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General Interests
"'What's it worth?'
That question summarizes my research interests. The worth or value I'm interested in is not finding the price, but the value that people place on a good (or avoiding a bad). It's important to distinguish, too, the difference between a value in exchange and a value in use. My current investigation is on the value people place on reducing their risk of death from natural or man-made disasters. Within business and management topics, I'll be exploring the impacts of business regulation, and how non-profit and public sector work is valued."
Years at Knox: 2005 to present
Education
Ph.D., Economics, 2000, Georgia State University.
M.Ed., Adult Education Program Management, 1986, Georgia State University.
B.A., Philosophy, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, 1978.
Teaching Interests
Principles of economics, labor economics, the economics of public health, management principles, cost benefit analysis.
Publications
"Valuing Risk Reductions: Incorporating Risk Heterogeneity into a Revealed Preference Framework." (PDF) Co-authored with Laura O. Taylor. Resource and Energy Economics (May, 2011.)
"Modeling the impact of HIV chemoprophylaxis strategies among men who have sex with men in the United States: HIV infections prevented and cost-effectiveness." (PDF) Co-authored with K. Desai, S. L. Sansom, M. L. Ackers, S. R. Stewart, H. I. Hall, D. J. Hu, R. Sanders, S. Soorapanth, M. Boily, G. P. Garnett and P. D. McElroy. AIDS 22.14 (2008): 1829-1839.
"Does Funding for HIV and Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention Matter? Evidence from Panel Data." Co-authored with H.W. Chesson, P. Harrison, and B. Varghese. Evaluation Review 29.1 (2005): 3-23.
Presentations
"Evidence on the Sensitivity of 'Value of a Statistical Life' Estimates to Fatality Risk Measures" Southern Economics Association Meeting, Atlanta Georgia, November 2010 and Western Economics Association International Conference, Portland, Oregon, July 2010.
"Underlying Biases in Constructing Fatal Workplace Risk Rates" Midwest Economics Association Annual Meeting, Evanston, Illinois, March 2010.
"Workplace Deaths and Monetizing the 'Value of Life'" Friday At Four series, Knox College, November 2008.
"Innovative Teaching Methods in Labor Economics: Using Internet Assignments" Midwest Economics Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, March 2008.
"Getting from Priorities to the Allocation of Resources." Community Planning Leadership Summit, New York, New York, 2003.
"What Does it Cost to Do That Intervention?" HIV Prevention Leadership Summit, Atlanta, Georgia, 2004, and New Orleans, Louisiana, 2003; and the United States Conference on AIDS, Anaheim, California, 2002.
"Making Use of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Community Planning: Methods and Tools." Community Planning Leadership Summit, Chicago, Illinois, 2002.
Campus & Community Involvement
Knox County Board of Health, 2006 to present.
Research Affiliate, Center for Environmental and Resource Economics Policy (CEnREP), North Carolina State University.
"Horizons: A Celebration of Student Inquiry, Imagination, and Creativity" featured student research presentations in the humanities, sciences and social sciences on May 5, and student presentations in music in on May 8.
"Horizons: A Celebration of Student Inquiry, Imagination, and Creativity" at Knox College in May 2012 included award presentations in art, art history, fiction, poetry and playwriting.
Horizons 2012 featured student work in the performing arts -- dance and music -- including the Knox College Choir's world premiere of "Youth and Pioneers: An Ode" and the formal Spring Dance Concert.
