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GCI Working Paper Series - Author Last Name: "W"
Warnecke, Richard
Improving Health Care
Efficiency: Strategic Approaches to Managing Care for Asthma, Sickle
Cell Disease and Tuberculosis -- Conference Proceedings
Elizabeth S. Hauser, Richard B. Warnecke, Susan Kerby, and Charles
Bright
April 1996
GCP-96-5
This report details the proceedings of a conference of local policy
makers, researchers, health care providers, and others to discuss the
effective and efficient health care management of sickle cell disease
(SCD), asthma and tuberculosis. The report is a summary of the panel
presentations, and the recommendations for policy development.
Welch, Eric
Joint Environmental and Cost Efficiency Analysis of the Electricity Production Industry: Applying the Materials Balance Condition
Eric Welch and Darold T. Barnum
February 2009
GCP-09-03
The electricity generation industry produces a substantial proportion of the greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change in the United States and globally. Yet, little research has been done to examine what the economic and environmental tradeoffs currently are for electric power plants. This paper demonstrates a new method, developed by Coelli, Lauwers, and Van Huylenbroeck [4,1,3], to calculate the optimal allocation of carbon containing fuel inputs and consideration of economic costs of electricity production. Using EIA 906 and FERC 423 data, the paper estimates cost/carbon tradeoffs facing two sets of plants: those that use coal and gas inputs and those that use coal, gas and oil inputs. Findings show that for the three input case, there is a 78.9% percent increase in cost for moving from the cost efficient point to the carbon efficient point, while there is a 38% increase in carbon to move from the carbon efficient point to the cost efficient point. These findings, while based only on a subset of electric power plants, indicates that the policy gap between efficient cost and environmental production is wide and will require substantial government and market incentives, as well as restructuring of the industry before it can be narrowed. The paper also identifies some plants that are super inefficient: they can improve both cost and carbon efficiency by changing their mixture of carbon inputs.
Wenzel, Stacey
Gender Issues in the Construction
of Scientific Knowledge:
Inquiry into a 6th Grade Urban Classroom
Maria Varelas, Barbara Luster, Stacy Wenzel, and Jane Liao
July 1997
GCP-97-5
This paper addresses preliminary data and analyses linking gender issues
with the teaching and learning of science. This study explores how elementary
students participate in lessons, develop meaning around topics, and
how teachers and students interact with each other.
Wiewel, Wim
Metropolitan Decentralization in Chicago: Summary Report
Chicago Case Study Working Group
For more information, contact Wim Wiewel
July 2001
The report discusses the realities of sprawl in the Chicago area and
the impacts it has on social welfare. The authors also examine the policies
that have led to sprawl and give recommendations for slowing sprawl
in the Chicago region.
* This paper is in draft form. Some of the figures are missing. Please
check back soon for updates.
The Proposed New Interstate 69
Highway: Is It a Cost-Effective Rural Economic
Development Tool for
Southwest Indiana?
Wim Wiewel, Joseph J. Persky, and Mark Edward Sendzik
August 1999
GCP-99-3
This study examines the cost-effectiveness of the Evansville-to-Bloomington portion of the
proposed new Interstate 69 highway in Southwest Indiana in fulfilling its stated purpose of
stimulating economic development in four rural Indiana counties. We compare the proposed
highway with other rural economic development programs and strategies such as rural enterprise
zones, federal economic development programs, business incubators, and local industrial
development groups. In addition, we use a variety of state cost and job creation estimates, cost
calculations, and comparison figures. Although this study does not take a position on whether
the proposed new highway should be built, we conclude that if the purpose of the I-69 project is
economic development in these rural counties, far more cost-efficient alternatives almost
certainly exist.
Long Term Collaborations: Building
Relationships and Achieving Results
in the UIC Neighborhoods Initiative
Wim Wiewel and Ismael Guerrero
January 1998
GCP-98-1
This article analyzes the UIC Neighborhoods Initiative as a successful
cross-sector collaboration of a university with other organizations
that jointly addresses societal problems. The analysis qualitatively
identifies the critical factors that have been key elements in creating
a successful partnership.
Goal Acievement, Relationship Building and Incrementalism: The Challenges
of University-Community Partnerships
Wim Wiewel and Michael Lieber
January 1998
GCP-97-12
A four-step planning process describes the fluid planning model involved
in university-community partnerships. This planning model differs from
the rational planning model because the process is founded on the collaboration
of partners working together to achieve some goal. In this way, relationships
are built and goals are achieved. University of Illinois at Chicago
Neighborhoods Initiative is used to illustrate the relationship-oriented
planning process.
New Directions for Central City
and Suburban Development: Presentation Summary
Wim Wiewel
October 1997
GCP-97-7
Presented to the Downtown Economic Development Summit in Wilmington,
Delaware, this paper makes the claim that cities are still the most
creative, most productive, and most vibrant places and should be considered
as such by the federal government through effective urban policy. The
author calls for concerted government actions and private sector participation
to initiate and sustain growth in urban regions.
Economic Renaissance in
the Windy City: The Wind of Change or Just Hot Air?
Presentation Summary
Wim Wiewel
October 1997
GCP-97-6
This paper is the summary of a presentation given at the Federal Reserve
Bank of Chicago conference, "The New Mosaic: New Partners, New
Ventures." The paper provides an overview of the recent economic
growth in Chicago.
University Involvement in
the Community: Developing a Partnership Model
Wim Wiewel and David Broski
October 1997
GCP-97-3
How can a university be useful to its community in a direct and applied
way? This discourse uses the specific approach taken by the University
of Illinois at Chicago to illuminate some of the issues that universities
have to confront in developing a partnership model of university-community
involvement.
Solid Waste Incineration
in the Chicago Metropolitan Area:
The Battle over the Illinois Rate
Law
Mark Sendzik and Wim Wiewel
July 1996
GCP-96-10
In the 1980's, the federal, state, and local governments developed a
range of policies to handle the disposal of solid waste. This paper
provides an overview for the events that led to the adoption of the
controversial 1988 Retail Rate Law, which responded to the threat of
a solid waste crisis in Chicago. Also, the paper examines the nature
of the forces promoting and opposing the Retail Rate Law as well as
two incinerator proposals.
Central
City and Suburban Development: Who Pays and Who Benefits?
Joseph Persky and Wim Wiewel
May 1996
GCP-96-8
This paper addresses the overall social costs of firms locating in the
outer ring suburbs of large urban areas. The evidence presented suggests
that for society as a whole, deconcentration of development to outer
ring suburban areas brings few or no net gains while presenting significant
inequities in the distribution of costs and benefits.
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