Appendix B

Committee Biographies

TIMOTHY (TIM) M. SMEEDING (Chair, he/him/his) is the Lee Rainwater Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Public Affairs and Economics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He directed the Institute for Research on Poverty and was the founding director of the Luxembourg Income Study. He was previously distinguished professor of economics and public administration at Syracuse University and professor of public policy and economics at Vanderbilt University. Smeeding’s recent work has been on social and economic mobility across generations, inequality of income, consumption and wealth, and poverty in national and cross-national contexts. He was a member of the National Academies Standing Committee on the American Opportunity Study and Committee on Reducing Child Poverty in Ten Years and served on the Division Committee for Behavioral, Social Sciences and Education. Smeeding received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

KATHARINE G. ABRAHAM is a distinguished university professor of economics and survey methodology at the University of Maryland, College Park. She formerly served as commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, as a member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, and, most recently, as chair of the Commission on Evidence-based Policymaking. Abraham’s published research includes papers on the contingent workforce, the work and retirement decisions of older Americans, unemployment and job vacancies, and the measurement of economic activity. She is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the National Academy of Sciences, a distinguished fellow of the American Economic

Association, and a fellow of both the American Statistical Association and the Society of Labor Economists. Abraham has served on the Committee on National Statistics and several consensus panels for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. She has a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.

WILLIAM (SANDY) A. DARITY, JR. (he/him/his) is the Samuel DuBois Cook distinguished professor of public policy at the Sanford School of Public Policy, as well as the founding director of the Research Network on Racial and Ethnic Inequality at Duke University. His research focuses on inequality by race, class, and ethnicity, stratification economics, schooling and the racial achievement gap, North-South theories of trade and development, skin shade and labor market outcomes, the economics of reparations, the Atlantic slave trade and the Industrial Revolution, the history of economics, and the social-psychological effects of exposure to unemployment. Darity received the Samuel Z. Westerfield Award from the National Economic Association and Politico 50 recognition, and he was named as a W.E.B. Du Bois Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences in 2022. He served on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s “Science of Unconscious Bias: Implications for Law and Policy” workshop planning committee. Darity has a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

KAREN DYNAN (she/her/hers) is a professor of the practice of economic policy at the Harvard University Department of Economics and at the Harvard Kennedy School. She previously served as assistant secretary for economic policy and chief economist at the Department of the Treasury; vice president and co-director of the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution; on the staff of the Federal Reserve Board, leading work in macroeconomic forecasting, household finances, and the Federal Reserve Board’s response to the financial crisis; senior economist at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers; and as a visiting assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University. Dynan’s current research focuses on macroeconomic policy, consumer behavior, and household finances. She remains highly engaged in economic policy and measurement, including through her roles as a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, the chair of the American Economic Association Committee on Economic Statistics, a member of the Steering Committee for the Center for Equitable Growth, and a member of the Panel of Economic Advisers for the Congressional Budget Office. She received an A.B. from Brown University and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.

JACOB W. FABER (he/him/his) is an associate professor with joint appointments in New York University’s (NYU’s) Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service and NYU’s Sociology Department. His research focuses on spatial inequality. Faber leverages observational and experimental methods to study the mechanisms responsible for sorting individuals across space and how the distributions of people by race and class interact with political, social, and ecological systems to create and sustain economic disparities. His scholarship has received recognition from the American Sociology Association’s Latino/Latina Sociology Section, Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management, Association of Black Sociologists, Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, and Society for the Advancement of SocioEconomics. Faber was named co-winner of the 2021 Michael Harrington Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems for his scholarship on segregation and his engagement with policy makers to ameliorate its effects. He earned a B.S. in management science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), an M.S. in telecommunications policy and urban studies and planning from MIT, Ph.D. in sociology from New York University, and he worked as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Sociology at Princeton University.

ROBERT E. HALL (he/him/his) is the Robert and Carole McNeil joint senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution and professor, Department of Economics, at Stanford University. Previously, he was a faculty member in the economics departments of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of California, Berkeley. He specializes in the application of statistical methods to model household behavior in the labor market and other markets and works in applied microeconomics, market competition, and unemployment trends. Hall has served as president, vice-president, distinguished fellow, and distinguished lecturer of the American Economic Association. He is also an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow of the Econometric Society and the Society of Labor Economists. Hall received a B.A. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley and a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

STEPHEN P. JENKINS is professor of economic and social policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He was previously professor of economics at the University of Essex and held other academic posts in the United Kingdom (UK) and New Zealand. Jenkins was editor-in-chief of the Journal of Economic Inequality and is currently editor of The Stata Journal. He has been president of the International Association for Research on Income and Wealth, the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, and the European Society for Population Economics. Jenkins’s

recent work addresses such topics as the rise in top incomes and their contribution to recent increases in inequality and the nature of measurement errors in household survey data. He has interests in quantitative research methods and the uses of survey and administrative record data and has advised organizations such as the UK Department for Work and Pensions, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, and New Zealand Treasury. Jenkins is a distinguished fellow of the New Zealand Association of Economists. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of York, UK.

DAMON JONES (he/him/his) is an associate professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He recently served as a senior economist with the Council of Economics Advisers. Jones was a postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. His research topics include income tax policy, social security, retirement and retirement savings, and the interaction between employer-provided benefits and labor market outcomes. In particular, Jones studies the intersections between public finance, household finance, and behavioral economics in order to predict the effects of policy on the savings, borrowing, and insurance of individuals and families. He received a B.A. in public policy with a minor in African and African American Studies from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

AMY B. O’HARA (she/her/hers) is a research professor in the Massive Data Institute and executive director of the Federal Statistical Research Data Center at Georgetown University. She is co-chair of the International Population Data Linkage Network. O’Hara’s research focuses on data governance and privacy enhancing technologies to enable linkages within and across datasets. Prior to her positions at Georgetown, she worked as a senior executive at the Census Bureau, where she founded its administrative data curation and research unit. While at the Census Bureau, O’Hara integrated administrative data sources with survey and census data to improve data quality. She received an Arthur S. Flemming Award for leadership and management in the federal government. She received an M.A. and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Notre Dame.

LUIGI PISTAFERRI (he/him/his) is the Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Economics at Stanford University and the Ralph Landau senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. His research is mainly on household choices: consumption, saving, portfolio allocation, labor supply, and time use. Pistaferri is a fellow of the Econometric Society, as

well as a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Center for Economics and Policy Research, and IZA Institute of Labor Economics. He has coedited the American Economic Review. Pistaferri graduated summa cum laude from Istituto Universitario Navale in Naples (Italy), received a master’s in economics from Bocconi University in Milan (Italy), and received a Ph.D. in economics from University College London (England).

JOHN SABELHAUS (he/him/his) is a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and adjunct research professor at the University of Michigan. He was previously a visiting scholar at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Prior to that, Sabelhaus was assistant director in the Division of Research and Statistics at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. His roles at the Federal Reserve Board included oversight of the Microeconomic Surveys and Household and Business Spending sections, including primary responsibility for the Survey of Consumer Finances. Prior to joining the Federal Reserve Board staff, Sabelhaus was a senior economist at the Investment Company Institute and chief of long-term modeling at the Congressional Budget Office, where he oversaw the development of an integrated micro/macro model of Social Security and Medicare. He also served as an adjunct in the Department of Economics at the University of Maryland. Sabelhaus received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Maryland.

YAJUAN SI (she/her/hers) is a research associate professor in the Survey Methodology Program, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. Previously, she was an assistant professor jointly in the Department of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics and the Department of Population Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a postdoctoral research scholar in the Department of Statistics at Columbia University. Si’s research focuses on cutting-edge statistical methodology linking design- and model-based approaches for survey inference, missing data analysis, confidentiality protection involving the creation and analysis of synthetic datasets, and causal inference with observational data. She has advanced survey inference with Bayesian modeling techniques and adjusting for selection/nonresponse bias in complex data modeling with various types of data (e.g., survey and big data) and across broad substantive disciplines. Si has applied multiple imputation to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics for analyzing income, consumption, and wealth data. She received her Ph.D. in statistical science from Duke University.

AMIR SUFI (he/him/his) is the Bruce Lindsay distinguished service professor of economics and public policy at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He is also the co-director of the Corporate Finance program at the National Bureau of Economic Research and serves as an associate editor for the American Economic Review. Sufi research covers corporate finance, household finance, and macroeconomics. His work involving household debt and the economy forms the basis of his book co-authored with Atif Mian, House of Debt: How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession and How We Can Prevent It from Happening Again. He received the Fischer Black Prize from the American Finance Association. He earned his Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was awarded the Solow Endowment Prize for Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching and Research.

GABRIEL ZUCMAN (he/him/his) is associate professor of economics at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, professor of economics at the Paris School of Economics, director of the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Wealth and Income Inequality at UC Berkeley, director of the EU Tax Observatory, and co-director of the World Inequality Database. He previously taught at the London School of Economics. Zucman’s research focuses on the accumulation, distribution, and taxation of global wealth and the macroeconomic and distributional implications of globalization. He is an Andrew Carnegie Fellow and recipient of the Bernacer Prize and a Sloan Research Fellowship, the Excellence Award in Global Economic Affairs from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, and the Best Young French Economist Prize awarded by Le Monde and le Cercle des Economistes. Zucman received his Ph.D. from the Paris School of Economics.

JORRIT ZWIJNENBURG (he/him/his) is head of sectoral accounts within the National Accounts Division at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Before that, he worked at Statistics Netherlands. In Zwijnenburg’s current role, he is leading the work on the development of distributional national accounts and has contributed to a wide range of research topics, including the recording of nonbank financial intermediation, pension entitlements, intellectual property products, and data. He is currently involved in the update of the System of National Accounts, coordinating the work related to wellbeing and sustainability, and also contributing to guidance notes on specific topics such as the typology and classification of crypto assets in macroeconomic statistics. Zwijnenburg holds masters’ degrees in economics and in public administration from the University of Tilburg and Erasmus University Rotterdam, respectively.