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Bio
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I am an applied economist focused on the distribution of income between individuals as well as between groups. My dissertation looked at the distributional features of income data (work that I am currently revisiting at the Federal Research Data Center in Boulder, CO). I have also studied the evolution of inequality in the US, the impact of fiscal policy on the distribution of income in Europe, and the health consequence of income inequality.
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Ph.D. in Economics, New School for Social Research (New York, NY)
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Publications
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"Labor Market Segmentation and the Distribution of Income: New Evidence from Internal Census Bureau Data" with Ellis Scharfenaker (lead author) in The Great Polarization: Economics, Institutions and Policies in the Age of Inequality (conference volume, eds. Rudiger L. von Arnim and Joseph E. Stiglitz), Columbia University Press, accepted. (Working Paper)
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"Mixing it up: The Case for Finite Mixture Models to Study the Distribution of Income" with Ellis Scharfenaker in The European Physical Journal Special Topics, 2020.
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"Redistribution in the Age of Austerity: Evidence from Europe 2006 - 2013" with Stephen Kinsella and Antoine Godin in Applied Economics Letter 24:10, 2017 (longer version available as Levy Institute Working Paper 856, 2015).
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"Angus Deaton’s Nobel Prize for Confronting Theory with Facts" in Review of Political Economy 28:4, 2016.
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"Changes in the Profile of Inequality across Europe since 2005: Austerity & Redistribution" with Stephen Kinsella and Antoine Godin in European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: Intervention 13:3, 2016.
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"A Tale of Two Ginis in the US, 1921-2012" with Daniele Tavani in International Review of Applied Economics 30:6, 2016 (originally available as Levy Institute Working Paper 826, 2015).
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"Is inequality deadly and for whom? A Bayesian Model Averaging Analysis" with Yavuz Yaşar in The Social Science Journal 53:3, 2016.
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"Revisiting the thermal and superthermal two-class distribution of incomes: a critical perspective" in European Physical Journal B 88:1, 2015.
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"Evidence for Multiple Labor Market Segments: An Entropic Analysis of US Earned Income, 1996-2007" in Journal of Income Distribution 22:2, 2013.
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"Illustrating the implications of how inequality is measured: decomposing earnings inequality by race and gender" in Journal of Labor Research 34:4, 2013.
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Other Recent Affiliations
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Member of the Advisory Committee of DU's Pay Equity Study and member of the Methodology subcommittee
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Steering Committee Member at the Rocky Mountain Research Data Center at CU Boulder, Boulder, CO
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Visiting Scholar (Gastforscher) at the IMK in Düsselorf, Germany (2017)
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Working Papers / Current Project
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"Labor Market Segmentation & the Distribution of Income" (RDC Project) with Ellis Scharfenaker & Paulo dos Santos
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“The Contributions & Characteristics of Female Entrepreneurship in Manufacturing: The Case of Vietnam” (PROF Grant Project) with Christine Ngo (PI) and Yavuz Yasar
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"What gradient? A BMA approach to untangling income, inequality, and mortality"
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"MLE for Parametric Distributions fit to Censored Data containing Tail Means"
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More Information
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