About the Authors
David Greenberg is a professor of economics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). He is a labor economist who received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1966. Before coming to UMBC in 1982, he worked for the RAND Corporation, SRI International, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He has spent several recent years working in England and Hungary. Much of his research focuses on the evaluation of government programs that are targeted at the low-income population, especially public assistance, employment, and training programs. He is the coauthor of a widely used textbook on cost-benefit analysis and the Digest of Social Experiments, a reference book published by the Urban Institute Press that provides summary information on all previous and ongoing social experiments. In addition, he is the coauthor of a recent article in the Journal of Economic Perspectives that examines trends in social experiments over the past three decades and an extensive review of evaluations of government-funded training programs for the disadvantaged, which was published in the Journal of Economic Literature.
Donna Linksz is currently the dean of mathematics, science, and engineering at the Community College of Baltimore County. She received her Ph.D. in policy sciences from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, in 1997. Previously, she was a professor of mathematics with a focus on statistics and evaluation research. Her current research interests include learning outcomes assessment at the course and program levels. Her previous publications include institutional research articles and two college mathematics textbooks.
Marvin Mandell is director and professor in the policy sciences graduate program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1979. His research and teaching center around program evaluation, the application of operations research to public policy and management, and the role of various forms of policy research in the policy process. His work has also appeared in such journals as the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Management Science, Location Science, the Evaluation Review, and Socio-Economic Planning Sciences. He is the coeditor of Government and Policy, an associate editor of Management Science, and a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Technology, Policy and Management.
