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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.
Like many Knox College students, Steve Galdek is fond of the squirrels wandering around campus. His research project is enabling him to learn more about their winter-survival strategies.
A few weeks after completing an international assignment to take photos of newly arrived pandas in Scotland, Knox College instructor Michael Godsil is asked to document the delivery of two more pandas in France.
Knox College introduces KnoxReads, an online book discussion. The first selection is "Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion across the Islamic World," by writer and foreign policy analyst Robin Wright, who visits Knox on February 28.
