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A N N U a L R E P O R T A N N U A L R E P O R T 2014 – 2015 SIEPR’s Mission The Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research supports research, trains undergraduate and graduate students, and shares nonpartisan scholarship that will lead to better economic policies in the United States and abroad. Table of Contents From the Director 2 New Faculty 4 Policy Impact 6 Young Scholars Program 8 Student Support 9 Events and Conferences 14 Policy Briefs 18 Income and Expenditures 19 Research Centers and Programs 20 Development 24 Donors 28 Visitors 32 Senior Fellows 34 Steering Committee 38 Advisory Board 39 ANNUAL REPORT | 2014 – 2015 1 From the Director Dear Friends, My first six months as the Trione Director of the undergraduates working as research assistants with Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research have been SIEPR scholars. We have also organized a number of marked with significant activity. We added more than a policy forums that were geared toward students, including dozen faculty to our Senior Fellow ranks in the Fall. They one on innovation challenges for the next presidential include Professors from the Department of Economics administration and others that focused on the “app along with the schools of Business, Education, Law, and economy” and the evolution of finance. Medicine. We also welcomed 11 Assistant Professors as We have hosted some of the most important and Faculty Fellows. These additions mean SIEPR’s arsenal of influential leaders in government and business who have expertise on economic policy includes more shared with us their insights on economic than 80 faculty from all seven Stanford schools policy and many other issues. Our Economic and from four major institutes on campus. Summit last March featured Ben Bernanke, Our faculty research has made its way into Ursula Burns, and Larry Summers. The leading academic journals, major media outlets, Federal Reserve’s Lael Brainard, Citigroup and the hands of policymakers. Several of my Vice Chair (and former White House budget colleagues and I spent time in Washington, chief) Peter Orszag, Columbia Business School D.C., this past year testifying before Congress. Dean (and former CEA Chair) Glenn Hubbard, We have expanded our communications and SIEPR Board member Charles Schwab efforts with a new website, a social media are among a few of those who headlined our presence and a fresh focus on distilling and regular Associates Meetings. disseminating the research we are doing so We held another very successful High that it can have an even bigger impact. School Teachers Conference in August that brought SIEPR played a major role in recruiting faculty to together dozens of educators from the Bay Area and beyond Stanford this past year. This includes Raj Chetty, who to learn from our faculty and discuss with one another arrived recently from Harvard, and Matthew Gentzkow, how to improve the instruction of economics to high who comes to us from the University of Chicago. Both are school students. Our State of the West Symposium, jointly SIEPR Senior Fellows and Professors in the Department organized with the Bill Lane Center for the American West, of Economics. Raj and Matt both received the John Bates was outstanding. Speakers from industry, academia, and Clark Medal, which is awarded annually to the American business discussed the challenging energy and water issues economist younger than 40 who has made the most confronting western states. And our Young Associates significant contributions to economics. program, through which recent Stanford graduates remain Our programs and opportunities for both graduate connected with SIEPR, continues to thrive. and undergraduate students are growing. We supported Through our Young Scholars program, we host many 70 graduate students during the 2014-15 academic year of the world’s most talented academics still early in their through fellowships and research assistant positions. We careers and doing economic policy research. We currently are implementing a new SIEPR program that supports have four post-doctoral scholars and an additional five 2 STANFORD INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC POLICY RESEARCH | SIEPR Whether we are exploring the impacts of monetary policy, the volatility of the Chinese economy, or the causes disseminate their research to many of the leading experts and consequences of inequality, from around the world. As the United States and the rest of the world grapple SIEPR scholars are building with formidable economic challenges, the work we are doing at SIEPR is more important than ever. Whether we are exploring the impacts of monetary policy, the volatility an arsenal of research for of the Chinese economy, or the causes and consequences of inequality, SIEPR scholars are building an arsenal of policymakers to draw from research for policymakers to draw from when designing policies that ultimately affect millions of people. As the when designing policies that ultimately presidential race unfolds in the months ahead, government officials, the media, and business leaders can look to SIEPR for rigorous, nonpartisan research on many of the most affect millions of people. important policy issues. I am very fortunate to have joined SIEPR at such a high point for the institution. Thanks to the generosity of our supporters, the scholarship by our faculty and students, First Sabbatical visitors at SIEPR, with a broad range of and the dedication and efficiency of our staff, the past expertise including tax policy, international trade, and year was our best year ever. I want to especially thank my health care policy. This program has helped to make SIEPR predecessor, John Shoven, and our Advisory Board Chair, the go-to place among the most productive and influential John Gunn, for their friendship and guidance during my economists in the world. We also hosted distinguished first six months leading SIEPR. And I am deeply grateful visitors from Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, and many other for the advice and welcome from our supporters, faculty, institutions who frequently collaborate with our scholars staff, and students. Our continued work together will help and advise our students. position SIEPR to make even greater contributions to We organized several academic conferences during improved economic policy in the U.S. and throughout the the past year. This past Fall, our Center for International world. Development (SCID) hosted more than 80 scholars from around the world for a two-day conference on Firms, Trade, Best regards, and Development. At our Working Longer conference, SIEPR scholars and distinguished visitors presented research on the demographic challenges in the U.S. and in China along with the employment effects of employer and Mark Duggan government responses to these changes. These conferences The Trione Director of SIEPR allow our faculty and students to learn from and The Wayne and Jodi Cooperman Professor of Economics ANNUAL REPORT | 2014 – 2015 3 New Faculty Our scholars are our most important resource at SIEPR. Raj Chetty is a Professor of economics at We added 13 Senior Fellows drawing from across the Stanford and a Senior Fellow at SIEPR. Stanford campus this year. We also created a new class He is also co-director of the Public of “Faculty Fellows” composed of 11 Assistant Professors Economics group at the National Bureau working on policy relevant economic research. And we of Economic Research. continue to draw on the expertise of our nine Senior Named one of the top economists Fellow Emeriti. in the world by The New York Times and The Economist, Chetty’s research combines empirical evidence and theory Senior Fellows Appointed This Past Year to inform the design of more effective government policies. His work on tax policy, unemployment, education, and Ran Abramitzky, Department of Economics social mobility has been widely cited in media outlets and Laurence Baker, Stanford School of Medicine congressional testimony. Chetty received his doctorate from Harvard in 2003 Kate Bundorf, Stanford School of Medicine when he was 23 and became a professor at the University of Raj Chetty, Department of Economics California, Berkeley. He returned to Harvard in 2009 as one of the youngest tenured professors in Harvard’s history and Thomas Dee, Graduate School of Education then arrived at Stanford in 2015. Matthew Gentzkow, Department of Economics Chetty is a recipient of a MacArthur “genius” Fellowship and is one of the youngest recipients of the John Bates Guido Imbens, Stanford Graduate School of Business Clark medal, given by the American Economic Association Dan Kessler, Stanford Graduate School of Business, to the best American economist younger than 40. Stanford Law School Matthew Gentzkow is a Professor of Alison Morantz, Stanford Law School economics at Stanford and a Senior Fellow Paul Oyer, Stanford Graduate School of Business at SIEPR. He studies empirical industrial organization and political economy, with a Monika Piazzesi, Department of Economics specific focus on media industries. Martin Schneider, Department of Economics He earned his bachelor’s degree in 1997, his master’s degree in 2002 and his doctorate in 2004 – Alan Sykes, Stanford Law School all from Harvard. He received the 2014 John Bates Clark Medal, given by the American Economic Association to the American See our full list of Senior Fellows on page 34. economist younger than 40 who has made the most significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge. 4 STANFORD INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC POLICY RESEARCH | SIEPR He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Petra Persson is an Assistant Professor Sciences and the Econometric Society. He is the recipient of economics at Stanford and a Faculty of the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, several National Fellow at SIEPR. She is also a research Science Foundation grants for research on media, and a affiliate of the Centre for Economic Faculty Excellence Award for teaching. Policy Research. Persson is an applied micro Faculty Fellows joining SIEPR economist and her work lies in the fields of public and labor economics.
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