Thomas E. MaCurdy
Professor (and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution)
Contact Info:
[email protected]
Page in Stanford Directory
Phone: 650-723-3983
Office: Landau Economics, room 222
Office hours: On Leave: 9/1/2012 - 12/31/2012
Interests
- Research:
Econometrics, government income support programs, labor economics
- Current Research:
Consequences and incentives of income support programs (e.g., welfare, Medicare, food stamps, EITC); effectiveness of social service programs; labor economics; health economics
- Teaching:
Labor economics, econometrics, government income support programs
- Professional Affiliations:
Econometric Society (Fellow), Society of Labor Economics (Fellow), Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (Senior Fellow), Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Public Policy Institute (Adjunct Fellow), California Policy Review (Editor), and former member of editorial boards of Econometrica, Journal of Econometrics, Labour Economics, and Review of Economics and Statistics: member of American Economic Association and American Statistical Association; and member of the Labor Advisory Committees of: the Institute for Research on Poverty, US Bureau of Statistics, U.S. Census Bureau, California Health Benefits Review Program, and Congressional Budget Office
Recent Publications
(1) “Labor Supply: A Review of Alternative Approaches” (with R. Blundell), Handbook of Labor Economics 3, North Holland Publishing Co., 1999
(2) “How Does a Community’s Demographic Composition Alter Its Fiscal Burdens?” (with Thomas Nechyba), Demography and Fiscal Policy, A. Auerbach and R. Lee (eds.), Cambridge University Press, pp. 101-148, 2001
(3) “Using Information on the Moments of Disturbances to Increase the Efficiency of Estimatio,” Nonlinear Statistical Inference, C. Hsiao and J. Powell (eds.), Cambridge University Press, pp. 281-320, 2001
(4) “What Happens to Families When They Leave Welfare?” (with Grecia Marrufo and Margaret O’Brien-Strain), Public Policy Institute of California, 2003
(5) “Helping Working-Poor Families: Advantages of Wage-Based Tax Credits Over the EITC and Minimum Wages” (with Frank McIntyre), Employment Policies Institute, 2004
(6) “Characterizing the Experiences of High-Cost Users in Medicare” (with Jeff Geppert), Analyses in the Economics of Aging, D. Wise (ed.), University of Chicago Press, PP. 79- 128, 2005
(7) “Welfare” (with Jeffrey Jones), The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics, D. Henderson (ed.), 2006
(8) “A Practitioner’s Approach for Modeling Wage Dynamics Using Longitudinal Data,” Handbook of Econometrics, 5, J. Heckmen and E. Leamer (eds.), North Holland Publishing Co., forthcoming, 2007
List of Stanford Working Papers
Current Courses
Education
Ph.D., University of Chicago; B.A., University of Washington