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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff
Pages 193-198

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From page 193...
... He has served on several National Academies panels, addressing issues related to the 2000 census, the adequacy of existing data for evaluating the impact of welfare reform, the collection of data on state and local governments, reengineering SIPP, and measuring medical care economic risk.
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From page 194...
... is a senior program officer for the Committee on National Statistics of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Previous projects include the American Opportunity Study, as well as projects on measuring research and development expenditures in the nonprofit sector, the National Crime Victimization Survey's measures of rape and sexual assault, and redesign options for the Consumer Expenditure surveys.
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From page 195...
... Previously, he was an associate professor of sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park, and a faculty associate of the Maryland Population Research Center. He was chief of the Poverty ­ and Health Statistics Branch at the U.S.
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From page 196...
... He is a specialist in the impact of poverty and public policy on child development and has written extensively about parental employment and unemployment, welfare reform, barriers to employment, family structure, the depth of poverty, racial inequality, tax policy for low-income families, and the special challenges affecting rural areas. Sherman worked for 14 years as senior research associate at the Children's Defense Fund and was previously a researcher at the Center for Law and Social Policy.
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From page 197...
... Her main area of expertise is the design and implementation of microsimulation models in a social policy environment. During the past 30 years, she has developed microsimulation models for Social Security, pensions, taxation, wealth and savings, labor supply, charitable giving, health expenditure, student aid, and welfare reform.
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From page 198...
... He previously served as assistant and associate professor of economics at the University of Oregon, and has held visiting positions at the Brookings Institution, Russell Sage Foundation, University College London, University of Michigan, and University of Wisconsin. His research expertise is in the areas of labor economics, poverty, food insecurity, and tax and transfer policy, and he has published widely in leading journals in the economics profession.
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