Assistant Professor of Economics

Economics, CBA 368
P.O. Box 880489
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, NE 68588-0404, USA
Phone: (402) 613-9023
Fax: (402) 472-9700
E-mail:

Joined the college in August 2008.

Expertise:

• Property & Sales Tax
• Public Finance
• Taxation
• Social Security

Education:

Ph.D., Economics, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, 2001.
M.A., Economics, The Maxwell School, Syracuse University, 1996.
B.A., Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1994.

Spring 2010 Courses:
Economics 471: Urban & Regional Economics, TH
Economics 215: Statistics, TH

Previous Employment:
2001–2008, Tax Analysis Division, Congressional Budget Office
2005, The President’s Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform

Articles:
"The Elasticity of Taxable Income during the 1990s: New Estimates and Sensitivity Analyses," Southern Economic Journal, (forthcoming).
    Other version: “Taxable Income Responses to 1990s Tax Acts: Further Explorations,” Working Paper 2008-08, Congressional Budget Office, Washington D.C., (September 2008).

"The Elasticity of Taxable Income with Respect to Marginal Tax Rates: A Critical Review," NBER Working Paper No. 15012(May 2009), revise and resubmit requested from Journal of Economic Literature. (with Emmanuel Saez and Joel Slemrod)

"The Elasticity of Taxable Income: Influences on Economic Efficiency and Tax Revenues, and Implications for Tax Policy," in Tax Policy Lessons from the 2000s, A. Viard (ed.), AEI Press, Washington, D.C., (2009): 101-136.

“The Elasticity of Taxable Income over the 1980s and 1990s,” National Tax Journal, 60(4), (December 2007): 743-768.
   Other versions:  “A Sensitivity Analysis of the Elasticity of Taxable Income,” Working Paper 2008-01, Congressional Budget Office, Washington D.C., (January 2008).

“Panel Data Techniques and the Elasticity of Taxable Income,” Working Paper 2008-11, Congressional Budget Office, Washington D.C., (October 2008).

“Tax Reform and Charitable Giving,” under review for publication as a CBO Paper, Congressional Budget Office, Washington D.C., (Forthcoming).

   Abridged version: “Tax Reform and Charitable Giving,” National Tax Association 2007 100th Annual Conference Proceedings, (2008).

"The Elasticity of Taxable Income During the 1990s: A Sensitivity Analysis,” Congressional Budget Office, Washington D.C., Working Paper 2006-3, (February 2006).

“Trends in High-Income and Behavioral Responses to Taxation: Evidence from Executive Compensation and Statistics of Income Data,” Congressional Budget Office, Washington D.C., Working Paper 2006-14, December 2006). (with Nada O. Eissa)

“Recent Literature on Taxable-Income Elasticities,” Technical Paper 2004-16, Congressional Budget Office, Washington D.C., (December 2004).

“Expenditure Tax,” The Encyclopedia of Taxation and Tax Policy 2nd edition, (edited by Joseph J. Cordes, Robert D. Ebel, and Jane G. Gravelle), The Urban Institute Press, (October 2005). (with J Fred Giertz)

“Private and Public Contributions to Financing College Education,” CBO Paper, Congressional Budget Office, Washington D.C., (January 2004). (with Nabeel Alsalam and Dennis Zimmerman)
   Other version: “Federal Policy and the Financing Costs of Higher Education: An Equity Analysis within the Becker Framework,” National Tax Association 2002 95th Annual Conference Proceedings , 99-109, (2003). (with Nabeel Alsalam and Dennis Zimmerman)

“The 2002 Downturn in State Revenues: A Comparative Review and Analysis,” National Tax Journal, 57, 111-32, (March 2004). (with J Fred Giertz)

“Accelerated Depreciation and State Revenues,” Institute of Government and Public Affairs Special Publication, (September 2002).

“New York is not Arkansas,” The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY), April 19, 2000, p. A-11. Op-ed piece dealing with the redistribution of federal tax dollars between states.

“A Time-Series Econometric Model of the Upstate New York Economy,” March 1999, Metropolitan Studies Program Series: Occasional Paper No. 195, with Donald H. Dutkowsky and James R. Follain.

Awards:
Research Fellow, Research Development Fellows Program (University of Nebraska), 2010
National Tax Journal, Referee of the Year Award, 2009

Research Interests: