Ann Dryden Witte

Background

Witte, Ann Dryden was born on August 28, 1942 in Oceanside, New York, United States. Daughter of Harry Clifford and Frances Elizabeth Dryden.

Education

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.

Career

Economics analyst, United States Government, Washington, 1963-1966; systems analyst, United States Government, Washington, 1966-1967; instructor economics, Tougaloo (Mississippi) College, 1967-1968; instructor economics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, 1970-1972; visiting assistant professor, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1972-1974; assistant professor economics, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1974-1979; associate professor, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1979-1983; professor, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1983-1985; research associate, National Bureau Economics Research, since 1984; professor, Wellesley (Massachusetts) College, since 1985; professor, Florida International U., Miami, since 1992. Consultant to subcommittee on oversight House Ways and Means Committee, 1979. Fulbright lecturer Federal U. Pernumburo, Recife, Brazil, 1981, Federal U. Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil, 1984 Center School of Planning and Statistical, Warsaw, 1987, Victoria U., Wellington, New Zealand, 1988.

Lecturer testimony joint economics 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. Research associate National Bureau Economics Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, since 1984.

Member of advisory group Internal Revenue, 1989. Member commission on status of women in economics profession, 1993-1996. Speaker, presenter in field.

Achievements

• Ann Dryden Witte has been listed as a noteworthy Economics educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Predicting Recidivism Using Survival Models (Research in Criminology)

    (Our interest in the statistical modeling of data on the t...)

  • Beating the System: The Underground Economy

    (Book by Dryden Witte, Ann, Eakin, Kelly, Simon, Carl P.)

  • Work release in North Carolina;: The program and the process,
  • An Economic Analysis of Crime and Justice: Theory, Methods, and Applications (Quantitative studies in social relations) by Schmidt Peter Witte Ann Dryden (1983-11-01) Hardcover
  • Beating the System: The Underground Economy by Ann Dryden Witte (1982-02-28)
  • An Economic Analysis of Crime and Justice: Theory, Methods, and Applications (Quantitative studies in social relations)

Views

Mine has been a highly diverse career. I began analysing the agricultural and labour situation in the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics 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

Membership

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.

Interests

• 212 Construction, Analysis and Use of Econometric Models. 022 Microeconomic Theory. 900 Welfare Programmes, Consumer Economics, Urban and Regional Economics.

Connections

1 child, Jeffrey Dryden.

Father:

Harry Clifford Dryden

Mother:

Frances Elizabeth Dryden

child:

Jeffrey Dryden Witte