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Professional Activities:
Staff Economist, Center for Popular Economics, 1999-2011
Board member, Center for Environmental Policy and Law, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, 2005-09
Grants:
- 2011 "Collaborative Research on the Correlates and Consequences of Risks from Airborne Toxics: Dynamic Spatial Analysis." National Science Foundation (Two-year project, total budget $338,548; UMass budget $90,370). Principal Investigator Paul Mohai, University of Michigan; Ash is a Co-PI.
- 2010 "Economic Impact of Spending on Public Higher Education in Massachusetts." Ash was Principal Investigator on research grant from the Massachusetts Society of Professors. $15,000.
- 2010 "An assessment methodology for differential impact on environmental justice populations of releases of industrial toxics to water in Massachusetts." Ash was Principal Investigator on U.S. Geological Survey's Water Resources Annual Institute Program for Fiscal Year 2010. $5,000.
- 2010 "Toxic Air Pollution, Infant Health, and Disparities by Race and Class" Ash was Principal Investigator on a TeraGrid Allocation.
- 2007 "Hospital Unions, Staffing, Wages, and Patient Safety," Principal Investigator Joanne Spetz, UCSF, National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01. Ash was a sub-contractor with a three-year budget of $144,256.
- 2002 "Health Insurance Inequality for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual People." (with M.V. Lee Badgett) Ash M was Principal Investigator for the Wayne F. Placek Award, American Psychological Foundation, $35,700.
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Presentations:
2015 "Critical Replication as a Method of Learning and Improving Economic Science." Invited talk, Department of Economics, Universita degli studi Roma Tre (Italy) 19 May.
2015 Ash M, Basu D, Dube A (alphabetical order). "New Research on Public Debt and Growth, A Critical Replication of Several Papers from 2010{2012." Invited talk, Department of Economics, Universita degli studi Roma Tre (Italy) 18 May.
2015 Ash M, Basu D, Dube A (alphabetical order). "Public Debt and Growth: Assessing Key Findings on Causality and Thresholds." INFER Conference, University of Coimbra (Portugal) 18 April.
2014 Critical Replication for Learning and Research, Department of Mathematical Sciences, DePaul University, Chicago, IL. 25 April.
2014 Critical Replication for Learning and Research, Quantitative Methods Core Methods Seminar, University of Massachusetts Medical School Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Worcester, MA. 1 April.
2014 Transformational Voices: An Afternoon with Leading Global Thinkers, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver, Denver, CO. 6 March.
Selected Publications:
2014 Zwickl K, Ash M, Boyce J. "Regional variation in environmental inequality: Industrial air toxics exposure in U.S. cities." Ecological Economics 107: 494-509.
2014 Herndon T, Ash M, Pollin R. "Does High Public Debt Consistently Stifle Economic Growth? A Critique of Reinhart and Rogoff." Cambridge Journal of Economics 38(2): 257-279. First published online December 24, 2013.
2013 Ash M, Boyce JK, Chang G, Scharber H (alphabetical order). "Is Environmental Justice Good for White Folks?" Social Science Quarterly 94(3): 616{636. Early view published 22 June.
2011 Seago JA, Spetz J, Ash M, Herrera C, Keane D. "Hospital RN job satisfaction and nurse unions." Journal of Nursing Administration, Mar 41(3):109-14.
2011 Spetz J, Ash M, Konstantinidis C, Herrera C. "The effect of unions on the distribution of wages of hospital-employed registered nurses in the United States." Journal of Clinical Nursing Jan;20(1-2):60-7.
2010 Ash M, Boyce J (alphabetical order). "Measuring Corporate Environmental Justice Performance." Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management 238
2009 Ash JM, Ash M, Ash P (alphabetical order). "Constructing a quadrilateral inside another one." Mathematical Gazette, 93: 52-62.
2009 Ash M, Robinson D. "Inequality, race, and mortality in U.S. cities: A political and econometric review of Deaton and Lubotsky" Social Science and Medicine 68(11): 1909-1913.
2009 Ash M, Arons S. "Economic Parameters of End-of-Life Care: Some policy implications in an era of health care reform" Western New England Law Review 31(2):305{332.
2008 Ferjentsik V, Ash M. "An EU sky trust: Can a lower-income country afford climate policy" Environmental Liability 16(5): 183-187.
2008 Gupta S, Ash M. "Whose Money, Whose Time? A Nonparametric Approach to Modeling Time Spent on Housework in the United States.'' Feminist Economics 14(1).
2006. Ash M, Badgett MVL (alphabetical order). "Separate and Unequal: The Effect of Unequal Access to Employment-Based Health Insurance on Same-Sex and Different-Sex Couples.'' Contemporary Economic Policy 24(4).
2006. Ash M, Brandt S (alphabetical order). "Disparities in Asthma Hospitalization in Massachusetts,'' American Journal of Public Health 96(2).
