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Personal

Date of Birth: March 27, 1968
Family: Married 6/20/1992 to Stacy L. Nechyba; three children - Eleanor Li Nechyba (born 12/07/2000), Jennifer Li Nechyba (born 4/08/2001), Katherine Wu Nechyba (born 9/22/2003).
Citizenship: Austrian, US Permanent Resident

Education

Ph.D.	University of Rochester	1994
B.A.	University of Florida	1989

Professional Experience / Employment History

Duke University

Professor, Department of Economics (and Public Policy Studies), 2003-Present

Associate Professor, Department of Economics (and Public Policy Studies), 1999-2002

Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace

National Fellow, Stanford University, September 1998 to August 1999

Stanford University

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, July 1, 1994 to April 30, 2000

Visiting Positions

Visitor, University of Munich, November 2000

Visiting Professor, Fundacao Getulio Vargas, June 1998-September 1998

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

2007 Duke University Scholar/Teacher of the Year, September, 2007
J. Fish Smith and Lillian F. Smith Lecture, Brigham Young University, Spring 2006
Congress for the New Urbanism Keynote Lecture, February, 2006
Who's Who in the World, Marquis Who's Who LLC, 2005-
Keynote Speaker, 2004 CESifo Public Sector Conference, University of Munich, "School Finance, School Choice and Communities", May 7-9, 2004
Kenneth G. Elzinga Distinguished Teaching Award, Southern Economic Association, 2004
Bass Society of Fellows, Duke University, 2002-Present
Fuchsberg-Levine Family Chair, Trinity College of Art and Sciences, July 1, 2002-June 30, 2007
National Fellowship, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University, 1998-99
Sigrid Banks Fellowship, Dean of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University, 1998-99
Keynote Speaker, New Zealand Association of Economists Conference, "The Economics of Education: Vouchers and Peer Group Effects", September 2-4, 1998
Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching, Stanford University, 1995-1996
Voted among "Top Ten Professors at Stanford", Stanford Review, 1995
Researcher (NBER Family Members), National Bureau of Economic Research
First Place, Outstanding Dissertation Award, Association of Public Policy and Management, 1994
Second Place, 24th Annual Competition for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Government Finance and Taxation, National Tax Association, 1994
President's (Edward Peck Curtis) Award of Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, University of Rochester, 1993-1994
Conibear Prize for Best Third Year Paper, University of Rochester, 1992

Major Grant Support

NSF (SBR-0339000), "An Empirical Investigation of Peer Effects and of Household Responses to School Policy Changes," 1/1/2004-12/31/2008 (Nechyba, PI; Vigdor, CoPI).
Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, "Urban Sprawl," 2002-2003 (Nechyba, PI; Walsh, CoPI).
Spencer Foundation, "The Role of Peers, Parental Choices, and Neighborhoods," 1/1/2000-12/31/2003 (Nechyba, PI; Vigdor, Hill, CoPI).
NSF (SBR-9905706), "Efficient and Equitable Delivery of Education in a District Based Public School System," 6/1/1999-9/1/2001 (Nechyba, PI)
New Zealand Ministry of Education, "The Impact of Family and Community Resources on Educational Outcomes," 1999 (Nechyba, PI; Older-Aguilar,McEwan, CoPI).
NSF (SBR-9809269),"Vouchers, Migration and School Quality," 6/1/1998-5/31/1999 (Nechyba, PI).
Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, "Land Taxes as State Tax Bases," 1998-1999, (Nechyba, PI).
Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, "The Revenue Potential for Land Value Taxation," 1997-1998 (Nechyba, PI).
Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), "Education and Welfare Policy," 1994-1996 (Nechyba, PI).

Lectures

Invited Lectures:

J. Fish Smith and Lillian F. Smith Lecture, Brigham Young University, Spring 2006

Keynote Lecture, Congress for a New Urbanism, February 2006

Various University Seminar Presentations, 2006

Conferences:

Conference Presentations, no dates given

Doctoral Theses Directed

Kata Mihaly, (2008)

Patrick Dudley, (2008)

Alvin Murphy, (2008)

Anil Nathan, (2008)

Josh Kinsler, (2007)

Renzo Massari, (2006)

Jane Cooley, (2006)

Cathleen McHugh, (2005)

Saunders Shauna, (2005)

Bentley Coffey, (2004)

Thomas Anderson, (2002)

Kivanc Kirgiz, (2002)

Randall Walsh, (2002)

Gregory Besharov, (2000)

Patrick McEwan, (2000)

Koshy Mathai, (1999)

Patrick Bayer, (1999)

Robert McMillan, (1999)

Jonathan Rork, (1999)

David Mancuso, (1998)

Bret Dickey, (1998)

Jessie David, (1998)

Thomas DeLeire, (1997)

Geeta Singh, (1997)

Chris Timmins, (1997)

Jiahua Che, (1996)

Daniel Garrett, (1996)

William Vogt, (1996)

Michael Smart, (1995)

Uday Rajan, (1995)

Susan Snyder, (1995)

Professional Affiliations

Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA, 1999-Present
Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA, 1995-1999
Research Fellow, Institute for Economic Research (CESifo), University of Munich, Germany, 2000-Present

Publications (listed separately)

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