Curriculum Vitae

PERSONAL INFORMATION Name: Thomas J. Nechyba
Address: Department of Economics, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0097
Office Phone: (919) 660-1815
Home Phone: (919) 401-6518
Department Fax: (919) 684-8974
E-mail: nechyba@econ.duke.edu
WWW: http://www.econ.duke.edu/Econ/Faculty/Users/tnechyba.html
Date of Birth: March 27, 1968
Family: Married 6/20/1992 (Stacy Lynn Nechyba); three children, born 12/07/2000 (Eleanor Li Nechyba), 4/08/2001 (Jennifer Li Nechyba) and 9/22/2003 (Katherine Wu Nechyba).
Citizenship: Austrian Citizen, US Permanent Resident.

PRESENT EMPLOYMENT AND
AFFILIATIONS
DUKE UNIVERSITY, Durham, NC
Professor of Economics: January 1, 2003 -
Professor of Public Policy Studies (secondary appointment): July 1, 2003 -
Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy Studies (with tenure): July 1, 1999 - December 31, 2002.

NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, Cambridge, MA
Research Associate: Spring 2000 to Present.
Faculty Research Fellow: Spring 1995 to Spring 2000.

INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH (CESifo), University of Munich, Germany
Research Fellow: 2001 - Present.

PAST EMPLOYMENT AND
AFFILIATIONS
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Stanford, CA
Assistant Professor of Economics: July 1, 1994 to April 30, 2000 (on leave September 1, 1998 - April 30, 2000).

HOOVER INSTITUTION ON WAR, REVOLUTION AND PEACE, Stanford, CA
National Fellow: September 1998 to August 1999.

FUNDACAO GETULIO VARGAS, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Visiting Professor: June 1998 to September 1998.

CENTER FOR ECONOMIC STUDIES (CES), University of Munich, Germany
Visitor: November 2000.

EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
Ph.D. in Economics: May 22, 1994.
  • Dissertation Title: Fiscal Federalism and Local Public Finance: A General Equilibrium Approach with Voting.
  • Dissertation Advisors: Marcus Berliant and Robert P. Strauss.
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
B.A. in Economics: July 1989, with High Honors.

RESEARCH Papers Published
Papers under Review, Working Papers and Works in Progress: Books and Larger Manuscripts: Book Reviews and Comments:
  • Review of IQ and the Wealth of Nations (by Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen), Journal of Economic Literature XLII (March 2004), 220-21.

  • Review of Handbook of Public Economics: Volume 3 (edited by Alan Auerbach and Martin Feldstein), Journal of Economic Literature XLI (December 2003), 1301-1303.

  • "Comment" on "Land Taxation in New York City: A General Equilibrium Analysis," in Urban Issues and Public Finance: Essays in Honor of Dick Netzer (A. Schwartz, ed.), Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2004, 95-100.

  • "Comment" on "Immigrant Children and New York City Schools: Segregation and Its Consequences," Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs, (2002), 208-11.

  • Review of State Sales and Income Taxes: An Economic Analysis (by George R. Zodrow), Journal of Regional Science 40(4), 799-802 (2000).

  • Review of Social Welfare and Individual Responsibility (by David Schmidtz and Robert E. Goodin), Economics and Philosophy, 16(2), 361-68 (2000).

  • Review of Local Government Tax and Land Use Policies in the United States: Understanding the Links (by Helen Ladd), Regional Science and Urban Economics 29, 547-52 (1999).

  • Review of Competitive Governments: An Economic Theory of Politics and Public Finance (by Albert Breton), Journal of Economic Literature 35, 2062-64 (1997).

Research Honors and Awards:
  • Who's Who in the World, Marquis Who's Who LLC, 2005.

  • Keynote Speaker, 2004 CESifo Public Sector Conference, University of Munich (May 7-9, 2004), "School Finance, School Choice and Communities."

  • Bass Society of Fellows, Duke University, 2002-Present.

  • Fuchsberg-Levine Family Chair, Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, Duke University, July 1, 2002 - June 30, 2007.

  • Keynote Speaker, New Zealand Association of Economists Conference, Wellington, NZ (September 2-4, 1998):"The Economics of Education: Vouchers and Peer Group Effects."

  • National Fellowship, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University, 1998-99.

  • Sigrid Banks Fellowship, awarded by the Dean of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University, 1998-99.

  • First Place, Outstanding Dissertation Award, Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management, 1994.

  • Second Place, Twenty-Fourth Annual Competition for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertations in Government Finance and Taxation, National Tax Association, 1994.

  • Conibear Prize for Best Third Year Paper, University of Rochester, 1992.
Research Grants and Commissioned Research:
  • National Science Foundation (NSF), "An Empirical Investigation of Peer Effects in Schools and of Household Responses to School Policy Changes,"($361,102) 2004-2007 (SBR-0339000), (Nechyba - PI, Vigdor - Co-PI).

  • Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, "Urban Sprawl," 2002-2003 ($30,000) (Nechyba, PI; Walsh, CoPI).

  • The Spencer Foundation, "The Role of Peers, Parental Choices, and Neighborhoods," 2000-2003 ($285,650) (Nechyba - PI, Vigdor and Hill - Co-PIs).

  • National Science Foundation (NSF), "Efficient and Equitable Delivery of Education in a District-Based Public School System," 1999-2001 (SBR-9905706) ($78,386) (Nechyba, PI).

  • New Zealand Ministry of Education, "The Impact of Family and Community Resources on Educational Outcomes," 1999 ($30,000) (Nechyba, PI; Older-Aguilar and McEwan, CoPIs).

  • National Science Foundation (NSF), "Vouchers, Migration and School Quality," 1998-99 (SBR-9809269) ($20,000).

  • Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, "Land Taxes as State Tax Bases," 1998-99 (30,000).

  • Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, "The Revenue Potential for Land Value Taxation," 1997-98 ($10,000) (Nechyba, PI).

  • Hoover Institution, "The Implications of the New Federalism," 1997, (with R. McKinnon (Stanford)) ($5,000).

  • National Academy of Sciences, "Fiscal Impact of Immigrants," 1996 (with T. MaCurdy (Stanford)) ($5,000).

  • Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Projects on Education and Welfare Policy, 1994-98 ($30,000).
EDITORIAL SERVICE Editorial Boards
  • Regional Science and Urban Economics: 2004-Present.
  • International Tax and Public Finance: 2003-Present.
  • The American Economic Review: 2001-2007.
  • The B.E. Journals in Economic Analysis and Policy: 2001-Present.
  • The Journal of Public Economic Theory: 1997-2002.

    Referee Service
    American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Econometrica, Quarterly Journal of Economics, European Economic Review, International Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, Review of Economic Studies, American Political Science Review, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Journal of Urban Economics, National Tax Journal, Regional Science and Urban Economics, International Tax and Public Finance, Journal of Economic Theory, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Southern Economic Journal, Economic Design, Education Economics, The Journal of Economic Education, Bulletin of Economic Research, Contemporary Economic Policy, Economics of Governance, Developmental Psychology, National Science Foundation Proposal Reviews, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada - Proposal Review.

  • TEACHING Courses Taught
  • Principles of Microeconomics (Duke).
  • Intermediate Microeconomics (Stanford and Duke).
  • Undergraduate Public Economics (Stanford).
  • Undergraduate Urban Economics (Stanford).
  • Ph.D. Microeconomics (Price Theory) (Stanford and Duke).
  • Graduate (2nd year Ph.D.) Public Finance (Stanford and Duke).

    Teaching Honors and Awards:

    • Kenneth G. Elzinga Distinguished Teaching Award, Southern Economics Association, 2004.
    • Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching, Stanford University, 1995-96.
    • Voted among "Top Ten Professors at Stanford", Stanford Review, 1995.
    • President's (Edward Peck Curtis) Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, University of Rochester, 1993-94.
  • ADVISING Undergraduate Honors Theses - Primary Advisor:
    Joshua Green (Public Policy, 1996), Terrence O'Day (Public Policy, 1996), Jonathan Lischke (Economics, 1997; Department of Economic Outstanding Thesis Award), Randall Reback (Economics, 1997; Stanford University Firestone Medal), Emily Chang (Public Policy, 1997; Public Policy Thesis Award), John Weller (Economics, 1997), Alexander Dunlap (Economics, 1997), Michael McCartan (Public Policy, 1998).

    Graduate Theses Committee (date of degree and first job in parenthesis; "*" indicates primary advisor):
    Michael Smart (1995, University of Toronto), Uday Rajan (1995, Carnegie Mellon), Susan Snyder (1995, VPI), Jiahua Che (1996, Notre Dame), Daniel Garrett (1996, Cornerstone Research), William Vogt (1996, Heinz School, CMU), Thomas DeLeire (1997, Chicago Public Policy), Geeta Singh (1997, Harvard Institute of International Development), Chris Timmins (1997, Yale), Jesse David (1998), David Mancuso (1998, Sacramento), Bret Dickey (1998), Koshy Mathai (1999, World Bank), Patrick Bayer (1999, Yale University), Robert McMillan* (1999, University of Toronto, winner - 2000 National Tax Association Dissertation Award), Jonathn Rork* (1999, University of New Hampshire), Gregory Besharov* (2000, Duke University), Patrick McEwan (University of Illinois, winner - AEFA Dissertation Award, APPAM Dissertation Award (second place)), Thomas Anderson (2002, Bureau of Economic Analysis), Kivanc Kirgiz (2002, Cornerstone Research), Randall Walsh (2002, University of Colorado - Boulder), Tom Ahn (2003), Bentley Coffey* (2004, Clemson University), Cathleen McHugh* (2005, CNA Corporation), Shauna Saunders*(2005).

    UNIVERSITY AND DEPARTMENT SERVICE Duke University:
  • Chair, Department of Economics, 2003-Present.
  • Member, Arts and Sciences Council, 2003-2004.
  • Chair, Senior Recruiting, 2002/2003.
  • Chair, Department External Review Committee, 2002/2003.
  • Director of Undergraduate Studies, 2001-2003.
  • Director, Economics Center of Teaching (EcoTeach), 2000-2003.
  • Senior Associate, Micro Incentives Research Center, 2000-Present.
  • Member, Social Sciences Planning Group, 2001-2002.
  • Member, Arts and Sciences Task Force, 2002.
  • Member, Academic Council, 2000-2004.
  • Member, Department of Economics Executive Committee, 1999-2003.
  • Chair, Committee to Reform Undergraduate Economics Core, 2000/01.
  • Chair, Micro-Theory Recruiting Committee, 1999/2000.

    Stanford University:

  • Committee to Reform Undergraduate Economics Requirements, 1997/98.
  • Committee to Reform Graduate Economics Core Curriculum, 1996/97.
  • Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies, 1996/97.
  • Graduate Admissions Committee, 1994/95.

  • OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES DUKE/UNC JOINT CONFERENCE
    • Program Committee, "Understanding the 1990s: The Economy in Long-Run Perspective," March 26-27, 2004, Sanford Institute.
    ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC ECONOMIC THEORY (APET)
    • Chair of Program Committee and Host, 4th International Conference on Public Economic Theory, June 12-15, 2003 (Program published as "Program for the Fourth APET International Conference on Public Economics," Journal of Public Economic Theory 6(1), 181-91, 2004).
    INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC FINANCE (IIPF)
    • Member, Scientific Organizing Committee, Congress 2002, Helsinki, Summer 2002.
    MICRO INCENTIVES RESEARCH CENTER (MIR)
    • Organizer, Interdisciplinary Conference on "Education and Incentives", Duke University, December 7-8, 2001.
    STANFORD INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL ECONOMICS (SITE)
    • Organizer, Week of Seminars on "Intergovernmental Competition in Public Economics," August 11-15, 1997.

    • Organizer, Week of Seminars on "Competition in Urban Economics," July 13-17, 1998.

    • Organizer, Week of Seminars on "Intergovernmental Competition in Public Economics," July 6-10, 1998.
    PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS
    • Invited University and Professional Seminars:
      University of Alabama, Federal Reserve Bank - Atlanta, Fundacao Getulio Vargas - Rio de Janeiro, American Enterprise Institute (Washington,DC), University of British Columbia, Brown University, University of California - Berkeley, University of California - Davis, University of California - Los Angeles, University of California - San Diego, University of California - Santa Barbara, California Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, Case Western Reserve University,Center for Economic Studies (Munich), University of Chicago, Clemson University, University of Colorado - Boulder, Duke University, University of Florida, Harvard University, University of Illinois - Urbana/Champaign, University of Houston, Indiana University - Bloomington, Johns Hopkins University, University of Kentucky - Lexington, University of Maryland - College Park, University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Ludwig Maximilian University (Munich), Federal Reserve Bank - New York, New York University, Northwestern University, University of Oregon, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, Rice University, University of Rochester, Stanford University, Syracuse University, Texas A&M University, Toulouse, Tulane University, Vanderbilt University, University of Virginia, Washington University - St. Louis, University of Washington - Seattle, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Ministry of Education - Wellington, New Zealand.

    • Conference Presentations:
      Meetings of the American Economic Association, the Econometric Society, the Public Choice Society, the National Tax Association, the Association for Public Policy and Management, the National Bureau of Economic Research Summer Institute, the National Bureau of Economic Research Public Economics Group, the National Bureau of Economic Research/National Science Foundation Decentralization Conference, the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics, the Association for Public Economic Theory, the Institute for Fiscal Studies Conference on World Tax Competition (London), the Society of Social Choice and Welfare, the Center for Economic Policy Research (Stanford), the Wallis Institute for Political Economy (Rochester), the Brookings-Wharton Conference on Urban Affairs, the Humane Studies Foundation, the Midwest Mathematical Economic Society, the Regional Science Association International, the Western Regional Science Association, the New Zealand Association of Economists, the Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, the National Academy of Sciences National Research Council (Panel on Demographic and Economic Impacts of Immigration), the Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance (Berkeley), the Institute of Humane Studies, the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace (Stanford), Syracuse University Conference on Education Finance.