Richard Bavier is a consultant with thirty-two years of government service, the last twenty with the Office of Management and Budget, where he focused on poverty measurement, distributional analysis of government spending, and evaluation of the effects of means-tested programs. His most recent publications related to poverty measurement include articles in Monthly Labor Review and the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.
Douglas J. Besharov is the Joseph J. and Violet Jacobs Scholar in Social Welfare Studies at AEI, a professor at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, and director of the Welfare Reform Academy. Between 1975 and 1979, he was the first director of the U.S. National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect. Among his many books are Recognizing Child Abuse: A Guide for the Concerned (Simon and Schuster, 1990), Rethinking WIC: An Evaluation of the Women, Infants, and Children Program (AEI Press, 2001), and Family and Child Well-Being after Welfare Reform (Transaction, 2003). Mr. Besharov is currently the president of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.
Linda Giannarelli is a senior research associate at the Urban Institute. An expert on federal and state tax and spending programs, she directs the institute’s Transfer Income Modeling Project. She also directs the development of the Net Income Calculator, a web-accessible tool that allows users to calculate the effects of increased earnings on benefits and taxes for families with different characteristics. Ms. Giannarelli led the Urban Institute’s recent analysis for the Center on American Progress of how various policy changes might affect poverty. She has published numerous studies on child care subsidies, WIC, job training, the Food Stamp program, the school lunch program, and effective marginal tax rates facing low-income families. Ms. Giannarelli is an expert user of household surveys such as the Current Population Survey, the Survey of Income and Program Participation, and the National Survey of America’s Families.
Desmond Lachman joined AEI as a resident fellow after serving as a managing director and chief emerging market economic strategist at Salomon Smith Barney. He previously served as deputy director in the IMF’s Policy and Review Department and was active in staff formulation of IMF policies toward emerging markets. Mr. Lachman has written on topics such as economic policy, fund arrangements, monetary reform, import restrictions, and exchange rates. At AEI, he studies major emerging market economies and the role of multilateral lending institutions.
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