Institute for Urban Research Dr. Linda Loubert Research Associate 443.885.1259 Montebello Complex D Wing - Room 215 lloubert@moac.morgan.edu

Linda Loubert comes to the Institute for Urban Research from the University of Michigan where she completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship. She completed her Ph.D. in Political Economy at the University of Texas at Dallas, May 2000. She has a Master’s of Public Affairs degree from Park College in Kansas City, MO and a Bachelor’s of Arts degree in African Studies from Kansas University in Lawrence, Kansas.

Dr. Loubert’s primary interests are in the areas of public policy, including health disparities, education finance, segregation and sprawl effects on public schools, and grass-root political strengths for people of color, and spatial analysis of African Americans’ health.

She has certification in quantitative analysis of social and economic data, and she frequently uses Geographical Information Systems (GIS), Hierarchical linear modeling (HLM), and various other statistical methods in her research.

Papers under review include “Housing Markets and Public School Finance Reform”, and “Money Does Matter: Case and Evidence From Dallas County Schools”. Currently she is writing a chapter for the book, "To What Ends and by What Means: The Social Justice Implications of Contemporary School Finance Policy and Reform Efforts in the U.S. on Educational Accountability for African American and Latino Students."

Dr. Loubert will be using GIS and other quantitative skills to focus on the Baltimore area on issues of education in public schools, environmental justice, and health disparities.

Dr. Linda Loubert has been selected to participated in the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN) workshop to be held July 11 to 15, 2005 by the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR).  Dr. Loubert will also receive a stipend of $1,000.00 at registration for her participation in the workshop.

She has also been selected to participate in the 2005 APPAM Fall Conference, whose theme is "Understanding and Informing Policy Design." Dr Loubert will participate in the session on "Issues in Local and State Budgeting," to be held November 5, 2005 at 1:00 p.m. The session is scheduled to last 90 minutes.

To find further information on the conference, look on the APPAM website at http://www.appam.org

Latest projects and activities:

- Presided over the National Economics Association Session on Population, Poverty, and Economic Opportunity in Philadelphia at the Allied Science Association Annual Meeting, January 2005.

- Presented paper on "Money Matters" at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Annual Meeting in Atlanta, October 2004.

- Latest publication: "Housing Markets and School Finance" in the Journal of Education Finance.