Christopher A. Swann

ADDRESS

Department of Economics	336-334-4502 (office)
Box 26165	336-334-4089 (fax)
UNC Greensboro	chris_swann at uncg dot edu (email)
Greensboro, NC 27402

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. in Economics, University of Virginia, May 1996.
  Dissertation: A Dynamic Analysis of Marriage, Labor Force Participation, and Participation in the AFDC Program
• M.A. in Economics, University of Virginia, May 1992.
• B.S. in Economics, summa cum laude, Bradley University, May 1990.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Research Affiliate, National Poverty Center, University of Michigan, 2009 - present.
• Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, UNC Greensboro, 2004 - present.
• Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, SUNY-Stony Brook, 1999 - 2004.
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Virginia, 1998 - 1999.
• Research Economist, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. 1997 - 1998.
• Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, 1996 - 1997.

PUBLISHED ARTICLES (Access to some of these articles may require an account with the publisher.)

• "A Time Allocation Study of University Faculty," (with Barry Bozeman and Al Link), Economics of Education Review, 27(4), August 2008, 363-374.
• "Parental Incarceration and Foster Care Caseloads," (with Michelle Sheran Sylvester), Child Welfare 360: Children of Incarcerated Parents , Spring 2008, p 12-13.
• "The Take-Up of Cash Assistance among Private Kinship Care Families," (with Michelle Sheran Sylvester), Children and Youth Services Review, 29(8), August 2007: 973-987.
• "The Timing of Prenatal WIC Participation," The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (Topics), 7(1), Article 5, 2007.
• "Does the Child Welfare System Serve the Neediest Kinship Care Families?", (with Michelle Sheran Sylvester), Children and Youth Services Review, 28(10), October 2006: 1213-1228.
• "The Foster Care Crisis: What Caused Caseloads to Grow?" (with Michelle Sheran Sylvester), Demography, 43(2), May 2006: 309-335.
• "Welfare Reform when Recipients are Forward-Looking," The Journal of Human Resources. 40(1), Winter 2005: 31-56.
• "Maximum Likelihood Estimation Using Parallel Computing: An Introduction to MPI," Computational Economics, 19(2), April 2002, pp. 145-178.
• "Software for Parallel Computing: The LAM Implementation of MPI," The Journal of Applied Econometrics, 16(2), March/April 2001, pp 185-194.

BOOK CHAPTERS

• "Foster Care," in Encyclopedia of the Life Cource and Human Development, Deborah Carr, editor, Gale Publishing, 2008.
• "Addressing the Selection-Bias Problem for Program Targeting and Design", joint with Michael Brien, in Beherov and Germanis, Rethinking WIC, American Enterprise Institute, 2001.

REPORTS

• Technical Description for MATH-STEWARD, 1996.30, with Jonathan Jacobson, Christine Ross, and Angela Schmitt, Mathematica Policy Research, August 1998.
• The Feasibility of Using SIPP Longitudinal Data to Examine Behavioral Responses, with Jonathan Jacobson, Mathematica Policy Research, March 1998.

• "WIC Eligibility and Participation: The Roles of Changing Policies, Economic Conditions, and Demographics,", November 2009, under review (2nd round) The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy.
• "Prenatal WIC Participation and Infant Health: Selection and Maternal Fixed Effects," with Michael Brien, May 2001.
• "Does Participation in Multiple Welfare Programs Improve Birth Outcomes?", with Michael J. Brien, Joint Center for Poverty Research Working Paper #212, December 2000.
• "Government Invervention and Health: The Impact of WIC Participation on Children," with Michael Brien, March 1999.

WORK IN PROGRESS

• "The Processes of Getting on and Staying on Food Stamps in South Carolina," with David C. Ribar.
• "The Timing of Promotion and Tenure in the Sciences and Engineering," with Al Link.
• "Child-only Welfare Spells"

GRANTS

• Associate Investigator, "The Processes of Getting and Staying on Food Stamps in South Carolina", (David C. Ribar, Principal Investigator), U.S. Department of Agriculture.
• Co-Principal Investigator, "How Do Child Welfare Policies and Economic Conditions Affect Medicaid and TANF Take-Up Rates among Kinship Care Families?", (with Michelle Sheran) National Poverty Center, University of Michigan, 2004-2005.
• Principal Investigator, "The Dynamics of Prenatal WIC Participation," Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin, 2001-2002.
• Co-Principal Investigator, "Does Participation in Multiple Welfare Programs Improve Birth Outcomes?" (with Michael Brien), Joint Center for Poverty Research, Northwestern University/University of Chicago, 1999-2000.
• Principal Investigator, "A Dynamic Analysis of Marriage, Labor Force Participation, and Participation in the AFDC Program," IBM Shared University Research Grant, University of Virginia, 1994-96.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• "Public Policy, Economic Conditions, and WIC Caseloads," presented at the 2007 Southern Economic Association mettings in New Orleans, LA.
• "How do Child Welfare Policies and Economic Conditions Affect Medicaid, TANF and Foster Care Take-up Rates Among Kinship Care Families?", presented at the 2004 Southern Economic Association meetings in New Orleans.
• "The Dynamics of Prenatal WIC Participation", presented at the 2004 Southern Economic Association meetings in New Orleans.
• "The Dynamics of Prenatal WIC Participation", presented at the 2002 Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management meetings in Dallas, TX.
• "The Dynamics of Prenatal WIC Participation", presented at the USDA Small Grants Conference in Washington DC.
• "Does Participation in Multiple Welfare Programs Improve Birth Outcomes?", presented at the 2001 Economic Demography Workshop at the Population Association of America meetings in Washington, DC.
• "Does Participation in Multiple Welfare Programs Improve Birth Outcomes?", presented at the 2000 Southern Economic Association meetings in Washington, DC.
• "Does Participation in Multiple Welfare Programs Improve Birth Outcomes?", presented at the USDA Small Grants Conference in Washington, DC.
• "Does WIC Participation Increase Prenatal Care Utitlization?", presented at the 2000 Eastern Economic Association meeting in Washington DC.
• "Government Intervention and Health: The Impact of WIC Participation on Children," presented at the 1998 American Economic Association meetings in Chicago.
• "Welfare Reform when Agents are Forward-Looking," presented at the 1997 American Economic Association meetings in New Orleans.
• "The Effect of Welfare Reform on the Demographic Composition of the AFDC Caseload," presented at the 1997 Population Association of America meetings.

OTHER PRESENTATIONS

• Research papers presented at UNC Greensboro, Wake Forest University, UNC Chapel Hill, University of Colorado at Boulder, Georgia State University, University of Tennessee, University of Michigan, University of Houston, George Washington University, Duke University, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, the Social Security Administration, Mathematica Policy Research, Bureau of Labor Statistics, University of Virginia, SUNY-Stony Brook.

AWARDS

• Tipton R. Snavely Dissertation Award, 1997, Award given triennially for the outstanding Economics dissertation at the University of Virginia.
• Finalist, National Tax Association Dissertation Award, 1996.

• UNC Greensboro, 2004 - present: Econometrics (MA and PhD), Public Economics (PhD), Empirical Project (MA), Research Seminar (PhD).
• SUNY-Stony Brook, 1999 - 2004: Graduate Labor Economics, Intermediate Microeconomics, Undergraduate Public Economics, Undergraduate Labor Economics
• University of Virginia, 1998-1999: Intermediate Microeconomics and Undergraduate Public Economics.
• University of Michigan, 1996-1997: A two course Public Finance sequence for advanced undergraduates, a one semester survey class for non-Economics majors, and Intermediate Micro.
• University of Virginia, 1994-1996: Public Economics, Developed and taught a class on welfare reform for four semesters.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

• Session Organizer, "Program Evaluation", Southern Economic Association meetings, 2004.
• Referee: American Economic Review, Journal of Human Resources, International Economic Review,Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Contemporary Economic Policy, National Science Foundation, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
• External Reviewer, Institute of Medicine