Pavlina R. Tcherneva is assistant professor at Franklin and Marshall College and a research scholar at the Levy Economics Institute. She was previously the associate director for economic analysis at the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability, where she remains a senior research associate. She was also visiting research scholar at the University of Cambridge Centre for Economic and Public Policy, Cambridge, UK (Summer 2004). Pavlina conducts research in the fields of fiscal policy and monetary theory and has collaborated with policymakers from Argentina, Bulgaria, China, Turkey, and the United States. She has worked both on the financial and institutional aspects of direct job creation programs and has examined the relative merits of job and income guarantee proposals. She has also written on the impact of public employment on women and the environment. Pavlina has published in the Rutgers Journal of Law and Urban Policy, the International Journal of Environment, Workplace, and Employment, and Oeconomicus. She is the coeditor of Full Employment and Price Stability: The Macroeconomic Vision of William S. Vickrey (Elgar 2004). She holds a B.A. in Mathematics and Economics (Phi Beta Kappa) from Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Missouri-Kansas City.