Donald Phares, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus
Department of Economics

Professor Phares is Professor Emeritus of Economics and Public Policy at the the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

Phares is the author or editor of the books Who Pays State and Local Taxes? and State-Local Tax Equity: An Empirical Analysis of the Fifty States; co-author of Municipal Output and Performance in New York City; and editor of A Decent Home and Environment: Housing Urban America (ed.) and Metropolitan Governance without Metropolitan Government?, and Governing Metropolitan Regions in the Twenty-First Century.

He has also written more than eighty articles and book chapters and scores of technical and government reports. He has consulted for and done research with, as examples (not exhaustive):

Federal-- the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations;
State-- Hawaii, Massachusetts, Missouri, New York, and Ohio;
Local-- the City of St. Louis, Kansas City, the St. Louis Public Schools, the School District of Kansas City, and other municipal governments and school districts;
Research organizations-- the National Conference of State Legislatures, the RAND Corporation, the Urban Institute;
Business-- Anheuser-Busch Companies, Standard and Poor's Corporation, Emerson Electric Co., Civic Progress (St. Louis), Archer Daniels Midland Co.;
Foundations-- the Ford Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation;
Universities-- Syracuse University, Washington University, Michigan State University, the University of Illinois, Portland State University, Indiana University at Indianapolis.

Phares also has served as an expert witness in legal cases pertaining to State and local taxation; the projection of future income; and the analysis of social, demographic, fiscal, and economic trends. He has also done numerous economic and fiscal impact studies for both public and private organizations.

His administrative experience includes; chairperson of a department of economics, director of a public policy research center, dean of a college of arts and sciences, and vice chancellor for a university campus.

He received his BA from Northeastern University and his MA and Ph.D. from Syracuse University.