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.)
Michael S. Barr
Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
Michael S. Barr is Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, where he teaches Financial Institution Regulation, International Financial Regulation, Transnational Law, and Jurisdiction and Choice of Law. He is also Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.
Featured Work:
- Insufficient Funds: Savings, Assets, Credit and Banking Among Low- and Moderate-Income Households, with Rebecca Blank, Co-Editor. Russel Sage Press, forthcoming.
- Building Inclusive Financial Systems: A Framework for Financial Access, with Anjali Kumar and Robert Litan, Co-Editors. Brookings Institution Press, 2007.
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).
Rebecca M. Blank
Under Secretary for Economics Affairs, Department of Commerce
Dr. Blank's research has focused on the interaction between the macroeconomy, government anti-poverty programs, and the behavior and well-being of low-income families.
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Andrew Caplin
Professor of Economics, New York University
Andrew Caplin is professor of economics at New York University and the co-director of NYU's Center for Experimental Social Science. He conducts theoretical research in microeconomics, macroeconomics, political economy, economics and psychology, and neuroeconomics, as well as survey research on patterns of life cycle wealth accumulation and decumulation.
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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.
Noël B. Cunningham
Professor of Law, New York University School of Law
Professor Cunningham's teaching and scholarship has focused mainly on tax policy and the taxation of partnerships. He has written on a variety of diverse issues including the taxation of imputed income, the preference for capital gains and taxing capital income.
Featured Work:
- The Logic of Subchapter K: A Conceptual Guide to the Taxation of Partnerships, with Laura E. Cunningham. 3rd Edition, West 2006.
- The Carried Interest Controversy: Let's Not Get Carried Away, with Mitchell Engler. 61 Tax L. Rev. (2008).
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.
Mitchell Engler
Professor of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University
Professor Engler joined the faculty at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, in 1999, where he presently is a Professor of Law. He has written extensively about matters of tax policy.
Featured Work:
- Progressive Consumption Taxes, 57 Hastings L.J. 55 (2005).
- The Carried Interest Controversy: Let's Not Get Carried Away, with Noel B. Cunningham. 61 Tax L. Rev. (2008).
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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Mark H. Greenberg
Executive Director, Georgetown Center on Poverty, Inequality and Public Policy; Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
Mr. Greenberg has written extensively on federal and state low-income issues, including welfare reform; workforce policy; child care and early education; tax policy and others. He frequently provides technical assistance to state and local governments regarding poverty reduction strategies.
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Jonathan Gruber
Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Formerly Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy, Jon's current research is on the economics of employer-provided health care, the effects of the Social Security program on retirement behavior, and the economics of smoking.
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Jacob S. Hacker
Professor of Political Science, Yale University, and Fellow, New America Foundation
Formerly a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows and Research Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Jacob studies U.S. public policy in historical and cross-national perspective. He is currently heading a Social Science Research Council project on the "privatization of risk" and co-chairing the 2007 annual conference of the National Academy of Social Insurance.
Featured Work:
- Universal Insurance: Enhancing Economic Security to Promote Opportunity, Discussion Paper 2006-07, The Hamilton Project (2006)
- The Great Risk Shift: The Assault on American Jobs, Families, Health Care, and Retirement—And How You Can Fight Back (Oxford University Press, 2006)
- Medicare Plus: Increasing Health Coverage by Expanding Medicare, Economic and Social Research Institute (2001)
Harry J. Holzer
Professor of Public Policy, Georgetown University
Harry J. Holzer is a professor of public policy at Georgetown University, a Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute, and a former Chief Economist at the U.S. Department of Labor. His research focuses primarily on labor markets for less-skilled and disadvantaged workers.
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J. Mark Iwry
Non-Resident Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
Mark Iwry is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Principal of the Retirement Security Project, Research Professor at Georgetown University, and Of Counsel to the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP. He served as Benefits Tax Counsel at the U.S. Treasury Department from 1995 to 2001.
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Louis S. Jacobson
Senior Economist, CNA
The primary foci of Dr. Louis Jacobson's research has been estimating the cost of job loss and the ability of One-Stop and community college services to offset those losses.
Featured Work:
- Pathways to Boosting the Earnings of Low-Income Students by Increasing Their Educational Attainment, Jacobson, Louis S. and Christine Mokher. 2008. Report prepared for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Hudson Institute and CNA, Washington, D.C.
- Evaluation of Labor Exchange Services in a One-Stop Delivery System Environment: Final Report, Jacobson, Louis S., Ian Petta, Amy Shimshak, and Regina Yudd. 2004. U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration Occasional Paper 2004-09, Department of Labor, Washington, DC.
David John is Managing Director to The Retirement Security Project and a Senior Research Fellow at The Heritage Foundation. Mr. John serves as Heritage's lead analyst on issues relating to pensions, financial institutions, asset building, and Social Security reform.
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Thomas Kalil
Special Assistant to the Chancellor for Science and Technology, UC Berkeley, and Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
Tom develops major new multi-disciplinary research and education initiatives at the intersection of information technology, nanotechnology, Microsystems, and biology. Previously, he served as the Deputy Assistant to President Clinton for Technology and Economic Policy, and the Deputy Director of the White House National Economic Council.
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Formerly a senior economist for the Council of Economic Advisers, Tom is heading up a university-wide research center, partnering with school districts to study teacher quality, public school choice and other matters of district policy.
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Previously Assistant Secretary for Management and Chief Financial Officer of the Treasury Department, Nancy is head of McKinsey's Washington, DC office. As a leader of McKinsey's Government Practice, she specializes in developing strategies and improving organizational effectiveness for a wide range of clients.
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Ed is widely recognized as one of the elite tax lawyers in the United States. His practice focuses on federal income tax matters, including taxation of new financial products, financial institutions and international mergers and acquisitions. He regularly lectures at New York University and is a visiting lecturer at Yale Law School.
Lori G. Kletzer
Professor of Economics, University of California, Santa Cruz and Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics
In addition to her research on the domestic labor market effects of globalization, Lori's research has focused on the causes and consequences of job displacement, job training, racial differences in the incidence of job loss, and the microeconomics of college choice, careers, and wages.
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Jeffrey R. Kling
Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of Economic Studies, Brookings Institution
Having previously served on the economics faculty at Princeton and as Special Assistant to the Secretary at the Department of Labor, Jeff is now co-director of the Policy Evaluation Project, which coordinates randomized experiments to test policy innovations. He is also examining unemployment insurance and other aspects of social insurance in the U.S.
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Alan B. Krueger
Bendheim Professor Of Economics And Public Policy, Princeton University
Previously the Chief Economist at the Department of Labor, Alan has written extensively on the economics of education and labor and writes a monthly column on economics for the New York Times called The Economic Scene.
Featured Work:
- Summer Opportunity Scholarships: A Proposal to Narrow the Skills Gap, Molly E. Fifer and Alan B. Krueger, Discussion Paper 2006-03, The Hamilton Project (2006)
- Economic Considerations and Class Size, Economic Journal, vol. 113, pp. 34-63 (February 2003)
- Another Look at Whether a Rising Tide Lifts All Boats, James R. Hines, Hilary Hoynes, and Alan B. Krueger, (chapter in The Roaring 90s: Can Full Employment Be Sustained), Russell Sage and Century Fund (2001)
Jeanne M. Lambrew
Associate Professor, The George Washington University, and Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
Jeanne Lambrew is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and teaches health policy at The George Washington University. She conducts policy-relevant research on the uninsured, Medicaid, Medicare, and long-term care. Lambrew was previously the program associate director for health at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the senior health analyst at the National Economic Council. She played a central role in drafting and implementing the State Children's Health Insurance Program, in addition to other major health-care proposals.
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Robert Z. Lawrence
Albert L. Williams Professor of International Trade and Investment, Harvard Kennedy School
Robert Z. Lawrence is the Albert L. Williams Professor of International Trade and Investment at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and a Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. His research focuses on Trade Policy.
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David Lewis
Senior Vice President, HDR Corporation
David Lewis is Senior Vice President with HDR. His professional interests include the economic analysis of human rights in relation to people with disabilities; the facilitation of public-private partnerships; and the extension of Cost-Benefit Analysis to accommodate the productivity effects of private investment in advanced logistics.
Featured Work:
- Policy and Planning as Public Choice: Mass Transit in the United States, with Fred W. Williams, Ashgate Press, 1999
- Testimony Before the US House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructur, Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, Implementation of New Starts and Small Starts Program, May 10, 2007
- Public-Private Deals: Need Firm Rules, with Everett M. Ehrlich, Engineering News Record, April 7/14, 2008
Douglas Gary Lichtman
Professor of Law, University of Chicago
An Editor of the Journal of Law & Economics, Doug's research considers how technology will challenge, reinforce, and redefine traditional legal rules. Specific areas of expertise include patent, copyright, and trademark law; telecommunications regulation; information economics; and a variety of issues related to technology startups and the Internet.
Featured Work:
- Aligning Patent Presumptions with the Reality of Patent Review: A Proposal for Patent Reform, Discussion Paper 2006-10, The Hamilton Project (2006)
- Brief of Kenneth J. Arrow, Ian Ayres, Gary Becker, William M. Landes, Steven Levitt, Douglas Lichtman, Kevin Murphy, Randal Picker, Andrew Rosenfield, and Steven Shavell, as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioners, MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster Ltd., No. 04-480 (US Sup Ct filed January 24, 2005)
- Indirect Liability for Copyright Infringement: An Economic Perspective, Lichtman and William Landes, 16 Harvard Journal of Law and Technology 395 (2003)
Jens Ludwig
Professor of Public Policy, Georgetown University; Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Jens has published articles on poverty, education, and crime in leading scientific journals. He has been awarded the Vernon Prize for best article by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) and APPAM's David Kershaw Prize for distinguished contributions to public policy by the age of 40.
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Gilbert E. Metcalf
Professor of Economics, Tufts University
Gilbert E. Metcalf is a Professor of Economics at Tufts University and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His current research focuses on energy taxation, climate change, and carbon pricing, most especially carbon taxation.
Featured Work:
- Federal Tax Policy Towards Energy, Tax Policy and the Economy, 21(2007): 145-184.
- Assessment of US Cap-and-Trade Proposals, June 2007, NBER Working Paper 13176 (with Sergey Paltsev, John Reilly, Henry Jacoby, Angelo Gurgel, Andrei Sokolov, and Jennifer Holak).
- Environmental Levies and Distortionary Taxation: Pigou, Taxation, and Pollution, Journal of Public Economics, 87(2002): 313-322.
Richard Newell
Gendell Associate Professor of Energy and Environmental Economics Environmental Sciences & Policy, Duke University
Newell's experience lies in the economics of energy and environmental markets, policies, and technologies; climate change; energy efficiency; and market-based environmental policy.
Featured Work:
- Carbon Mitigation Costs for the Commercial Building Sector: Discrete-continuous Choice Analysis of Multifuel Energy Demand., R.G. Newell and W.A Pizer, Resource and Energy Economics, vol. 30 no. 4 (December, 2008), pp. 527-539.
- International Technology-Oriented Agreements to Address Climate Change, de Coninck, H., C. Fischer, R.G. Newell, and T. Ueno, Energy Policy, vol. 36 (January, 2008), pp. 335-356
Joseph P. Newhouse
Professor of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School, and John F. Kennedy School of Government
Joe is the John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy and Management at Harvard and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. An elected member of the Institute of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he has served as the vice-chair of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission and founding editor of the Journal of Health Economics.
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).
- Reconsidering the Moral Hazard-Risk Avoidance Tradeoff, Joseph P. Newhouse, Journal of Health Economics 25 (5): 1005-1014 (2006).
- Unintended Consequences of Caps on Medicare Drug Benefits, John T. Hsu, Maggie Price, Jie Huang, Richard Brand, Vicki Fung, Rita Hui, Bruce Fireman, Joseph P. Newhouse, and Joseph V. Selby, New England Journal of Medicine (2006).
Edgar O. Olsen
Professor of Economics, University of Virginia
Edgar O. Olsen is a professor of economics at the University of Virginia. His research on low-income housing policy has been published in leading professional journals and edited volumes, he has served as a consultant on housing policy issues to federal and state agencies, and he has testified on these matters before congressional committees.
Featured Work:
- Achieving Fundamental Housing Policy Reform, in Promoting the General Welfare: American Democracy and the Political Economy of Government Performance, edited by Alan Gerber and Eric Patashnik (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2006).
- Low-Income Housing Policy, in New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Second Edition, edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume (London: Macmillan, 2008).
John M. Peha
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
Jon Peha is Associate Director of the Center for Wireless & Broadband Networking at Carnegie Mellon University, and Professor of Engineering & Public Policy. His research spans technical and policy issues of information technology, such as spectrum, broadband Internet, communications for emergency responders, universal service, e-commerce, privacy and security.
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Frederick Pollock
Vice President of Infrastructure, Morgan Stanley
Fred Pollock is a Vice President and investment professional within Morgan Stanley. Fred joined Morgan Stanley in 2006. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Fred was an investment professional within Deutsche Bank's. Fred also previously was an associate at the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell a staff officer at the construction and engineering firm, Bechtel SAIC, and a founder of a boutique asset management business that invests in residential real estate.
Dorothy Robyn
Principal, The Brattle Group
Dorothy Robyn is a public policy expert who served on President Clinton's economic team. Her research and consulting work have focused on the use of market mechanisms in aviation, telecommunications and other network industries.
Featured Work:
- Toward an Evolutionary Regime for Spectrum Governance: Licensing or Unrestricted Entry?, with William J. Baumol, Brookings Institution, 2006
- Braking the Special Interests: Trucking Deregulation and the Politics of Policy Reform, University of Chicago Press, 1987
- The Sky Must be No Limit to Global Competition, with Alfred E. Kahn, The Financial Times, February 15, 2006
Howard Rosen
Executive Director, Trade Adjustment Assistance Coalition and Visiting Fellow, Institute for International Economics
Having previously served as Minority Staff Director of the Joint Economic Committee of the US Congress, Howard has written extensively on issues relating to international trade, macroeconomic policies and labor market adjustment.
Featured work:
- Restructuring Unemployment Insurance for the Twenty-First Century Workforce, Lori G. Kletzer and Howard F. Rosen, Discussion Paper 2006-06, The Hamilton Project (2006)
- Easing the Adjustment Burden on US Workers, Lori Kletzer and Howard Rosen, in C. Fred Bergsten, ed. The United States and the World Economy: Foreign Economic Policy for the Next Decade, Washington, D.C.: Institute for International Economics (2005)
- Labor Market Adjustment to the Multi-Fiber Arrangement Removal, paper prepared for the World Bank, (June 2005)
Isabel V. Sawhill
Cabot Family Chair & Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Belle's areas of expertise are children, education, the federal budget, poverty and inequality, social welfare policy, and teen pregnancy, on which she is the author and editor of numerous books and articles. She is the co-director of the Center on Children and Families at the Brookings Institution.
Featured Work:
- Success by Ten: Intervening Early, Often, and Effectively in the Education of Young Children, Jens Ludwig and Isabel Sawhill, Discussion Paper 2007-02, The Hamilton Project (2007).
- The Effects of Investing in Early Education on Economic Growth, William T. Dickens, Isabel Sawhill, and Jeffrey Tebbs (April 2006).
- One Percent for the Kids: New Policies, Brighter Futures for America's Children, Brookings Institution Press (2003).
John Karl Scholz
Visiting Fellow, Economic Studies
A professor of economics and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Treasury Department, Scholz’s writing focuses on wealth accumulation, the earned income tax credit and low-wage labor markets, and intergenerational transfers.
Judy's primary research fields are labor economics and public finance. Her current research focuses on the economics of higher education, and its role in addressing or exacerbating inequalities in educational attainment and labor market outcomes.
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Eldar Shafir
Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs, Princeton University
Eldar Shafir is Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs in the Department of Psychology and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. His interests are in descriptive studies of decision-making and their implications for economics and rationality.
Featured Work:
- Behavioral Economics and Marketing in Aid of Decision-Making among the Poor, with M. Bertrand and S. Mullainathan. Journal of Public Policy and Marketing, 25, 1, 8-23..
- A Behavioral Perspective on Consumer Protection, in Roundtable on Demand-Side Economics for Consumer Policy: A Summary Report (DSTI/CP(2006)3/ FINAL). Committee on Consumer Policy; OECD, Paris, France (pp. 42-53)..
Kent Smetters
Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Kent Smetters is an associate professor at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his Ph.D. in economics in 1995 from Harvard University.
Douglas O. Staiger
Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College
A Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Doug's work focuses on school accountability, the quality of medical care, and the labor market for nurses.
Featured Work:
- Identifying Effective Teachers Using Performance on the Job, Robert Gordon, Thomas J. Kane, and Douglas O. Staiger, Discussion Paper 2006-01, The Hamilton Project (2006)
- The Promise and Pitfalls of Using Imprecise School Accountability Measures, Thomas J. Kane and Douglas O. Staiger, Journal of Economic Perspectives (2002)
- Implications of an Aging Registered Nurse Workforce, Peter Buerhaus, Douglas O. Staiger, and David Auerbach, JAMA 283 (22): 2948-2954 (2000)
Robert N. Stavins
Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School
Robert N. Stavins is the Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; a University Fellow of Resources for the Future, and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Professor Stavins' research has examined diverse areas of environmental economics and policy.
Featured Work:
- Architectures for Agreement: Addressing Global Climate Change in the Post-Kyoto World, (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
- Economics of the Environment, (W. W. Norton, 2005)
- Environmental Protection and the Social Responsibility of Firms, (Resources for the Future, 2005)
David Torregrosa
Principal Analyst, Congressional Budget Office
David Torregrosa is an analyst in the Macroeconomic Analysis Division of the Congressional Budget Office. His work focuses on proposals for federal disaster and terrorism insurance, risks that the government-sponsored enterprises pose to taxpayers, as well as federal financial and budgetary accounting issues.
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Lina Walker
Research Director, The Retirement Security Project
Lina Walker is the Research Director for the Retirement Security Project. Her research focuses on the saving decisions of the near elderly, including whether individuals save for long-term care expenses, the challenges faced by disadvantaged groups and the extent to which behavioral biases impede demand for annuities.
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Hugh R. Waters
Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Dr. Hugh Waters is a Health Economist and Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. His research interests are: (1) health insurance reforms; (2) evaluation of the effects of health financing mechanisms on access, equity, and quality; and (3) economic evaluation of health care interventions.
Featured Work:
- The Role of Private Providers in Treating Child Diarrhoea in Latin America Hugh Waters, Laurel Hatt, and Robert Black. Forthcoming in Health Economics (2007)
- The Costs of Non-Insurance in Maryland Hugh Waters, Laura Steinhardt, Thomas Oliver, Alice Burton, and Susan Milner. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 139-151 (2007)
- The Cost-Effectiveness of a Child Nutrition Education Program in Peru Hugh Waters, Mary Penny, Hilary Creed-Kanashiro, Rebecca C. Robert, Rocío Narro, Jeff Willis, Laura E. Caulfield, and Robert E. Black. Health Policy and Planning, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 257-264 (2006)
- The Costs of Non-Insurance in Maryland. Hugh Waters, Laura Steinhardt, Thomas Oliver, Alice Burton, and Susan Milner. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 139-151 (2007)
Philip J. Weiser
Professor of Law and Telecommunications, University of Colorado
Phil Weiser is a professor of law and telecommunications and the Founder and Executive Director of the Silicon Flatirons Center at the University of Colorado. He teaches and writes in the area of technology law and is the author of numerous articles and two books.
Featured Work:
- Spectrum Policy Reform and the Next Frontier of Property Rights, with Dale N. Hatfield, George Mason Law Review, Vol. 60, No. 3, 2008.
- A Framework for National Broadband Policy, The Aspen Institute, 2008.
- Digital Crossroads: American Telecommunications Policy in the Internet Age, with Jon Nuechterlein, MIT Press, 2005.
Bruce Western
Professor of Sociology & Director of the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Western's work has focused on the role of incarceration in social and economic inequality in American society. He shows the link between incarceration and unemployment, which therefore leads to inequality.
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