Professor 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 co-principal investigator of the Center for Economic Research on Employment Policy for Persons with Disabilities. At AEI, Professor Burkhauser will work on a forthcoming monograph on U.S. disability insurance policy.

-Chairman, 1998-2005; Sarah Gibson Blanding Professor of Policy Analysis, 1998-present; Department of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University

-Research professor, German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin, 2000-present

-Visiting scholar, Goethe Universitat, Frankfurt, 1988; visiting professor, The European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), 1996; visiting scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 2000; visiting fellow, Australia National University, Department of Economics, 2003

-Professor of economics, The Maxwell School, Syracuse University, 1990-1998

-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, 1990-1991

-Assistant professor, 1979-1982; associate professor, 1982-1985; professor, 1985-1990, Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University

-Visiting scholar of economics, University of Wisconsin, 1984-1985

-Consultant, Urban Institute, 1978-1981; United Nations in Panama, 1983-1984; Research Triangle Institute, 1984-1985

-Research associate, Institute for Poverty Research, University of Wisconsin, 1977-1979

-Economist, Office of Policy Evaluation/Income Security, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1976-1977

-Research assistant, University of Chicago, 1973-1976

-Mathematics teacher trainer, Peace Corps, Kingston, Jamaica, 1970-1972

-Mathematics teacher, Trenton High School, New Jersey, 1969-1970

Education

Ph.D., economics, University of Chicago

M.A., economics, Rutgers University

B.A., economics, St. Vincent College

 

Events

The Myth of the Declining Middle Class Gaining Ground: New Reforms from Old Europe