Speaker biographies
December 12, 2005
Richard V. Burkhauser is the Sarah Gibson Blanding Professor of Policy Analysis in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management in the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University. Burkhauser has published widely in the area of United States and European social security retirement and disability policy. He was a member of the 2003 Technical Panel on Assumptions and Methods of the Social Security Administration Actuaries, a U.S. Senate appointee to the Ticket to Work/Work Incentives Improvement Act Advisory Board (2000-2002), as well as a member of the Technical Panel of the 1994-1996 Advisory Council on Social Security and the 1994-1995 National Academy of Social Insurance Panel on Disability Policy Reform. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago.
Mark Duggan is an associate professor in the University of Maryland Department of Economics and is currently an Albert P. Sloan Foundation fellow. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees from M.I.T. in Electrical Engineering in 1992 and 1994, respectively, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1999. He served as an assistant professor in the University of Chicago's Department of Economics from 1999-2003 and was a visiting assistant professor at M.I.T.'s Department of Economics during the 2001-02 academic year. His current and past research has focused primarily on the impact of government expenditure programs such as Medicaid, Social Security, and the Supplemental Security Income program. His papers have been published in several journals including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. His current research projects are being supported with grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.
Nada O. Eissa is Deputy Assistant Secretary for Microeconomic Analysis at the Department of the Treasury. In the fall of 2003, she joined Georgetown University as an associate professor of Public Policy and has been an assistant professor of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley, an economist at the International Monetary Fund, a visiting scholar at the AEI, and a national fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Nada Eissa’s research is in the area of tax and transfer policy, evaluating the effects of policy reforms on individual behavior (labor supply, marriage, consumption) and the implications of behavioral responses for program design. Her work has been widely cited, and has been featured in articles and reports in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, Worth Magazine, and Scientific American.
Melissa S. Kearney is a fellow in the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution. Before joining Brookings in 2005, Kearney was an assistant professor of Economics at Wellesley College. In 2004-2005, she was the Andrew W. Mellon Early Career Visiting Fellow in Economics at Brookings. Her research focuses on social policy issues, in particular issues related to children and families. She has also conducted research on the economics of state lotteries and gambling. She has published articles in the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of Human Resources, and the National Tax Journal. Kearney is a research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research. She received her Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2002 and her A.B. with highest honors from Princeton University in 1996. She was named a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellow in 1998, a Harry S Truman Fellow in 1995, and a Coca-Cola Scholar in 1992.
Mark V. Nadel is currently a visiting professor and the Academic Director of the executive masters program at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute. He has also taught political science at Cornell and The Johns Hopkins Universities. Until recently, Mark Nadel was Associate Commissioner for the Office of Disability and Income Assistance Policy at the Social Security Administration. He was responsible for providing broad policy analysis and development for the Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) programs. Prior to coming to Social Security, Professor Nadel was Associate Director of the Government Accountability Office’s Income Security issue area where he directed GAO's work on welfare reform and child welfare issues. Previously, he directed GAO's work on public health and health insurance issues. He has testified numerous times before Congress on health policy and children's issues. Professor Nadel is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, and he received a Ph.D. in political science from The Johns Hopkins University.
Phillip L. Swagel is a resident scholar at AEI. Before joining AEI in March 2005, he was the chief of staff of the White House Council of Economic Advisers. He has previously been a senior economist at the Council, a visiting assistant professor at Northwestern University, and an economist at the Federal Reserve Board and the International Monetary Fund. He has written on international trade policy, the political economy of the welfare state, and most recently on Social Security.
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