Janet Rothenberg Pack Faculty Profile

Janet Rothenberg Pack
Professor of Business and Public Policy and Real Estate

PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1965; MA, University of California, Berkeley, 1963; BBA, City College/CUNY, 1959

Research Areas
Fiscal federalism and intergovernmental relations; political economy of economic policy; urban and regional economic development; foreign aid; privatization

Current Projects
Private governments in urban America - a study of the increasing role of the private sector in providing services traditionally the responsibility of local governments. Changes in Urban Development: Differences among regions and across decades.

Academic Positions Held
Wharton: 1983-present (Chairperson, Public Policy and Management Department, 1992-97). University of Pennsylvania: 1970-present. Previous appointments: Yale University; Southern Connecticut State College; The New School for Social Research. Visiting appointments: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; University of California at Berkeley

Other Positions
Visiting Fellow, The Brookings Institution, 2003-2004; Non-Resident Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institute, 1999-present; Visiting Fellow, European Institute of Public Administration, 1992; Senior Resident in Public Finance, Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, 1977-79; Economist, City Planning Commission, The City of New Haven, CT, 1967-70

Professional Leadership 2003-2007
Organizer and Coeditor (with William Gale), Brookings Conference and Papers on Urban Affairs, 1999-2005; (with Gary burtless), 2005-present; Editorial Board, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 1999-2004; Editorial Board, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, 2002-present; Senior consultant, The Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel, 1996-present; Non-resident Sr. Fellow, Economics Division, The Brookings Institution, 1999-present.

Representative Publications
"Growth and Convergence in Metropolitan America." The Brookings Institution Press (2001).

"Poverty and Urban Public Expenditures." Urban Studies 35 (1998).

"The Political Policy Cycle: Presidential Effort vs. Presidential Control." Public Choice 54 (1987).

"Privatization of Public Sector Services in Theory and Practice." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 6.4 (September 1987).

(with H. Pack)
"Foreign Aid and Fiscal Stress." Development, Duality, and the International Economic Regime, Gary Saxenhouse and T.N. Srinivasan, editors, University of Michigan Press, 1999.

(with H. Pack)
"Is Foreign Aid Fungible: The Case of Indonesia?" Economic Journal 100.399 (March 1990).

(with H. Pack)
"Foreign Aid and the Question of Fungibility." Review of Economics and Statistics (May 1993).

Sunbelt/Frostbelt: Public Policies and Market Forces in Metropolitan Development., J. Pack, editor, 232 pp. Brookings Institution Press, 2005.

(with W. Gale)
Brookings-Wharton Papers in Urban Affairs. Vol. 1, 2000; Vol. 2, 2001; Vol. 3, 2002; Vol. 4, July 2003, Vol. 5, 2004

(with G. Burtless)
Brookings-Wharton Papers in Urban Affairs. Vol.6, 2005; Vol. 7, (forthcoming summer 2006).