THOMAS E. MaCURDY
Professor
Ph.D. University of Chicago; B.A. University of Washington.
Current Research Interests: Consequences and incentives of income transfer programs (e.g., welfare, Medicare, unemployment compensation), labor economics, health economics.
Representative Recent Publications: (1) "Labor Supply: A Review of Alternative Approaches," (with R. Blundell) Handbook of Labor Economics 3, North-Holland Publishing Co., 1999; (2) "An Evaluation of the National Longitudinal Survey of the Youth Cohort," (with R. Mark Gritz and Thomas Mroz) Journal of Human Resources, Spring 1998; (3) "An Essay on the Life Cycle: Characterizing Intertemporal Behavior with Uncertainty, Taxes, Human Capital, Durables, Imperfect Capital Markets, and Nonseparable Preferences," Research in Economics, 1999; (4) "An Economic Model of the Fiscal Impacts of Immigration," (with Nechyba and Bhattacharya), Costs and Benefits of Immigration, National Academy Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Washington, D.C., 1998; (5) "Asset Allocation and Risk Allocation: Can Social Security Improve Its Solvency Problem by Investing in Private Securities?," (with John Shoven), Risk Aspects of Investment Based Social Security Reform, J. Campbell and M. Feldstein (eds.), 2001.Teaching Interests: Labor economics, econometrics.
Cross-Disciplinary Interests: Public policy, statistics.
Professional Affiliations: National Bureau of Economic Research, American Statistical Association, Econometric Society Fellow, former member of Editorial Boards of Labour Economics, Econometrica, Journal of Econometrics, and Review of Economics and Statistics; member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Research on Poverty; and member of the Research Advisory Committee for California Department of Social Services.
