Furman Fellows
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Sakib bin Salam M.S student in Applied Economics, Oregon State University B.A in Economics, Reed College, 2010. Joyce Furman Fellow 2010 William and Joyce Furman Fellow Fall 2011-Winter 2012 Sakib grew up in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Prior to starting the graduate program at OSU Sakib was a research assistant at the Oregon Center for Public Policy where he worked tracking the effectiveness of the federal stimulus package following the recession. Sakib’s Master’s thesis research focuses on the U.S. airlines industry and the analysis of demand, cost, fare and competition in airline markets. In 2011 he was a summer intern at the Eno Center for Transportation Policy in Washington, D.C where he conducted a cost-benefit analysis of NextGen, a satellite-based system that will transform air traffic control and the air transport system in the US. In August 2011 Sakib participated in a national competition and was selected as a recipient of an Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) award as part of the Graduate Research Award Program on Public-Sector Aviation Issues for the academic year 2011-2012. This program is sponsored by the Federal Aviation Administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation and is administered by the Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) of the Transportation Research Board/National Academies. Upon completion of his Masters degree, Sakib hopes to continue work in the area of transportation policy. |
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Nathan Eckstein MS in Applied Economics, Oregon State University, 2011 Joyce Furman Fellow 2010-2011 Thesis: The Relationship Between Vehicle Miles Traveled and Economic Activity. Nathan Eckstein received his B.S. degree in Economics from University of Oregon in 2009 and an M.S. degree in Applied Economics from Oregon State University in 2011. Nathan was a graduate research assistant on an ODOT project entitled “Multimodal Investment Criteria and Freight’s Economic Importance” in addition to an OTREC sponsored project from which his thesis was derived. Nathan has presented thesis findings at the 2010 Annual Transportation Research Forum, and been a co-author on presentations made at the meetings of the Transportation Research Forum, the Transportation Research Board and the Northwest Transportation Conference. His interests in personal mobility and VMT stem from a combined fascination in transportation economics and environmental economics. Nathan now works in Salem, OR as a Research Analyst for Oregon Health Authority. |
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Rachel Knutson B.S University of Puget Sound, 2006 M.S. in Economics, 2009 William & Joyce Furman Fellow, Winter 2009 Thesis: Highway Finance and the Impacts on Road Quality Rachel Knutson completed her B.S. in Economics at the University of Puget Sound and a M.S. in Economics from Oregon State University. She is now employed in the Strategic Assessment Office at the Washington State Department of Transportation where she has been working on working on Recovery Act reporting and accountability and the Gray Notebook (GNB)- WSDOT's quarterly performance report. She is also a co-author of the Washington State DOT’s 2011 Congestion Report. Together, the GNB and the Congestion Report represent a solid decade of comprehensive accountability reporting, and underscore our continued commitment to the state’s transportation policy goals. |
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Yan Du (Angela) MS in Economics, Oregon State University, 2007 Ph.D. in Economics, Oregon State University, 2008 Marketing Analyst for FedEx Services, Memphis, TN, 2008 William & Joyce Furman Fellow 2007-2008 Joyce Furman Fellow 2006-2007 Dissertation: Assessing the Economic Impact of Domestic Airline Codesharing: A Case Study of the ATA and Southwest Airlines Agreement. Yan Du is from Hefei, Anhui, PR China. She received her B.A. degree in Economics from Xiamen University in 2001 and a M.S. degree in Economics from Oregon State University in 2007. Her Ph.D. dissertation consists of two papers that examine various aspects of codesharing in the US airline industry. Yan Du recently was the recipient of a Scholarship from the World Conference on Transportation Research (WCTR) to attend and present her paper on the ATA/ Southwest airline codeshare agreement at the 2007 WCTR meetings in Berkeley, California. Her research interests include transportation economics, airline alliances in particular, network economics, the analysis of productivity and efficiency and industrial organization and antitrust. Publications: McMullen, B. Starr and Yan Du “Determinants of Successful Code-Sharaing: A Case Study of Continental and America West Airlines Alliances-A Discrete Longitudinal Analysis” in Advances in Airline Economics, Vol. 3, 2012:157-175. Du, Yan, B. Starr McMullen, and Joe. R. Kerkvliet “The economic impact of the ATA/Southwest Airlines code-share agreement” Research in Transportation Economics, 24, 2008: 51-60 |
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Scott Russell M.S. in Economics, 2006 Joyce Furman Fellowship, 2005-2006 Paper title: Tacit Collusion: Evidence of Price Leadership and Sticky Downward Pricing in Retail Gasoline Markets Scott Russell received a B.S. in Economics from Oregon State University in 2004 and then continued on to complete his Masters in Economics in 2006. His interest in transportation economics led him into research in gasoline pricing and then pipelines and energy. He is employed in Portland as a Business/Financial Analyst for TransCanada, one of the largest North American natural gas pipeline companies. Publications: Russell, Scott, B. Starr McMullen, Santosh Mishra, and Andrew Stivers “Pricing in Retail Gasoline Markets,” Journal of the Transportation Research Forum,49(2), Summer 2010: 65-76 |
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Jake Spratt M.S. in Economics, 2007 Joyce Furman Fellowship, Winter 2007 Thesis: Parking Policy with Heterogeneous Agents Jake Spratt has a B.S. degree from Washington State University (WSU) and completed his M.S. in Economics at Oregon State University (OSU) in Summer 2007. His interest in optimal pricing of parking evolved from his personal observations of student parking fee structures at WSU and OSU and developed into a thesis topic while he was a student in the Transportation Economics course. The Joyce Furman Fellowship provided support for his thesis research. Jake is now a first year law student at the University of Denver and he hopes to combine his knowledge of economics and law to pursue a career in business/corporate law. |
 Other Joyce Furman Fellows: Marielle Vena, MS student in Applied Economics and then Public Policy; to work with ODOT on Greenstep project; Summer 2007. Road Pricing and Gasoline Taxes: A Policy Paradox Assessment Chenhua Wang, Ph.D. student in AREC; examined data sources and research on telecommuting as an alternative to commuting, Spring 2007. Haixia Lin, completed Ph.D. in AREC (Agricultural and Resource Economics). Furman Paper: “ Effects of Transportation Accessibility on Poverty Reduction” , Winter 2006. Other William and Joyce Furman Fellows: Ryan Siegel, Ph.D. student in Applied Economics, Wrote literature review for “Multimodal Freight Investment Criteria.”Fall 2010. |