Student Supervision
SUPERVISION OF STUDENT RESEARCH:
Principal advisor of over sixty doctoral dissertations, in addition to being a member of a number of numerous doctoral and M.A. committees.
Member of the Board of External Examiners to review Ph.D. dissertations: Carleton University- Canada, Australian National University; University of Calcutta; Rutgers University, Jadavpore University; Dalhousie University, Canada; University of Oulu, Finland; Singapore National University; Vidyasagar University, India, SUNY Binghamton, etc.
Three supervised undergraduate research papers have been awarded President’s Distinguished Undergraduate Research Awards, 1983, 1998, and 2003. Also, during summer 2003 I mentored and supervised two McNair scholars for undergraduate research and presentations.
LIST OF PH.D. DISSERTATIONS WITH K. LAHIRI AS PRINCIPAL ADVISOR:
1) Jung Soo Lee, "Econometrics with Unobservable Variables: Four Essays in Monetary Economics", 1977.
2) Daniel Egy, "Non-Spherical Disturbance and Functional Form Problems in Econometric Models", 1978.
3) Young Lee, "Studies on the Econometric Implication of the Rational Expectations Hypothesis”, 1980.
4) C. C. Kinkley, "Econometric Studies on Three Commodity Markets: Resources Recovery, Disequilibrium Dynamics in the Aluminum Industry and Rational/Adaptive Expectations in the Supply of Wastepaper”, 1981. Recipient of Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award.
5) Said Atri, "A Simultaneous Equation Model for the Demand for Hospital Care with Special Reference to Quality", 1983.
6) Sung Whan Ju, "An Econometric Model of Congressman's Voting Behavior with Sample Selectivity", 1984.
7) Myung Hun Kang, "A Study in Macroeconomic Causality: Vector Auto-regressive Approach", 1984.
8) Mark Zaporowski, "Inflation, Expectations and the Real Interest Rate: An Econometric Analysis", 1985. Recipient of Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award.
9) Christie Teigland, "An Econometric Analysis of ASA-NBER Data on Expectations”, 1986. Recipient of Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award.
10) Richard Numrich, "Dynamics of Urban Spatial Structure-Functional Form Analysis with Truncated Distribution", 1986. Recipient of Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award.
11) Taeck S. Chun, "Rationality in the Long-run: Some Empirical Tests Using Survey Data”, 1987.
12) Dong S. Park, "Tests for Rationality and Asymmetric Loss Functions”, 1988.
13) Johnson Tseng, "A Macroeconometric Model for Developing Economies with Error Components and Forward-Looking Expectations”, 1989.
14) Jin Sakong, "A Panel Data Analysis of the Malpractice Insurance Crisis and Hospital Cost Inflation", 1989.
15) Nita Thacker, "Risk Premia, Conditional Heteroskedasticity and Efficiency in the Forward Exchange Markets", 1990.
16) Yoon Chul Kim, "Exchange Rate Volatility, Uncertainty and the Stock Market", 1990. Recipient of Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award.
17) Maria Pangilinan, "Production and Cost Inefficiency and Flexible Cost Functions: The Case of New York State Hospitals, 1981-1987," 1992.
18) Mei Hsiu Lin, "A Study on the Importance of Liquidity Constraints in the Life-Cycle Consumption Theory Using Household Survey Data", 1992. Recipient of Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award.
19) Susmita Dasgupta, "Essays on the Use of Business-Survey and Expectations Data for Econometric Predictions", 1992. Recipient of Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award.
20) Qiang Xu, "On the Estimation of Persistence in the Context of General ARFIMA Processes”, 1992.
21) Nlandu Mamingi, "Aggregation and Tests for Unit Roots and Co-integration," 1992.
22) Sanjay Shah, "Analysis of Macroeconomic Shocks and Their Volatility Using Panel Data on Survey Forecasts: 1969-1991”, 1993.
23) Jiazhuo Wang, "On the Use of Markov Regime-Switching Model in Forecasting Business Cycles", 1993.
24) Anthony Davies, "A New Framework for Analyzing Multi-Dimensional Panel Data of Survey Forecasts", 1994. Recipient of Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award.
25) Dale King, "Socio-economic Factors and the Odds of a Cesarean Delivery: An Econometric Investigation", 1995. Recipient of Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award.
26) Jianting Hu, "An Econometric Analysis of the Social Security Administration's Disability Determination Process: Evidence from the Matched 1990 SIPP Data", 1996.
27) Manimoy Paul, "Relative Performance of Pre-test Estimators in the Presence of Misspecification and Unit Roots", 1997.
28) James Jozefiwicz, "Estimating the Patent R&D Relationship with Count Panel Data", 1999.
29) Rita Ganguly, "An Empirical Analysis of Exchange Rates in Target Zones", 1999.
30) Jae G. Song, "An Econometric Study of the Effects of Smoking on Health and Longevity: The Role of Individual Risk Beliefs", 1999.
31) Jian Gao, "Monte Carlo Simulation Inference in Discrete Choice Models with an Application to the Co-payment Restructuring for Veterans' Health Care", 1999. Recipient of Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award.
32) Chuanming Gao, "Estimation of Limited Information Simultaneous Models with Weak Instruments", 2000. Recipient of Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award.
33) Detelina Ivanova, "Uncertainty, Sentiment, and Expectations: Essays in Econometric Forecasting", 2000.
34) Michael Collins, “An Econometric Analysis of the Labor Supply of Disabled and Aged Individuals: Evidence from the New Beneficiary Data System”, 2001.
35) Guibo Xing, “An Econometric Analysis of Veterans’ Health Care Utilization”, 2002.
36) Wenxiong Yao, “Essays on Transportation and Business Cycles”, 2004. Recipient of Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award.
37) Jabonn Kim, “Essays on Identification and Inference in Simultaneous Equations Models with Weak Instruments”, 2004.
38) Nandini Chatterjee, “Borrowing Constraints: Analysis Based on Financial Survey of US Households”, 2004.
39) Gultekin Isiklar, “Essays on Macroeconomic Forecasting”, 2005. Recipient of Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award.
40) Fushang Liu, “Asymmetric loss and Uncertainty in Economic Prediction”, 2007.
41) Zulkarnain Pulungan, “Between- and Within-Group Health Disparities: Determinants Across Race/Ethnicity and Regions in the U.S.”, 2008.
42) Hua Lin, “VA Medical Care and Health Disparity: An Econometric Study Based on National Survey of Veterans, 2008.
43) Xuguang Sheng, “Uncertainty and Disagreement in Economic Forecasting”, 2009. Recipient of Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award.
44) Paul Norosky, "Self Assessed Health, Anchoring Vignettes, and Unobserved Heterogeneity in the Health and Retirement Study". 2011. Recipient of Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award.
45) Heesoo Joo, “Health Disparities among the US Elderly”, 2012. Recipient of Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award.
46) Jingya Song, “The Dynamics of Health Disparities Among American Children: Socioeconomic Status, Family Environment and Intergenerational Transmission”, 2012.
47) Min Chen, “Social Interactions and Smoking”, 2013.
48) Xiaomei Li, “Local Power of Panel Unit Root tests: Impact of Initial Values in finite samples”. 2014.
49) Dohyung Kim, “Early Health and Human Capital Accumulation: An Econometric Analysis using the PSID-CDS, 1997-2007”. 2014.
50) Yongchen Zhao, “Essays on Forecasting with Survey Data and Many predictors”. 2014. Recipient of Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award.
51) Souvik Banerjee, “Psychiatric Disorders and their Impact on Labor Market Outcomes: A Latent Variable Approach Using Multiple Clinical Indicators”, 2014.
52) Liu Yang, “Forecasting Binary Outcomes: Estimation, Evaluation and Combination”, 2014. Recipient of Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award.
53) Rui Cheng, Essays on Income Inequality, Minority Health and Healthcare Spending, 2015.
54) Cong Yu, “Odds of Cesarean Section, Childbirth Outcomes and Public Policy: An Empirical Study Using the Matched New York State Data”, 2016.
55). Xian Li, “Smoking and Health: Panel Data Analysis based on HRS”, December 2016.
56) Wahida Ferdousi, “Inequality in access to dental and vision care: Examining the role of income and insurance”. June 2017.
57) Wu Wei Wang, “Asymmetric loss, informatics and forecast uncertainty”, May 2018.
58) Yuan Fang, “Health Shocks, Labor Market Activities, and End-of-Life Medical Expenses”, May 2019.
59) Soumyadeb Chatterjee, “Value-Based Reimbursements in the US Health Care Market: Direct and Spillover Effects of Medicare Readmissions Program”. May 2020. Recipient of Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award.
60) Angela VanDerwerken, “The Role of Earnings, Pharmaceutical Innovation, and and Unemployment on SSDI: Analysis Using Merged SIPP/Administrative Data”. May 2020.
61) Cheng Yang, “Forecasting State Tax Revenues, Recessions and Their Uncertainty with Mixed-Frequency and Data”. July 2020.
62) Jihye Kim, “Three Essays on Health Economics”, August 2020.
63) Jinman Pang, “A Postmortem Analysis of COVID-19 Ensemble Forecasts: Forward or Sticky Information?” Summer 2023.