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Bruce D. Meyer, Ph.D.
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Bruce D. Meyer is the McCormick Tribune Professor
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Bruce Meyer, the McCormick Tribune Professor in the Harris School, studies poverty and inequality, tax policy, welfare policy, unemployment insurance, workers? compensation, minority entrepreneurship, the health care safety net, and labor supply. His most recent work includes research on the effects of welfare and tax reform on the well-being of single mothers, models and methods to analyze labor supply, changes in poverty and inequality, the effects of disability, and the effects of changes in the health care safety net.
Meyer received his B.A. and M.A. in economics from Northwestern University and his Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Meyer was a faculty member in the Economics Department at Northwestern University from 1987 through 2004. He has also been a visiting faculty member at University College London and Princeton University, a member of the Institute for Research on Poverty, a faculty research fellow and research associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a faculty fellow at the Institute for Policy Research. He is a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance. Meyer has also served as an advisor to the U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance, Human Resources Development Canada, Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, and Mathematica Policy Research.
Selected Working Papers
- "Three Decades of Consumption and Income Poverty"
(with James X. Sullivan), March 2008 (revised). (PDF)
- "Reporting Bias in Studies of the Food Stamp Program," (with James X. Sullivan) Working
Paper, January 2008.
- "Consumption and Income Poverty for those 65 and Over," Working
Paper, September 2007
- "Further Results on Measuring the Well-Being of the Poor Using
Income and Consumption" (with James X. Sullivan), Working
Paper, August 2007
- "Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Unemployment Insurance
from New York State" (with Wallace K. C. Mok), Working
Paper, January 2007.
- "Disability, Earnings, Income and Consumption"
(with Wallace K. C. Mok), Working
Paper, December 2006.
- "The Health Care Safety Net and Crowd-Out of Private
Health Insurance" (with Anthony T. Lo Sasso), Working
Paper, September 2006 (revised).
- "Consumption, Income, and Material Well-Being
after Welfare Reform" (with James X. Sullivan), National
Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper, January 2006.
- "Structural Labor Supply Models when Budget Constraints
are Nonlinear" (with Bradley T. Heim), Working Paper, October 2000,
Revised June 2003. (Paper)
- "Do the Poor Move to Receive Higher Welfare Benefits?",
Working Paper, July 1998, last revised September 2000. (Paper)
- "Semiparametric Estimation of Hazard Models,"
Working Paper, July 1986, last revised September 1995. (Paper)
Selected Published Papers
- "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. (Paper)
- "Changes in the Consumption, Income, and Well-Being of Single Mother Headed Families," March 2008. (forthcoming, American Economic Review)
- "The U.S. Earned Income Tax Credit: Its Effects and Possible Reforms,"
Swedish Economic Policy Review 14(2) Fall 2007, 55-80. (View Working Paper)
- "Unemployment Insurance Tax Burdens and Benefits: Funding Family Leave and Reforming the Payroll Tax" (with Patricia M. Anderson), National Tax Journal 59 (March 2006), 77-95.
(Paper available from EBSCOHOST through the University of Chicago Libraries)
- "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. (Paper available through Elsevier - ScienceDirect.com)
- "Work Costs and Nonconvex Preferences in the Estimation of Labor Supply Models" (with Bradley T. Heim), Journal of Public Economics 88, 2004, 2323-2338. (Paper available through Elsevier - ScienceDirect.com)
- "Measuring the Well-Being of the Poor Using Income and Consumption" (with James X. Sullivan), Journal of Human Resources 38 Supplement, 2003, 1180-1220. (Paper)
- "Labor
Supply at the Extensive and Intensive Margins: The EITC, Welfare
and Hours Worked" American Economic Review, 92, May
2002, 373-379. (Paper available through JSTOR - www.jstor.org)
- "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. (Paper)
- "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. (Paper available through Elsevier - ScienceDirect.com)
- "Unemployment
Insurance Takeup Rates and the After-Tax Value of Benefits," (with
Patricia M. Anderson), Quarterly Journal of Economics,
CXII, August 1997, 913-938. (Paper available through JSTOR - www.jstor.org)
- "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. (Paper available through JSTOR - www.jstor.org)
- "Unemployment
Insurance and Unemployment Spells" Econometrica, 58,
July 1990, 757-782. (Paper available through JSTOR - www.jstor.org)
Congressional Testimony
- "Measuring American Poverty" (PDF), Statement of Bruce D. Meyer, Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support of the House Committee on Ways and Means, July 17, 2008.
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