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Bruce Meyer
McCormick Foundation Professor, Harris Public Policy
Bruce D. Meyer, the McCormick Foundation Professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, received his BA and MA in economics from Northwestern University and his PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been at the University of Chicago since 2004. From 1987 to 2004, Meyer was a professor in the Economics Department at Northwestern University. He has also been a visiting professor at Harvard University, University College...
Related Working Papers
- Jun 22, 2020Income and Poverty in the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Jun 5, 2019The Use and Misuse of Income Data and Extreme Poverty in the United States
- Apr 15, 2019Combining Administrative and Survey Data to Improve Income Measurement
- Apr 15, 2019An Empirical Total Survey Error Decomposition Using Data Combination
- Sep 13, 2017Consumption and Income Inequality in the U.S. Since the 1960s
- Jan 1, 2010Five Decades of Consumption and Income Poverty
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Related News
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- Aug 13, 2018Harris School of Public Policy’s Bruce Meyer discusses poverty rate measurements
- Aug 8, 2018Harris School of Public Policy’s Bruce Meyer examines misconceptions over progress of U.S. welfare programs
- May 17, 2018Harris Policy’s Bruce Meyer finds U.S. antipoverty programs are more effective than previously thought
- May 8, 2018Harris Policy’s Bruce D. Meyer and PhD student Derek Wu examine success of anti-poverty programs
- Mar 15, 2018Research Briefs: Harris Policy’s Bruce Meyer looks at “Consumption and Income Inequality in the U.S. Since the 1960s”
- Mar 13, 2018Harris Policy’s Bruce Meyer cited in discussion of questionable wage data
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