Background
Witte, Ann Dryden was born on August 28, 1942 in Oceanside, New York, United States. Daughter of Harry Clifford and Frances Elizabeth (Ferguson) Dryden.
Witte, Ann Dryden was born on August 28, 1942 in Oceanside, New York, United States. Daughter of Harry Clifford and Frances Elizabeth (Ferguson) Dryden.
Bachelor in Political Science and History with highest honors, University Florida, 1963. Master of Arts in Economics, Columbia University, 1965. Doctor of Philosophy in Economics and Oceanography, North Carolina State University, 1971.
Economic analyst United States Government, Washington, 1963-1966, systems analyst, 1966-1967. Instructor economics Tougaloo (Mississippi) College, 1967-1968, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, 1970-1972. Visiting assistant professor University North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1972-1974, assistant professor economics, 1974-1979, associate professor, 1979-1983, professor, 1984—1985.
Research associate National Bureau Economic Research, since 1984. Professor Wellesley (Massachusetts) College, since 1985, Florida International University, Miami, 1992—2000. Consultant to subcommittee on oversight House Ways and Means Committee, 1979.
Fulbright lecturer Federal University Pernumburo, Recife, Brazil, 1981, Federal University Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil, 1984 Center School of Planning and Statistical, Warsaw, 1987, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, 1988. Lecturer testimony joint economic committee United States Congress, Washington, 1980, committees United States House of Representatives, Washington, 1982. Resident scholar Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy, 1983.
Member advisory group Internal Revenue, 1989. Member committee on status of women in economics profession, 1993-1996. Speaker, presenter in field.
(Book by Dryden Witte, Ann, Eakin, Kelly, Simon, Carl P.)
Author: Work Release in North Carolina: The Program and the Process, 1973, Work Release in North Carolina: An Evaluation of Its Post Release Effects, 1975, (with others) Basic Issue in Corrections Performance, 1982, (with Carl Simon) Beating the System. The Underground Economy, 1982, (with Peter Schmidt) An Economic Analysis of Crime and Justice: Theory, Methods and Applications, 1984. Editor: (with V. Kerry Smith) Advances in Applied Micro-Economics, Volume 3, 1984.
(with Peter Schmidt) Predicting Recidivism Using Survival Models, 1988, (with Jeffrey Roth and John Scholz) Tax Compliance: An Agenda for Research. Advisory editor Evaluation Review, since 1982. Member advisory board Criminological Research: Advances In Quantitative Method and Application, 1983-1984.
Member editiorial board Review Regional Studies, 1976-1979, Law and Society Review, 1985-1989, Journal Quantitative Criminology, 1988-2001, Policy Studies Review, 1988-1994. Referee American Economic Review, Demography, Econometrica, Land Economics, Journal Political Economic, Quarterly Journal Economics, numerous others. Contributor numerous articles to professional journals.
Mine has been a highly diverse career. I began analysing the agricultural and labour situation in the USSR largely because I had learned Russian as an undergraduate and I was too broke to go on to graduate school. My employer decided that I would make a good economist and sent me to get a masters degree in economics.
I returned from graduate school to become part of the newly established Planning, Programming and Budgeting System of the United States Government. From the federal government, I went to teach at a small black college in Mississippi, Tougaloo College, during the height of the civil rights movement. After Martin Luther King was shot, the position of white faculty on black campuses became very difficult and I returned to graduate school to obtain the Doctor of Philosophy.
My dissertation work was devoted to a study of employment in Latin American countries. Latin America has been a continual interest of mine and somewhere along the way I have managed to learn both Portuguese and Spanish.
After the birth of a child, travel became difficult and I began to develop an interest in applying microeconomics and econometrics to a wide range of issues. One of the first domestic issues that I studied was the way in which jobs affected the behaviour of criminal offenders.
I have continued and broadened my interest in law and economics and also studied real-estate markets and the location of businesses and households. At the present time I am studying domestic violence, tax compliance and office location. I feel that my principal contributions have been to stimulate students, creatively address important economic issues, and to work to improve policy at the State, local and national level.
Research and advisory committee North Carolina Department Correction, 1974-1976. Advisor criminal justice planning North Carolina Governor' General’ s Office, 1977. Special committee correctional programs North Carolina Employment and Training Council, 1982-1985, special committee on social experiments MacArthur Foundation, 1984.
Board directors Police Foundation, Washington, 1984-1991. Member committee on Foreign Tax Matters, 1991-1995 technical expert group National Evaluation Project Pregnant & Substance Abusing Women & Infants Department of Health and Human Services, 1991-1995. Economics advisory panel National Science Foundation, 1992-1994.
Fellow American Society Criminology, American Statistical Association, Royal Statistical Society. Member American Tax Policy Institute (board trustees 1990-1995, subcommittee on international taxation), National Academy of Sciences (panel on research and rehabilitative techniques 1977-1980, ad hoc committee future of justice research 1982, committee on research on law enforcement and administration of justice 1980-1984, ex-officio member 1984-1988, chair panel for research on taxpayer compliance 1984-1988), American Economic Association (census advisory committee 1979-1985, chair 1981, committee status of women in economics profession 1993-1995), American Statistical Association (committee on law and justice statistics 1982-1984, consultant 1981), Law and Society Association (trustee 1981-1982, 87-90, program committee 1984, Kalven prize committee 1990-1991), National Tax Association/Tax Institute American (program committee 1985, 91, board directors 1990-1994), Eastern Economic Association (program committee 1985-1986), Institute Law and Social Policy (advisory committee on criminal justice 1983-1986), Phi Beta Kappa.
1 child, Jeffrey Dryden.