Experts
Gerard F. Anderson
Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Gerard F. Anderson, PhD is a professor of health policy and management and professor of international health at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is currently conducting research on chronic conditions, comparative insurance systems in developing countries, medical education, health care payment reform, and technology diffusion.
Featured Work:
- Expanding Priorities - Confronting Chronic Disease in Countries with Low Income Gerard F. Anderson and E. Chu. New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 356(3):209-211, January 18, 2007.
- From 'Soak the Rich' to 'Soak the Poor': Recent Trends in Hospital Pricing Gerard F. Anderson. Health Affairs, Vol. 26(3):780-789, May/June 2007.
- Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage Gap "Navigating the 'Doughnut Hole' With Patients" Gerard F. Anderson, S.A. Berkowitz and G. Gerstenblith. JAMA, Vol. 297(8): 868-870, February 28, 2007.
Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
Irwin I. Cohn Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
Reuven specializes in international taxation and international law, and is widely published in these subject areas.
Featured Work:
- Comparative Fiscal Federalism: Comparing the European Court of Justice and the U.S. Supreme Court's Tax Jurisprudence, James R. Hines Jr. and M. Lang, co-editors. The Hague, Netherlands: Kluwer. 2007.
- International Tax as International Law: U.S. Tax Law and the International Tax Regime, New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007 (forthcoming.)
Lily Batchelder
Associate Professor of Law and Public Policy, New York University School of Law
Lily's research focuses on income taxation, wealth transfer taxation, income volatility, and social insurance.
Featured Work:
- Efficiency and Tax Incentives: The Case for Refundable Tax Credits, 59 Stanford Law Review 23 (2006) (with Fred T. Goldberg, Jr. and Peter R. Orszag).
- Taxing the Poor: Income Averaging Reconsidered, 40 Harvard Journal on Legislation 395 (2003).
Kimberly A. Clausing
Professor of Economics, Reed College
Kim's current research studies the taxation of multinational firms, exploring how international tax incentives affect international trade, government revenues, and the location of economic activity.
Featured Work:
- Corporate Tax Revenues in OECD Countries, International Tax and Public Finance, 14, April 2007, 115-33.
- International Tax Avoidance and U.S. International Trade, National Tax Journal, 59(2), June 2006, 269-87.
- The Role of U.S. Tax Policy in Offshoring, Susan Collins and Lael Brainard, eds. Brookings Trade Forum: Offshoring White-Collar Work. 2006. Washington: Brookings. 457-482.
Akash Deep
Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
A Senior Lecturer at Harvard University, Akash Deep is an expert in financial risk management and derivatives, infrastructure finance, financial institutions, and pension funds. He has provided policy advice to various governments as well as international institutions such as the International Finance Corporation, the United Nations and the Bank for International Settlements.
Featured Work:
- Putting Pension Funds to Work at Home: New Financial Instruments for Old Liabilities, Akash Deep and Heather Rowan, Report to the Latin-American Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee, 2005.
- Housing Markets and Economic Growth: Lessons from the US Refinancing Boom, Akash Deep and Dietrich Domanski, BIS Quarterly Review, September 2002.
- A Firm Foundation for Project Finance, The Financial Times, June 6, 2001.
Greg J. Duncan
Edwina S. Tarry Professor, Northwestern University
Greg J. Duncan is the Edwina S. Tarry Professor of Human Development and Social Policy at Northwestern University. An economist, Duncan has conducted research on poverty and welfare dynamics and their links to children's achievement and other development outcomes.
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Susan M. Dynarski
Associate Professor, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Sue has a special interest in the interaction of inequality and higher education, and has studied the impact of grants and loans on college attendance; the impact of state policy on college completion rates; and the distributional aspects of college savings incentives.
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Dr. Emanuel is a breast oncologist whose research has encompassed the quality and cost of end of life care, the physician-patient relationship, and the ethics of research with human beings. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine.
Featured Work:
- What Cannot be Said on Television about Health Care E.J. Emanuel. JAMA Mary 16, 2007; 297:2131-3.
- Health Care Vouchers - A Proposal for Universal Coverage E.J. Emanuel and V.R. Fuchs. New England Journal of Medicine 2005; 352(12):1255-1260.
- Access and Ability to Pay: The Ethics of a Tiered Medical Care System E.J. Emanuel and B. Krohmal. Archives of Internal Medicine 2007; 167(5):433-437.
- Health Care Reform: Why? What? When? E.J. Emanuel and V.R. Fuchs. Health Affairs 2005; 24(6): 1399-1414.
Molly E. Fifer
Princeton University
A graduate student in economics at Princeton University, Molly's research focuses on education and the economics of well-being.
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Richard G. Frank
Professor of Health Economics, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School; and John F. Kennedy School of Government
Richard is the Margaret T. Morris Professor of Health Economics at Harvard Medical School and a Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research. He advises several state mental health and substance abuse agencies on issues related to financing of care, and his work on drug pricing and mental health services has earned him multiple prizes.
Featured Work:
- Mending the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit: Improving Consumer Choice and Restructuring Purchasing, Richard G. Frank and Joseph P. Newhouse, Discussion Paper 2007-03, The Hamilton Project (2007)
- Better But Not Well: Mental Health Policy in the United States Since 1950, Richard G. Frank and Sherry A. Glied, Baltimore Johns Hopkins Press (2006)
- Behavioral Economics and Health Economics, Richard G. Frank, in P. Diamond and H. Vartianen (eds), Behavioral Economics and its Applications, Princeton: Princeton University Press (2007)
Richard B. Freeman
Herbert Ascherman Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Richard is the Program Director for Labor Studies at the National Bureau of Economic Research and co-director of the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance. His primary fields of interest are labor economics and institutions, inequality, crime, philanthropy, European labor markets, computer simulation modeling, and trade unionism.
Featured Work:
- Investing in the Best and Brightest: Increased Fellowship Support for American Scientists and Engineers, Discussion Paper 2006-09, The Hamilton Project (2006)
- Supporting 'the Best and Brightest' in Science and Engineering: NSF Graduate Research Fellowships, Richard B. Freeman, Tanwin Chang, and Hanley Chiang, NBER Working Paper #11623 (2005)
- What Do Unions Do?, Richard B. Freeman and James Medoff, Basic Books (1984). Japanese translation (1986), French translation (1987), Management Association Prize Book (1985)
Victor R. Fuchs, Ph.D.
Henry J. Kaiser Jr. Professor Emeritus, Stanford University
Fuchs uses economics to analyze the determinants of health and the determinants of the cost of care. He combines analytical results with his understanding of American values to make recommendations for health care reform.
Featured Work:
- Employment-Based Health Insurance: Past, Present, and Future Victor R. Fuchs and Alain C. Enthoven. Health Affairs vol. 25, 6 (2006)
- Health Care Expenditures Reexamined Victor R. Fuchs. Annals of Internal Medicine vol. 143, 1 (2005)
- Air Pollution and Medical Care Use by Older Americans: A Cross-Area Analysis Victor R. Fuchs and S.R. Frank. Health Affairs vol. 21, 6 (2002)
William G. Gale
Vice President and Director of the Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution
William Gale is Vice President and Director of the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution. He conducts research on a variety of economic issues, focusing particularly on tax policy, fiscal policy, pensions and saving behavior.
Featured Work:
- Improving Opportunities and Incentives for Saving by Middle- and Low-Income Households, William G. Gale, Jonathan Gruber, and Peter R. Orszag, Discussion Paper 2006-02, The Hamilton Project (2006)
- Saving Incentives for Low-and Middle-Income Families: Evidence from a Field Experiment with H&R Block, Esther Duflo, William G. Gale, Jeffrey Liebman, Peter R. Orszag, and Emmanuel Saez, The Retirement Security Project (May 2005)
- The AMT: Projections and Problems Leonard E. Burman, William G. Gale, and Jeffrey Rohaly, Tax Notes (July 7, 2003)
Austan Goolsbee
Professor of Economics, Univerisity of Chicago, G.S.B.
Named one of the World Economic Forum's 100 Global Leaders for Tomorrow and one of the Financial Times' six Gurus of the Future/Best Under 40, Austan's research is focused on the effects of taxes on wages, commerce, and other behavior.
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Robert Gordon
Managing Director for Resource Allocation, New York City Public Schools
Previously legislative director for Senator John Edwards and law clerk for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Robert has recently written about education reform and credit markets.
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Jonathan Gruber
Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology </