NEIU Econ Faculty Publications and Presentations
(last 5 years)
Publications:
Kurban, Haydar, Ryan Gallagher, Gulriz Aytekin Kurban and Joseph Persky. “A Beginner’s Guide To Creating Small-Area Cross-Tabulations,” Cityscape, forthcoming.
Wenz, Michael. Book Review: Goldstein, Robin, and Alexis Herschkowitsch. The Wine Trials 2010. New York: Fearless Critic Media, 2009. Journal of Wine Research, 2011, 22(3): 265-267.
Ciecierski, Christina, Pinka Chaterji, Frank Chaloupka and Henry Wechsler, “Do State Expenditures on Tobacco Control Programs Decrease Use of Tobacco Products Among College Students?”, Health Economics, Volume 20, Issue 3, pages 253–272, March 2011
Wenz, Michael and Joren Skugrud. “Tackling the Chart: Two Point Conversions and Team Differences in Football.” Chance, 2011, 24(1): 29-35. With Joren Skugrud.
Wenz, Michael and Wei-Choun Yu. “Term Time Employment and the Academic Performance of Undergraduates,” Journal of Education Finance, 2010, 35(4): 358-373.
Ciecierski, Christina, Michal Stoklosa and David Merriman. Technical Report submitted to the World Health Organization, “Cigarette Tax Avoidance: Evidence from Littered Cigarette Packs in Warsaw, Poland”, December 2009.
Salyards, Donald and Michael Wenz. “Neighborhood Spillovers: The Demand for Cubs Game Parking in Wrigleyville,” Journal of the Academy of Finance, 2009, 7(1&2): 102-110.
Wenz, Michael. “The Spatial Evolution of Casino Gambling,” Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research. 2008, 10(3):203-228.
Wenz, Michael. “Matching Estimation, Casino Gambling, and the Quality of Life,” Annals of Regional Science, 2008, 42(1):235-249.
Stuart, Edward. “Building Regional Competitive Advantage – Lessons from U.S. Experiences for Poland and other new EU Member States.” Achieving Competitiveness Through Innovations- A Challenge for Poland and Other New EU Member States. Walter Leal Filho and Marzenna Weresa, editors. Peter Lang Publishers. Frankfurt am Main. 2007.
Wenz, Michael. “The Impact of Casino Gambling on Housing Markets,” Journal of Gambling Business and Economics, 2007, 1(2):101-120.
Chiswick, Barry R. and Michael Wenz. “The Linguistic and Economic Adjustment of Soviet Jewish Immigrants in the United States, 2000.” Research in Labor Economics, 2006, 24:179-216.
Ciecierski, Christina, Pinka Chaterji, Frank Chaloupka and Henry Wechsler, “Do State Expenditures on Tobacco Control Programs Decrease Use of Tobacco Products Among College Students?”, ImpacTeen Research Paper Number 35, September 2006
Ciecierski, Christina, Pinka Chaterji, Frank Chaloupka and Henry Wechsler, “Do State Expenditures on Tobacco Control Programs Decrease Use of Tobacco Products Among College Students?”, NBER Working Paper No. W12532, September 2006
Wolaver, Amy, Christina Ciercierski, Lisa Powell, and Henry Wechsler, 2006. “Peer Effects and Their Role in Binge Drining Across American College Campuses,” ImpacTeen Research Paper 33.
Ciecierski, Christina, Amy Wolaver, Lisa Powell, Frank Chaloupka and Henry Wechsler, 2006 “The Influences of Peers on Smoking Behaviors across American College Campuses,” ImpacTeen Research Paper 32.
Presentations:
Gallagher, Ryan. Estimating Local Redistribution through Property-Tax-Funded Public School Systems. Illinois Economics Association, October 2011.
Gallagher, Ryan. Cannibalization within the Riverboat Gaming Industry: The Case of Illinois, Mid-Continent Regional Science Association, June 2011; Midwest Economic Association, March 2011, Illinois Economic Association, October 2011.
Gallagher, Ryan and Michael Wenz. The Effect of Financial Aid Type on Student Retention and Academic Performance,Midwest Economic Association, March 2011.
Wenz, Michael. A new method for decomposing firm and household amenity effects with an application to casino gambling. Western Regional Science Association, February 2011; World Spatial Econometrics Association, June 2010.
Wenz, Michael. A Proposal for Incentive-Compatible Revenue Sharing in Major League Baseball. Illinois Economics Association, October 2010.
Yu, Wei-Choun and Michael Wenz. The Dynamics of the Metropolitan Housing Prices in the US: Evidence of Principal Components and Panel Cointegration. Western Regional Science Association, February 2010.
Ciecierski, Christina. Health as Human Capital, Sources of Competitive Advantage in the 21st Century, Annual Conference of the World Economy Research Institute at the Warsaw School of Economics, June 4th, 2009. Warsaw, Poland.
Ciecierski, Christina. Implementing the NEIU Student Health Behavior Survey, Annual Colloquium of Live-Free Tobacco Free, April 24th, 2009, Springfield, Illinois.
Ciecierski, Christina. Podatek akcyzowy od wyrobów tytoniowych: sytuacja w Polsce, Economic Forum Concerning Tobacco Control Policy, October 8th, 2008. Warsaw, Poland.
Gallagher, Ryan. “Inter-Industry Linkages, Transportation Costs, and the Sources of Industrial Co-Agglomeration Midwest Economics Association, March 2008.
Ciecierski, Christina. The Market for Legal and Illegal Cigarettes in Poland: A Closer Look at Demand-Side Characteristics, 13th World Conference on Tobacco or Health, Washington D.C., USA, July 2006.