Nadia Karamcheva
Analyst – Microeconomic Studies Division
Congressional Budget Office
Does Social Security Continue to Favor Couples?
Nadia Karamcheva
Analyst – Microeconomic Studies Division
Congressional Budget Office
Does Social Security Continue to Favor Couples?
Adele Morris
Senior Fellow & Policy Director
Climate and Energy Economics Project
The Brookings Institution
Monday, December 14, 2015 5:45 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Conference room 483, Congressional Budget Office
2nd & D Streets, SW, 4th Floor, Washington, DC 20515
Metro: Federal Center Station (entrance around the building)
Panelists:
Dr. William E. Spriggs, Chief Economist, AFL-CIO
Dr. Florence Jaumotte, Senior Economist, International Monetary Fund
Mark Huggett
Full Professor
Economics Department
Georgetown University
Mark Huggett is a Full Professor in the Economics Department of Georgetown University. Dr. Huggett’s research focuses on macroeconomics, inequality, social insurance, and computational methods. He began his tenure with Georgetown in 1999, though he did pause temporarily in 2006 to serve as a Visiting Professor of Finance in the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to Georgetown, he taught economics at the University of Illinois. Dr. Huggett earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin, and his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.
William H. Frey
Senior Fellow
Metropolitan Policy Program
The Brookings Institution
William H. Frey is a senior fellow with the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution. He is also a research professor in population studies at the University of Michigan. An internationally regarded demographer, he is known for his expertise in US demographics and American political demographics. Frey has authored over 200 publications and several books, most recently, Diversity Explosion: How New Racial Demographics are Remaking America (Brookings Institution Press, 2015).
Dr. Frey received a Ph.D. in sociology from Brown University with specialty in demography. He previously held positions at Rutgers University, the University of Washington, the University of Wisconsin, and the State University of New York at Albany. He has been a consultant to the U.S. Census Bureau, a fellow of the Urban Land Institute and a contributing editor to American Demographics magazine.
Dr. Frey will be discussing his book, Diversity Explosion. The demographic landscape of America is changing faster than most people think, as “new racial minorities”- Hispanics, Asians and multiracial Americans-comprise the bulk of the nation’s population growth, and all of the growth in its younger population. The impact on consumer patterns, public services, politics and policies has yet to be fully appreciated. In this book, Dr. Frey lays out the dynamics of this demographic change – across generations and geography.
“In a definitive guide to America’s demographic transformation, Frey gives us the facts and figures needed to understand how we got to where we are as a people and the even greater changes still ahead. Some books speculate about the future; this one calculates certainties”
– Roberto Suro, Professor of Journalism and Public Policy, University of Southern California
Lesley Turner
Assistant Professor – Economics
University of Maryland
“Giving Secondary Earners a Tax Break: A Proposal to Help Low- and Middle-Income Families”
Kevin Perese
Principal Analyst
Congressional Budget Office
“The Distribution of Household Income, Federal Taxes, and Government Spending”
Monday, June 1 2015 5:45 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Conference room 483, Congressional Budget Office
2nd & D Streets, SW, 4th Floor, Washington, DC 20515
(Metro: Federal Center Station)
Panelists:
Lakshmi Raut, Economist, Social Security Administration
Bob Lerman, Institute Fellow, Urban Institute, and Professor, American University
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Roberton C. Williams III
Senior Fellow
Resources for the Future
“The Initial Incidence of a Carbon Tax Across Income Groups and US States: Linking Overlapping-Generations and Microsimulation Models”