Honors and Awards

Helen Levy was named the 2002-2003 Levin Faculty Fellow. As a Levin Fellow, Levy is pursuing several research projects, including health insurance and family size (also supported by the Center for Human Potential and Public Policy); the relationship between housing tenure and health insurance status; how the uninsured are at risk for increased medical costs; and the impact of welfare reform on the food expenditures of poor families (also supported by CHPPP).

Robert Michael is leading the Steans Initiative Civic Internships program, now in its fourth year. Michael has also been appointed Director of the Population Research Center at the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago.

Sven Feldmann was awarded a 2002–2003 national fellowship from the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a 2002–2003 research fellowship from the Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences at Harvard University.

Thomas DeLeire is currently serving as one of the senior economists with President Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers. As part of the Executive Office of the President, the council provides guidance and makes recommendations on economic policy issues. DeLeire’s areas of responsibility include labor, health,
welfare, and education.

Willard Manning and John Mullahy won the 2002 Arrow Award for their article “Estimating Log Models: To Transform or Not to Transform?” published in the Journal of Health Economics in 2001. The award, sponsored by the International Health Economics Association, is given for the best health economics article
of the past year

C. Cybele Raver was named Director of the Center on Human Potential and Public Policy (CHPPP). Raver was also named Teacher of the Year in 2002 by Harris School students, as was Ameritech Professor of Public Policy Don Coursey.

Ariel Kalil received the “Award for Early Research Contributions” from the Society for Research in Child Development. The award is based on excellence in research, publications, and scholarly activity. She is also the recipient, in 2002, of a William T. Grant Faculty Scholars Award, and the National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship.

David Meltzer received the Eugene Garfield award for outstanding paper for his 2001 article, “Addressing Uncertainty in Medical Cost-Effectiveness Analysis,” published in the Journal of Health Economics.