Danilo Pelletiere, PhD

Senior Fellow (Adjunct Faculty)

School of Public Policy


This is a temporary site that provides links to my personal research site. 

 

My research page

http://home.earthlink.net/~dpelleti/

 

A direct link to my research on the Political Economy of the International Trade in Used Automobiles is here:

http://home.earthlink.net/~dpelleti/id3.html

 

A direct link to the National Low Income Housing Coalition research page:

http://www.nlihc.org/template/page.cfm?id=21

 

Contact Information

National Low Income Housing Coalition

727 15th Street, NW, Sixth Floor

Washington, DC 20005

 

Phone   (202)-662-1530 x 237

Fax       (202)-393-1973

danilo@nlihc.org; dpelleti@gmu.edu

 

Curriculum Vitae

 

Positions

Research Director, National Low Income Housing Coalition, 2003 to present

Senior Fellow, School of Public Policy, George Mason University, 2003 to present (Adjunct Faculty)

Research Instructor, School of Public Policy, George Mason University 2001-2003

Research Consultant, World Resources Institute, Governance and Institutions Program 2000-2001

Fellow, Virginia’s Center for Innovative Technology, 1997-1998

Research and Teaching Assistant, School of Public Policy, George Mason University 1996-2000

 

Education

Ph.D., Public Policy, 2003, School of Public Policy, George Mason University

M.A., Interdisciplinary Studies (Regional Economic Development and Technology), 1997, George Mason University

B.A., History and Regional Science, 1994, University of Pennsylvania

 

Honors and Awards

Center for Spatially-Integrated Social Science Fellowship, Spatial Statistics Seminar, Summer 2001, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, Ann Arbor, MI.

Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research Travel Grant, Summer 2001.

Fulbright Scholar, Economic Development, 1994-1995, University of Rostock, Germany

 

Publications

Journal Articles

“World Trade in Used Automobiles: A Gravity Analysis of Japanese and US Exports." Asian Economic Journal. 20, no. 2 (2006) with Kenneth A. Reinert.

“Sustainable Transportation Institutions and Regional Evolution: Global and Local Perspectives.” Journal of Transport Geography. 25 (2004): 25-40 with Kingsley Haynes et al.

“Used Automobile Protection and Trade: Gravity and Ordered Probit Analysis.” Empirical Economics. 29, no. 4 (2004): 737-751 with Kenneth A. Reinert.

 “The Political Economy of Used Automobile Protection in Latin America.”  The World Economy 25, no. 7 (2002): 1019-1037 with Kenneth A. Reinert.

 “‘New’ Regional Transportation Organizations: Old Problem, New Wrinkle?” Transportation Research Record, no. 1812: 106-11 with Jonathan L. Gifford.

 “Stakeholder Requirements for Traffic Signal Preemption and Priority: Preliminary Results from the Washington, DC Region.” Transportation Research Record, no. 1748: 1-7 with Jonathan L. Gifford and John Collura.

"An Empirical Investigation of the Digital Divide in the United States," Journal of Public Affairs Management, 2 no. 2 (2001) with G. Chris Rodrigo.

“The Isolated State: Finding the Boundaries of Sustainable Development.”  Implications of Ecological Economics to Regional Economics. Rostocker Beiträge zur Regional- und Strukturpolitik, 10 (1997): 56-169.

 

Other Articles

“Understanding Public Opinion on Low-Income Housing: A Report from Recent Polling” Rural Voices, 10, no.1 (Spring, 2005).

“House of Cards: The State of Black Housing” The Crisis, May/June (2005).

 

Book Chapters

 “The Digital Divide in the United States: Measurement and Policy Issues” in Marina van Geenhuizen, David V. Gibson and Manuel V. Heitor eds. Regional Development and Conditions for Innovation in the Network Society Pittsburgh: Purdue University Press (2005) with G. Chris Rodrigo

“Economic Geography and Policy in the Network Age: A Survey of Data, Analysis, and Policy” in Feldman, Maryann P. and Albert N. Link,  eds. Innovation Policy in the Knowledge-based Economy (2001): 231-57 Boston: Kluwer Academic with G. Chris Rodrigo. 

“Eco-restructuring and the 'Friction of Distance.’” Sustainability in Action: Sectoral and Regional Case Studies. Kohn, Jorg; Gowdy, John; van der Straaten, Jan, eds. Northampton, Mass.: Elgar (2001): 88-106

“North American Regional Integration and Multinational Firms.” Regional Integration and Foreign Direct Investment: Implications for Developing Countries. Koichi Ohno and Yumiko Okamoto eds. Tokyo: Institute of Developing Economies (1994) with Masahisa Fujita et al.

 

Reports and Monographs

Housing and Economic Development Needs Assessment for the Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas Region. Washington, D.C.: National Low Income Housing Coalition (2006) with Sheila Crowley et al. 

The Rental Affordability Gap: Comparison of 2001 and 2003 American Housing Surveys. Washington, D.C.: National Low Income Housing Coalition (2006).

Out of Reach 2005. Washington, D.C.: National Low Income Housing Coalition (2005) with Keith Wardrip and Sheila Crowley.

Who’s Bearing the Burden? Severely Unaffordable Housing: An Examination of National and State Affordable Housing Needs from the 2003 American Community Survey. Washington, D.C.: National Low Income Housing Coalition (2005) with Mark Treskon and Sheila Crowley.

The Crisis in America’s Housing: Confronting Myths and Promoting a Balanced Housing Policy. Washington, D.C.: Center for Economic and Policy Research (2005) with Dushaw Hockett et al.

Out of Reach 2004. Washington, D.C.: National Low Income Housing Coalition (2004) with Winton Pitcoff et al.

Up Against A Wall: Housing Affordability for Renters: An Analysis of the 2003 American Community Survey. Washington, D.C.: National Low Income Housing Coalition (2004) with Mark Treskon

America’s Neighbors: The Affordable Housing Crisis and the People it Affects. Washington, D.C.: National Low Income Housing Coalition (2004) with Sheila Crowley and Mark Treskon

Losing Ground in the Best of Times: Low Income Renters in the 1990s. Washington, D.C.: National Low Income Housing Coalition (2004) with Kathy Nelson and Mark Treskon (A Drum Major Institute “Best Reports of the Year” recipient in 2004)

Out of Reach 2003: America’s Housing Wage Climbs. Washington, D.C.: National Low Income Housing Coalition (2003) with Winton Pitcoff et al.

Movin' On Up, Not Out: Redeveloping Our Neighborhoods to Benefit Current Residents. Washington, D.C.: Sierra Club (2001) with Wanda Bubriski et al.

Information and Biological Revolutions: Global Governance Challenges, Summary of a Study Group. Washington, D.C.: RAND (2000) with Francis Fukuyama et al.

Restore the Core: A Citizen’s Guide to Building a Livable Washington, DC. Washington, D.C.: Sierra Club (2000) with Gwyn Jones et al.

 

Recent Working Papers

“American Community Survey Estimate Shows Larger National, State Affordable Rental Housing Shortages.” Research Note #07-01 (2007)

“Recent Data Shows Continuation, Acceleration of Housing Affordability Crisis.” Research Note #06-05 (2006) with Keith Wardrip. 

“Initial Assessment of 2005 American Community Survey Indicates Growing Housing Cost Burdens for Lowest Income Households” National Low Income Housing Coalition Research Note #06-04 (2006) with Keith Wardrip.

“Variability of Rents Relative to Wages for Low-Income Workers May Provide Incentive for Migration” National Low Income Housing Coalition Research Note #06-01 (2006) with Keith Wardrip and Konstantina Soureli.

 “Hurricane Katrina's Impact on Low Income Housing Units” National Low Income Housing Coalition Research Note #05-02 (2005) with Keith Wardrip

 “The Changing Role of the Federal Government as Patron: Challenges and opportunities for those who wish to design and build for low income people.” Presented at the Working Neighborhoods: Failed Policies and New Directions Seminar, April 22 (2005)

“Housing Vouchers: A Review of Empirical Literature Between 2000 and 2004” National Voucher Summit Briefing Paper. National Low Income Housing Coalition (2005) with Mark Treskon and Sheila Crowley

“Goals.” National Voucher Summit Briefing Paper. National Low Income Housing Coalition (2005) with Mark Treskon and Sheila Crowley

“Fair Market Rents.” National Voucher Summit Briefing Paper. National Low Income Housing Coalition (2005) with Mark Treskon and Sheila Crowley

“An Initial Estimate of People with Housing Problems from the 2003 American Housing Survey” National Low Income Housing Coalition Research Note #05-01 (2005).

“A Look at Waiting Lists: What can we learn from the HUD Approved Annual Plans?” National Low Income Housing Coalition Research Note #04-03 (2004) with Beth Coddington.

“A Greater Rental Affordability Gap?  A first look at matching rental units to household income in the 2003 American Housing Survey” National Low Income Housing Coalition Research Note #04-02 (2004). 

“Higher Demand Continues for Affordable Apartments: New data from the Census.” National Low Income Housing Coalition Research Note #04-01 (2004) with Mark Treskon.

 

Teaching

At George Mason University

Methods of Analysis Scheduled Fall 2007

Housing and Community Development Policy Summer 2007

Transport and Social Policy Summer 2006

(included distance learning component throughout Virginia and Montana)

Transportation, Operations, and Logistics Practicum Spring 2005, Spring 2006 (included distance learning component throughout Virginia and Montana)

Transport and the Environment Spring 2002, Summer 2004, scheduled Spring 2007 (included distance learning component throughout Virginia and Montana)

Interstate Highways in Socio-Economic Perspective (Honors Undergraduate) Spring 2003.

Globalization and Anti-globalization Fall 2002

What’s the meaning of Progress? Can American’s Agree? Teaching Assistant for local economic development class taught by Joel Garreau and George Cook 1998-2000.

 

Community and Memberships

President of Jenkins Hill Child Development Center Board 2004-2006

The American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association

The Association for Public Policy and Management

Housing Statistics Users Group

Affordable Housing Research Group