Department of Economics
304 Business Administration Bldg.
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH  43403

Phone: (419) 372-8070
Fax: (419) 372-1557
Email: pvander@bgsu.edu

Education:

• Ph.D. University of Wisconsin - Madison 1991
• M.S. University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1988
• B.A.Alma College, 1986

Teaching Interests:

• Public Economics
• Economics of Education
• Central Bank Policy
• Dynamic Programming
• Applied Econometrics

Honors and Awards:

• Marie R. Hodge Advising Award, 2002.
• Bowling Green State University Artists and Authors Award for research, 2001.

Research Interests:

• Housing Decisions of Elderly Homeowners
• Consumption Functions with Durable Goods and Uncertain Income
• Behavior of Central Banks
• Educational Production Functions
• Determination of School Tracking Policies

Selected Publications:

• "Why Do Some Schools Group by Ability? Some Evidence from the NAEP," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, forthcoming, 2004.
• "The Bank of Canada's Reaction Function," American Review of Canadian Studies, forthcoming, 2004.
• "Not Enough Capital and Too Much Bureaucracy:  An Analysis of the Input Choice Efficiency of Ohio Secondary Schools," (coauthored), Journal of Economics MVEA, forthcoming, 2003.
• "The Tenure Choice of the Migrating Elderly," Journal of Housing for the Elderly, 16: pp. 19-37, 2002.
• "An Empirical Investigation of the Transmission of Canadian Monetary Policy," American Review of Canadian Studies, 2000
• "The Federal Reserve's Reaction Function Under Greenspan: An Ordinal Probit Analysis," Journal of Macroeconomics, 2000
• "The Housing Decisions of Older Households: A Dynamic Analysis," Journal of Housing Economics, 1998
• "Remployment Differences Among Dislocated and Other Workers," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 1997
• "Determinants of Success on the Ohio Ninth Grade Proficiency Test", Journal of Economics, 1996,
• The Housing Decisions of Elderly Homeowners, Garland Press, 1995
• "An Empirical Analysis of the Housing Decisions of Older Homeowners," Journal of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association, 1994
• "A Critique of Several Regulatory Analyses Regarding Solvent Wastes," Journal of the Environmental Professional, 1993.

Other:

• Dr. VanderHart is the Graduate Coordinator for the Master of Arts in Economics program.