March 2021 Bruce D. Meyer

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Harris School of Public Policy [email protected] University of Chicago 1307 East 60th Street Chicago, IL 60637

Education

Ph.D. Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, June 1987.

M.A. Economics, Northwestern University, August 1981.

B.A. Economics, Northwestern University, June 1981.

Professional Experience

McCormick Foundation Professor of Public Policy, University of Chicago, 2009-. Formerly McCormick Tribune Professor of Public Policy, University of Chicago, 2004-9.

Visiting Scholar, American Enterprise Institute, 2015-.

U.S. Census Bureau, Excepted Service Appointment, 2018-.

Professor of Economics, Northwestern University, 1996-2004.

Associate Professor of Economics (with tenure), Northwestern University, 1993-96.

Assistant Professor of Economics, Northwestern University, 1987-93.

Visiting Professor of Economics, Harvard University, September-December, 2010.

Visiting Professor of Economics, University College London, April-July, 2003.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, Princeton University, 1988-89.

Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1993-.

Faculty Research Fellow, Public Economics, and Labor Studies, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1987-1993.

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Member, U.S. Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking, 2016-17.

Elected Member, Conference on Research in Income and Wealth, 2010-.

Faculty Affiliate, Joint Center for Poverty Research, Northwestern University and the University of Chicago, 1996-2004.

Member, Institute for Research on Poverty Research Working Group on "Labor Market Prospects for the Disadvantaged," 1989-2000.

Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research (formerly the Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research), Northwestern University, 1987-2004.

Economist, Glassman-Oliver Economic Consultants, Inc., Washington, D.C., 1981-82.

Honors, Scholarships, and Fellowships

2019 Dennis J. Aigner Award for the best paper in empirical econometrics published by the Journal of Econometrics in 2017 or 2018.

American Statistical Association, Links Lecture Award Recipient, October 2019.

2018 HCUP Outstanding Article of the Year Award.

Keynote Lecturer, Society of Government Economists, April 2018.

2017 AcademyHealth Article-of-the-Year Award.

2012 Outstanding Author Contribution Award for best paper in volume, Literati Network Awards for Excellence.

W. Edmund Clark Distinguished Lecturer, Queens University, September 2005.

Household International, Inc. Research Professor in Economics, Northwestern University, 1997-98.

National Academy of Social Insurance, Elected Member, 1996.

Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 1993-95.

Alfred P. Sloan Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships, Summer 1985, Spring 1986, Academic Year 1986-87.

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Economics Graduate Alumni Fellowship, M.I.T., 1982-84.

Phi Beta Kappa

Publications Articles and Book Chapters:

[1] “Appendix on optimal instruments,” appendix to “Errors in Variables in Panel Data,” (with Zvi Griliches and Jerry Hausman) Journal of Econometrics, 31, February 1986, 114-117.

[2] “Classification Error Models and Labor Market Dynamics,” Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 6, July 1988, 385-390.

[3] “The Impact of the Potential Duration of Unemployment Benefits on the Duration of Unemployment,” (with Lawrence Katz) Journal of Public Economics, 41, February 1990, 45-72.

[4] “Unemployment Insurance and Unemployment Spells,” Econometrica, 58, July 1990, 757-782.

[5] “Unemployment Insurance, Recall Expectations and Unemployment Outcomes,” (with Lawrence Katz) Quarterly Journal of Economics, CV, November 1990, 973-1002.

[6] “The Potential Duration of Unemployment Benefits and the Duration of Unemployment,” (with Lawrence Katz), in Issues in Contemporary Economics, Volume 2, edited by Marc Nerlove. New York University Press: New York, 1991.

[7] “Unemployment Insurance in the United States: Layoff Incentives and Cross-Subsidies,” (with Patricia M. Anderson) Journal of Labor Economics, 11, January 1993 Supplement, S70-S95.

[8] “The Unemployment Insurance Payroll Tax and Interindustry and Interfirm Subsidies,” (with Patricia M. Anderson) in Tax Policy and the Economy 7, edited by James Poterba, M.I.T. Press, 1993, 111-144.

[9] “A Longitudinal Analysis of Young Entrepreneurs in Australia and the United States” (with David Blanchflower), Small Business Economics, 6, February 1994, 1-19.

[10] “The Extent and Consequences of Job Turnover,” (with Patricia M. Anderson) Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Microeconomics 1994, 177-248.

[11] “Lessons from the U.S. Unemployment Insurance Experiments,” Journal of Economic Literature, 33, March 1995, 91-131.

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[12] “Natural and Quasi- Experiments in Economics,” Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 13, April 1995, 151-162.

[13] “Workers' Compensation and Injury Duration: Evidence from a Natural Experiment,” (with W. Kip Viscusi and David Durbin) American Economic Review, 85, June 1995, 322-340.

[14] “What Have We Learned from the Illinois Reemployment Bonus Experiment?” Journal of Labor Economics, 14, January 1996, 26-51.

[15] “Ethnic and Racial Self-Employment Differences and Possible Explanations,” (with Robert W. Fairlie), Journal of Human Resources, 31, Fall 1996, 757-793. Reprinted in The Economics of Migration, K. Zimmerman and T. Bauer, eds., Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, UK.

[16] “The Effects of Firm Specific Taxes and Government Mandates with an Application to the U.S. Unemployment Insurance Program,” (with Patricia M. Anderson), Journal of Public Economics, 65, August 1997, 119-144.

[17] “Unemployment Insurance Takeup Rates and the After-Tax Value of Benefits,” (with Patricia M. Anderson), Quarterly Journal of Economics, CXII, August 1997, 913-938.

[18] “Does Immigration Hurt African-American Self-Employment?,” (with Robert W. Fairlie), in Help or Hindrance? The Economic Implications of Immigration for African Americans, edited by Daniel S. Hamermesh and Frank D. Bean, Russell Sage Foundation, 1998, 185-221.

[19] “Taxes, Welfare Programs and Employment,” (with Dan T. Rosenbaum), National Tax Association Proceedings--1998, 191-197.

[20] “The Effects of the Unemployment Insurance Payroll Tax on Wages, Employment, Claims and Denials,” (with Patricia M. Anderson), Journal of Public Economics 78, October 2000, 81-106.

[21] “Trends in Self-Employment Among White and Black Men During the Twentieth Century” (with Robert W. Fairlie), Journal of Human Resources 35, Fall 2000, 643-669.

[22] “Making Single Mothers Work: Recent Tax and Welfare Policy and its Effects,” (with Dan T. Rosenbaum), National Tax Journal 53, December 2000, 1027-1062. Also in Making Work Pay: The Earned Income Tax Credit and its Impact on America’s Families, Bruce D. Meyer and Douglas Holtz-Eakin, eds., New York: Russell Sage Foundation Press, 2001

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[23] “Welfare, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the Labor Supply of Single Mothers,” (with Dan T. Rosenbaum), Quarterly Journal of Economics CXVI, August 2001, 1063- 1114.

[24] “Introduction” (with Douglas Holtz-Eakin) in Making Work Pay: The Earned Income Tax Credit and its Impact on America’s Families, Bruce D. Meyer and Douglas Holtz-Eakin, eds., New York: Russell Sage Foundation Press, 2001, 1-12.

[25] “Labor Supply Effects of Social Insurance,” (with Alan B. Krueger) in Handbook of Public Economics, Volume 4, Alan Auerbach and Martin Feldstein, eds. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 2002, 2327-2392.

[26] “Unemployment and Workers’ Compensation Programmes: Rationale, Design, Labour Supply and Income Support,” Fiscal Studies 23, March 2002, 1-49. Also appeared in The Economics of Public Spending, edited by David Miles, Gareth Myles and Ian Preston, Oxford University Press, 2003, 153-198.

[27] “Labor Supply at the Extensive and Intensive Margins: The EITC, Welfare and Hours Worked” American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 92, May 2002, 373-379.

[28] “The Effect of Immigration on Native Self-Employment” (with Robert W. Fairlie), Journal of Labor Economics 21, July 2003, 619-650.

[29] “Measuring the Well-Being of the Poor Using Income and Consumption” (with James X. Sullivan), Journal of Human Resources 38 Supplement, 2003, 1180-1220.

[30] “The Effects of Welfare and Tax Reform: The Material Well-Being of Single Mothers in the 1980s and 1990s” (with James X. Sullivan), Journal of Public Economics 88, 2004, 1387-1420.

[31] “Work Costs and Nonconvex Preferences in the Estimation of Labor Supply Models” (with Bradley T. Heim), Journal of Public Economics 88, 2004, 2323-2338.

[32] “Unemployment Insurance Tax Burdens and Benefits: Funding Family Leave and Reforming the Payroll Tax,” (with Patricia M. Anderson), National Tax Journal, March 2006, 77-95.

[33] “The U.S. Earned Income Tax Credit: Its Effects and Possible Reforms,” Swedish Economic Policy Review 14(2) Fall 2007, 55-80.

[34] “A Note on ‘The Longitudinal Structure of Earnings Losses among Work-Limited Disabled Workers’” (with Wallace K. C. Mok, Kerwin Kofi Charles and Alexandra C. Achen) Journal of Human Resources. 43(3): Summer 2008, 721-728.

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[35] “Changes in the Consumption, Income, and Well-Being of Single Mother Headed Families,” (with James X. Sullivan) American Economic Review 98(5) December 2008, 2221-41.

[36] “Reflections on Economic Mobility and Policy” in Strategies for Improving Economic Mobility of Workers: Bridging Research and Practice, Maude Toussaint-Comeau and Bruce D. Meyer, eds., Kalamazoo, Michigan: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2009, 79-88.

[37] “The Effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit and Recent Reforms,” in Tax Policy and the Economy 24, edited by Jeffrey Brown, M.I.T. Press, 2010, 153-180.

[38] “Viewpoint: Further Results on Measuring the Well-Being of the Poor using Income and Consumption,” (with James X. Sullivan). Canadian Journal of Economics 44 (1) February 2011, 52-87.

[39] “Consumption and Income Poverty Over the Business Cycle,” (with James X. Sullivan), Research in Labor Economics 32, 2011, 51-81. Outstanding Author Contribution Award Winner for best paper in volume, Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2012.

[40] “Identifying the Disadvantaged: Official Poverty, Consumption Poverty, and the New Supplemental Poverty Measure,” (with James X. Sullivan). Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2012, 111-136.

[41] “Consumption and Income Poverty in the U.S.” (with James X. Sullivan) in The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Poverty, edited by Philip N. Jefferson, 2012, 49-74.

[42] “Winning the War: Poverty from the Great Society to the Great Recession” (with James X. Sullivan). Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Fall 2012, 133-200.

[43] “The Economic Consequences of Disability in America: Evidence from the PSID.” (with Wallace K.C. Mok) in Lifecycle Events and their Consequences, edited by Ken Couch, Mary Daly, and Julie Zissimopoulos. Stanford University Press: Palo Alto, CA, 2013, 240-259.

[44] “Consumption and Income Inequality and the Great Recession” (with James X. Sullivan). American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, May 2013, 178-183.

[45] “A Short Review of Recent Evidence on the Disincentive Effects of Unemployment Insurance and New Evidence from New York State” (with Wallace K. C. Mok), National Tax Journal, 2014 67(1): 219-252. Also see earlier version available as “Quasi- Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Unemployment Insurance from New York State,” NBER Working Paper 12865, January 2007.

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[46] “The Validity of Consumption Data: Are the Consumer Expenditure Interview and Diary Surveys Informative?” 2015. (with Adam Bee and James X. Sullivan) in Improving the Measurement of Consumer Expenditures, Christopher Carroll, Thomas Crossley, and John Sabelhaus, editors. University of Chicago Press, 2015, 204-240. Also see longer version available as NBER Working Paper 18308, August 2012.

[47] “Household Surveys in Crisis” (with Wallace K.C. Mok and James X. Sullivan) Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2015, 199-226.

[48] “Saving Teens: Using a Policy Discontinuity to Estimate the Effects of Medicaid Eligibility” (with Laura Wherry) Journal of Human Resources, Summer 2016, pp. 556- 588. Received 2017 AcademyHealth Article-of-the-Year Award. http://www.academyhealth.org/node/9481

[49] “The Earned Income Tax Credit” in A Safety Net That Works: Improving Federal Programs for Low-Income Americans, Robert Doar editor, American Enterprise Institute: Washington DC, 2017, 1-18.

[50] “Misclassification in Binary Choice Models” (with Nikolas Mittag), Journal of Econometrics 200 (October 2017), 295-311. Winner of the 2019 Dennis J. Aigner Award for the best paper in empirical econometrics published by the Journal of Econometrics in 2017 or 2018.

[51] “Childhood Medicaid Coverage and Later Life Health Care Utilization” (with Laura R. Wherry, Sarah Miller, and Robert Kaestner), Review of Economics and Statistics, 100(2) 2018, pp. 287-302. Received 2018 HCUP Outstanding Article of the Year Award.

[52] “Disability, Taxes, Transfers and the Economic Well-Being of Women” (with Wallace K. C. Mok). 2018. Tax Policy and the Economy 32, pp. 211-253.

[53] “The Poverty Reduction of Social Security and Means-Tested Transfers” (with Derek Wu) Industrial and Labor Relations Review 71: 5 (October 2018), pp. 1106- 1153. http://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ilra/0/0

[54] “Disability, Earnings, Income and Consumption” (with Wallace K. C. Mok) Journal of Public Economics. 171 (March 2019), pp. 51-69. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047272718301245

[55] “Using Linked Survey and Administrative Data to Better Measure Income: Implications for Poverty, Program Effectiveness and Holes in the Safety Net,” (with Nikolas Mittag), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.11: 2 (April 2019), pp. 176-204.

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[56] “Combining Administrative and Survey Data to Improve Income Measurement” (with Nikolas Mittag), forthcoming in Administrative Records for Survey Methodology, edited by Asaph Young Chun, Mike Larsen, Jerry Reiter and Gabriel Durrant, Wiley, 2020.

[57] “Creating Improved Survey Data Products using Linked Administrative-Survey Data” (with Michael Davern and Nikolas Mittag) Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology. 7:3 (September 2019), pp. 440-463.

[58] “Linking Survey and Administrative Data to Measure Income, Inequality, and Mobility” (with Carla Medalia, Amy O’Hara and Derek Wu) International Journal of Population Data Science. Published online: Jan 31, 2019. Winner of the Administrative Data Research Facilities (ADRF) Network 2018 Annual Conference best paper award. https://ijpds.org/article/view/939

[59] “Misreporting of Government Transfers: How Important are Survey Design and Geography?” (with Nikolas Mittag), Southern Economic Journal. 86:1 (2019), pp. 230- 253.

[60] “Learning about the Poor Using Ethnography, Household Surveys, and Administrative Data” in American Family Diaries: Can Ethnographic Research Help Shape Public Policy, American Enterprise Institute, December 2019, pp. 52-61.

[61] “Inequality in the Joint Distribution of Consumption and Time Use” (with Jeehoon Han and James X. Sullivan). Journal of Public Economics. 191(November 2020) pp. 1-21. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047272719301689?via%3Dihub

[62] “Income and Poverty in the COVID-19 Pandemic,” (with Jeehoon Han and James X. Sullivan). Brookings Papers on Economic Activity Summer 2020 Special Edition, pp. 85- 118.

[63] “The Use and Misuse of Income Data and Extreme Poverty in the United States,” (with Carla Medalia, Victoria Mooers and Derek Wu). Journal of Labor Economics 39:S1 (January 2021), pp. S5-S58.

[64] “An Empirical Total Survey Error Decomposition Using Data Combination,” (with Nikolas Mittag). Forthcoming, Journal of Econometrics. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304407620303687

[65] “Errors in Survey Reporting and Imputation and their Effects on Estimates of Food Stamp Program Participation” (with Robert M. Goerge and Nikolas Mittag). Forthcoming Journal of Human Resources. http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2020/08/06/jhr.58.1.0818-9704R2

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[66] “The Accuracy of Tax Imputations: Estimating Tax Liabilities and Credits Using Linked Survey and Administrative Data,” (with Derek Wu, Grace Finley, Patrick Langetieg, Carla Medalia, Mark Payne and Alan Plumley). Forthcoming in Measuring and Understanding the Distribution and Intra and Intergenerational Mobility of Income and Wealth, NBER. https://www.nber.org/system/files/chapters/c14441/c14441.pdf

Books:

[1] Making Work Pay: The Earned Income Tax Credit and its Impact on America’s Families, Editor with Douglas Holtz-Eakin. New York: Russell Sage Foundation Press, 2001.

[2] Strategies for Improving Economic Mobility of Workers: Bridging Research and Practice, Editor with Maude Toussaint-Comeau. Kalamazoo, Michigan: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2009.

Comments and Reviews:

[1] Review of Self Employment: A Labor Market Perspective by Robert L. Aronson, Journal of Economic Literature, September 1992, 1521-3.

[2] “Comment on ‘Measuring Gross Worker and Job Flows,’ by Steven J. Davis and John Haltiwanger” in Labor Statistics Measurement Issues, ed. by John Haltiwanger, Marilyn E. Manser, and Robert Topel, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998, 119-122.

[3] “Comment on ‘Guaranteed Income: SSI and the Well Being of the Elderly Poor,’ by Kathleen McGarry,” in The Distributional Aspects of Social Security and Social Security Reform, ed. by Martin Feldstein and Jeffrey B. Liebman, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002, 79-83.

[4] “Comment on ‘The State of the Safety Net in the Post-Welfare Reform Era,’ by Marianne Bitler and Hilary Hoynes,” in Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Fall 2010, 136- 142.

Unpublished Papers:

“Understanding Poverty by Linking Survey, Tax, and Program Data” (with Derek Wu and Carla Medalia), Working Paper (draft under revision).

“Does Geographically Adjusting Poverty Thresholds and Improve Poverty Measurement and Program Targeting?” (with Derek Wu and Brian Curran), Working Paper (under review by U.S. Census Bureau prior to public release).

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“Learning about Homelessness Using Linked Survey and Administrative Data,” (with Angela Wyse, Alexa Grunwaldt, Carla Medalia, and Derek Wu), Working Paper (under review by U.S. Census Bureau prior to public release).

“Errors in Reporting and Imputation of Government Benefits and Their Implications,” (with Pablo Celhay and Nikolas Mittag). Working Paper, Last Revised August 2020 (in preparation for submission to U.S. Census Bureau for review).

“Levels and Changes in Income Poverty, Consumption Poverty and Material Well-Being: A Response to Shaefer and Rivera (2018),” (with James X. Sullivan). Working Paper, September 2018.

“Stigma in Welfare Programs,” (with Pablo Celhay and Nikolas Mittag). Working Paper, August 2017.

“Consumption and Income Inequality in the U.S. Since the 1960s” (with James X. Sullivan) Working Paper, December 2009 (revised August 2017). NBER Working Paper No. 23655 (under journal review).

“Estimating Survey Nonresponse Bias Using Tax Records” (with C. Adam Bee and Graton M. R. Gathright). Working Paper, June 2015 (Revised November 2018).

“What Leads to Measurement Error? Evidence from Reports of Program Participation in Three Surveys” (with Pablo Celhay and Nikolas Mittag). Working Paper, January 2017.

“Consumption and Income of the Poor Elderly Since 1960” (with James X. Sullivan) Working Paper, September 2010.

“Income and Consumption Volatility Over Time” (with James X. Sullivan) Working Paper, April 2010.

“Using Two-Sample Methods to Correct for Reporting Bias in Surveys,” and earlier version was titled “Reporting Bias in Studies of the Food Stamp Program,” (with James X. Sullivan) Working Paper, December 2008.

“The Material Well-Being of the Bottom Twenty Percent and the Middle Class Since 1980,” (with James X. Sullivan) Working Paper, 2009 (revised May 2019).

“The Under-Reporting of Transfers in Household Surveys: Its Nature and Consequences” (with Wallace K. C. Mok and James X. Sullivan) NBER Working Paper No. 15181, July 2009.

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“The Health Care Safety Net and Crowd-Out of Private Health Insurance,” (with Anthony T. Lo Sasso), NBER Working Paper No. 11977, January 2006 (revised February 2010).

“Consumption, Income, and Material Well-Being After Welfare Reform” (with James X. Sullivan) NBER Working Paper No. 11976, January 2006. This paper was circulated earlier as “Trends in the Consumption and Income of Poor Families.”

“Identification and Estimation of Structural Models of Labor Supply and Program Participation” (with Bradley T. Heim), Working Paper, September 2005, Revised March 2006.

“Structural Labor Supply Models when Budget Constraints are Nonlinear” (with Bradley T. Heim), Working Paper, October 2000, Revised June 2003.

“Medicaid, Private Health Insurance, and the Labor Supply of Single Mothers” (with Dan T. Rosenbaum), Working Paper, November 2000.

“Do the Poor Move to Receive Higher Welfare Benefits?” Working Paper, July 1998 (revised September 2000).

“Repeat Use of Unemployment Insurance,” (with Dan T. Rosenbaum), NBER Working Paper No. 5423, January 1996.

“Semiparametric Estimation of Hazard Models,” working paper, M.I.T., July 1986, last revised September 1995.

“The Effect of Unemployment Insurance Taxes and Benefits on Layoffs Using Firm and Individual Data,” (with Patricia M. Anderson), working paper, August 1993, last revised December 1994, NBER Working Paper No. 4960.

“Using Natural Experiments to Measure the Effects of Unemployment Insurance,” May 1992. An earlier version was "A Quasi-Experimental Approach to the Effects of Unemployment Insurance," April 1989, National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 3159.

Reports and Testimony

Final Report of the Interagency Technical Working Group Evaluating Alternative Measures of Poverty, January 2021 (co-chair). https://www.bls.gov/cex/itwg-report.pdf https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2021/demo/EvaluatingAlternat iveMeasuresofPoverty_08Jan2021.pdf

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Interim Report of the Interagency Technical Working Group Evaluating Alternative Measures of Poverty, February 2020 (co-chair). https://www.regulations.gov/docket?D=OMB-2019-0007

Real-time Poverty Estimates During the COVID-19 Pandemic through . . . (with Jeehoon Han and James X. Sullivan). These are regular monthly updates.

Annual Report on U.S. Consumption Poverty: 2018 (with James X. Sullivan), October 2019.

Annual Report on U.S. Consumption Poverty: 2017 (with James X. Sullivan), October 2018.

Annual Report on U.S. Consumption Poverty: 2016 (with James X. Sullivan), September 2017.

The Promise of Evidence-Based Policymaking: Report of the Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking (coauthor), September 2017.

Testimony before the House Committee on Ways and Means, July 17, 2008.

Research Support

National Science Foundation grant “RAPID: Income and Poverty in the COVID-19 Pandemic,” PI, for the period July 1, 2020 – June 30, 2021.

Menard Family Foundation Gift for the project “Linking Data to Measure Material Well- Being and Improve Surveys”, PI, for the period January 1, 2020 to September 30, 2023.

NBER Retirement Research Center, Project NB19-07 "Assessing the Assessing the Distributional Effects of SSA Programs Using Linked Income & Consumption Survey Data," PI, for the period September 30, 2018 - September 29, 2019.

NBER Retirement Research Center, Project NB18-02 "Assessing the Effects of SSA Programs Using Linked Survey and Administrative Data", PI, for the period September 30, 2017 - September 29, 2018.

Charles Koch Foundation Grant “Linking Data to Measure Material Well-Being and Improve Surveys,” PI, for the period July 1, 2017 – June 30, 2020.

Russell Sage Foundation Grant “Creating a Comprehensive Income Dataset,” PI, for the period July 1, 2017 to June 30, 2019.

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant “Linking Data to Measure Material Well-Being and Improve Surveys,” PI, for the period June 1, 2017 – May 31, 2020.

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NBER Economics of Food Security Initiative Grant “The Nature, Consequences and Geographic Variation of Misreporting of SNAP Participation", PI, for the period March 1, 2016 - December 1, 2017.

NBER Disability Research Center, Project NB16-06 "The Material Well-being of Disabled Retirees: Evidence from the PSID", PI, for the period September 30, 2015 - September 29, 2016.

Population Research Center (PRC) Pilot award for “Medicaid and Hospital Visits” for the period Jan 1, 2013-Dec 31, 2014.

Population Research Center (PRC) Pilot award for “Improving Data for Research on Poverty and Inequality” for the period Jan 1, 2011-Dec 31, 2011.

NBER Retirement Research Center, “The Income and Consumption of the Disabled” PI, for the period November 1, 2008 – October 31, 2009.

NBER Retirement Research Center, “The Understatement in Transfers to the Aged in Household Surveys: Its Nature and Consequences” PI, for the period November 1, 2007 – October 31, 2008.

R01 NICHD “The Safety Net, Medicaid, and Child Health Outcomes,” co-PI, March 1, 2007- February 28, 2010.

USDA/Economic Research Service, “Food Stamp Program eligibility and Participation: Census Survey and Administrative Data,” co-PI, September 16, 2006- September 30, 2007.

USDA/Economic Research Service, “Food Stamp, NLSP, and WIC Under-Reporting in Household Surveys,” PI, September 1, 2006 – August 31, 2007.

Stigler Center, Graduate School of Business “The Effect of Unemployment Insurance on Time Not Working,” PI, July 1, 2006 – June 30, 2007.

NBER Retirement Research Center, “Consumption and Income Poverty for Those 65 and Over,” PI, for the period August 30, 2006 – August 29, 2007.

Annie E. Casey Foundation grant for “Identifying the Poor, Measuring Poverty, and Assessing Material Well-Being,” PI, for the period January 1, 2005 - December 30, 2005.

NBER Center for Aging and Health Research, Pilot Award for “Disability, Transfers, Income and Consumption,” PI, for the period July 1, 2004 - June 30, 2005.

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Searle Fund grant “The Effect of Unemployment Insurance on Time Not Working,” PI, for the period June 1, 2003 - December 31, 2004.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant “The Safety Net and Employer-Provided Health Insurance,” co-PI, for the period October 1, 2001 - September 30, 2003.

Searle Fund grant “The Health Care ‘Safety Net’ and Crowding-Out of Employer- Provided Health Insurance,” co-PI, for the period July 1, 2001 - June 30, 2002.

Russell Sage Foundation grant to support the “Earned Income Tax Credit: Early Findings Research Conference,” October 7-8, 1999.

Joyce Foundation grant to support the “Earned Income Tax Credit: Early Findings Research Conference,” October 7-8, 1999.

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation grant to support the “Earned Income Tax Credit: Early Findings Research Conference,” October 7-8, 1999.

National Science Foundation Grant SBR-9809425 entitled "The Effects of Welfare and Taxes" for the period 7/1/98 - 9/31/01.

U.S. Department of Labor Grant entitled "The Effects of the UI Payroll Tax on Layoffs, Employment, and Wages: A Natural Experiment in Washington State," (co-P.I. with Patricia Anderson) for the period 3/28/95 to 3/27/1996.

U.S. Department of Labor Grant entitled "The Incidence of the UI Payroll Tax" (co-P.I. with Patricia Anderson). This grant is for the period March 1, 1994 to February 28, 1995.

National Science Foundation Grant SBR-9310280 entitled "The Economics of Social Insurance" for the period 7/15/93 - 12/31/96.

National Science Foundation Grant SES-9024548 entitled "Economic Effects of Unemployment Insurance and Workers' Compensation" for the period 2/15/91 - 1/31/93.

Northwestern University Research Grants Committee grant entitled "Why are there so Few Black Entrepreneurs?" for the period 6/1/90 - 5/31/91.

National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates Supplement to Grant SES-8821721.

National Science Foundation Grant SES-8821721 entitled "Unemployment Insurance, Recall, and Econometric Duration Models" for the period 2/15/89 -7/31/91.

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Northwestern University Research Grants Committee grant entitled "Unemployment Insurance and the Layoff-Recall Process" for the period 6/15/88 - 6/14/89.

Other Professional Activities

Federal Interagency Technical Working Group Exploring Alternative Measures of Poverty, Co-Chair, 2019-2021. https://www.regulations.gov/docket?D=OMB-2019-0007 https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2021/demo/Evaluating AlternativeMeasuresofPoverty_08Jan2021.pdf National Academy of Sciences Panel on Improving USDA’s Consumer Data for Food and Nutrition Policy Research, Member, 2018-2020. American Economic Association, Committee on Government Relations, Member, 2016-. Bureau of Labor Statistics Technical Advisory Committee, Member, 2012-. American Statistical Association, Business and Economic Statistics Section, Elected Council on Sections Representative, 2017-2020. Member, Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking, 2016-2017. Report here: https://www.cep.gov/cep-final-report.html American Economic Association, AEJ-Applied Editor Search Committee, Member, 2015. American Statistical Association, Business and Economic Statistics Section, Chair-Elect, Chair, 2013-2015. National Academy of Sciences Panel on Redesigning the BLS Consumer Expenditure Surveys, Member, 2011-2013. American Economic Association Committee on the State of Publicly Available Data and Statistics for the Study of Public Economics, Member, 2005. Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research, Advisory Panel on Research Uses of Administrative Data, Member, 1997-8.

Editor, Journal of Labor Economics, 2008-2012. Editor, Special Issue “Tax and Transfer Programs for Low Income People” Journal of Public Economics, Volume 89, No. 1, January 2005. Co-Editor, Special Issue “The Earned Income Tax Credit” National Tax Journal, Volume 53, No. 4 Part 2, December 2000. Editor, B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2001-2004. Associate Editor, Journal of Public Economics, 1993-2002. Associate Editor, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 1992-1998. Editorial Board, Small Business Economics, 1993-1999. Advisory Editor, Economics Letters, 1993-1998. Editorial Advisory Board, The Canadian Journal of Economics, 1996-1999.

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Advisor to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance, Human Resources Development Canada, Abt Associates, Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, IMPAQ International, Mathematica Policy Research, the Urban Institute on various projects.

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