Curriculum Vitae
(pdf version)
Employment:
2010-Present. Economist, US Congress - Joint Committee on Taxation
2011-Present. Adjunct Professor, Public Policy Institute, Georgetown University
2011
2007-2010.
2007-2010.
2005-2009.
2004-2005.
Education:
2010. Cornell University, Ph.D., Economics
2009. Cornell University, M.A. Economics
2004. Davidson College, B.A., Economics and Political Science
Publications:
Forthcoming. "Recent Trends in Top Income Shares in the USA: Reconciling Estimates from March CPS and IRS Tax Return Data", with Richard V. Burkhauser, Shuaizhang Feng, and Stephen P. Jenkins. Review of Economics and Statistics
Working Paper Version (NBER Working Paper w15320)
Forthcoming. "A 'Second Opinion' on the Economic Health of the Middle Class", with Richard V. Burkhauser and Kosali I. Simon. National Tax Journal
Working Paper Version (NBER Working Paper w17164)
2011. "Does a Higher Income Have Positive Health Effects? Using the Earned Income Tax Credit to explore the Income-Health Gradient" The Milbank Quarterly 89(4): 694-727
2011. "Trends in United States Income Inequality Using the March Current Population Survey: The Importance of Controlling for Censoring", with Richard V. Burkhauser, Shuaizhang Feng, and Stephen P. Jenkins. Journal of Economic Inequality 9(3): 393-415
Working Paper Version (NBER Working Paper w14247)
2011. "Measuring Inequality Using Censored Data: A Multiple Imputation Approach", with Richard V. Burkhauser, Shuaizhang Feng, and Stephen P. Jenkins, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society - Series A 174(1): 63-81
Working Paper Version (CES Working Paper CES-WP-09-05)
2011. "Peer to Peer Lending: The relationship between language features, trustworthiness, and persuasion success", with Laura Larrimore, Crystal Jiang, David Markowitz, and Scott Gorski, Journal of Applied Communication Research 39(1): 19-37
2010. "Measuring Labor Earnings Inequality Using Public-Use March Current Population Survey Data: The Value of Including Variance and Cell Means when Imputing Topcoded Values", with Richard V. Burkhauser and Shuaizhang Feng. Economics Letters 108(1): 69-72
Extended Working Paper Version, including tables of variances (NBER Working Paper w14458)
Research Poster presented at SOLE, 2009
2009. "Trends in the Relative Household Income of Working-Age Men with Work Limitations: Correcting the Record Using Internal Current Population Survey Data", with Richard V. Burkhauser. Journal of Disability Policy Studies 20(3): 162-169
Working Paper Version (CES Working Paper CES-WP-08-05)
2009. "Using Internal Current Population Survey Data to Reevaluate Trends in Labor Earnings Gaps By Gender, Race, and Education Level", with Richard V. Burkhauser. Monthly Labor Review 132(8): 3-18
Download Paper (PDF via Bureau of Labor Statistics website)
2009. "Better Estimates of Income and Its Distribution in the Public-Use March Current Population Survey", with Richard V. Burkhauser in U.S. Census Bureau. 2008 Research Report: Center for Economic Studies and Research Data centers, US Government Printing Office, Washington DC, pp. 21-27
Download Research Report (PDF via U.S. Census Bureau CES website)
2008. "Consistent Cell Means for Topcoded Incomes in the Public Use March CPS (1976-2007)", with Richard V. Burkhauser, Shuaizhang Feng, and Laura Zayatz. Journal of Economic and Social Measurement 33(2/3): 89-128
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Working Papers:
"Accounting for United States Income Inequality Trends (1975-2009): The Changing Importance of Male and Female Labor Earnings Inequality"
"How Changes in Employment, Earnings, and Public Transfers Make the First Two Years of the Great Recession (2007-2009) Different from Previous Recessions and Why it Matters for Longer Term Trends", with Richard V. Burkhauser
Russell Sage Foundation US2010 Project Research Report (PDF)
"The Influence of Peers on Adolescents' Weight and Exercise Decisions"
"The Great Transformation in Who is Expected to Work in the United States and How it Changed the Lives of Single Mothers and People with Disabilities", with Richard V. Burkhauser, Mary Daly, and Joyce Kwok
Michigan Retirement Research Center Working Paper 2008-187
Conference Presentations:
2010. Eastern Economics Association Annual Meeting
2009. U.S Census Bureau RDC Conference
2009. Society of Labor Economists Annual Meeting (Poster)
2008. U.S Census Bureau RDC Conference
2008. Southwestern Economics Association Annual Meeting
Seminars and Invited Talks
2009. U.S. Census Bureau Center for Economic Studies
Teaching Experience:
2011. Lecturer, University of Maryland
2011. Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University
2005-2009. Teaching Assistant/Grader, Cornell University
Fellowships and awards:
2009. US Census Bureau Dissertation Mentorship Program
2006. Louis Walinsky Fund in Economics Outstanding Teaching Award, Cornell University
2004. Phi Beta Kappa, Davidson College
2004. Omicron Delta Kappa (Leadership honors society), Davidson College
2003. Omicron Delta Epsilon (Economics honors society), Davidson College
2002-2004. Lunsford Richardson Scholarship, Davidson College
Contact Information
Jeff Larrimore
Joint Committee on Taxation
593 Ford House Office Bldg
Washington, DC 20515
E-mail: jhl42@cornell.edu