DAVID WALTON BROWN
Office of Tax Policy [email protected] 1500 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Room 1217A o: 202-622-0035 Washington, D.C. 20220 m: 310-570-3835
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Financial Economist, Office of Tax Policy, Department of the Treasury 08/2010 – Present (GS-0110-15/1; Hire Date: 08/30/2010; 40 hours/week) Primary Responsibilities: (1) Baseline Receipts Forecasting for the President’s Budget (2) Revenue Estimation of Policy Proposals (3) Trust Fund Transfers (4) Policy Development/Evaluation – Economic Analysis (5) Health Modeling – Complex Microsimulation (6) Affordable Care Act Regulatory Implementation
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Department of Economics, MIT 2005 – 2010 “Essays in Unemployment Insurance” Committee: Jonathan Gruber, Amy Finkelstein, Esther Duflo
B.A. with Highest Honors, Department of Economics, UC Berkeley 2001 – 2004
FIELDS OF INTEREST Health Economics, Public Finance, Applied Econometrics
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
MIT Graduate Student Teaching Certificate Program 2008 – 2009 Public Economics, MIT course 14.41 Fall 2009 Teaching Assistant to Professor Jonathan Gruber Fall 2007 Public Economics, MIT course 14.41 Spring 2008 Teaching Assistant to Professor Courtney Coile Principles of Microeconomics, MIT course 14.01 Fall 2008 Head Teaching Assistant to Professor William Wheaton Principles of Microeconomics, MIT course 14.01 Spring 2008 Lecturer
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
Special Act Award – Affordable Care Act Implementation, Treasury 2011 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship 2005 – 2008 Presidential Fellowship, MIT 2005 – 2006 Departmental Citation, Department of Economics, UC Berkeley 2004
COMPLETED WORKING PAPERS
“The Long Term Impact of Health Insurance Expansions on Eligible Children” with Amanda Kowalski (Yale University and NBER) and Ithai Lurie (Department of the Treasury)
“Maintaining Health Insurance Coverage for the Unemployed: The Role of Unemployment Insurance”
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Mandates”
“Re-Evaluating Unemployment Insurance and the Crowd-Out of Spousal Labor Supply”
WORK IN PROGRESS
“The Tax Implications of Medicare Part D” with Ithai Lurie (Department of the Treasury) and Alexandra Minicozzi (CBO)
“The Evolution of Health Savings Accounts” with Lorens Helmchen (George Mason University), Anthony LoSasso (University of Illinois at Chicago), and Ithai Lurie (Department of the Treasury)
“An Evaluation of Tax Benefits Afforded Non-Profit Hospitals and Comparative Performance” with Elena Patel (Department of the Treasury)
“Labor Response and Industry Reorganization Associated with Medicaid Expansions” with Adam Looney (Department of the Treasury) and Ithai Lurie (Department of the Treasury)