April 2008
CURRICULUM VITAE
John S. Akin
Address: 116 Breckenridge Place
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Home Phone: (919) 969-6620
Office Phone: (919) 843-9452
Fax:(919) 966-6638
Email: John_Akin@unc.edu
Education:
1967 B.A., Emory University
1971 Ph.D., University of Michigan
Dissertation: "Estimation of Local Fiscal Capacity"
1974 Summer Session in Urban Economics, MIT
Specializations:
Teaching: Health Economics, Public Finance, Applied Microeconomics
Research: Health Economics, Public Finance, Survey Data Collection and Analysis
Scholastic Honors:
Emory University: National Merit Scholar
G.M. Scholar
Stipe Scholar
Phi Beta Kappa, Junior election
Graduated Cum Laude
Univ. of Michigan: Woodrow Wilson Fellow
Teaching and Research Experience
1968-70 Teaching Fellow, University of Michigan
1971 Visiting Lecturer, Eastern Michigan University
1970-71 Research Associate, New York State Commission on the Quality, Cost and Financing of Elementary and Secondary Education (Fleischmann Commission)
1971-73 Visiting Lecturer, School of Social Work, University of Wisconsin
1971-73 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin
1971-73 Research Associate, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin
1975-76 Brookings Economic Policy Fellow and Research Economist, U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Office of the Secretary, Office of Income Security Policy/Research
1976-77 Population Research Fellow, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, academic year
1977 Visiting Scholar, London School of Economics, Department of Economics and Center for the Economics of Education
1979-85 Fellow, Bush Institute for Child and Family Policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1985-87 Senior Economist, Division of Policy and Research, Department of Population, Health and Nutrition, The World Bank
1978-present Fellow, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1973-2002 Full Professor (assistant until 1978, associate until 1983), Department of Economics University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1995-1997 Senior Health Economics Advisor, East Africa, The World Bank, Kampala, Uganda.
1981-2000 Research Associate, Health Services Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2000-present Chair, Department of Economics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2002-present Austin H. Carr Distinguished Professor, Department of Economics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Publications:
Journal Articles
1. Akin,J.S., (1973). ““Efficiency and Equity in Post-Serrano School Finance.” Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics 4(3).
2. Akin, J.S. and W.H. Clune, III (1973). "Economic and Legal Justifications of Fiscal Neutrality." Education and Urban Society 5(2):177-195.
3. Akin, J.S., G. S. Fields and W. B. Neenan (1973). "A Socio-Economic Explanation of Demand for Public Expenditures." Public Finance Quarterly 1(2, 1973):169-189.
“Changes in Access to Health Care in China, 1989–1997,” Health Policy and Planning,
20(2): 80-89.
Monographs and Books
Notes and Book Reviews
Book Review of Reforming School Finance, by Robert B. Reischauer and Robert W. Hartman, for Monthly Labor Review 97(6), June 1974.
"Intrametropolitan Residential Location and the Local Public Sector: Discussion." Proceedings of National Tax Association Tax Institute of America, June, 1976.
Book Review of A Resource Allocation Model for Child Survival, by Howard Barnum et al., in Health Services Research, 1982.
Chapters from Monographs, Books, and Governmental Reports
H.E. Brazer, J.S. Akin, G. Auten, and C. S. Cross (1971). Fiscal Needs and Resources: A Report to the New York State Commission on the Quality, Cost and Financing of Elementary and Secondary Education, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Akin, J.S. (1975). "Fiscal Capacity Estimation." Pp. 150-209 in Fiscal Relations in the American Federal System, Committee Print. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, Intergovernmental Relations Subcommittee of the Governmental Operations Committee of the United States House of Representatives.
Akin, J.S. (1976). "Formulas for Distributing State Aid to Localities: An Analysis of the North Carolina Mental Health Area Match Formula," and "Mental Health Aid Distribution in North Carolina." In Discussion of and Alternatives to the North Carolina Mental Health Area Match Funding Formula, a Report, submitted to Department of Human Resources, State of North Carolina, by the Community Psychiatry Division, Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (July).
Popkin, B.M., J.S. Akin, M. Kaufman and M. MacDonald (1981) "Nutrition Program Options for Maternal and Child Health: A Summary," in Volume IV Background Reports (Washington, DC: USGPO#017‑002‑00143‑7) pp. 87‑125.
Akin, J.S., J. Bass, D.K. Guilkey, P.S. Haines and B.M. Popkin (1982). "Nutritional Effect of School Lunch and School Breakfast." Outlook '83 (Washington, DC: USDA, December, 1982), pp. 527‑38.
Schwartz, J.B., J.S. Akin, D.K. Guilkey, and V. Paqueo. (1989). "The Effect of Contraceptive Prices on the Choice of Contraceptive Method: A Three Country Comparison." In: R. Bulatao and J. Palmore, and S. Ward (eds.) Choosing a Contraceptive: Method Choice in Asia and the United States Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Schwartz, J.B., J.S. Akin, and B.M. Popkin (1992). "Economic Determinants of the Demand for Modern Infant Delivery: The Case of the Philippines." Health Economics Research in Developing Countries, Kenneth Lee and Anne Mills, eds. (Oxford University Press, London).
Popkin, B., J.S. Akin, W. Flieger, and E. Wong (1989). "The Effects of Women's Work on Breast-Feeding in the Philippines, 1973-83," in Women, Work, and Child Welfare in the Third World, J. Leslie and M. Paolissi, eds (Boulder, CO: American Academy of Arts and Sciences Symposium and Westview Press) pp. 85-112.
Akin, J.S., R.E. Bilsborrow, D.K. Guilkey, B.M. Popkin, H.S.M. Ashy and A.F.E. Ismail (1988). "Patterns and Determinants of Breast-Feeding." In Egypt: Demographic Responses to Modernization. Edited by A.M. Hallouda, S. Farid and S.H. Cochrane (Cairo, Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics) 447-82.
Akin, J.S. (1988). "Health Insurance in Developing Countries: Prospects for Risk-Sharing." In Health Care Financing. Manila Philippines, Washington, DC, and Honolulu, HI: Jointly published by Asia Development Bank, Economic Development Institute of World Bank, and East-West Center (November) pp. 191-236.
Akin, J.S. (1988). "A Summary of Financing Health Services in Developing Countries." In International Health in the 1990s: Directions in Research and Development. Arlington, VA: NCIH (October) pp. 38-46.
Akin, J.S., D.K. Guilkey, and B.M. Popkin (1990) "The Production of Infant Health: Input Demand and Health Status Differences Related to Gender of the Infant." In: Research in Population Economics. T. P. Schultz, ed., Vol. 7 (Greenwich, CT: J.A.I. Press, Inc), pp. 267-289.
The World Bank (authors: Prescott, N., J.S. Akin and H. Barnum) (1988) "Indonesia: Issues in Health Planning and Budgeting." The World Bank, Gray cover Sector Report #7291-IND, Country Department V, Asia Region.
The World Bank (authors: Iqbal, F., J.S.Akin, E. Bos, G. Anderson, R. Evans, and J. Lomas) (1988). "Korea: Health Insurance and Health Sector." The World Bank, Yellow Cover Sector Report #7412-KO, Country Department II, Asia Regional Office.
Denton, H., J.S. Akin, D.K. Guilkey, A.M. Wouters, and R. Vogel (1991). "Federal Republic of Nigeria: Health Care Cost, Financing and Utilization." The World Bank, Grey Cover Sector Report #8382-UNI, Western Africa Department (Oct. 18).
Cebu Study Team, presentation by J.S. Akin (1992). "Using Survey Data to Estimate the Determinants of Child Health: the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Study." in The Young and the Elderly: Issues on Morbidity and Mortality. Diana Sawyer and Stephen McCracken, eds. ISBN: 85-7041-082-4, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Strumpf, K., J. Akin and P. Hutchinson, “Decentralization and Government Provision of Public and Private Goods: the Public Health Sector in Uganda,” Ch 19 of Le Financement de la Sante dans les pays d’Afrique et d’Asie a Faible Revenue , Audibert, M., J. Mathonnat and E. de Roodenbeke, eds., from the CERDI International Conference on Health Systems Financing in Low-Income African and Asian Countries, Clermont-Ferrand, France, Dec. 1, 2000
Selected Presentations:
"Local Public Services, Property Values, and Voting Behavior" (with Michael J. Lea), Econometric Society meetings, Dallas, TX, December 29, 1975.
"Measuring Fiscal Capacity: A Utility Function Approach," American Economic Association meetings, Atlantic City, NJ, September 1976.
"The Quality of Education and Cohort Variation in Black-White Earnings Differentials" (with Irv Garfinkel), presented at the Workshop in Labor Economics, London School of Economics, May 27, 1977.
"Economic Research on School Feeding Programs," presented at the University of Wisconsin, Institute for Research on Poverty, October 2, 1979.
"The Demand for Child Health Services in the Philippines" (with D. Guilkey and B. Popkin), American Public Health Association Meetings, Detroit, MI, October 1980.
"Data Availability vs. Data Needs for Analyzing the Determinants and Consequences of Internal Migration: An Evaluation of U.S. Survey Data" (with Richard E. Bilsborrow), presented at the American Statistical Association/ U.S. Census Conference on "Forecasting Regional Population Change and Its Economic Determinants and Consequences," Airlie House, VA, May 28, 1982.
"Methodologies for Determining Duration of Breast-Feeding," presented at the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population conference, Manila, Philippines, December 1981.
"Demand for Contraceptive Methods: Estimation of the Economic Model" (with D. Guilkey and V. Paqueo), Population Association of America, Boston, MA, March 29, 1985.
"Estimation of Income for U.S. Absent Fathers" (with Brad Schwartz), Society for Research in Child Development, Toronto, Canada, April 19, 1985.
"Economics of Health Financing in Developing Countries," Royal Tropical Institute's 75th Anniversary Conference on Rural Development, Amsterdam, September 1985.
"Determinants of Birth Weight and Gestational Age in the Philippines" (with D. Guilkey, B. Popkin, and E. de Leon), Population Association of America, San Francisco, CA, April 1986.
"Child Spacing in the Philippines" (with D. Guilkey, V. Paqueo, B. Popkin, and R. Rindfuss), Population Association of America, San Francisco, CA, April 1986.
"Health Financing Research at the World Bank," Conference of World Bank, WHO, USAID and OECD Health Finance Researchers, Washington, DC, May 9, 1986.
"Health Financing and Risk Sharing," 13th Scientific Technical Seminar of Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Washington, DC, April 17, 1986.
"Political and Socioeconomic Determinants of Health Financing Policy," British Commonwealth Conference of Ministers of Health, The Bahamas, October 13-17, 1986.
"Health Policy Research at the World Bank," presented at Conference on Middle East Regional Development in Health, (co-sponsored by Center for Social Policy in the Middle East, Brandeis University; UCLA School of Public Health and UCLA School of Medicine), Washington, DC, February 5, 1987.
"Financing Health Services: The Indonesia Case," presentation to Ministry of Health, Jakarta, Indonesia, March 19, 1987.
"Financing Health Services in Developing Countries: An Agenda for Reform," Plenary Address to International Congress of World Federation of Public Health Associations, Mexico City, March 25, 1987.
"Population Growth and Environmental Impacts," participation on panel at meeting of National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Population, Washington, DC, April 23, 1987.
"Fees and Insurance in Developing Country Health Finance," seminar at Harvard Institute of International Development, May 14, 1987.
"Health Insurance in the Developing Countries: Prospects for Risk-Sharing," presented at Asia Development Bank Regional Seminar on Health Care Financing, Manila, July 29, 1987.
"Financing Health Services in Developing Countries: An Agenda for Reform," National Council for International Health conference, International Health in the 1990s: Directions in Research and Development, Chapel Hill, NC, October 30, 1987.
"Recession, Structural Adjustment and Innovative Health Financing," presented at the International Conference on Health and Development, Johns Hopkins University, April, 1988
"A Longitudinal Analysis of Child Health Outcomes," Population Association of America meetings, New Orleans, April 21, 1988.
"Estimating the Impact of Socio-Economic and Biomedical Factors on Child Health," presented at workshop on Measurement of Health Transition Concepts, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation, London, England, June 7-9, 1989.
"The Production of Infant Health: Input Demand and Health Status Differences Related to the Gender of the Infant," presented at conference on Family, Gender Differences and Development, Yale University Department of Economics and Economic Growth Center, New Haven, CT, September 4-6, 1989.
"Using Survey Data to Estimate the Determinants of Child Health," presented at the International Seminar on Morbidity, Mortality and Social Policy, sponsored by Center for Regional Development and Planning (Cedeplar), and the Brazilian Ministry of Health, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, December 12-15, 1989.
"Infant Mortality: Underlying and Intermediate Determinants," presented at National Institute for Health (NIH), Workshop on Infant Mortality and Low Birthweight, Rockville, MD, April 5-6, 1990.
"Ethics in Population Research," Carolina Population Center Research Seminar, October 19, 1990.
"Soft Money and Academic Freedom," UNC-Chapel Hill AAUP Seminar, November 5, 1990.
“Health Care Cost, Financing and Utilization,” Nigeria Federal Ministry of Health Workshop, Ota (Ogun State), Nigeria, November 22, 1990.
"Nutrition, Lactation and Birth Spacing in Filipino Women," Annual Meetings of the Population Association of America, Denver, April, 1992 (with B.Popkin, D. Guilkey, L. Adair, R. Udry and W. Flieger).
"The UNC Bicentennial Campaign," presentation to Conference of Chairs of College of Arts and Sciences, Feb. 2, 1993.
"The Role of Provider Characteristics in the Choice of Contraceptive Provider," Population Association of America Meetings, Miami, May 6, 1994 (with Jeffrey J. Rous).
"The Basic Economics of Health Care Finance," Proceedings of the Better Health in Africa Conference, Kampala, Uganda, 6-8 December, 1996.
“Nongovernmental Organizations and Health Provision in Uganda,” The NGO Forum, Kapala, Uganda, August 20, 1996.
“Health Finance Reform and Decentralization,” United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Washington, DC, Nov. 21,2000.
“Decentralization and Government Provision of Public and Private Goods: the Public Health Sector in Uganda,” CERDI International Conference on Health Systems Financing in Low-Income African and Asian Countries, Clermont-Ferrand, France, Dec. 1, 2000.
“Did the Distribution of Health Insurance in China Continue to Grow More Inequitable in th Nineties?” Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China, April 24, 2002 (with Will Dow and Peter Lance).
“Is Cigarette Smoking in Poorer Nations Highly Sensitive to Price? Evidence from China and Russia,” Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China, April 25, 2002 (with Peter Lance, Chung-Ping Loh and Will Dow).
" The Demand for Cigarettes in China and Russia." 2002 IUSSP Regional Population Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, June 11, 2002 (with Peter Lance, Chung-Ping Loh and Will Dow).
Professional Positions:
1977-84 Board of Editors, Review of Regional Studies
1980-81 Board of Editors, Southern Economics Journal
Referee: American Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, National Tax Journal, Journal of Human Resources, Southern Economic Journal, Journal of Economics and Business, Review of Regional Studies, Social Forces, Economic Inquiry, Demography, Social Science and Medicine, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Development Economics, The Economic Journal, Health Economics, Journal of Health Economics.
1977-78, 1987-88, Representative, Chairman's Advisory Committee
and 1991-92 Department of Economics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1979-82 Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Economics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, (3 years)
1986-87 Member, National Science Foundation Review Panel, Geography and Regional Science
May 1987 Coordinating Committee Member, Technical Sessions of World Health Organization's World Health Assembly, Geneva
1987-1989 Graduate Placement Director, Department of Economics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1987-1992 Member, Technical Advisory Committee, Project REACH, USAID
1987-1992 Faculty Advisor to Computer Department, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1988-1992 Member, Technical Advisory Committee, Project Rapid III, USAID
1988-1992 Member, Senior Advisory Panel, WIC Child Impact Project, USDA Food and Nutrition Service
1989-1994 Member, Carolina Population Center Advisory Council
1990-1993 Member, Technical Advisory Committee, Health Finance and Sustainability Project, USAID
1993-1995 Elected Member, Board of Trustees, Southern Economics Association
1995-1997 Member, Southern Economics Journal Oversight Committee
1994-1996 Center Associate, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research
1999-2000 Member, Personnel Committee, UNC Department of Economics
2000-present Chair, UNC Department of Economics
2005-present Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Forum on Public Policy
Professional Memberships:
American Economic Association
National Tax Association
Southern Economic Association
Population Association of America
Who's Who in Finance and Industry, (Marquis)
Who's Who in Science and Engineering, (Marquis)
Who’s Who In America, (Marquis)
Who’s Who in the World, (Marquis)
University Committees (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill):
1979-80 Personnel Department Advisory Board
1979-80 Dean of Arts and Sciences' Committee on Curriculum Reform-Social Sciences Subcommittee
1981-82 Dean of Arts and Sciences' Special Committee on the Industrial Relations Curriculum
1987-1990 Faculty Welfare Committee, Chair 1989-90
1992-1993 Division of Social Sciences, Vice Chair
1992-1993 Agenda Committee, Dean of College of Arts and Sciences
2001-2002 UNC Curriculum Review, Global Citizenship Committee
2001-2002 Provost’s Qatar Program Planning Committee
2001-2002 Qatar Curriculum Planning Committee
2004-2005 Member, Search Committee, Dean of School of Public Health
2004- Member, Financial Exigency Committee
Dissertation Committees:
Chairman: Clarence Adams, Michael Lea (second prize, National Tax Association Dissertation Competition, 1978), Michael Johnson (second prize, National Tax Association Dissertation Competition, 1979), James Ferris, Mary Jane Gorman, James Wyckoff, Brad Schwartz, Charles Griffin, Jack Molyneaux, Andrea Ziegert, Patricia Moser (M.A.), Li-Yuan Lin (M.A.), Tai-Ching Liu, Chin-Shyan Chen, Michael McIntosh, Chan Jin Kim, Jeffrey J. Rous, Jason Dietrich, Amber Jessup, Ke Xu,
Paul Hutchinson, Peter Lance, Chung Ping Loh, Jae Young Lim and Caryn Bredenkamp (Public Policy), Volker Grzimek (co-chair with Helen Tauchen),Phil Gear (M.A.) .
Reader: James Wetzel, Jesse Levy, Tom McCaleb (second prize, National Tax Association Dissertation Competition, 1976), Homer Erekson, Josh Wiener, Liza Fox, William McGuire, Gary Whalen, Dan Fuller, Ralph Lankford, Rhudy Jackson (Health Policy and Administration), Mary Borg, Pamela Haines (Nutrition), Mary Kokosky, Carole Gilbert, Tom Husted, John Cromartie, Noreen Qualls (Health Policy and Administration), Mike Foster, Jill Tiefenthaler (Duke-Economics), David Hotchkiss, Darrick Hamilton, Kristin Sandusky, Alex Cowell, Antonio Trujillo (Health Policy and Administration), Michael Quinn, Susan Chen, Tamah Morant, Betty Tao and Yun Zhang, David Jones, Joseph Cook (Public Policy), Raymond Farkouh.
Contracts and Grants Received:
"Economic Returns to Educational Quality" (with I. Garfinkel). Funding Source: National Institute of Education, 1972-73, $35,000.
"Intergenerational Generation on Poverty. Funding Source: Institute for Research on Poverty, 1973-74, $16,000.
"National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs" (with D. Guilkey and B. Popkin). Funding Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1980-83, $648,700.
"Patterns and Determinants of Breastfeeding in the Near East" (with D. Guilkey and B. Popkin). Funding Source: USAID, 1981-83, $111,000.
"Demand for Health Services" (with D. Guilkey and B. Popkin). Funding Source: USAID, 1981-82, $53,867.
Technical Assistance Project: Training Course on Advanced Methodologies and Computer Software in Manila, Philippines (with J. Bass and D. Guilkey). Funding Source: USAID, 1982, $44,000.
"Analysis of Nutrition of the Elderly" (with D. Guilkey and B. Popkin). Funding Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1982-84, $315,000.
"The Determinants of Migration: A Methodological Investigation" (with R. Bilsborrow). Funding Source: NIH, 1983-85, $140,000.
"Rural Development and Child Spacing" (with R. Rindfuss, B. Popkin, and D. Guilkey). Funding Source: Population Council, 1984-85, $165,178.
"Use of Prenatal Medical Services and Effects on Pregnancy Outcomes" (with B. Popkin, D. Guilkey, and B. Schwartz). Funding Source: USAID, 1985-86, $89,000.
"Epidemiology of Infant Feeding Dynamics" (with B. Popkin and D. Guilkey). Funding Source: NIH, 1986-88, $225,041; and 1987-90, $238,050.
"Determinants of Infant Mortality: Underlying and Intermediate" (with B. Popkin, D. Guilkey, and J. Briscoe). Funding Source: NIH, 1986-89, $375,000; and 1989-92, $495,000.
"Epidemiology of Infant Feeding Dynamics: Determinants" (with B. Popkin and D. Guilkey). Funding Source: NIH, 1987-90, $238,050.
"Health Care and Family Planning Usage and Demand in Nigeria." Funding Source: The World Bank, 1988-89, $42,500.
"Women's Nutrition, Infant Feeding and Birthspacing" (with B. Popkin, D. Guilkey, W. Flieger, and J. R. Udry). Funding Source: NIH, 1989-92, $383,473.
"The Effects of the Economic and Social Reform in China on Health, Fertility, and Nutrition" (with B. Popkin, G. Henderson, C. Chunming, C. Xiaoshu, and C. Ying). Funding Source: The Hewlet Foundation, 1989-1992, $95,000.
"Modeling the Health Transition" (with G. Henderson and B.Popkin). Funding Source: National Science Foundation, 1990-1992, $140,933.
"Health and Reproductive Dynamics and Social Change" (Program Project co-PI; PI of 1 project (see Community and Individual Determinants of Health: The Case of China, below]; co-investigator of 2 other funded projects of the Program Project). Funding Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH), 1991-1996, $3,054,093.
"Community and Individual Determinants of Health: The Case of China" (with G. Henderson and Institute of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, Government of China). Funding Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH), July 1993-June 1995, $180,000.
"Role of the Private Sector in Family Planning," (with J.Knowles and L. Lacey), Funding Source: USAID, as part of Evaluation Project, Jan. 1, 1992-Dec. 31, 1994, $411,029
"Evaluation of Government Decentralization in the Health Sector" (with K. Strumpf), Funding Source: USAID, as part of Measure (Evaluation) Project, Jan. 1, 1999-August 31, 2001, $149,000
“Economic Transition: The Effects on Health Care in China” (with Will Dow), Funding Source, National Institutes of Health (NIH), March 20, 2001-February 28, 2005, $808,453.