Six Doctoral Students Receive Research Grants

SPP has awarded six students with doctoral research grants, funded by money provided by the Provost for the doctoral program. The recipients are:

Shaoming Cheng, for his paper presentation, The Role of Labor Cost in the Location Choices of Japanese Investors in China, at the North American Regional Science Council Annual Meeting in Seattle.

 

Shanea Watkins, for her paper presentation, School Type and the Achievement Gap: Do Charter Schools Really Make a Difference?, at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Annual Research Conference in Atlanta.

 

Cathy Elrod, for her poster presentation, Individuals with Chronic and/or Disabling Conditions: Determinants of Physical Rehabilitation Services, at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Annual Research Conference in Atlanta.

 

Xiaoxia Liu, for her paper presentation, An Investigation of Broadband Internet Subscription Using a Dynamic Demand Model, at the North American Regional Science Council Annual Meeting in Seattle; and for the purchase of data from the American Electronics Association, eMarketer and ESRI.

 

Yinglee Tseng, for her paper presentation, The Prospect of Regional Trade Agreements in Multilateral Context, at the 100th Annual Conference of the American Political Science Association in Chicago.

Lei Ding, for his paper presentation, The Role of Telecommunications Infrastructure in Regional Economic Growth in China, at the Telecommunication Policy Research Conference, the North American Regional Science Council Annual Meeting in Seattle, and the Institute for Operational Research and Management Science (INFORMS) annual meeting.

A total of $40,000 has been earmarked for doctoral research grants, intended to help students with the collection of original data, the purchase of data sets and travel costs related to presenting at conferences. So far, $7,930 has been awarded to students.