Louise Sheiner Education: Ph.D. in Economics, Harvard University, 1993. M.A. in Economics, Harvard University, 1989. A.B. Harvard University, 1982. Fields: Public Finance, Health Economics, Aging, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics. Experience Current: Senior Fellow and Policy Director, The Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy, The Brookings Institution. 1997 –2014: Senior Economist, Fiscal Analysis Section, Federal Reserve Board of Governors. June - December 1996: Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy, United States Department of the Treasury. 1995 - 1996: Senior Staff Economist, Council of Economic Advisers, White House. 1993 - 1995: Economist, Fiscal Analysis Section, Federal Reserve Board of Governors. 1990 - 1993: Economist, Joint Committee on Taxation, U.S. Congress. 2007 - 2009, Affiliated Professor, Georgetown Public Policy Institute. Publications and Working Papers Perspectives on Health Spending, paper presented for Brookings Conference on Health Spending Growth, April 2014. The Fiscal Stress Arising from State and Local Retiree Health Obligations, forthcoming, Journal of Health Economics 2014. (with Byron Lutz) The Determinants of the Macroeconomic Implications of Aging, forthcoming, American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 2014. Why the Geographic Variation in Health Care Spending Can't Tell Us Much about the Efficiency or Quality of our Health Care System, Federal Reserve Working Paper, FEDS-04, 2013. Intergenerational Aspects of Health Care, in Glied, Sherry and Peter Smith, eds, Oxford Handbook of Health Economics, Oxford University Press, 2011. An Examination of Health Spending Growth in the United States: Past Trends and Future Prospects, Fiscal Sustainability: Analytical Developments and Emerging Policy Issues vol. Apr. Perugia: Banca d’Italia. 2008. (with Glenn Follette) A Primer on the Macroeconomic Implications of Population Aging, Federal Reserve Working Paper, FEDS 2007-01, 2007. (with Dan Sichel and Larry Slifman) The Sustainability of Health Spending Growth, Federal Reserve Working Paper, FEDS 2005-60, 2005. (with Glenn Follette) The Household Spending Response to the 2003 Tax Cut: Evidence from Survey Data, Federal Reserve Working Paper, FEDS 2005-32, 2005. (with Julia Coronado and Joseph Lupton) The Effects of Technology of the Age Distribution of Health Spending: A Cross-Country Perspective, Federal Reserve Working Paper, FEDS 2004-14, 2004. Should America Save for Its Old Age? Journal of Economic Perspectives, Volume 14, Number 3, Summer 2000. (with Douglas Elmendorf). Generational Aspects of Medicare, American Economic Review, Volume 90, Number 2, May 2000. (With David Cutler) Demographics and Medical Care Spending: Standard and Non-Standard Effects, in Auerbach, Alan and Ronald Lee, eds., Demographic Change and Fiscal Policy, Cambridge University Press, 2001. (with David Cutler) Welfare Improving Health Expenditure Subsidies, American Economic Review, Vol. 87, No. 1, March 1997. (With William Jack) The Geography of Medicare, American Economic Review, May 1999, Vol. 89. (with David Cutler) Recent Trends in Compensation Practices, Federal Reserve FEDS Working Paper 32, July 1999. (with David Lebow, Larry Slifman, and Martha Starr-McCluer). Health Care Costs, Wages, and Aging, Federal Reserve Working Paper 32, 1999. Managed Care and the Growth of Medical Expenditures, in Alan Garber, ed. Frontiers in Health Policy, Volume 1, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998. (with David Cutler) Housing Prices and the Savings of Renters, Journal of Urban Economics, 38, 1995. 2 Marginal Tax Rates and Health Care Reform, National Tax Journal, Volume XLVII, No. 3, September 1994. Policy Options for Long-Term Care, in David Wise, ed., Studies in the Economics of Aging, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. (with David Cutler) An Aging Society: Opportunity or Challenge, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1990. (with David Cutler, James Poterba, and Lawrence Summers). The Housing Wealth of the Aged, NBER Working Paper, #4115, July 1992. (with David Weil) Mandates with Subsidies: Efficiency and Distributional Consequences, unpublished working paper, Federal Reserve Board of Governors, 1997. Rationalizing the Excise Tax Offset, unpublished working paper, Federal Reserve Board of Governors, 1994. Comment on Gale, William and John Karl Scholz, Distributional Effects of Fundamental Tax Reform, in Henry Aaron and William Gale, eds., Economic Effects of Fundamental Tax Reform, Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1996. Review of “Generational Accounting around the World", Journal of Economic Literature, Volume 38, September 2000. Review of “Canada-US Tax Comparisons", Journal of Economic Literature, Volume 31, September 1993. Tax Treatment of Health Expenditures, in Gravelle, Jane, Robert Ebel, and Joseph Cordes, eds., Encyclopedia of Taxation of Tax Policy, Washington DC: Urban Institute Press, 1999. 3 .