William
T. Bogart
Contact Information
Dean of Academic Affairs
York, PA 17403-3651
Phone: 717-815-1231
Fax: 717-849-1655
Email: wtbogart@ycp.edu
Home Page: http://goose.ycp.edu/~wtbogart
Short Biography
William T. (Tom) Bogart has been dean of academic affairs at York College of Pennsylvania since 2002. From 1990 to 2002, he was a member of the Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) faculty in the Weatherhead School of Management. While at CWRU, he served as chair of the Department of Economics and as a research associate of the Center for Regional Economic Issues. He received the B.A. from Rice University in 1985 and the Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1990. His work was recognized with the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the National Tax Association. Dr. Bogart has taught undergraduate courses in urban economics, public finance, real estate finance, the economics of state and local governments, principles of microeconomics, and economic perspectives; and graduate courses on the economics of nonprofit organizations, economics for management, and value creation through real estate. His textbook for the urban economics course, The Economics of Cities and Suburbs, was published in 1998 by Prentice-Hall. Don't Call It Sprawl: Metropolitan Structure in the Twenty-first Century was published in 2006 by Cambridge University Press. He was selected by the undergraduate students of CWRU in 1994 to receive the Carl F. Wittke Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and in 1996 to receive the Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award for Humanities and Social Sciences. He was also selected by the students of the Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations to receive the first Faculty Member of the Year award in 1994 and by the undergraduate students of the Weatherhead School to receive the Weatherhead Undergraduate Teaching Award in 2000 and 2002. Dean Bogarts research interests include state and local government tax and spending decisions, local government economic development and land use policy, and the effects of school redistricting on real estate markets. He has been retained as an expert in court cases involving the effects of environmental damage on property values and on the impact of a professional football team leaving a city before the end of its lease. He is married with one daughter.
Some Links to Published Work (Provided for Educational Purposes Only)
"Civic Infrastructure and the Financing of Community Development Brookings Institution, May 2003
Trading Places: The Role of Zoning in Promoting and Discouraging Intrametropolitan Trade Case Western Reserve University Law Review, 51 (4), 697-720, 2001
The Structure of Sprawl: Identifying and Characterizing Employment Centers in Polycentric Metropolitan Areas (with Nathan B. Anderson), American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 60:147-169, 2001
How Much is a Neighborhood School Worth? (with Brian A. Cromwell), Journal of Urban Economics, 47:280-305, 2000
Employment Centers in Greater Cleveland: Evidence of Evolution in a Formerly Monocentric City (with William C. Ferry), Urban Studies, 36:2099-2110, 1999
How Much More is a Good
School District Worth? (with Brian A. Cromwell), National Tax Journal,
50:215-232, 1997
Enterprise Zones and Employment: Evidence from New Jersey (with Marlon G. Boarnet), Journal of Urban Economics, 40:198-251, 1996
Capital Gains Taxes and Realizations: Evidence from Interstate Comparisons (with William M. Gentry), Review of Economics and Statistics, 78:267-282, 1995
Do Legislators Vote Their Constituents' Wallets? (And How Would We Know If They Did?) (with Peter M. VanDoren), Southern Economic Journal, 60:357-375, 1993
'What Big Teeth You Have!': Identifying the Motivations for Exclusionary Zoning Urban Studies, 30:1669-1681, 1993
Incidence Effects of a State Fiscal Policy Shift: The Florio Initiatives in New Jersey (with David F. Bradford and Michael G. Williams), National Tax Journal, 45:371-387, 1992
Professional Links
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
National Bureau of Economic Research
National Center for Education Statistics