s broader editorial staff, with responsibility for writing OED Précis and Country Briefs for the Executive Directors and the President’s Office. Précis are publicly available publications consisting of 4- to 8-page summaries of Bank evaluations and position papers. Country briefs—otherwise known as “Fast-Track Projects”—are proprietary publications consisting of 2-page summaries of Bank evaluations and position papers. After several assignments in which organizational politics trumped meaningful evaluation truths, I left the World Bank formally.

World Bank Précis—4- to 8-page summaries of Bank evaluations and position papers.

1. A Borrower’s View of the World Bank: Is It Effective? Summer 1998, #165. Based on an OED report on a Gallup survey of the perceptions of borrowing countries and an OED study assessing performance against OMS 2.20 (by Barber, 1997).

2. The World Bank’s Experience with Post-Conflict Reconstruction, summer 1998, #169. Based on

a 94-page OED case study report of nine countries—three field studies (Bosnia-Herzegovina, El Salvador, and Uganda), and six desk studies (Cambodia, Eritrea, Haiti, Lebanon, Rwanda, and Sri Lanka) (by Kreimer et al., summer 1998).

3. Financial Sector Reform: Improving Country Outcomes and Bank Responsibilities, summer

1998, #166. Based on an OED study of World Bank performance in financial sector lending operations (by Mathieu, 1998). [Sample Available at — HTTP://LNWEB90.WORLDBANK.ORG/OED/OEDDOCLIB.NSF/24CC3BB1F94AE11C85256808006A0046/28ECEED27420230C852567F5005D9113/$FILE/166PRECIS.PDF

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4. The Philippines: From Crisis to Opportunity, autumn 1998, #187. Based on an OED Country

Assistance Review of the Philippines (by Zanini, March 1998).

Country Briefs, or “Fast Track” Projects— proprietary publications consisting of 2-page summaries of Bank evaluations and position papers

5. “Mali: With a Health Network in Place, the Bank Is Poised to Help Expand Utilization.” [Based

on The World Bank and the Health Sector in Mali, report #18112, by T. Johnson et al., June 1998.] [Editing sample available by request]

6. “Bolivia: With Its Developmental Potential Untapped, the Country Cannot Make Progress on

Poverty.” [Based on the 1997 Country Assistance Review of Bolivia, by L. Ramirez, cited as #10, here on p. 9.]

7. “Indonesia Workshop: In Support of the Executive Board’s Discussion of a Country Assistance

Strategy.” Workshop co-sponsored by the Swiss Development Corporation, with additional support from the Japan International Cooperation Agency. Summarizes presentations of the conference proceedings, including OED Director-General Mr. Robert Picciotto’s elegant introduction to the proceedings.

8. “Malawi: Need Still Exists Because the Reform Agenda Has Not Been More Forceful.”

Distributed in advance of the CODE discussion of a Country Assistance Note on Malawi. [By A.R. DeSilva, May 1998]

9. “The Bank’s Health Strategy in Brazil: A Complex Health Sector Requires Deeper, Longer-Term

Coalition Building.” [Based on The Brazil Health System: Impact Evaluation Report, report #18142, June 1998, by V. Gauri.]

Country Assistance Reviews and World Bank publications

10. Bolivia: Country Assistance Review. Submitted initially under the title Institutional Limits to Poverty Alleviation in Bolivia: The Threat to Meaningful Policy Reform and Lending Assistance. Released as a revised report (World Bank Report #17957), June 5, 1998, Operations Evaluation Department, World Bank. [Ramirez, 1998]

• Read and tied together more than 3,000 pages of independent, personal, and Bank mission research on

12 years of IDA assistance into a 7-page summary and 35-page report. Wrote textboxes that summarized 7 research papers written by independent analysts in the “fields” of Bolivia, corroborating the main message of the Country Assistance Review.

Research indicated that, over a 12-year period, more than $400 million in credits from the International Development Association (part of the World Bank Group), plus more than $350 million in support from other international donors (including USAID), did little to reform Bolivia’s government apparatus and encouraged only tepid economic growth. Lending did not filter down to those who were supposed to benefit from the Bank loans—Bolivia’s poor, whose socioeconomic indicators, already the second lowest in the Latin America and the Caribbean region, did not change during the period. The main constraint against alleviating poverty—which is the World Bank’s philosophical mission in the developing world—was the absence of institutional integrity by Bolivia’s

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judicial, civil service, and customs systems, which prevented legitimate entrepreneurial activity by all except large, foreign-owned corporations. Bank management did not share the main message of the report—that much of the assistance to Bolivia was devoted to “window-dressing” reform that prevented any meaningful, substantive efforts to tie GDP growth to poverty alleviation—and requested twice that the report be revised to soften criticism of Bank lending operations. The Bank released me from working on those two revisions. The main message of the released report was that, without IDA assistance, Bolivia might not have had positive GDP growth, which in that case would have exacerbated poverty. A few weeks after the report came out, questions were raised about why the Bank downplayed the negative impact of institutional corruption and ineffective lending on poverty alleviation Upon further examination, Bank management recognized the opportunity to make Bolivia a “test” country for its newly released paradigm called the Strategic Compact—an internal reform initiative meant to placate countries in which a rising populist tide against the harsh outcomes of the Bank’s debt-based lending was marginalizing the Bank’s presence in those countries. The Bank’s subsequent directive for Bolivia was a revamped lending program that specifically targeted institutional constraints against private-sector development and tied assistance to the bank’s poverty paradigm. Bolivia also became one of the first developing countries to be elevated to Highly Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) status—a still-ongoing initiative defined by the Bank as a “comprehensive approach to debt reduction . . . designed to ensure that no poor country faces a debt burden it cannot manage.” [See HTTP://WWW.IMF.ORG/EXTERNAL/NP/EXR/FACTS/HIPC.HTM]

My Original Message Was Retained in the Final Version—

“Given the Bank’s strong financial and altruistic presence in Bolivia, this CAR believes that the Bank can exert more of its weight in pursuing its poverty

paradigm, and thus can take a more decisive and incisive stand toward corruption. We take our lead from the World Bank’s Poverty Reduction and

Economic Management Network report, Helping Countries Combat Corruption: The Role of the World Bank:

‘Corruption (and by inference institutional weaknesses) should be explicitly taken into account in a country risk analysis, lending decisions, and portfolio supervision if it affects project or country performance and the government’s

commitment to deal with it is in question.’

“We thus recommend that the Bank take a closer examination of the projects in its current (Bolivia) portfolio with a view toward reconciling projects at risk,

adopting midstream corrections, and in some cases completely overhauling the projects.”

This CAR for Bolivia was a turning point for further Bank lending work in the developing world—and for writing meaningful evaluations that would make the Bank more responsive to the countries to which it provided millions or billions of dollars of assistance. Not only did it lead to the Bank’s internal Strategic Compact, but it also led to its own monitoring efforts to try ensuring that the Compact was implemented as envisioned.

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However, none of the Bank’s efforts would be enough to stem the rising tide of populism that swept over Bolivia’s poor as they entered the new millennium, culminating in the election of the democratic-socialist Evo Morales in 2006. His agenda has included nationalizing many resource sectors in the country and breaking free of the World Bank. Bolivia has experienced strong economic growth and has slashed both poverty and illiteracy since then.

11. The Philippines: Country Assistance Review, Report #19032. Operations Evaluation Department, World Bank, DC, 1998. [Zanini]

12. Bangladesh: Country Assistance Review, Report #17455-BD. Operations Evaluation

Department, World Bank, DC, 1998. [Robinson]

13. Infrastructure Strategies in East Asia: The Untold Story. Published by the World Bank, ISBN 0-8213-4027-1, September 1997. [ed., Ashoka Mody]. [Samples available at —

HTTP://WWW-WDS.WORLDBANK.ORG/EXTERNAL/DEFAULT/WDSCONTENTSERVER/IW3P/IB/1997/08/01/000009265_3980217141139/RENDERED/PDF/MULTI_PAGE.PDF

AND HTTP://BOOKS.GOOGLE.COM/BOOKS?ID=JSVNQI3UZKGC&PG=PR11&LPG=PR11&DQ=INFRASTRUCTURE+STRATEGIES+IN+EAST+ASIA:++THE+UNTOLD+STORY&SOURCE=BL&OTS=EDO3EJLEVX&SIG=AQ5LWXKMUSLXUB5OUO0BXZI4TKI&HL=EN&SA=X&EI=CLVSUOE7IZLD4AO7IOE4&VED=0CD8Q6AEWAW#V=ONEPAGE&Q=INFRASTRUCTURE%20STRATEGIES%20IN%20EAST%20ASIA%3A%20%20THE%20UNTOLD%20STORY&F=FALSE]

• Edited twelve 90-page papers into a 200-page report on the strategies used by Hong Kong, Japan, the

Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, and Taiwan to modernize their infrastructure sectors in the post-War era. Wrote the Introduction to the report, synthesizing all findings into lessons about what other industrialized and developing countries could learn from the East Asian experience. Edited case studies from Indonesia, Japan, and Korea that highlighted the financial, regulatory, and organizational mechanisms behind infrastructure development.

The East Asian “miracle” (while it lasted) was not just an economic phenomenon. It also reflected the unleashing of private-sector interests to what was once the exclusive domain of east Asian Governments—their infrastructure, including roads, railways, seaports, water and sanitation, electric power, and telecommunications. Besides revealing the unheralded importance of infrastructure development to the economic transformation of East Asia at the time, the report was significant for its breadth of coverage of the factors that allowed sectors to operate so successfully in a privatized environment—policymaking, institutional, regulatory, and financing arrangements, and ownership and service delivery mechanisms.

14. Second Annual World Bank Conference on Environmentally Sustainable Development: The Human Face of the Urban Environment. Proceedings of a Conference held at the National Academy of Sciences. Published by the World Bank as Environmentally Sustainable Development Series, #6, September 1995.

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Sample available at— HTTP://WWW-WDS.WORLDBANK.ORG/EXTERNAL/DEFAULT/WDSCONTENTSERVER/WDSP/IB/1995/09/01/000009265_3961219103545/RENDERED/PDF/MULTI_PAGE.PDF

• Co-edited 1,235 pages of transcript from panel discussions and conference presentations into a 375-

page report. Speakers included environmental program operators from São Paulo, Santiago, Mexico City, Jakarta, Calcutta, and Seoul; the mayors of Barcelona, Marseilles, and Nairobi; environmental ministers from Canada, Brazil, and Germany; and Henry Cisneros (former U.S. Secretary of Housing in President Clinton’s Administration) and Robert Watson (former Associate Director for the Environment, Office of Science and Technology, the White House).

At an adjunct conference to the UNCED-Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro and the UN Population Summit in Cairo, environmental ministers and program operators discussed the convergence of the “green” and “brown” agendas and the threat of unchecked population growth on the environment in developing and industrialized countries. The conference was one of the World Bank’s contributions to what is referred to as the “Rio cluster”—a series of summits and proceedings that defined the United Nations’ Agenda 21, summarized broadly as a “non-binding action plan for achieving environmentally sustainable development.” Transcripts of the speeches and presentations clearly revealed the environmental nightmares plaguing certain cities and countries—from the choleric pollution of the Santiago River in Chile to the excess of Super Fund sites of nuclear and other contaminated waste in the United States, to the fetid “sanitation” systems of over-crowded Calcutta, to the noxious smog of Mexico City. The Conference was meant to bring these problems to light and to implore action to remedy them. Unfortunately, their remedies were aligned with Agenda 21, and many believe that the altruistic language of Agenda masks the aim of some its proponents to undermine U.S. sovereignty and override the tenets of the U.S. Constitution, akin to other UN initiatives, such as the establishment of World Heritage sites or Biodiversity Zones. It should be recognized by all, however, that concerns about the global environment are not the exclusive domain of proponents of Agenda 21, and thus that the UN should not be the sole or even lead repository of solutions to such nightmares as water-borne disease, asthmatic air, or nuclear waste–impregnated earth. In fact, at the Rio Summit, a coalition of nongovernmental organizations—those “in the field”—demanded a series of alternative treaties (including the People’s Earth Declaration) that, while openly challenging the intentions of framers of Agenda 21, also provide tenable, populist-based solutions to promote the sustainability of all humankind, not just elite populations, on the planet.

15. Cote d’Ivoire: Country Assistance Review, Operations Evaluation Department, World Bank, 1996. [Edited the report and wrote the Executive Summary and the Memorandum to the Executive Directors and the President.] [Vandendries]. [Reissued in 1999 as Report #19422.]

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16. Argentina: Country Assistance Review, Report #15844. Operations Evaluation Department, World Bank, 1996. [Ramirez] Reissued as report #20719, 2000.

Again, the format of this CAR for Argentina has since become the standard model for all subsequent CARs and CAR authors working in the Bank’s evaluation division—for its format, content, and narrative style. [A sample of the original report is available at: HTTP://WWW-WDS.WORLDBANK.ORG/EXTERNAL/DEFAULT/WDSCONTENTSERVER/WDSP/IB/1996/06/28/000009265_3961219132259/RENDERED/PDF/MULTI0PAGE.PDF.]

Note Like the CAR for Argentina, many original CARs can be subject to re-issue because political tensions among all parties that are affected by the Bank’s lending operations have to be reconciled first. On the one hand, political tensions exist between the Government that accepts and oversees the disbursement of the lending and the sectors that are targeted to receive the lending (for instance, rural agriculture, or water and sanitation, or the civil service, or small-business financing, to name just a few). In turn, the people who work in these sectors are affected by the lending according to whether the lending is disbursed efficiently, or transparently, or in full, and the fate of these people is often determined by researchers or watchdogs from nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) who are in the field trying to upgrade and improve these sectors for the benefit of the people. These external tensions must then be resolved at the Bank, where internal tensions exist between those who designed the lending operations and the researchers who are tasked to determine the relevance and effectiveness of the operations. To reach resolution, the Bank sends “mission” teams to a country to examine the lending operations first-hand, and these missions include both the designers and the evaluators. The mission team—who meets with the government, the sectors, and the NGOs to examine the effect of the lending operations on the tensions among them—then reaches a set of often conflicting findings, and it is the responsibility of the lead mission evaluator to synthesize those findings into an overall assessment known as the Country Assistance Review, or CAR. This initial report must then be reviewed by those who epitomize the most imperative political tension of all—the Bank’s executive-level hierarchy, including both the executives in charge of the region of the world in which a country is categorized and the executives of the Bank overall. To protect their positions, the region-level executives must be seen as having promoted sound lending operations, but must also be accommodating to the government, which, again, is attempting to balance its tensions with the sectors and the people. To protect the overall image of the Bank itself—both in the press and among all members of the bilateral and multilateral donor community—the highest-level executives must shed the best light possible on all of its lending operations. Any disconnect between or among any of these stakeholders means that the independent evaluation from the Operations Evaluation Department is not so independent after all. The differences of opinion that emerge after the initial release of a CAR sometimes are resolved with mere changes in the nuances of

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the language; sometimes, however, they are resolved with the censor of text or even the dismissal of personnel. But in all cases, the process of resolving all of these political tensions takes time—years, in fact—by which time another set of lending operations is in place, with hopes that the major problems with the previous one have been resolved.

Performance Audit Reports — Analyses of the Performance of Specific World Bank Lending Instruments

17. Performance Audit Report, Uruguay lending operations—SAL I, Loan 2836-UR, for US$80 million; TAL I, Loan 2843 for US$1 million; SAL II, Loan 3081-UR for US$140 million; TAL II, Loan 3082-UR for US$6.5 million; and a DDSR, Loan 3323-UR for US$65 million. [Ramirez] Proprietary to the Operations Evaluation Department, World Bank. Reference information: July 1997 completion date; box # 151584B; file #1587852.

• These loans were targeted at public finance, trade policy, the financial sector, and a Brady package of

debt restructuring to reduce the impact of public debt on the fiscal deficit. I wrote the Executive Summary and Memorandum to the Executive Directors and President.

18. Performance Audit Report, Cote d’Ivoire lending operations—four adjustment credits for $440

million; an Economic Recovery Credit for $100 million; and a Fifth Dimension Credit for $78 million. [Vandendries] Proprietary to the Operations Evaluation Department, World Bank. Reference information: July 1998 completion date; box # 183351B; file #1751924.

• These loans were targeted at a Competitiveness and Regulatory Framework Adjustment Program

(PASCO), which sought to improve the trade and finance regimes; government revenue and finances; tariffs and prices; the business environment, particularly labor-market flexibility; and the institutional setting for reform.

White Cover Reports — Comprehensive “Country Context” Documents Used as the Basis for Subsequent Lending Decisions and Evaluation

19. “Azerbaijan: From Crisis to Sustained Growth,“ White Cover Report #11792, World Bank, DC,

July 1993. [Taymas]

20. “Uzbekistan: An Agenda for Economic Reform,” White Cover Report #12344, World Bank, DC, September 1993. [Vatnick]

Discussion Papers and Research Reports on—

21. “Social Development Perspective Project for ESSD’s Core Database, January 19, 1999.” Informal World Bank Diagnostic Report to “encourage discussion and comment within the development community,” issued by the Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Network, Social Development Family, under OED’s Partnership and Knowledge Program, 1999. [Campbell-Page]

22. “A Review of Civil Service Reform in World Bank Economic and Sector Work.” Background

paper submitted to the Country Policy, Industry and Finance Division, OED, May 1997. [Girishankar]

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23. “Impact on Land and Housing Markets,” Chapter 4 of Kenya: Development of Housing, Water Supply, and Sanitation in Nairobi,” Impact Evaluation Report, no. 15586, World Bank, April 1996. [Kervyn]

• Chapter discusses a project subcomponent that supplied subsidies for land and housing that were

supposed to be made affordable to low-income Nairobians, to motivate them to become homeowners, thus reducing public housing subsidies. The outcome was that wealthier residents co-opted the subsidies, and used them to build those homes but then offered them for rent at higher prices than the subsidized public housing.

24. “Banking Institutions in Developing Markets—Vol. I: Building Strong Management and

Responding to Change,” focusing on credit risk management; financial management; human resources; and institutional reform. World Bank Report #11323, October 1992. [McNaughton et al.] [Subsequent book published by the World Bank]]

25. “The Success of Policy-Based Financing in Post-War Japan.” Prepared for the central

government in Tokyo by the Cofinancing and Financial Advisory Services division, June 1992. [Takano] [Editing Sample Available by Request]

26. “The Design and Development of Secondary Education Curriculum.” ESP Discussion Paper

Series #9, sponsored by the World Bank Education and Social Policy Department, September 1993. [Cowell]

27. “Job Security and Labor Market Adjustment in Developing Countries.” ESP Discussion Paper

Series #2, Education and Social Policy Department, World Bank, DC, 1993. [Paredes-Molina, University of Chile]

28. “Examination of Secondary Education in Developing Countries: Major Issues Facing

Governments, Educators, and Families.” Draft World Bank working paper prepared for the Education and Social Policy Department, World Bank, March 1992. [Fuller, Harvard University, and Holsinger, The World Bank]

29. “The Changing Content of Secondary Education Systems Throughout the World.” Draft World

Bank working paper prepared for the Education and Social Policy Department, World Bank, DC, 1993. [Kemans, Meyrer, and Benavot, from, respectively, Northern Illinois University, Stanford University, and Hebrew University, Jerusalem]

30. “Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Privatization Study: Experience of Japan and Lessons for

Developing Countries.” World Bank Discussion Paper #179, August 1992. [Takano]

31. “China’s Industrial Growth and Performance from 1978–1992.” Draft working paper, World Bank, DC, 1993. [Rawski, Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh]

32. “Poverty Assessment in a Transition Economy,” Chapter 1, focusing on public spending on

education, health, infrastructure, and social services in Mongolia, including a baseline poverty profile, an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the country’s social-institution capacity, and a proposed agenda for fostering institutional capacity to alleviate poverty. World Bank Sector Report #15723, June 1996. [S. Hossain.]

33. Manuscript for The Effects of the Uruguay Round on World Trade. Published as: “The Uruguay

Round and the Developing Economies,” Martin and Winters, eds. World Bank Discussion Paper #307, October 1995.

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• Edited a 13-chapter volume on econometric modeling projections of the impact of GATT (and its newly transfigured World Trade Organization] on GDP growth and income distribution in countries that were signatories to the Uruguay Round agreement.

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EDITORIAL CONSULTANT — THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

As my reputation at the World Bank grew from my work on Country Assistance Reviews and OED Précis and Fast-Track Proposals, the editorial director of the International Monetary Fund asked to borrow my skills on a project to produce a book on the fundamentals of IMF monetary and lending policy, used as the Institute’s “Lecture Summaries” volume for training incoming econometricians and analysts. I was responsible for writing the overviews to and editing 18 chapters of the book. The volume consisted of four broad categories of related chapters, as follows:

Analytical Frameworks

1. Links between Inflation and Economic Growth. Reviews the body of literature which suggests that inflation has a negative impact on growth, and that it has this impact when inflation reaches a certain level. [Greene]

2. Current Account Sustainability. Provides guidelines for assessing the sustainability of current

account deficits, based on country experience which suggests that some countries can run large persistent deficits without facing external problems, while some cannot. [Carranza]

External Sector Policies

3. The Technical Aspects of Exchange Rate Analysis. Analyzes how an effective exchange-rate index is constructed and how movements in the index are interpreted. [Barth]

4. Exchange Rate Regimes and Exchange Rate Policy Issues. Discusses the analytical and

functional underpinnings of how countries choose and formulate their exchange rate in an effort to maintain their competitiveness and hold inflation in check. [Thakur]

5. Reserve Assets and External Liabilities Management: Policies and Issues. Examines the various

methods that countries use to manage their reserve assets and liquidity, as well as global-reserves assets, including foreign currency exposure, risk techniques (including swap operations), currency composition, and institutional arrangements; also illustrates then-recent trends and performance in reserve and liabilities management in relation to both the Mexican and Asian crises. [Rached]

6. The Determinants of Nominal Exchange Rates: A Survey of the Literature. Provides a thorough

digest of the econometrics literature on models used to determine exchange rates, with an in-depth analysis of the their empirical validity as they have unfolded throughout economic theory. [Del Castillo]

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7. Trade Policy and Reform. Makes the case for removing remaining trade barriers throughout the world through preferential trade arrangements, and discusses experience with implementing them in North America (NAFTA), East Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, and Africa. [Iqbal]

8. Large Capital Flows. Provides a literature review of the causes and consequences of large capital

flows and various policy responses that have been adopted to address them—and specifically both countercyclical and structural policies. [Lopez-Mejia]

9. External Debt: Analysis and Policy Issues. Discusses how debt-servicing problems affected

developing and low-income countries with the emergence of the debt crisis in the 1980s and Asian financial crisis after 1996. Also discusses how indebted nations received assistance under Paris Club arrangements, including their evolution into Toronto, London, and Naples terms, and under the Baker and Brady plans and HIPC initiative. [Iqbal/Yousef]

Fiscal and Monetary Policies

10. Fiscal Policy and Macroeconomic Management. Discusses the “stabilization” function of a government’s spending and tax structure (or fiscal) policy—to support the primary macroeconomic objectives established by policymakers to ensure a country’s economic growth, price stability, and sustainable external accounts. [El-Khoun]

11. Indirect Monetary Instruments. Analyzes why countries have begun to rely more on indirect

monetary instruments—open-market operations, reserve requirements, and rediscount facilities, for example—to enhance market efficiency in an increasingly open and integrated world economy. [Senhadji]

12. Assessing the Fiscal Balance. Discusses why some countries facing major macroeconomic

difficulties also often face substantial deficits in the area of public finances, and how fiscal policy is crucial to alleviating these disequilibriums so that a country can move ahead with an overall macroeconomic adjustment program. [Croce]

13. Tax Policy Issues. Discusses different aspects of taxation policy, including the composition of

tax structures and the comparative importance of both direct and indirect taxes as a percent of both GDP and total tax revenues. [Sisson/Rajcoomar]

14. Inflation Targeting. Examines an inflation-targeting (IT) framework used increasingly in the

1990s as an operational regime for enhancing the performance of monetary policy—and particularly to fight inflation. Based on three case studies—New Zealand, Israel, and the United Kingdom—that successfully adopted an IT framework to lower their rates of inflation. [Scarlata]

15. Expenditure Policy Issues. Provides a comprehensive but succinct overview of a government’s

expenditure policy, covering an array of budgetary issues that determine the mix of public-private responsibility for funding a country’s social, infrastructure, and deficit-financing needs. [Scarlata/Hussain]

Structural Reforms

16. Fiscal Reform Issues. Discusses the dual role of fiscal policy reform—to reduce public expenditures and increase public revenues—particularly in light of the many formerly centrally planned economies that were making the transition to market-based systems. [Sisson/Dayal-Gulati]

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17. Public Enterprise Reform. Describes how gains in the efficiency of public enterprises might best

be achieved in the face of managerial, institutional, fiscal, and market realities; also focuses on privatization specifically—its gains in productive and allocative efficiency, the constraints that may challenge its implementation, and its fiscal implications for the government budget. [Kawar]

18. Current and Capital Account Convertibility. Discusses the concepts underlying the convertibility

of national currency—the right to transact a paper standard into one of the major foreign currencies—for both current account transactions and capital account transactions, and why currency convertibility is crucial to economic liberalization and unfettered transactions in the monetary marketplace. [Thakur]

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Editor/Editorial Consultant — Mathematica Policy Research

Mathematica Policy Research (MPR) is one of the preeminent domestic social-research organizations in the United States, funded by tax-paid government contracts, wealthy, tax-exempt trusts and foundations, and private companies whose concern is social management. Early in MPR’s life, I was instrumental in establishing its reputation for producing high-quality policy and evaluation reports that gave decisionmakers in federal Departments and Agencies the information tools they needed to confront current and emerging social-welfare issues. When I left MPR in the early 1990s, it was just on its way to what is now a stasis of success measured largely by monetary returns. Although individual economists and researchers working for the company have made important contributions to social policy research and have offered some innovation solutions to helping people and families in need, the company—as with most think tanks—is more concerned about its existence than about why it receives funding. Again, it could be that the absence of progress on resolving social-welfare issues is simply due to the intractability of the problems themselves, and not to the intelligence and heart of those trying to solve the problems. Still, the broad community of think tanks engaged in social-welfare policy in the United States is big business. The following 100+ projects and publications are those on which I worked from the 1980s to 1992. The list here does not include the editorial support I provided to economists and researchers in preparation for their presentations at annual meetings of the American Statistical Association, the Econometrics Society, the Society of Government Economists, the American Economics Association, and the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, or for their presentations at other professional conferences and seminars and before Congress. And, finally, it does not include my work on dozens of contract proposals—extensive documents of analysis and budget plans and staff qualifications to garner government and foundation contracts—whose preparation and presentation I helped coordinate.

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For twelve years, I was the sole editor at MPR. Before I left MPR to work for the World Bank, I hired, trained, and supervised a staff of on-call editors; established and wrote manuals for synchronizing editorial-style and word-processing conventions; and held writing/editing seminars and workshops. These activities provided the foundation of editorial staffing that MPR enjoys today.

Food Stamp Program (now SNAP) and Food-Related Research for the Food

and Nutrition Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture As part of America’s ongoing and still unfolding reevaluation of Lyndon Johnson’s “War on Poverty,” the Food Stamp Program has been modernized, streamlined, and automated—all in response to questions about the income and target efficiency of the program. Yet in the absence of more effective, less governmental intervention to reduce hunger in the United States, the FSP has often made the difference in a family’s nutritional intake, and it has remained open to all low-income families regardless of age, disability, or family status. However, after the introduction of Neoliberal-inspired “free” trade globalization in the 1980s, the income gap between the wealthy and the rest of society has continued to grow, and the FSP (now SNAP) has seen the largest increase in enrollment among public assistance programs except Medicaid. In the mid-1980s and early 1990s, MPR was at the forefront of Food Stamp Program research, as policymakers became concerned about the efficacy and efficiency of the program, and wished to test various options for streamlining the program and ensuring that benefits were getting a bang for the buck.

1. Food Stamp Policy Issues: Results from Recent Research. Published by the Food and Nutrition Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, under contract #53-3198-7-31, January 1990. [Doyle, Burstein, Devaney, Burt, Ponza, Usher, and Puma]

• In the early 1990s, the FSP had proven its staying power—but it needed to become more accessible to

the target populations that were affected at the time by the “war on poverty”—the homeless, the elderly, and American Indians

I was responsible for coordinating and editing eight papers solicited by the Food and Nutrition Service from four research firms (Mathematica Policy Research, The Urban Institute, Research Triangle Institute, and Abt Associates) to address the salient issues confronting the Food Stamp Program as it prepared for its reauthorization in the 1990s.

2. Manuscript, The Food Stamp Program: Design Tradeoffs, Policy, and Impacts. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute Press, 1993. [Ohls and Beebout] (Released as “Designing Low-Income Assistance: The Case of Food Stamps,” MPR, Princeton, 1992.)

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Two Projects: (1) Microsimulation and Related Analyses of the Food Stamp Program (USDA contract #53-3198-7-31)—a series of studies examining all aspects of the program and its participants, based on a computerized (“simulation”) model developed by MPR—and (2) Food Stamp Analytic Studies (FAST Project) (USDA contract #53-3198-0-22)—a series of “quick turnaround” studies examining ongoing developments in the program and their effect on participants. The FAST Studies formed part of FNS’s publication Current Perspectives On Food Stamp Program Participation, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Center, Office of Analysis and Evaluation, 1990 and onward.

3. “Estimating Eligibility for the WIC Program: Summary of Data, Methods, and Findings from the

WIC Eligibility Study.” MPR, Washington, DC, fall 1992. [Trippe] 4. “Food Stamp Program Participation Rates: January 1992.” MPR, Washington, DC, July 1992.

[Trippe and Doyle] 5. “Trends in Food Stamp Program Participation Rates, 1976–1990.” MPR, Washington,

DC, July 1992. [Trippe, Doyle, and Asher] 6. “Development and Evaluation of Alternative State Estimates of Poverty, FSP Eligibility,

and FSP Participation.” MPR, Washington, DC, June 1992. [Schirm, Swearingen, and Hendrick]

7. Evaluating the Food Stamp Participation Algorithms Used in Microsimulation Models.” Washington, DC: MPR, June 1992 [Martini]

8. “Improving the Income Allocation Procedures in MATH.” MPR, Washington, DC, July 1991. [Trippe and Doyle] [51-3198-0-22]

9. “Food Stamp Program Participation Rates: January 1988.” MPR, Washington, DC, July 1991. [Trippe and Doyle]

10. “Participation in the Food Stamp Program: A Multivariate Analysis.” MPR, Washington, DC, July 1991. [Martini and Allin]

11. “The Increase in Program Participation between 1989 and 1990.” MPR, Washington, DC, July 1991. [McConnell]

12. “Forecasting Food Stamp Program Participation and Benefits.” MPR, Princeton, June 1991. [Dynarski, Rangarajan, and Decker]

13. “The Characteristics of Food Stamp Work Registrants.” MPR, Washington, DC, May 1991. [Heiser]

14. “Handbook of Assistance Programs.” MPR, Washington, DC, November 1990 [Allin and Miller].

The “Handbook” provided a detailed breakdown of the eligibility criteria, benefits, and coverage of all public assistance programs offered throughout the United States as they interacted with the Food Stamp Program.

The book was a major reference source for many subsequent publications dealing with the decisionmaking processes and issues associated with implementing public assistance programs.

15. “A Multivariate Analysis of Participation in the Food Stamp Program.” MPR, Washington, DC,

October 1990. [Allin and Martini]

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16. “The Characteristics of Food Stamp Households.” MPR, Washington, DC, summer 1990. [Heiser]

17. “Recent Trends in Food Stamp Program Participation: A Preliminary Report to Congress.” Submitted to the Committee on Appropriations, U.S. Senate. MPR, Washington, DC, July 1990. [McConnell and Corson]

18. “The Effects of Food Stamps on Food Consumption: A Review of the Literature.” MPR, Washington, DC, May 1990. [Fraker]

19. “The Effects of Macroeconomic Conditions on Food Stamp Program Participation.” MPR, Princeton, May 1990. [Dynarski, Rangarajan, and Decker]

20. “The Characteristics of Food Stamp Work Registrants: 1987.” MPR, Washington, DC, January 1990. [Heiser, Huff, and Trippe]

21. “The Savings in Medicaid Costs for Newborns and Their Mothers from Prenatal Participation in

the WIC Program.” (USDA Contract # 53-3198-8-63.) MPR, Princeton, October 1990. [Devaney, Bilheimer, and Schore]. Published in Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, vol. 11, issue 4, 1992, pp. 573–592.

Food and Nutrition Elderly Programs Study (USDA contract #53-3198-8-95)—a project to examine the network of public and private food assistance programs to meet the nutritional needs of the elderly.

22. “Evaluation of the Food Assistance Needs of the Low-Income Elderly and Their Participation in USDA Programs.” MPR, Princeton, January 1990. [Ponza and Wray]

23. “Relationship between USDA Program Features and Elderly Food Needs and Preferences: Evidence from the Elderly Programs Study Focus Groups.” MPR, Princeton, November 1989. [Wray, Ponza, and Cohen]

24. “Elderly Programs Study: Recommendations for Further Research.” MPR, Princeton, October 1989. [Wray]

Food Stamp Program Operations Study (USDA contract #53-3198-5-51)—a series of studies examining the effectiveness of a federal mandate to states to establish claims against food stamp overissuances—coupons issued to ineligible households or coupons issued to eligible households in excess of their benefit threshold.

25. “Report on Automated Certification System Support for Expedited Service Processing and Performance Evaluation Reporting.” Food Stamp Program Operations Series. Washington, DC: USDA, FNS, 1988. [Hershey and Wray]

26. “Report on Census of State Operations: Claims Collection, Final Report.” Food Stamp Program Operations Series. Washington, DC: USDA, FNS, February 1987. [Long]

27. “Food Stamp Program Operations Site Report on State and Local Operations: Claims Collection.” Food Stamp Program Operations Series. Washington, DC: USDA, FNS, 1987. [Long and Wray]

The Food Stamp Program Simplified Application Demonstration (USDA contract #53-3198-3-93) —a project to streamline application procedures and standardize benefit calculations in the FSP. “Evaluation Final Report,” MPR, Princeton, September 1986. [Ohls, primary author; Good, co-author]

28. “Summary of Findings” (Volume 1) 29. “Details of Central Findings” (Volume 2) 30. “Details of Supporting Studies” (Volume 3)

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Other Food Stamp–Related Research under Separate Contracts #s with USDA, FNS

31. “Final Evaluation of the Summer Food Service Program” of the same project name. MPR,

Princeton, July 1988. [Ohls] 32. “School Nutrition Dietary Assessment: Study Design and Analysis Plan.” MPR, Princeton,

October 1990. [Burghardt et al.] 33. School Nutrition Dietary Assessment: Literature and Methodology Review.” MPR, Princeton,

August 1990. [Burghardt et al.] 34. “Modeling the Administrative Costs of Sponsors of the CCFP in Family Day Care Homes.”

MPR, Washington, DC, September 1989. [Fraker] 35. “An Examination of Two Methodological Issues of Importance to an Analysis of Serial Multiple

Program Participation.” MPR, Washington, DC, 1988. [Long and Doyle] 36. “Final Report of the Second Set of Workfare Demonstration Projects.” MPR, Washington, DC,

April 1987. [Burghardt] 37. “An Analysis of the Impacts of Workfare on Participants in the Second Year of the Food Stamp

Workfare Demonstration.” MPR, Princeton, January 1986. [Burghardt and Cavin] 38. “Evaluation of the Nutrition Assistance Program in Puerto Rico, Vol. I: Environment,

Participation, Administrative Costs, and Program Integrity.” MPR, Washington, DC, March 1985. [Beebout et al.]

39. “The Effects of Cashing Out Food Stamps on Food Expenditures.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, August 1985. [Ohls, Hollenbeck, and Posner]

Training and Support Services for Employing Special Populations

Under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, passed in 1972, the federal government decentralized many employment initiatives to the state and local levels, which offered largely public-service jobs for AFDC recipients, with few incentives for assistance in finding work. With the passage of the Job Training Partnership Act in 1982, the federal government was recognizing that able-bodied welfare recipients could find work in the private sector if offered intensive job-search assistance and if some of their domestic needs—particularly high-quality child care—could be met. This philosophy of work-for-welfare when supplemented with job-search assistance became increasingly more refined throughout the 1980s, culminating in the Family Support Act of 1988, which created the-then Job Opportunities & Basic Skills (JOBS) program, replacing the old Work Incentive Program. The Clinton Administration would then eventually pass the Personal Responsibility & Work Opportunity Program, which replaced the old AFDC program, complemented by his Workforce Investment Act, which was supposed to induce the private sector to provide the necessary workforce investment and career pathways to put disadvantaged populations to work. As we know, the federal government and the private sector still have not been able to create jobs, much less find an effective way to enable willing and able Americans, whether “special” or not, to enter job markets.

40. Original manuscript of Welfare Policy for the 1990s, eds. Cottingham and Ellwood, Harvard University Press, 1989.

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41. Child Care Challenges for Low-Income Families. Rockefeller Foundation Briefing Document, NYC, November 1989. [Maynard, Kerachsky, and Kisker] [Samples available]. Based on three presentations—

42. “The Child Case Market for Low-Income Parents.” Presented at the Family Impact Seminar,

March 1989, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation. [Maynard] 43. “What Constitutes High-Quality Child Care?” Paper presented at the Family Impact

Seminar, March 1989, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation. [Kisker] 44. "Implementing Child Care Assistance Provided under the Family Support Act.” Paper

presented at the Family Impact Seminar, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation. [Kerachsky]

The Minority Female Single Parent (MSFP) Program (proprietary contract #)—a project sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation to provide single minority mothers with the support services necessary to engage productively in meaningful education and job-training activities.

45. “Evaluation of the Minority Female Single Parent Demonstration: Summary Report” (on the 6-, 12-, and 30-month impacts of the program; the benefit-cost analysis; and an analysis of social and psychological outcomes). MPR, Princeton, February 1992. [Burghardt]

46. “Training Manual for ‘Homes’ Observations for Measuring the Home Environment” (a survey manual in conjunction with a videotape). The Rockefeller Foundation, copyright 1990. [Sprachman]

47. “Report on Short-Term Economic Impacts.” MPR, Princeton, September 1989. [Burghardt and Gordon]

48. “Nonmaternal Care: Implications for Children and Parents.” Report submitted to the Rockefeller Foundation.” MPR, Princeton, May 1989. [Silverberg]

49. “The Design of ‘JOBS’ Programs: Two Observations from the MFSP.” MPR, Princeton, May 1989. [Burghardt and Hershey]

50. “Process Analysis of Program Operations.” MPR, Princeton, November 1988. [Hershey] 51. “Report on the Status of the Minority Female Single Parent Demonstration Project.” MPR,

Princeton, November 1987. [Hershey] 52. “The Administration, Costs, and Drawing Power of Voluntary Employment Training Programs:

Evidence from the Minority Female Single Parent Program.” Presented at the 10th Annual Research Conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Seattle, October 1988. [Burghardt et al.]

Technical Research Reports on the MFSP, Published by the Rockefeller Foundation NYC

53. Child Care Challenges for Low-Income Families, 1990 [Maynard] 54. Child Care Referral Options, February 1989. [Handwerger, Strain, and Thornton] 55. Program Costs, December 1989. [Handwerger and Thornton] 56. Short-Term Economic Impacts, November 1989. [Gordon and Burghardt] 57. Description of the Local Content and Target Population, December 1988. [Burghardt and

Gordon] 58. Program Operations, November 1988. [Hershey]

Evaluation of the Economic Impacts of the Job Corps Program. (Reports published by Mathematica Policy Research for the Office of Program Evaluation, Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, under contract #23-34-76-06.)

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Of all the program models for encouraging and enabling young adults age 16–24 to choose productive employment over crime and welfare, the Job Corps program—now almost 50 years old and having served more than 2 million individuals—is the documented success. Yet because the program is expensive (since Corpsmembers reside for free at Job Corps centers, and since the program’s free services are so aggressive, including training for manufacturing, automobile and machine repair, and construction, among other careers), the program has at times been the target of federal budget cuts. Yet its three-stage program of “preparation, development, and transition” has been an undeniable success—more than 60 percent of its participants attain their high school diploma or GED and improve their literacy and numeracy scores, and more than 70 percent go on to gainful employment or post–high school education, rather than back out on the streets. MPR conducted the first rigorous evaluation of the Job Corps Program, which was instrumental in detailing the benefits of program participation and which has frequently been used as a model for similar research in the field. When the project was completed, MPR’s work was cited by the U.S. Department of Labor as an example of a “technically competent, well-written evaluation.”

59. "Evaluation of the Economic Impact of the Job Corps Program Special Report: An Examination of Job Corps Participation." MPR, Princeton, 1978. (Reprinted in Assessments of the Job Corps Performance and Impacts. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, Office of Youth Programs, 1979.) [Kerachsky and Mallar]

60. "Evaluation of the Economic Impact of the Job Corps Program: First Follow-up Report." MPR, Princeton, 1978. (Reprinted in Assessments of the Job Corps Performance and Impacts. Washington, D.C. U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, Office of Youth Programs, 1979.) [Mallar et al.]

61. "Evaluation of the Economic Impact of the Job Corps Program: Second Follow-up Report." MPR, Princeton, 1980. (Reprinted as The Lasting Impacts of Job Corps Participation. Washington, DC. U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, Office of Youth Programs, 1980.) [Mallar et al.]

62. "Evaluation of the Impact of the Job Corps Program: Third Follow-Up Report." MPR, Princeton, September 1982. [Mallar; Kerachsky, Thornton, and Long.]

63. “Evaluating the Benefits and Costs of Job Corps.” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, vol. 1, issue 1, fall 1981. [Long and Thornton]

64. “The Short-Term Economic Impact of the Job Corps Program,” in Evaluation Studies Review Annual, vol. 5, eds. Stromsdorfer and Farkas. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1980. [Kerachsky, Long, and Thornton]

65. “Technical Report C: Alternative Econometric Procedures for Program Evaluations: Illustrations from an Evaluation of Job Corps.” MPR, Princeton, 1979. [Mallar]

66. “Technical Report E: Evaluation of the Economic Impact of the Job Corps Program Value of Output in Work Activities.” MPR, Princeton, January 1979. [Long.]

67. “Technical Report F: Evaluation of the Economic Impact of the Job Corps Program, Special Studies of Resource Use at Job Corps Centers.” MPR, Princeton, June 1980. [Long]

68. “Technical Report H: Evaluation of the Economic Impact of the Job Corps Program Survey Methods and Results for the Second Follow-up Interviews." MPR, Princeton, October 1979. [Homrighausen, McDonald, Mallar, and Moran]

69. “Technical Report I: Evaluation of the Economic Impact of the Job Corps Program. The Effects of Monetary Incentives of Survey Responses: Experimental Evidence from a Longitudinal Study

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of Economically Disadvantaged Youths.” MPR, Princeton, January 1981. [Kerachsky and Mallar]

70. “Technical Report J: Evaluation of the Economic Impact of the Job Corps Program Analysis of Program Operating Costs.” MPR, Princeton, April 1980. [Long and Noggoh]

71. “Technical Report K: Evaluation of the Economic Impact of the Job Corps Program. Comparative Evaluation of the Benefits and Costs of Jobs Corps after 18 Months of Post-Program Participation.” MPR, Princeton, 1980. [Thornton, Long, and Mallar]

72. “Technical Report M: Evaluation of the Economic Impact of the Job Corps Program. Comparisons of Job Corps with Other Youth Programs.” MPR, Princeton, 1980. [Mallar]

73. “Technical Report O: Evaluation of the Economic Impact of the Job Corps Program. The Distribution of Job Corps Effects on Participants: Evidence from the Second Follow-up Findings on Civilian Earnings." MPR, Princeton, May 1981. [Mallar]

74. “Technical Report P: Evaluation of the Economic Impact of the Job Corps Program: Survey Methods and Results for the Third Follow-Up Interviews.” MPR, Princeton, January 1982. [McDonald and Cerf]

75. “Technical Report Q: “Evaluation of the Economic Impact of the Job Corps Program. A Comparative Evaluation of the Benefits and Costs of Job Corps after Forty-Eight Months of Postprogram Observation.” MPR, Princeton, January 1982. [Thornton]

76. Findings from these major and technical reports were presented at the Society of Government Economists Meetings, the annual meetings of the American Statistical Association of the Econometric Society, and the Vice-President’s Task Force on Youth Employment, Eastern Economic Association.

77. Reprints of the findings appeared in Papers and Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Evaluation Studies Review Annual, and the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.

Other Training and Support Research Reports under separate contracts

78. “REACH Welfare Initiative Program Evaluation: Estimating the Effects of the REACH Program on AFDC Receipt.” MPR, Princeton, August 1991. [Decker]

79. “Design of the Expanded Child Care Options (ECCO) Demonstration.” MPR, Princeton, February 1992. [Kerachsky, Ross, and Ferrar]

80. Design of the Child Care Plus Demonstration.” MPR, October 1989. [Kerachsky] 81. “Income Withholding, Medical Support, and Services to Non-AFDC Cases after the CSE

Amendments of 1984.” MPR, Princeton, May 1991. [Gordon et al.] 82. Intergenerational Transmission of Welfare Dependence.” Paper presented at the April 1989

Population Association of America Meetings, Baltimore. [Ponza and Hill]

Programs for Americans with Disabilities Transitional Employment Training Demonstration (contract #600-83-0227), Social Security Administration

83. “Transitional Employment Training Demonstration: Analysis of Program Impacts.” MPR, Princeton, July 1989. [Thornton and Decker]

84. “Transitional Employment Training Demonstration: Analysis of Program Operations.” MPR, Princeton, April 1988. [Thornton, Schore, and Dunstan]

85. “Making the Move: Case Histories of Person in the Transitional Employment Training

Demonstration.” MPR, Princeton, May 1987. [Good]

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• In the early 1990s, with the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Americans with disabilities were no longer a population cut off from the mainstream. Public advocacy, legislative and judicial action, and improved medical and therapeutic techniques—all effected a shift in perceptions about the willingness and ability of mentally and physically challenged Americans to engage productively in employment, or, as with “nondisabled” Americans, any pursuit they chose.

“Making the Move” was a series of descriptive and quantitative reports that I conceived, coordinated, edited, and introduced to document the specific successes and failures of individual recipients as they strived for greater economic and social independence. My work led to a project with a successful businessman, whose National Cristina Foundation supplies computer technology and training to people with disabilities, students at risk, and economically disadvantaged persons, to enable them to lead more independent and productive lives (see http://www.cristina.org/ ). His concern was whether the Americans with Disabilities Act was shortsighted in its promise to guarantee employment to citizens with disabilities if offered a job. Perhaps not surprisingly, his research revealed that employable Americans with mental or physical challenges were not so willing to accept jobs that did not offer meaningful work. I helped the author transform his research into a successful doctoral dissertation and then into a spin-off paper submitted to the U.S. Department of Labor.

Other Research Efforts in Employing Americans with Disabilities

86. “What Does It Cost? Different Perspectives on Costs.” In A Look Ahead: Economics, Industry, and Disability, Kiernan and Shalock, eds. Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., 1989, pp. 275–85. [Thornton, Dunstan, and Matton]

87. “The Transition from School to Adult Life.” Exceptional Children, Special Issue, vol. 53, no. 6, April 1987. The Council for Exceptional Children. [Kerachsky and Thornton, with Good] [Sample available by request]

88. “The Economics of Transitional Employment and Supported Employment.” In Disability and the Labor Market: Economic Problems, Policies, and Programs. Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, Cornell University, 1986. [Thornton and Maynard]

89. “Impact of Transitional Employment on Mentally Retarded [sic] Young Adults: The Results of the STETS [Structured Training and Transitional Support Services] Demonstration.” (subcontract under grant #33-36-75-01 ETA/DOL). MPR, Princeton, April 1985. [Kerachsky et al.]

Other Research Supporting Americans with Disabilities

90. “Participation Patterns among Persons with Disabilities” (contract #88-0047, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services). MPR, Washington, DC, February 1990. [Doyle, Miller, and Sears]

91. “Population Profile of Disability” (contract #88-0047, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services). MPR, Washington, DC, October 1989. [Doyle]

92. “Final Planning Report: Study of Programs of Instruction for Handicapped Children and Youths in Day and Residential Facilities” (contract #300-85-0190, U.S. Department of Education). MPR, Princeton, September 1987. [Stephens, Lakin, and Good]

Health Research

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By the mid-1980s, the health care industry—both the administrative and caregiving sides—was in a state of flux, particularly as the Medicare Program factored into the equation. Escalating industry and program expenses were necessitating cost-containment strategies on the administrative side, and the aging of the population was necessitating project initiatives to provide the elderly with health care apropos to their conditions, including services to enhance the informal caregiving abilities of their families and friends. MPR was a project leader in these issues, testing the effectiveness of alternative health plans and cost structures to mitigate the burden on Medicare, and designing and examining the effectiveness of health care services targeted at specific subgroups of the elderly. I worked on the majority of MPR publications that informed the health-care debate from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.

Home Health Prospective Payment Demonstration (contract #500-900047, Health Care Financing Administration)—a program to test whether an alternative payment system could reduce public expenditures while promoting efficiency in health care delivery.

93. “Evaluation of the Home Health Prospective Payment System: Summary of the Clinical Panel Meeting on Home Health Treatments.” MPR, Princeton, July 1992. [Schore and Phillips]

94. “Evaluation of the Home Health Prospective Payment System: Design Report.” MPR, Princeton, February 1991. [Brown et al.]

Essential Access Community Hospital (EACH) Program (contract #500-87-0028 (16), Health Care Financing Administration)—a program to test whether cost-based reimbursement and relaxed regulatory requirements could help low-volume rural hospitals shift from acute to primary care and emergency services.

95. “Diversity in States’ Early Implementation of the EACH Program.” MPR, Washington, DC, July 1992. [Felt and Wright]

96. “Evaluation of Essential Access Community Hospital (EACH) Programs: Design Report.” MPR, Washington, DC, summer 1992. [Felt et al.]

97. “Site Visit Protocols.” MPR, Washington, DC, summer 1992. [Felt et al.] 98. Background Information Reported by EACH and PCH Grantees.” MPR, Washington, DC,

summer 1992. [Felt et al.]

National Evaluation of the Medicare Competition Demonstrations (contract #500-83-0047, for HCFA/HHS)—an evaluation project to examine the implementation and operational experiences of 26 HMOs that were offered several contracting options in order to participate in the Medicare program.

99. “First Annual Report: National Evaluation of the Medicare Competition Demonstrations.” MPR, Washington, DC, January 1989. [Langwell and Hadley]

100. “Summary Report: National Evaluation of the Medicare Competition Demonstrations.” MPR, Washington, DC, January 1989. [Langwell and Hadley]

National Long-Term Care (“Channeling”) Demonstration (HEW-100-80-0157, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)—a project to test whether assigning knowledgeable case managers to functionally disabled elderly would reduce the prevalence of

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institutionalization rates, thus lowering the cost of care and improving the quality of the lives of the elderly.

101. “Evaluation of the National Long-Term Care Channeling Project: Final Report.” MPR, Princeton, May 1986. [Kemper et al.]

102. “Evaluation of the National Long-Term Care Channeling Project: The Benefits and Costs of Channeling.” MPR, Princeton, May 1986. [Thornton and Dunstan]

Other Health Care–Related Research under Separate Contracts

103. Evaluation of the Grant Program for Rural Health Care Transition: Fifth Semi-Annual Progress Report.” MPR, Princeton, January 1992. [Wooldridge et al.]

104. “A Comparison of Medicare Beneficiaries Enrolled in Risk Plans with Medicare Beneficiaries in the Fee-For-Service Sector: Health Status, Financial Barriers, and the Decision to Enroll in Medicare Risk Plans.” MPR, Princeton, November 1991. [Hill and Brown]

105. “Evaluation of the Grant Program for Rural Health Care Transition: Fourth Semi-Annual Progress Report.” MPR, Princeton, June 1991. [Wooldridge et al.]

106. “Evaluation of the Florida Alternative Health Plan Project: Final Report.” MPR, Princeton, June 1990. [Gianolio and Schore]

105. “Final Report: A Pilot Study of the Adequacy of Post-Hospital Community Care for the Elderly.” MPR, Princeton, 1989. [Phillips]

106. “Study Design for an Evaluation of OBRA 87 Medicare Payment for Therapeutic Shoes (Severe Diabetic Foot Disease Demonstration).” MPR, Princeton, 1989. [Brown et al.]

107. “Strategy Paper To Guide the Design of a Medicare Alzheimer’s Disease Demonstration.” MPR, Princeton, January 1989. [Stearns and Schore]

108. “Literature Review: The Design of a Medicare Alzheimer’s Disease Demonstration.” MPR, Princeton, December 1987. [Schore and Good]

109. Informal Care of the Elderly. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1986. [Stephens and Christianson] [Sample available by request]

Unemployment Insurance and Reemployment Pennsylvania Reemployment Bonus Demonstration (contract #99-7-0805-04-13-137-01 with the Pennsylvania Department of Labor)—an experimental demonstration to test whether offering UI claimants different bonus amounts to find new jobs would accelerate reemployment and reduce the amount of unemployment insurance they would receive otherwise.

110. “Pennsylvania Reemployment Bonus Demonstration: Final Report.” UI Occasional Paper 92-1, USDOL, Employment and Training Administration, September 1991. [Corson et al.] Available at HTTP://OWS.DOLETA.GOV/DMSTREE/OP/OP92/OP_01-92.PDF

111. “Pennsylvania Reemployment Bonus Demonstration: Interim Report.” MPR, Princeton, April 1989. [Corson, Kerachsky, and Dunstan]

New Jersey Reemployment Demonstration (contract # S 86402), for the N.J. Department of Labor, Income Security)—an experimental demonstration to identify displaced workers and provide them with reemployment services through the coordinated efforts of the Unemployment Insurance, Employment Service, and Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) systems.

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112. “New Jersey Reemployment Demonstration: Follow-Up Report.” Unemployment Insurance Occasional Paper 91-1. Washington, DC: USDOL, Employment and Training Administration, 1991. [Decker, Corson, and Anderson]

113. New Jersey Reemployment Demonstration: Final Report.” Unemployment Insurance Occasional Paper 89-3. Washington, DC: USDOL, Employment and Training Administration, 1989. [Corson et al.] [Sample available by request]

114. New Jersey Reemployment Demonstration “Implementation and Process Report.” MPR, Princeton, April 1989. [Corson and Dunstan]

115. New Jersey Reemployment Demonstration “Impact and Benefit-Cost Analysis Report.” MPR, Princeton, January 1989. [Corson, Decker, and Gordon]

116. New Jersey Reemployment Demonstration “Interim Report.” MPR, Princeton, June 1987. [Corson and Kerachsky]

Other Research on Unemployment Insurance and Reemployment

117. “Evaluation of the Trade Adjustment Assistance Program: Findings Based on a Preliminary Sample.” MPR, Princeton, June 1992. [Corson, Nicholson, and Decker]

118. An Examination of Declining UI Claims during the 1980s. Unemployment Insurance Occasional Paper 88-3. Washington, DC: USDOL, Employment and Training Administration, 1988. [Corson and Nicholson]

119. An Investigation of Some Effects of State Rules and Enforcement. Unemployment Insurance Occasional Paper 88-1. Washington, DC: USDOL, Employment and Training Administration, 1988. [Corson, Kerachsky, and Kisker]

120. Nonmonetary Eligibility in State Unemployment Insurance Programs: Law and Practice. Kalamazoo, MI: The W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 1986. [Corson, Hershey, and Kerachsky]

121. Deciding Benefit Eligibility under State Unemployment Insurance Laws. Kalamazoo, MI: The W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 1986. [Hershey, Corson, and Kerachsky]

122. “Evaluation of Short-Time Compensation Programs.” MPR, Princeton, December 1985. [Kerachsky et al.]

123. “An Analysis of the 1981–1988 Changes in the Extended Benefits Program.” Unemployment Insurance Occasional Paper 85-01, USDOL, Employment and Training Administration, 1985. [Nicholson and Corson]

124. The Federal Supplemental Benefits Program: An Appraisal of Extended Unemployment Insurance Benefits. Kalamazoo, MI: The W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 1982.

Miscellaneous Reports

125. “The Quality of Data Collected in the Recipiency History Module of SIPP.” MPR, Washington, DC, October 1991. [Miller and Martini]

126. “The Quality of Data Collected in the Recipiency Module of SIPP: Nonresponse Rates and the Comparability of the Data.” MPR, Washington, DC, August 1991. [Miller and Martini]

127. “Measuring the Effectiveness of Prenatal Care—Linking Birth, Infant Death, and Medicaid Files: Summary of Site Visits.” MPR, Princeton, April 1992. [Dunstan and Mamer]

128. “Results of a Review of Memphis Service Center 5500 Processing System.” For the Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration. MPR, Princeton, March 1991. [Borden, Hall, and Nastek]

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129. “Administrative Expenses of Employee Benefit Plans: Analysis of Form 5500 Series Data.” For the Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration. MPR, Washington, DC, January 1990. [Lund, Maxfield, and Shin]

130. “Implementation Issues for a Producer Price Index for the Accident and Health Insurance Industry.” For the Bureau of Labor Statistics, MPR, Princeton, April 1989. [Dynarski, Ensor, and Ericksen]

131. “A Methodology for the Housing Component of the AFDC Standard of Need.” For the N.J. Department of Human Services. MPR, Washington, DC, 1990. [Beebout, Trippe, and Martini]

132. “A Survey of Recent Programs Designed to Reduce Welfare Dependence.” MPR, Princeton, February 1985. [Grossman and Mirsky]

133. “An Assessment of Alternative Comparison Group Methodologies for Evaluating Employment and Training Programs.” MPR, Princeton, December 1984. [Fraker, Maynard, and Nelson]

134. “Residential Mobility and Contraceptive Use in Northeastern Brazil.” Under a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, January 1993. [Moreno]

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Other Editorial Experience

During my tenure at MPR, I was asked by outside colleagues to help them on their project work, with permission from MPR management, as follows:

Visiting Nurse Service of New York (1992)

1. Rewrote and edited an “Op-Ed White Paper” on the adverse effects of the proposed National Health Security Act on Medicare coverage for home care for elderly and disabled Americans. [Phillips]

The Center for Health Ethics and Policy, University of Colorado: “Restructuring the Nation’s Health Care System: A Review of Four Proposals” (1990)

2. Edited a monograph of five conference papers that assessed four major alternatives for reforming the nation’s health care insurance industry. Endorsed by President Bush’s Administration, the conference included a coalition of business, academic, and medical groups, national experts on health insurance reform, and the state Governor and legislators. [Grannemann]

Audrey McDonald Associates (a survey consortium) (1989)

3. Rewrote and edited a report on the results of a survey of American Indians to ascertain the prevalence of health insurance coverage among this population. [McDonald]

Center for Policy Research in Education, Rutgers University (1987)

4. Edited three papers that assessed the feasibility of using advanced educational indicators to reduce dropout rates among high school students and to promote the concept of providing a traditional educational experience to pre-school-age children.

I have also I worked part-time with other organizations—

R.R. Bowker and Co. — wrote synopses of the content of magazines, journals, and periodicals for a voluminous annual reference catalogue. Peterson’s Reference Guides — wrote and edited synopses of the bachelor’s and master’s-degree programs offered by U.S. colleges and universities. Visual Education Corp. — compiled, wrote, and edited articles for a career-information catalogue for college-prep high school students. Interviewed professional and academic personnel, and conducted research at county, state, and federal agencies.