Member, Senior Leadership Panel, Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government’s Index
of Public Administration, 2024 to present.
Fellow, National Association for Business Economics.
Member of the Board of Directors, Abt Global, 2018 to present.
Member of Advisory Board, Racial Equity Scoring Initiative, 2021 to present.
Member of Advisory Council, Brookings’ Task Force on Climate Scoring, 2023 to present.
Member of Advisory Board, Peterson Institute for International Economics’ Next Bretton Woods
Group, 2023 to present.
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
“Budget Deficits, Tax Incentives, and Inflation: A Surprising Lesson from the 1983-1984
Recovery,” Tax Policy and the Economy, 1989, with Martin Feldstein.
“Government Debt, Government Spending, and Private Sector Behavior Revisited: Comment,”
American Economic Review, June 1990, with Martin Feldstein.
“Demographic Characteristics and the Public Bundle,” Public Finance, 1993, with David Cutler
and Richard Zeckhauser.
“Economic Effects of the Proposal,” An Analysis of the Administration’s Health Proposal,
Congressional Budget Office Study, February 1994, with Douglas Hamilton.
“Labor Market Effects of the Administration’s Health Proposal,” National Tax Journal,
September 1994, with Douglas Hamilton.
“The Effect of News on Bond Prices: Evidence from the United Kingdom, 1900-1920,” The
Review of Economics and Statistics, May 1996, with Mary Hirschfeld and David Weil.
“Property Tax Limitations in Retrospect: The Example of Massachusetts,” National Tax
Association Proceedings, 1996, with David Cutler and Richard Zeckhauser.
“The Deficit Gamble,” Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, November 1998, with Laurence
Ball and Gregory Mankiw.
“Restraining the Leviathan: Property Tax Limitation in Massachusetts,” Journal of Public
Economics, March 1999, with David Cutler and Richard Zeckhauser.
“Government Debt,” Handbook of Macroeconomics, 1999, with Gregory Mankiw.
“Taxation of Labor Income and the Demand for Risky Assets,” International Economic Review,
August 2000, with Miles Kimball.
“Should America Save for its Old Age? Fiscal Policy, Population Aging, and National Saving,”
Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2000, with Louise Sheiner.
“Social Security Reform and National Saving in an Era of Budget Surpluses,” Brookings Papers
on Economic Activity, Fall 2000, with Jeffrey Liebman.
“Fiscal Policy and Social Security Policy during the 1990s,” American Economic Policy in the
1990s (edited by Jeffrey Frankel and Peter Orszag), April 2002, with Jeffrey Liebman
and David Wilcox.
“Short-Run Effects of Fiscal Policy with Forward-Looking Financial Markets,” National Tax
Journal, September 2002, with David Reifschneider.