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SCHOLARS &
FELLOWS
Richard Burkhauser
Visiting Scholar
RESOURCES
RESEARCH AREAS
- U.S. disability policy
- Income distribution and inequality
- Minimum wage
Contact
E-mail: richard.burkhauser@aei.org
Fax: 202-862-7177
Biography
Richard Burkhauser has spent his career investigating how public policies affect the economic behavior and well-being of vulnerable populations such as those with disabilities, the poor, and the aged. He teaches policy analysis and economics at Cornell University, where he is also the coprincipal investigator of the Center for Economic Research on Employment Policy for Persons with Disabilities. At AEI, Mr. Burkhauser is working on a monograph on U.S. disability insurance policy.
Experience
- Research Professor, German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin, 2000-present
- Sarah Gibson Blanding Professor of Policy Analysis, 1998-present; Chairman, 1998-2005; Department of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University
- Visiting Fellow, Department of Economics, Australia National University, 2003
- Visiting Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 2000
- Professor of Economics, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, 1990-98
- Visiting Professor, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), 1996
- Fellow, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social
- Sciences, Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Wassenaar, The Netherlands, 1990-91
- Professor, 1985-90; Associate Professor, 1982-85; Assistant Professor, 1979-82 Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University
- Visiting Scholar, Goethe Universitat, Frankfurt, 1988
- Visiting Scholar of Economics, University of Wisconsin, 1984-85
- Consultant, Research Triangle Institute, 1984-85; United Nations in Panama, 1983-84; Urban Institute, 1978-81
- Research Associate, Institute for Poverty Research, University of Wisconsin, 1977-79
- Economist, Office of Policy Evaluation/Income Security, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1976-77
Education
Ph.D., economics, University of Chicago M.A., economics, Rutgers University B.A., economics, St. Vincent College
Insights
October 23, 2008
The rise in income inequality since 1993 has been small.
A new procedure improves on existing imputation methods in the labor earnings inequality literature.
This paper compares a variety of measures of fatness in terms of their ability to predict application for Social Security Disability Insurance.
While difficult to achieve, fundamental disability reform is possible.
In the 1990s, social expectations of single mothers shifted.
The upward trend in income inequality prior to 1993 significantly slowed thereafter once researchers controlled for top coding in the public use data and censoring in the internal data.
Events
The Myth of the Declining Middle Class
March 18, 2008
Gaining Ground: New Reforms from Old Europe
February 20, 2008
"Old Europe"--the Western European and Scandinavian countries--has become, to some critics, a symbol of economic stagnation and political gridlock. But in recent years, many European countries have adopted reform policies that will surprise many Americans. Indeed, Western Europe is fast becoming a land of "new ideas" from which American policymakers can learn.
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