Professor
Department of Economics, BA-110Education
University at Albany
State University of New York
Albany, NY 12222
Office Location: BA-111A (Business Administration Building)
Telephone: (518) 442-4743
Fax: (518) 442-4736
E-mail: Hamp@albany.edu
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1981Previous Positions
BBA, University of Georgia, 1974
National Science Foundation/American Statistical Association/Census Bureau Fellow, Washington, DC, 1994-95.Research Interests
Visiting Associate Professor, University of California - Santa Barbara, Fall 1987 - Spring 1988.
Research Fellow, The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., Fall 1979 - Fall 1980.
Public Economics, Economics of Education, Applied EconometricsSelected Publications
My current research focuses on economic and policy questions relating to elementary and secondary education. Much of that work focuses on the determinants and consequences of the school choices made by parents through public-private school choice and residential location.
Current Papers"The Changing Structure of Teacher Compensation, 1970-94" (1997) Economics of Education Review 16(4) 371-384 (with J. Wyckoff).
"The Allocation of Resources to Special Education and Regular Instruction" (1996) in Performance-Based Approaches to School Reform: Holding Schools Accountable, Helen Ladd editor, The Brookings Institution (with J. Wyckoff). Being reprinted in the American Education Finance Association Yearbook, 1997 (forthcoming).
"Where has the Money Gone? An Analysis of School District Spending in New York State: 1979-80 to 1991-92" (1995) Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 17(2) 195-218 (with J. Wyckoff).
"An Analysis of Elementary and Secondary School Choice" (1995) Journal of Urban Economics, 38 236-251 (with E.S. Lee and J. Wyckoff).
"Primary and Secondary School Choice Among Public and Religious Alternatives" (1992) Economics of Education Review, 11(4) 317-337 (with J. Wyckoff). Reprinted in Market Approaches to Education: Vouchers and School Choice (1996) edited by Elchanan Cohn, Pergamon/Elsevier, Amsterdam.
"Gifts of Money and Gifts of Time" (1992) Journal of Public Economics, 47 321-341 (with E. Brown).
"Modeling Charitable Giving Using a Box-Cox Standard Tobit Model" (1991) The Review of Economics and Statistics, 73(3) 460-470 (with J. Wyckoff).
"Measuring Welfare Changes in Settings with Imposed Quantities" (1988) Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 15, 45-63.
"Efficiency and Equity in the Provision of Public Education" (1985) The Review of Economics and Statistics, 67(1) 70-80.
"Preferences of Citizens for Public Expenditures on Elementary and Secondary Education" (1985) Journal of Econometrics, 27(1) 1-20.
Selected Professional Activities"The Effect of School Choice and Residential Location on the Racial Segregation of K-12 Students" (with J. Wyckoff).
"An Analysis of the Determinants of Public-Private School Choice" (with J. Wyckoff).
"School Choice: Who is Likely to be Left Behind?" (with J. Wyckoff).
Member, New York State Board of Regents Technical Study Group on Cost Effectiveness in Education, 1995.Courses Recently Taught
Member, New York State Board of Regents Technical Study Group on the Generation of Revenues for Education, 1994.
Consultant to the New York State Special Commission on Educational Structure, Policies and Practices, June 1993 - January 1994.
ECO 110 Principles of Microeconomics
ECO 355 Public Finance
ECO 530 Public Sector Economics
ECO 730 Public Economics
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