Richard Burkhauser
Professor
2009
PAM

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Current Activities

Current Professional Activities
Richard V. Burkhauser joined PAM in 1998. His professional career has focused on how public policies affect the economic behavior and well-being of vulnerable populations, e.g., people with disabilities, older persons and low-income households. He has published widely on these topics in journals of demography, economics, gerontology, as well as public policy.  He is the current President of the Association for Policy Analysis and Management.

Current Research Activities
Richard V. Burkhauser is Co-Principal Investigator of the Department of Education RRT Center for Economic Research on Employment Policy for Persons with Disabilities. As part of this project he is currently looking at how Workers Compensation and state and federal anti-discrimination laws impact the decision of firms to provide accommodation to a worker following the onset of a disability. He also a member of the RAND Financial Planning Research Consortium (Social Security Administration) working on a project that will increase the knowledge of SSI-Children and their families about the returns to work once they age out of the SSI-Disabled Children program.

Current Extension Activities

As Co-Principal Investigator of the Department of Education RRT Center for Economic Research on Employment Policy for Persons with Disabilities, Richard V. Burkhauser has carried out an extensive program of technical assistance and presentations to government agencies, policymakers and consumers on the employment and economic well-being of people with disabilities. His RAND Financial Planning Research Consortium project will help SSA provide better information to SSI-Children and their families about the returns to work once these children age out of the SSI-Disabled Children program.



Biography

Biographical Statement
My research focuses on how public policies affect the economic behavior and well-being of vulnerable populations, e.g., older persons, people with disabilities, and low-income households. I have published widely on these topics in journals of demography, economics, gerontology, as well as public policy.


Education
B.A., Economics, St. Vincent College, 1963-1967
M.A., Economics, Rutgers University, 1967-1969
Ph.D., Economics, University of Chicago, 1972-1976


Keywords
labor economist, social security, income inequality, disability policy, retirement policy, minimum wage

Courses, Websites, Pubs

Courses Taught
Econ 1110: Introductory Microeconomics
Econ 4460/PAM 4460: Economics of Social Security

Selected Publications
Forthcoming:

Burkhauser, Richard V., Shuaizhang Feng, and Jeff Larrimore. " Improving Imputations of Top Incomes in the Public-Use Current Population Survey by Using Both Cell-Means and Variances." NBER Working Papers w14458.  Center for Economic Studies Working Paper Series CES-WP-08-38, November, 2008. [abstract]

Sabia, Joseph J. and Richard V. Burkhauser. Forthcoming. "Minimum Wages and Poverty: Will a $9.50 Federal Minimum Wage Really Help the Working Poor?" Southern Economic Journal. [related paper]

Published in 2010:

Burkhauser, Richard V. and Kenneth A. Couch. "Are the Inequality and Mobility Trends of the United States in the European Union's Future?" United in Diversity, Jens Alber and Neil Gilbert (eds.) Oxford University Press. (2010) pp. 280-307. [paper]

Burkhauser, Richard V. and Andrew J. Houtenville. Forthcoming. "Employment Among Working-Age People with Disabilities: What Current Data Can Tell Us." In Edna Mora Szymanski and Randall M. Parker (eds.), Work and Disability: Issues and Strategies for Career Development and Job Placement (3rd ed.) Austin, TX: Pro-Ed, Inc.

Published in 2009:

Burkhauser, Richard V. "Deconstructing European Poverty Measures: What Relative and Absolute Scales Measure." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 28 (4) (Fall, 2009): 715-724. [paper]

Burkhauser, Richard V., Shuaizhang Feng, and Stephen Jenkins. "Using a P90/P10 Ratio to Measure Inequality Trends with the Public Use Current Population Survey: A View from Inside the Census Bureau Vaults." The Review of Income and Wealth, 55 (1) (March 2009): 166-185. [abstract]

Burkhauser, Richard V., John Cawley, and Maximilian D. Schmeiser. "The Timing of the Rise in U.S. Obesity Varies With Measure of Fatness." Economics and Human Biology, 7 (2009): 307-318. [paper]

Burkhauser, Richard V. and John Cawley. "Adding Biomeasures Relating to Fatness and Obesity to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics." Biodemography and Social Biology, 55: 2, 118 - 139. [abstract]

Burkhauser, Richard V. and Jeff Larrimore. "Using Internal CPS Data to Reevaluate Trends in Labor-Earnings Gaps."  Monthly Labor Review, (August 2009): 3-18. [paper]

Burkhauser, Richard V., Alan Gustman, John Laitner, Olivia Mitchell, and Amanda Sonnega.  "Social Security Research at the Michigan Retirement Research Center." Social Security Bulletin 69, No. 4 (2009): 51-64. [paper]

Burkhauser, Richard V. and Jeff Larrimore. "Trends in the Relative Household Income of Working-Age Men With Work Limitations: Correcting the Record Using Internal Current Population Survey Data." Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 20 (3) (December 2009): 162-169. [abstract]

Stapleton, David C., Richard V. Burkhauser, Peiyun She, Robert R. Weathers II, and Gina A. Livermore. "Income Security for Workers: A Stressed Support System in Need of Innovation." Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 19, (4) (March 2009): 204-220. [abstract]

Burkhauser, Richard V. and Kenneth A. Couch. "Intragenerational Inequality and Intertemporal Mobility."  Wiemer Salverda, Brian Nolan, and Timothy Smeeding (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Income Inequality, Oxford University Press, (2009) pp. 522-548. [paper]

Burkhauser, Richard V. and Ludmila Rovba. "Institutional Responses to Structural Lag: The Changing Patterns of Work at Older Ages." Sara J. Czaja and Joseph Sharit (eds.) Aging and Work. John Hopkins University Press: Baltimore, MD. (2009) pp. 9-34.

Burkhauser, Richard V., Ludmila Rovba, and Robert Weathers II. "Household Income." In Andrew J. Houtenville, David C. Stapleton, Robert R. Weathers II, and Richard V. Burkhauser (eds.) Counting Working-age People with Disabilities: What Current Data Tell Us and Options for Improvement. Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. UpJohn Institute for Employment Research, (2009) pp. 143-190. [overview]

Burkhauser, Richard V., Ludmila Rovba, and Andrew J. Houtenville. "Poverty." In Andrew J. Houtenville, David C. Stapleton, Robert R. Weathers II, and Richard V. Burkhauser (eds.) Counting Working-age People with Disabilities: What Current Data Tell Us and Options for Improvement. Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. UpJohn Institute for Employment Research, (2009), pp. 191-224. [overview]

Books:
Houtenville, Andrew J., David C. Stapleton, Robert R. Weathers II, Richard V. Burkhauser. Counting Working-age People with Disabilities: What Current Data Tell Us and Options for Improvement. Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. UpJohn Institute for Employment Research, (2009)

Government Publications:
Burkhauser, Richard V. and Jeff Larrimore. "Better Estimates of Income and its Distribution in the Public-Use March Current Population Survey." 2008 Research Report: Center for Economic Studies and Research Data Centers, US Census Bureau, USGPO, Washington, DC. [paper]

Additional Publications