Invited participant for Government Accounting Standards Board (GASB) roundtable for Post-Implementation Review of GASB Pension Standards, June 16, 2021
Co-organizer (with James Guthrie, Michael Podgursky, and Josh McGee), “Getting from Here to There: Research to Implement Teacher Pension Reform,” Conference, George W. Bush Institute, Southern Methodist University, September 28, 2011.
Organizer, “Issues in Transition to Pension Reform,” Conference, University of Arkansas Department of Education Reform, April 15, 2011.
Guest co-editor (with Michael Podgursky) of special issue (refereed) of Education Finance and Policy, MIT Press, “Rethinking Teacher Retirement Benefit Systems,” Fall 2010 (Vol. 5, no. 4) Co-organizer (with Michael Podgursky), National Center for Performance Incentives, Second Annual Conference, “Rethinking Teacher Retirement Benefit Systems, Vanderbilt University, February 19-20, 2009.
Compensated Professional Activities
Retained by Office of the Attorney General of New Hampshire, Contoocook Valley School District et al. v. State of New Hampshire , et al. (school finance case), January 2022 – present
Retained by Office of the Attorney General of Tennessee, Shelby County and Hamilton County Boards of Education v. William Haslam, et al (school finance case), August 2018 – present.
Retained by New York State Office of the Attorney General, Maisto v. State of New York (school finance case), July 2014 – February 2015.
“The Impact of Connecticut Teacher Pensions on School District Budgets,” StudentsFirst Institute and EdBuild (successor organization), June 2014 – April 2015.
“Teacher Pension Enhancement in Missouri, 1975 to the present,” Show-Me Institute, July 2014.
Laura and John Arnold Foundation, policy report, “‘GASB Won’t Let Me,” May 2012
TIAA-CREF Institute, contract to co-author “Reforming K-12 Educator Pensions: A Labor Market Perspective.” Completed and released Feburary 2011.
Subcontract with Fordham Institute for Joyce Foundation-funded project on Fiscal Impact of Teacher Pensions on Selected School Districts, 2013.
Retained by Connecticut Department of Education on CCEJF v. Rell (school finance case), 2011 (withdrew from the case in 2012)
Subcontract with Public Impact for Mind Trust-funded project on teacher pension obligations and reform proposals for a large Midwestern school district, 2010.
Consult with Regional Education Laboratory Southwest (U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences), to help organize Policy Forum, “Educator Staffing, Quality, and Teacher Retirement Benefit Systems,” Dallas, July 29, 2009.
Expert witness in McCleary, et. al. v. State of Washington, Washington school finance case, October 2009.
Consult with MT Attorney General’s Office on school finance, May 2008.
Consult with NH Gov. John Lynch on school finance, May 2007; consult with NH Legislative Cost Commission, October 2007 – March 2008; consult with NH Attorney General’s Office, September – November 2009, November 2010 – January 2011.
Expert witness in Committee for Educational Equality, et. al. v. State of Missouri, et. al., Missouri school finance case, February 2007.
Expert witness in Hancock v. Driscoll, Massachusetts school finance case, November 2003. (testified as Chief Economist for Commonwealth of Massachusetts; no extra compensation)
Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress: Contractor (1987-88).
National Academy of Sciences, Panel on Technology and Employment: Contractor (1986)
Professional Memberships
American Economic Association
Association for Education Finance and Policy
Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management
National Association of Scholars