Research

Journal Publications

"Measuring Income of the Aged in Household Surveys: Evidence from Linked Administrative Records." (forthcoming), with Irena Dushi, Joshua Mitchell, and Brad Trenkamp, Journal of Pension Economics and Finance.

"Political Budget Cycles in U.S. Municipalities." (2015), with Shawn R. Moulton, Economics of Governance, 16(4): 379-403.

"The potential tradeoff between artisanal fisheries production and hydroelectricity generation on the Kafue River, Zambia." (2013), with Andrew M. Deines, Cyprian Katongo, Richard Jensen, and David M. Lodge, Freshwater Biology, 58(4): 640-654.

Other Publications

"The Hidden Resources of Women Working Longer: Evidence from Linked Survey-Administrative Data." (2018), with Joshua Mitchell, in Women Working Longer: Increased Employment at Older Ages, Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz, editors. NBER Conference Report, University of Chicago Press.

"Preliminary Research for Replacing or Supplementing the Income Question on the American Community Survey with Administrative Records." (2016), with Amy O'Hara and Joshua Mitchell. American Community Survey Research and Evaluation Report Memorandum Series, #ACS16-RER-6, and Center for Administrative Records Research and Applications Memorandum Series #16-7.

"The Validity of Consumption Data: Are the Consumer Expenditure Interview and Diary Surveys Informative?" (2015), with Bruce Meyer and James X. Sullivan, in Improving the Measurement of Consumer Expenditures, Christopher Carroll, Thomas Crossley, and John Sabelhaus, editors. University of Chicago Press in NBER Book Series Studies in Income and Wealth.

Working Papers and Papers Under Review

"National Experimental Wellbeing Statistics," with Joshua Mitchell, Nikolas Mittag, Jonathan Rothbaum, Carl Sanders, Lawrence Schmidt, and Matthew Unrath.

"Addressing Nonresponse Bias Caused by Data Collection Shocks Using Administrative Data," with Jonathan Rothbaum, Jonathan Eggleston, Mark Klee, and Brian Mendez-Smith.

"Addressing Nonresponse Bias in Household Surveys using Linked Administrative Data," with Jonathan Rothbaum.

"The Measurement of Income Growth, Mobility, and Volatility in the U.S. by Race-Ethnicity and Gender," with Maggie R. Jones, Amanda Eng, Kendall Houghton, Nikolas Pharris-Ciurej, Sonya R. Porter, Jonathan Rothbaum, and John Voorheis.

"Addressing Measurement Error in Income Reports by Combining Survey and Administrative Earnings," with Joshua Mitchell, Nikolas Mittag, Jonathan Rothbaum, Carl Sanders, Lawrence Schmidt, and Matthew Unrath. Updates "Not So Fast? How the Use of Administrative Earnings Data Would Change Poverty Estimates," with Jonathan Rothbaum and Joshua Mitchell. [available upon request]

"Do Older Americans Still Have More Income Than We Think?" with Joshua Mitchell. Updates "Do Older Americans Have More Income Than We Think?"

"Improving Income Measurement in the American Community Survey Using Expanded 6103(n) Income Data from the Internal Revenue Service," with Sandy Clark, Kevin Rinz, Jonathan Rothbaum, Chase Sawyer, John Voorheis, Thomas Hertz, Pat Langetieg, and Mark Payne. [available upon request]

"Modeling the 2021 Child Tax Credit in the CPS ASEC," with Charles Hokayem and Daniel Lin.

"Imputing 2020 Economic Impact Payments in the 2021 CPS ASEC," with Charles Hokayem and Daniel Lin.

"The Administrative Income Statistics (AIS) Project: Research on the Use of Administrative Records to Improve Income and Resource Estimates," with Jonathan Rothbaum.

"Earnings Capacity Loss of Veterans with Service Connected Disabilities: Evidence from Merged VA/ACS Data," with Steven G. Brownell, Patrick C. Mackin, Austin Nichols, and George Sheldon. [available upon request]

"Are Bracket Responses Accurate? Using IRS W-2 Records to Assess Earnings Edits for the Redesigned CPS ASEC."

"An Evaluation of Retirement Income in the CPS ASEC Using Form 1099-R Microdata."

"The Effect of Housing Assistance on Household Consumption Bundles."

"Using Timer Data to Evaluate the Respondent Burden of the 2013 CPS ASEC Content Test," with Aaron Cantu.

"The Effect of Car Ownership on Employment: Evidence from State Insurance Rate Regulation"

"A Bio-Economic Framework for Harvesting Invasive Species," with Andrew M. Deines, Matthew A. Barnes, Sheina Sim, and David M. Lodge.

"The Effect of Housing Assistance on Household Consumption Bundles"

"Bias from Unit Non-Response in the Measurement of Income in Household Surveys." with Graton M.R. Gathright and Bruce D. Meyer. Presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings, August 2015.

"An Evaluation of Retirement Income in the CPS ASEC Using Form 1099-R Microdata." Presented at Population Association of America Annual Meetings, April 2013.

American Community Survey Briefs

"The Geographic Concentration of High-Income Households: 2007-2011" (February 2013)

"Household Income Inequality Within U.S. Counties: 2006-2010" (February 2012)