THERESE A. McCARTY
Dean of Faculty and
Vice President of Academic Affairs
Feigenbaum Hall 06
Union College
Schenectady, NY 12308
Office Phone Number: (518) 388-6102
Fax Number: (518) 388-6918
E-mail Address: mccartyt@union.edu
Link to Course Pages
With Union College Since 1987
Education:
A.B.1979, Bryn Mawr College; A.M. 1981, Ph.D. 1987, University of Michigan
Areas of Expertise:
Public Finance, Economics of Education
Selected Publications:
"Estimating Permanent and Transitory Income Elasticities of Education Spending From Panel Data", with Stephen J. Schmidt, Journal of Public Economics, forthcoming.
"Allocating Property Tax Revenue in California: Living with Proposition 13” with Terri A. Sexton, Steven M. Sheffrin and Stephen D. Shelby, State Tax Notes, March 25, 2002 and Proceedings of the National Tax Association Annual Conference, 2001.
"Dynamic Patterns in State Government Finance," with Stephen J. Schmidt, Public Finance Review, 29(3), May 2001.
"A Vector Autoregression of State-Government Expenditure," with Stephen J. Schmidt, American Economic Review 87(2), pp. 278-282, May 1997.
Demographic Diversity and the Size of the Public Sector," Kyklos, February 1993.
"Technical Efficiency in New Jersey School Districts," with Suthathip Yaisawarng, in H. Fried, C. Lovell, and S. Schmidt, eds., The Measurement of Productive Efficiency: Techniques and Applications, Oxford University Press, 1993.
"On Equalizing School Expenditures," with Harvey E. Brazer, Economics of Education Review, 9(3), 1990.
"The Effect of Social Security on Married Women's Labor Force Participation," National Tax Journal, XLIII(1), March 1990.
"Interaction Between Demand for Education and for Municipal Services," with Harvey E. Brazer, National Tax Journal, XL(4), December 1987.
Other Professional Activities:
Affiliate, Center for State and Local Taxation, University of California at Davis, 2001-present.
Visiting Scholar, Center for State and Local Taxation, University of California At Davis, 2000-2001.
Visiting Research Fellow, Center for the Study of the States, Rockefeller Institute, Albany, NY 1994.
Visiting Faculty, Center for International Education, Kansai Gaidai University, Japan (Union College Term Abroad), Fall 1993.
Recent College Service:
Member, Minerva Council
Chair, Department of Economics, 2001-2004
Chair, Faculty Executive Committee, 1998-2000
Chair, Social Sciences Division, 1996-98
Chair, Benefits Committee, 1997-98
Member, Faculty Appeals Committee, 1995-98