Founder and developer of the STAR METRICS program (https://www.starmetrics.nih.gov), which has been highlighted nationally and internationally, including by Science and Nature Developed and led NSF's Science of Science & Innovation Policy program, Co-Chair NSTC's Science of Science Policy interagency group (http://scienceofsciencepolicy.net) Recruited by White House management to lead the development of the national R&D Dashboard prototype (http://rd-dashboard.nitrd.gov). Initiated and founded the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Program at the U.S. Census Bureau. This program was the first large-scale linked employer-employee dataset in the United States, and has evolved into a permanent Census Bureau program (http://lehd.did.census.gov). Created, developed and managed the NORC/University of Chicago data enclave www.norc.uchicago.edu/DataEnclave/. This provides a confidential, protected environment within which authorized researchers can access sensitive microdata remotely. Led the Economics Department at NORC at the University of Chicago; oversaw the implementation of some of the most visible social science surveys in the US.
Presentations and Selected Media Coverage
Measuring Chemistry’s Impact• NSF program strives to put a value on federally funded research, Chemical and Engineering News (2011)
Congressional Testimony, House Science and Technology Committee (2010)
Statement To the Committee on Science and Technology Subcommittee on Research and Science Education U.S....
Testimony to European Parliament, European Parliament (2010)
The EU may piggyback on US efforts to measure the impact of research spending, as...
Articles
Decomposing the Sources of Earnings Inequality: Assessing the Role of Reallocation, Industrial Relations (2012)
This paper exploits longitudinal employer-employee matched data from the U.S. Census Bureau to investigate the...
Measuring the Results of Science Investments (with Stefano Bertuzzi), Science (2011)
Historically, federally funded basic and applied scientific research has promoted scientific knowledge, innovation, economic growth,...
Lost Jobs and Health Insurance: An Analysis of the Impact of Employment Volatility on Firm-Provided Health Insurance Coverage (with Matthew Freedman, Fredrik Andersson, and Iben Bolvig), Applied Economics (2010)
It is an established fact that there are high levels of employment volatility in the...
Let's Make Science Metrics More Scientific, Nature (2010)
To capture the essence of good science, stakeholders must combine forces to create an open,...
The Analysis of Firms and Employees: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches (with Stefan Bender, Kathryn L. Shaw, Fredrik Andersson, and Till von Wachter), Industrial & Labor Relations Review (2009)
Books
Science of Science Policy: The Handbook (with Kaye Husband Fealing, Jack Marburger, and Stephanie Shipp) (2011)
Where Are All The Good Jobs Going? What National And Local Job Quality And Dynamics Mean For U.S. Workers (with Fredrik Andersson, Harry Holzer, and David Rosenblum) (2011)
Moving Up or Moving On: Workers, Firms and Advancement in the Low-Wage Labor Market (with Harry Holzer and Fredrik Andersson) (2005)
Popular Press
Follow the electronic footprints: how to track impact without asking scientists to lift a pen., LSE blog (2011)
Citation counts and other traditional methods of reporting the results of research are proving inadequate,...
Unpublished Papers
Workers’ View of the Impact of Trade on Jobs (with Clair Brown and Time Sturgeon) (2011)
This paper uses new data to examine how workers’ perceptions of the impact of trade...
Decomposing the Sources of Earnings Inequality: Assessing the Role of Reallocation (with Matthew Freedman, Fredrik Andersson, Elizabeth Davis, Brian McCall, and L. Kristin Sandusky), Matthew Freedman (2009)
This paper uses matched employer-employee data from the U.S. Census Bureau to investigate the contribution...