Past Meetings

Year: 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003

2008

November 4, 2008
Robin Sherman, Jeremy Wolf, and Anna Curtis, with Michael Goodman, of UMass Donahue Institute
"Heat Rises: The Growing Burden of Residential Heating Costs on Massachusetts Households"

Michael Allen, Maine Department of Revenue Services, and Michael LeVert, Maine State Planning Office
"The Impact on Maine's Economy of Changing Oil Prices"

October 15, 2008
Paul Willen, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
"Making Sense of the Subprime Crisis"

September 25, 2008
Richard J. Murnane, Harvard University, (co-authored with John P. Papay and John B. Willett, Harvard)"The Consequences of High School Exit Examinations for Struggling Low-Income Urban Students: Evidence from Massachusetts"

May 28, 2008
Yolanda Kodrzycki, Bob Triest, Brendan Mackoff, and Ana Patricia Munoz, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, "Forecasting House Prices for States and the Nation."

April 10, 2008
Kip Bergstrom, Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation, "Connecting to Compete: Using High-Speed Intercity and Commuter Rail to Integrate the Innovation Capabilities of the Northeast Corridor"

March 18, 2008
Maria Luengo-Prado, Northeastern University, "Children's Attitudes Toward Risk-Taking: How Parental Education Matters"

March 4, 2008
Heather Brome, New England Public Policy Center, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, "Is New England Experiencing a "brain drain"? Facts about demographic change and young professionals"

February 21, 2008
"The Work of the Massachusetts Business Tax Study Commission of 2007: Issues and Recommendations"
Robert Tannenwald, New England Public Policy Center, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Karl Fryzel, Edwards, Angel, Palmer & Dodge
Alan LeBovidge, Massachusetts Turnpike Authority (Former MA Commissioner of Revenue)
Joseph X. Donovan, Sullivan & Worcester (Former Deputy General Counsel of the MA Department of Revenue)

January 30, 2008
Andrew Reschovsky, LaFollette School of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin, and Visiting Fellow, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, "Housing Tenure Choice, Race, and the Recommendations of the President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform," co-authored with Richard K. Green.

2007

October 24, 2007
Philip Trostel, University of Maine, "The Impact of New College Graduates on Intrastate Labor Markets"

October 1, 2007
Thomas Hubbard, The New England Healthcare Institute, "The Boston Paradox: Lots of Health Care, Not Enough Health"

September 6, 2007
William Lazonick and Edward March, UMASS Lowell (co-authored with Oner Tulum), "Boston's Biotech Boom: A New Massachusetts Miracle?"

May 15, 2007
Jonathan Gruber, MIT, "Fundamental Health Care Reform in Action: The View from Massachusetts"

April 25, 2007
Reagan Baughman, UNH, "Medicaid Wage Pass-Throughs and Labor Supply of Direct Care Workers."

April 6, 2007
Erich Muehlegger, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, "Market Effects of Regulatory Heterogeneity: A Study of Regional Gasoline Content Regulations."

March 23, 2007
Kathy Bradbury and Bo Zhao, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, "Measuring Disparities in Non-School Costs and Revenue Capacity among Massachusetts Cities and Towns."

March 1, 2007
Dana Ansel, MassINC and Andrew Sum, Northeastern University, " Mass Economy: The Labor Supply and Our Economic Future."

2006

November 29, 2006
Nathaniel Anderson, Institute for Health Policy, USM, "A Snapshot of Maine's DirigoChoice Program-Results from Surveys of Early Adopters."

November 16, 200
Jeff Furman, Boston University, "Public and Private Spillovers, Location and the Productivity of Pharmaceutical Research."

October 17, 2006
Ellen Meara, Harvard Medical School Department of Health Care Policy, "Welfare Reform, Work Requirements and Employment Barriers."

September 14, 2006
Karl E. "Chip" Case, Wellesley College, "An Informal Discussion of New England Real Estate Markets."

May 25, 2006
Thomas Allen and Rory O'Shea, MIT, “University Technology Transfer and Spinoff Performance of U.S. Universities.”

May 16, 2006
Daphne Kenyon, Ph.D., Visiting Fellow, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy,"What Role Should Property Taxes Play in Funding Schools?"

May 1, 2006
Bridget Long, Harvard Graduate School of Education, "College Access & Affordability in Massachusetts."

April 6, 2006
Robert Forrant, UMASS-Lowell, "Disappearing Work, Grinding Decline: Springfield, Massachusetts' Struggles to Survive."

March 2, 2006
Frank Levy, MIT, "The Non-Offshoring of Radiology."

February 16, 2006
Ryan Chahrour, Nelson Gerew, and Brad Hershbein, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston , “The Consumer Impact of Higher Energy Prices.”

January 19, 2006
Bruce Wallin, Northeastern University, "Budgeting for Basics: The Changing Landscape of City Finances."

2005

December 6, 2005
Bo Zhao and Alicia Sasser, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, "Understanding Housing Affordability in New England: Defining the Problem, Underlying Causes, and Potential Solutions."

November 17, 2005
Yolanda K. Kodrzycki, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and Johan Uvin, Commonwealth Corporation (with Nelson Gerew, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and Gene White, Commonwealth Corporation), "Long-Term Effects of Job Displacement and Re-training: Examining the Aftermath of Massachusetts' Great Recession."

October 20, 2005
Jonathan Skinner, Dartmouth College (with Douglas Staiger, Dartmouth College), "Technology Adoption From Hybrid Corn to Beta Blockers."

October 6, 2005
Lynn Fisher and Henry Pollakowski, MIT Center for Real Estate, "Job Accessibility-Based Housing Affordability Indexes."

September 20, 2005
David Terkla, University of Massachusetts - Boston, Clyde Barrow, University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth, and Rebecca Loveland, University of Massachusetts Donahue Institute, "The Marine Science and Technology Industry in New England"

May 24, 2005
“ The Economic Impact of the Boston Living Wage Ordinance”
Mark Brenner, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts - Amherst.

May 5, 2005
“Boston at the Crossroads: Racial and Ethnic Segregation in the Boston Metropolitan Area”
Guy Stuart, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

April 6, 2005
“Water Shortages in New England”
Bob Tannenwald and Nick Turner, New England Public Policy Center, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

March 3, 2005
“Can 'Fast Fashion' Save the U.S. Apparel Industry?”
Peter Doeringer, Boston University

February 3, 2005
“Adequacy of School Funding in Massachusetts: What Can We Learn from the New York Experience?”
Thomas A. Downes, Tufts University

2004

December 2, 2004
"Fiscal Shenanigans, Targeted Federal Health Care Funds, and Infant Mortality"
Katherine Baicker (joint with Doug Staiger), Dartmouth College

November 9, 2004
“Expanding Access to Point of Sale Borrower Support: Helping Low-Income and Low-Wealth Borrowers Shop for Mortgage Products”
William Apgar and Allegra Calder, Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University

October 12, 2004
“The Graying of Massachusetts”
Kevin Cahill, Boston College

June 22, 2004
“Your Money or Your Life: Strong Medicine for America's Health Care System”
David Cutler, Harvard University

April 28, 2004
“The Costs and Benefits of Wage Regulations: Two Studies of the Effects of Project Labor Agreements on School Construction.”
Jonathan Haughton, Darlene Chisholm, and Paul Bachman - Suffolk University and Beacon Hill Institute for Public Policy
Richard Kelso and William Schriver - University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Dale Belman – Michigan State University

April 15, 2004
“The Impacts of Charter Schools on Student Achievement: Evidence from North Carolina”
Robert Bifulco, University of Connecticut (joint work with Helen F. Ladd, Duke University)

March 4, 2004
“The Rise of the Skilled City" and "Reinventing Boston, 1640-2003.”
Ed Glaeser, Harvard University

February 24, 2004
“Mass.Migration”
Dana Ansel, MassINC
Michael Goodman, UMass Donahue Institute
Robert Nakosteen, UMass Amherst
Commentary: John Avault, Boston Redevelopment Authority and Andrew Sum, Northeastern University

2003

December 17, 2003
“Advanced Technologies to Lower the Cost of Health Care and Improve Quality.”
Mitchell Adams and Wendy Everett, Massachusetts Technology Collaborative

December 9, 2003
“Moving Up in the New Economy--How Much Difference Can Career Ladder
Programs Make?”
Joan Fitzgerald, Northeastern University

November 5, 2003
“The Coastal and Ocean Economy of New England and the United States.”
Charles Colgan, University of Southern Maine

September 23, 2003
“School Finance Reform in New Hampshire.”
Daphne Kenyon, Ph.D. , D.A. Kenyon & Associates

June 12, 2003
“Education Gaps Between Whites and Minority Groups: What Accounts for Regional Differences?”
Yolanda Kodrzycki, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

May 20, 2003
“The Renewable Energy Industry in New England, with a Focus on Massachusetts: Current Status and Future Prospects.”
David Terkla and David Levy, University of Massachusetts Boston

April 15, 2003
“Industry Clusters and Cluster Strategy: Back in Our Future Again?”
Tom Hubbard, Mass Tech Collaborative

March 5, 2003
“Love Labor’s Lost: The Costs of Paid Family and Medical Leave in Massachusetts.”
Randy Albeta and Alan Clayton-Matthews, University of Massachusetts Boston

January 28, 2003
“Understanding and Resolving the Housing Affordability Crisis in Greater Boston.”
Barry Bluestone, Northeastern University