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Mildred E. Warner

Professor

Research Focus

  • Community Development
  • Economic Development
  • State and Local Government Policy

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Cornell University, 1997
  • M.S., Cornell University, 1985
  • B.A., Oberlin College, 1979

Research Grants

  • EMPLOYER-SUPPORTED CHILD CARE: AN ALTERNATIVE FINANCING OPTION
  • LINKING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND CHILD CARE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PROJECT

Selected Publications

PubMed Listings
  • Gerbasi, Jennifer and M.E. Warner 2005. "Privatization, Public Goods and the Ironic Challenge of Free Trade Agreements," forthcoming Administration and Society Jan 2007
  • Warner, Mildred E. and Amir Hefetz 2007. "Managing Markets for Public Service: The Role of Mixed Public/Private Delivery of City Services," Public Administration Review, forthcoming March/April 2007
  • Kay, David L., James E. Pratt and Mildred E. Warner. 2007. Measuring the Role of Local Services with Hypothetical Extraction, Growth and Change forthcoming 38(3) September 2007
  • Morrissey, Taryn and M.E. Warner 2007. "Why Early Care and Education Deserves as Much Attention, or More, than Prekindergarten Alone" Applied Developmental Science, forthcoming
  • Warner, M.E. and Zhilin Liu 2006. "The Importance of Child Care in Economic Development: A Comparative Analysis of Regional Economic Linkage," Economic Development Quarterly 20(1):97-103
  • Warner, M.E. "Child Care and Economic Development:  The Role for Planners," Planning Advisory Service  PAS  Memo, American Planning Association. Jan/Feb 2006
  • Warner, Mildred E. "Putting Child Care in the Regional Economy: Empirical and Conceptual Challenges and Economic Development Prospects," Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society 37 (2): 7-22
  • Stoney, Lousie, Anne Mitchell and Mildred E. Warner "Smarter Reform: Moving Beyond Single Program Solutions to an Early Care and Education System," Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society 37 (2): 101-115, 2006
  • Warner, Mildred. E. "Market-Based Governance and the Challenge for Rural Governments: U.S. Trends" Social Policy and Administration: An International Journal of Policy and Research 40(6):612-631, 2006
  • Jennifer Gerbasi, Jennifer and Mildred Warner.  “Is There a Democratic Deficit in the Free Trade Agreements? What Local Governments Should Know,” Public Management 86:2 (16-21), 2004