Estimating Models of Local Behavior

My Local Estimation Modeling Interests

• "Needs of People with Disabilities in Charlottesville," February 1990.

• "A Disaggregate Discrete Choice Model of Transportation Demand by Elderly and Disabled People in Rural Virginia," Transportation Research, July 1993, 4: 315-327.

• "A Community Strategic Plan for Preventing Teenage Pregnancies and Sexually Transmitted Diseases," with the Strategic Planning Workgroup of the Task Force on Teen Pregnancy Prevention, September 1999.

• "The Effect of Education Programs on Paratransit Demand of People with Disabilities," with James Fitzgerald and Donna Shaunesey, Transportation Research, May 2000, 4: 261-285.

• "Survival Models of Community Tenure for the Seriously Mentally Ill: A Ten Year Perspective," with Fredrick Holt and Elizabeth Merwin, Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology, June 2001, 2: 117-135.

• "The Length of Psychiatric Hospital Stays and Community Stays," with Fredrick Holt and Elizabeth Merwin, Virginia Economic Journal, November 2001, 6: 1-25.

• "Estimating Disabled People's Demand for Specialized Transportation," with Peter Bearse, Shiferaw Gurmu, and Carol Rapaport, Transportation Research, November 2004, 38(9): 809-831..

• "Human Services Investments for the City of Charlottesville and Albemarle County," with the Charlottesville-Albemarle Commission on Children and Families, July 2006.

• "The Cost-Benefit Analysis of Youth Development Programs," with Nia Harrison, Nikola Juris, and Dori Stern, for the Charlottesville-Albemarle Commission on Children and Families, March 2008.

• "Feasibility of Using Technology to Disseminate Information to Rural Nurses and Improve Patient Outcomes," with Bonnie Jerome-D'Emilia and Elizabeth Merwin, Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, January, 2010, 41(1): 25-32.

• Estimating Local Prevalence of Mental Health Problems, Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology, July 2014. 14: 109-155, with links to media at:

• • "Variation in Mental Illness and Provision of Public Services in Virginia," with William Johnson, Michael LaForest, and Brett Lissenden, Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology, February 2017. 17(1): 1- 30. DOI 10.1007/s10742-016-0167-3.

  • Appendix Table for "Variation in Mental Illness and Provision of Public Services