(with Josh McGee), “Economics of Teacher Pension Sustainability,” Association for Education Finance and Policy 47th Annual Conference (Denver), March 17, 2022
Invited participant, “The Next Generation of K-12 Funding Research,” Gates-funded, Urban Institute facilitated roundtable on K-12 Funding Research, March 16, 2022 (Denver)
Panelist, “How Are State Education Agencies, School Districts, School Boards, and Teachers Navigating the Rise in Teacher Pension Costs?” Association for Education Finance and Policy 47th Annual Conference (Denver), March 19, 2022
“Arkansas Teacher Pension Funding,” Arkansas State Senate Education Committee hearing on EDRE’s research & contributions to the State, Little Rock, February 16, 2022.
(with Josh McGee), “Recent Research on Teacher Pension Funding, Benefits, and Policy Debates,” January 15 and September 21, 2021, webinars for Thomas Downes and Kieran Killeen (eds.), Recent Advancements in Education Finance and Policy, forthcoming.
(with Josh McGee), “Pursuing Intergenerational Equity in Pension Finance,” Association for Education Finance and Policy 46th Annual Conference (remote), March 18, 2021.
(with Josh McGee), “Sins of the Past, Present, and Future: Alternative Pension Funding Policies,” Brookings Municipal Finance Conference, July 13-14, 2020. video, slides.
(with Josh McGee), “What Pension Crisis? An Analysis of Brookings’ Proposed Debt-Stabilization Funding Policy,” University of Arkansas, September 19, 2019; Association for Education Finance and Policy 45th Annual Conference (remote), March 20, 2020.
“Cross-Subsidization of Teacher Pension Costs in Traditional vs. Cash Balance Plans: The Case of Kansas, the First Teacher CB Plan,” Association for Education Finance and Policy, Annual Conference, Kansas City, MO, March 21, 2019.
(with Dillon Fuchsman, presenter), “Teacher Attrition and Teacher Pension Costs,” Association for Education Finance and Policy, Annual Conference, Kansas City, March 21, 2019.
(with James Shuls [presenter] and Collin Hitt), “Undermining Equity: How State Pension Subsidies Favor Wealthy School Districts,” Association for Public Policy and Management, Fall Research Conference, Washington, DC, November 8-10, 2018 and November 12, 2020 (remote); Association for Education Finance and Policy, Annual Conference, Kansas City, MO, March 21, 2019.
“Arkansas Teacher Retirement Plan: Risks, Redistribution & Remedies,” Testimony to Arkansas Legislature, Joint Committee on Public Retirement, September 11, 2018. (video, slides (PDF))
“Cross-Subsidization of Teacher Pension Costs: The Impact of the Discount Rate,” invited presentation, “Teacher Pension Workshop: Connecting Evidence-Based Research to Pension Reform,” RAND corporation, March 8-9, 2018, Santa Monica, CA.
(with Josh McGee) “Cross-Subsidization of Teacher Pension Costs: The Impact of Assumed Market Returns,” Association for Public Policy and Management, Fall Research Conference, Chicago, IL, November 4, 2017.
(with Josh McGee) “Cross-Subsidization of Teacher Pension Costs: The Case of California,” Association for Education Finance and Policy, Annual Conference, Washington, DC, March 18, 2017.
“Accounting for the Rise in Unfunded Public Pension Liabilities,” CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) Society of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR, April 8, 2016.
“The Steady-State Math of the “80 % Standard” and High Assumed Return,” Association for Education Finance and Policy, Annual Conference, Denver, CO, March 18, 2016.
“Pension Reform in Colorado,” Secure Futures Colorado, Denver, CO, March 16, 2016.
“Research Presentation,” Pension Collaborative Meeting, NCTQ (National Council on Teacher Quality) and Students First, Denver, CO, March 16, 2016.
“Assessing the Impact of Investment Shortfalls on Unfunded Pension Liabilities: The Allure of Neat, but Faulty Counterfactuals,” Association for Public Policy and Management, Fall Research Conference, Miami, FL, November 12, 2015.
“Why Did the Costs of the Connecticut Teachers’ Pension System Rise So Much?” Association for Education Finance and Policy, Annual Conference, Washington, DC, February 21, 2015.
“‘GASB Won’t Let Me’: A False Objection to Public Pension Reform,” APPAM Fall Research Conference, Baltimore, November 9, 2012; AEFP Annual Conference, Boston, March 17, 2012 (presented on my behalf by Josh McGee).
“The Fiscal Impact of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program, 1993-2011,” APPAM Fall Research Conference, Baltimore, November 9, 2012. [summary of my work, written and presented by Anna Jacob]
(with Jeffery Dean), “District Costs for Teacher Health Insurance: An Examination of the Data from the BLS and Wisconsin,” George W. Bush Institute, School Productivity Project Conference, Dallas, September 20, 2012.
“You Can’t Get There From Here: Transition Costs to Teacher Pension Reform, Real and/or Imaginary,” APPAM Fall meetings, Washington, DC, November 3, 2011.
Comments on Biggs and Richwine, “Are Public School Teachers Overpaid?” American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC, November 1, 2011. Slides (PDF).
“Transition Costs: Real and Imaginary,” at “Getting from Here to There: Research to Implement Teacher Pension Reform,” George W. Bush Institute, Southern Methodist University, September 28, 2011.
“The Simple Analytics of Teacher Pension Funding and Reform,” Association for Education Finance and Policy, Seattle, March 25, 2011.
“Teacher Retirement Benefits,” George W. Bush Institute, Dallas, December 10, 2010. (with Michael Podgursky)
“Research on State Teacher Pension Systems and Reform,” Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest (U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences) Governing Board, Dallas, December 3, 2010.
“Longitudinal Analysis of Teacher Retirement Behavior in Arkansas,” NCES Summer Data Conference, July 29, 2010, Bethesda, MD. Invited presentation (with Josh McGee).
“Teacher Pension Incentives and Distribution of Benefits in Illinois & Chicago,” Illinois Project Advisory Committee Meeting, Chicago, February 17, 2010; follow-up presentation on September 30, 2010.
Comments on “Changes in Firm Pension Policy: The Case of Cash Balance Plan Conversions,” Allied Social Science Assn meetings, Atlanta, January 5, 2010.
“Teacher Pension Incentives and Distribution of Benefits in Indiana,” Indiana Project Advisory Committee Meeting, Indianapolis, November 28, 2009; follow-up presentation on May 13, 2010.
“The Case for Economics in the College Curriculum,” remarks for ACTA Press Conference, “What Will They Learn?” August 19, 2009, National Press Club, Washington, DC.
“Teacher Response to Pension System Incentives: Evidence from Arkansas,” presentation to Regional Education Laboratory Southwest (U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences) Forum, “Educator Staffing, Quality, and Teacher Retirement Systems,” Dallas, July 29, 2009.
“Using Pension Data: the Case of Arkansas,” Fourth Annual U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences Research Conference, Washington, D.C., June 8, 2009.
“Teacher Pensions and Early Retirement,” presentation to joint retreat of National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future (NCTAF) and Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO). George Washington University, Washington, DC, April 28, 2009.
“Distribution of Benefits in Teacher Retirement Systems and Their Implications for Mobility,” National Center for Performance Incentives, Second Annual Conference, “Rethinking Teacher Retirement Benefit Systems, Vanderbilt University, February 19-20, 2009. Also American Education Finance Association, Nashville, March 20, 2009 (refereed).
(by co-author Joshua McGee), “Teacher Pension Incentives, Retirement Behavior, and Potential for Reform in Arkansas,” National Center for Performance Incentives, Second Annual Conference, “Rethinking Teacher Retirement Benefit Systems, Vanderbilt University, February 19-20, 2009; Allied Social Science Association meetings, Atlanta, January 5, 2010; American Education Finance Association, Richmond, March 20, 2010; Joint Statistical Meetings, Vancouver, British Columbia, August 4, 2010.
“Pension Policy and Teacher Quality,” Regional Education Lab Southwest Discussion Forum, Washington, D.C., May 7, 2008.
“What Do Cost Functions Tell Us About the Cost of an Adequate Education?” From Equity to Adequacy to Choice: Perspectives on School Finance and School Finance Litigation, Show-Me Institute and the Truman School of Public Affairs, University of Missouri-Columbia, October 30, 2007. also Carnegie-Mellon University seminar, Department of Economics and Heinz Public Policy School, December 11, 2007; American Education Finance Association, Denver, April 12, 2008.
“Incentives of Teacher Pension Benefits: Arkansas and Selected Other States,” Arkansas Teacher Retirement System Annual Board Seminar, Heber Springs, AR, June 18, 2007.
“Public School Finance Under U.S. Fiscal Federalism,” special invited dinner lecture, Lincoln Land Institute International Conference on “Land Policies and Fiscal Decentralization,” June 3, 2007, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
“The Case for Teacher Pension Reform,” American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) Education Task Force, Spring Task Force Summit, Hilton Head, SC, April 27, 2007.
“Efficiency and Equity in the Time Pattern of Teacher Pension Benefits: An Analysis of Four State Systems” (with Michael Podgursky), annual meeting of American Education Finance Association, Baltimore, March 2007.
“Significance of Endowed Chair in Education Accountability,” investiture ceremony, College of Education and Health Professions, University of Arkansas, January 24, 2007.
“Systemic Effects of Milwaukee Parental Choice Program on School Finance: Proposed Study,” School Choice Demonstration Project Research Advisory Board Meeting, Georgetown University, Dec. 1, 2006
“Accountability,” Discussant and Presenter at University of Arkansas Department of Education Reform Conference, October 2006, Kauffman Conference Center, Kansas City.
“Massachusetts’ Hancock Case,” Governor Jodi M. Rell’s Commission on Education Finance, New Haven, May 2006.
“Education Reform, Finance & Property Taxes in Massachusetts,” Lincoln Land Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 2006.
Legislative testimony on Governor Romney’s proposed reforms to education funding formula, February – March 2006.
“Merit pay proposals in Massachusetts,” panel discussion Harvard Graduate School of Education and Rennie Center, December 2005.
“Massachusetts’ Hancock Case and the Adequacy Doctrine,” Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Program on Education Policy and Governance, conference “Adequacy Lawsuits: Their Growing Impact on American Education,” October 12-14, 2005.
“Accountability and Education Reform in Massachusetts,” Tufts University, April 2005.
“The Hancock Case and Education Reform in Massachusetts: A Post-Mortem and a Pre-Mortem,” Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Program on Education Policy and Governance, March 2005. Similar presentation at Lincoln Land Institute, May 2005.
Fiscal Outlook Panel for Municipal Officials, Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, December 2004.
“The Hancock Case: What’s Adequate and Equitable?” Askwith Education Forum, Harvard Graduate School of Education, November 2004. Video. (and similar forum by MassINC).
“Equity in School Finance,” presentation to annual conference of Massachusetts Associations of Superintendents and School Committees, Worcester, MA, October 2004.
“Standards and Accountability,” discussant at Brookings Institution conference on Hopeful Signs of Change in American Education, May 2004.
“Will More Resources Help?” panel chair at Harvard Kennedy School conference on 50 Years after Brown, April 2004.
“Taking Account of Accountability,” panelist at Harvard Kennedy School conference on school accountability, June 2002.
Panelist, “The State of Pre-College Economic Education and Major Issues,” National Summit on Economic Literacy, NCEE/Federal Reserve, Washington, May 2002.
“Policy Research and Development in the Massachusetts Executive Branch: An Insider View,” University of Massachusetts, April 2002; Pioneer Institute Board of Academic Advisors, May 2002.
“Education Reform in Massachusetts: Phase Two,” presentation to National Conference of State Tax Judges, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, March 2002.
“Education Funding Reform in Massachusetts: Phase Two,” presentation to annual conference of Massachusetts Associations of Superintendents and School Committees, Worcester, MA, November 2001 (and other similar forums).
“Testing Testing: School Accountability in Massachusetts and Beyond,” panelist at Harvard Kennedy School conference, October 2001.
Presenter (with Julian R. Betts), “Incentives and Equity Under Standards-Based Reform,” Brookings Papers on Education Policy Conference on Educational Standards, May 2000.
Invited Participant, Templeton Institute for the Advanced Study of Freedom, Newport, Rhode Island, May 22-30, 1999; Galway, Ireland, June, 2000.
Co-organizer and Moderator, “Remediation Reform in Higher Education and its Implications for K-12,” 3rd Annual Conference of the New England Affiliates of the National Association of Scholars, May 8, 1999, Assumption College, Worcester, MA.
“Local Control is not Entirely a Myth in Massachusetts,” Forum on “Money Matters: Alternatives in Education Funding,” by Harvard University’s Taubman Center for State & Local Government, and Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research, September, 1998
“Information and Earnings Inequality with Skill Complementarity,” NBER Income Distribution Small Group Meeting, April 1997 (co-authored with Glenn C. Loury)
“Information and Job-Matching: Is There an Efficiency-Equity Tradeoff?” NBER 1996 Summer Institute, Income Distribution Workshop (co-authored with Glenn C. Loury).
“Some Welfare Economics of Testing,” NBER 1995 Summer Institute, Income Distribution Workshop (presented by co-author Glenn C. Loury).
“Can National Educational Standards Raise Welfare?” Wayne State University, November 1994.
“Centralized vs. Decentralized Educational Standards Under Pooling,” Boston University Economics Department, Nov. 1993.
“Is Open Admission Optimal?” American Economic Association Meetings, Anaheim, January 1993.
“Wage Impact of Sectoral Shift,” Eastern Economic Association Meetings, Boston, March 1988.
“The Role of Technology, Trade, and Other Factors in the Shift to Service Employment,” National Academy of Sciences, Panel on Technology and Employment, January 1986.
“Equilibrium and Optimality Under Monopolistic Competition,” Brandeis, September 1985.
“Instability of the U.S. Deficit,” National University of Singapore, July 1985.
“Recent Trends in the U.S. Economy,” International Trade Research Institute, Beijing; Beijing Institute of Foreign Languages, June 1985.
“Rents and Suboptimality in Demand-Constrained Macro Model,” University of Tokyo, May 1985.
“Diversification and Duplication of R&D,” Canadian Economic Association Meetings, Guelph, Ontario, May 1984.
“Profitability and Aggregate Investment Under Demand Uncertainty,” University of Toronto Workshop on Capital Markets, January 1982.
“Inflation and the Law of Supply and Demand,” Eastern Economic Association Meetings, Montréal, May 1980.