2005 - 2006 Bradley Graduate Fellows

Matt Mitchell

Matt is grateful for another year of support from the Bradley Foundation. His research interests vary from history of thought to the political economy of the Supreme Court.  Matthew has also written a number of popular pieces for public policy think tanks in Arizona, New Mexico and Maryland.  Matthew is currently a research economist at the Rio Grande Foundation, the public policy think tank based in New Mexico.

Kail Padgitt

Kail is in his third year as a graduate student at the Public Choice Center.  He is concentrating in the areas of industrial organization and public finance.  In the fall semester, he assisted in experiments run by Daniel Houser, David Levy and Sandra Peart.  He is grateful for the financial support of the Bradley Foundation.

Colleen Berndt

Colleen is a California native  with over 13 years of management experience in the airline and software industries. Her research interests include public choice economics, public finance and international development. Her most recent project is an exam-ination of the political role of religious institutions in ancient Greece. Colleen is working on her dis-sertation which examines Random Leadership.

Matt Mitchell

Matt is currently developing a model which explores the relationship between fiscal federalism and constitutional gen-erality. In addition to his academic work, Matthew has written a number of popular pieces for public policy think tanks in Arizona, New Mexico and Maryland. Matthew is currently research economist at the New Mexico-based Rio Grande Foundation.

2003 - 2004 Bradley Graduate Fellows

Colleen Berndt

Colleen is a California native with over 13 years of management experience in the airline and software industries. She hopes to exploit her background in finance and labor relations, examining the relationship between institutions, government regulations and businesses. She is a research assistant for Mark Crain.

Bridget Butkevich

Bridget’s dissertation focuses on the allocation of decision rights and how the informal norms impact the implementation of formal rules. She examines these questions through the lenses of public choice theory, experimental economics, and the economic history of Russia's transition. Bridget believes the history of property rights may provide insight into how they are protected in the future.

Matt Dobra

Matt has been a graduate student at the Center for Study of Public Choice for the past four years. He is writing his dissertation under Mark Crain, and hopes to finish in May 2004. His dissertation analyzes the relationship between the governance structures of U.S. public pension plans at the state and local level and their investment performance.