Richard V. Burkhauser

Cornell University

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In 2017 Richard V. Burkhauser became Emeritus Sarah Gibson Blanding Professor of Public Policy in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University. Between September 2017 and May 2019 he was a Member of President Trump's Council of Economic Advisers. His professional career has focused on how public policies affect the employment and well-being of vulnerable populations. He has published widely in journals of demography, economics, gerontology as well as public policy. He is currently an AEI Visiting Scholar, IZA Research Fellow and NBER Research Associate.

Previously Burkhauser held tenured Professor positions in the Department of Economics at Vanderbilt University and Syracuse University as well as in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University. In 2010 he was the President of the Association for Public Policy and Management. He received his PhD. in Economics from the University of Chicago in 1976.

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IZA Discussion Paper No. 14166
Policies to Help the Working Class in the Aftermath of COVID-19: Lessons from the Great Recession
Richard V. Burkhauser, Kevin Corinth, Douglas Holtz-Eakin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13359
What Accounts for the Rising Share of Women in the Top 1%?
Richard V. Burkhauser, Nicolas Herault, Stephen P. Jenkins, Roger Wilkins
published online in: Review of Income and Wealth, 30 September 2021
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12855
Evaluating the Success of President Johnson's War on Poverty: Revisiting the Historical Record Using a Full-Income Poverty Measure
Richard V. Burkhauser, Kevin Corinth, James Elwell, Jeff Larrimore
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12757
Income Growth and its Distribution from Eisenhower to Obama: The Growing Importance of In-Kind Transfers (1959-2016)
James Elwell, Kevin Corinth, Richard V. Burkhauser
published in Diana Furchtgott-Roth (ed.), United States Trends in Income, Wealth, Consumption, and Well-Being. Oxford: OUP, pp. 90-124.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10868
Survey Under-Coverage of Top Incomes and Estimation of Inequality: What Is the Role of the UK's SPI Adjustment?
Richard V. Burkhauser, Nicolas Herault, Stephen P. Jenkins, Roger Wilkins
Published in: Fiscal Studies, June 2018, 39 (2), 213-240 (Open Access)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9718
What Has Been Happening to UK Income Inequality since the Mid-1990s? Answers from Reconciled and Combined Household Survey and Tax Return Data
Richard V. Burkhauser, Nicolas Herault, Stephen P. Jenkins, Roger Wilkins
Published in: Oxford Economic Papers, April 2018, 70(2), 301–326. (Open Access)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9677
Top Incomes and Human Well-being Around the World
Richard V. Burkhauser, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Nattavudh Powdthavee
published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2017, 62, 246-257
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9665
Australia Farewell: Predictors of Emigration in the 2000s
Richard V. Burkhauser, Markus Hahn, Matthew Hall, Nicole Watson
revided version published in: Population Research and Policy Review, 2016, 35(2), 197-215.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9186
Protecting Working-Age People with Disabilities: Experiences of Four Industrialized Nations
Richard V. Burkhauser, Mary C. Daly, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
published in: Journal of Labour Market Research (Zeitschrift für Arbeitsmarktforschung), 2016, 49(4): 367-386
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4426
Recent Trends in Top Income Shares in the USA: Reconciling Estimates from March CPS and IRS Tax Return Data
Richard V. Burkhauser, Shuaizhang Feng, Stephen P. Jenkins, Jeff Larrimore
revised version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 94 (2), 371–388
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