Honors and Professional activities
Grants and Contracts (Non Academics)
Grants and Contracts (Academics)
Selected Fellowships and Awards
Recent reports and research papers
Recent Media activity and mentions
Recent and upcoming keynotes
Board of Directors/Advisory/Review Boards
Editorial Boards
Selected Professional Service
Selected Conferences/Workshops Organised
Selected Major Keynote or Invited Plenary Speeches
Legislative Testimony and Selected Media Highlights
Visiting Positions
Selected Presentations
Referee
Book Reviewer
Education and Experience
Grants and Contracts (Non Academics)
Non Academic
- Department of Health and Human Services (with MDRC) Transformative Data Initiative $2.8 million 2019
- Department of Health and Human Services (with MDRC) Transformative Data Initiative $11 million 2018 (sub $660,000)
- Health Investments Observatory (HELIOS), Institut National du Cancer, $75,000
- Strategic Impact Evaluation Fund, World Bank (with Marjorie Chinen), $750,000
- Research R&D platform, Army Research Lab2012-2013 $250,000
- US Patent and Trademark Office, Patent Portfolio Visualization tools 2012-2013 $150,000
- Health Investments Observatory (HELIOS), Observatoire des Science et des Techniques, 2013
- National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth, Bureau of Labor Statistics, $65 million (coordinated proposal).
- Quadrennial Review of Military Compensation, Department of Defense, $400,000 (principal investigator).
Other Grants
Rockefeller/Sage Foundation, 1997/9; World Bank Research Grant, 1996/7; 1998/9 Bureau of Labor Statistics 1997; Bureau of the Census 1997, 1999-2001; National Science Foundation 1997, 2003; European Union 1997; Sloan Foundation, 1997, 1999-2002, 2007; National Institute on Aging, 2001-2004; Health and Human Services (ASPE) 2000-2001, 2002, 2003, 2006; (ACF) 2006; Department of Labor (ETA) 2001, 2002, 2003 (VETS) 2006. New Zealand Department of Labor, 2001, 2002; Spencer Foundation, 2006
Grants and Contracts (Academics)
Academic
- National Science Foundation “Industries of Ideas” (joint with University of Michigan, Ohio State University and Social Science Research Council) 2023-2025 $4.5 million
- U.S. Department of Education and National Science Foundation (National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics) “Democratization of Data Analysis”, $1.13 million
- National Science Foundation, National Network for Critical Technology Investment, 2022-23, (Carnegie Mellon prime), $150,000
- Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, Data as a Public Good, $1 million, 2021-2022
- Ascendium Educational Foundation “Building Educational Data Infrastructure” $500,000, 2020-2021
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation “ADRF Next Phase – Data Challenge, Expansion, and Sustainability” $7,500,000 2021-2023
- Overdeck Family Foundation “The Administrative Data Research Facility”, $500,000 2020-2021
- Schmidt Futures UI Claims in the COVID19 Era, $150,000, 2020
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Connecting Education to the Workforce, $4.4 million, 2019
- U.S. Department of Agriculture Increasing Accessibility and Value of USDA Food Data Resources – $735,000 additional for 2019-2023
- National Science Foundation National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics Linking Administrative and Survey Data, 2019-2020, $365,000
- Health and Human Services, The Administrative Data Research Facility, 2019-202, 975,000
- Overdeck Family Foundation “The Administrative Data Research Facility”, 2019-2020, $500,000
- National Science Foundation 1932689 “Research funding, organizational context, and transformative research: New insights from new methods and data” (Collaborative with Russell Funk, Raviv Murciano-Goroff and Matt Ross) $ 418,204
- National Science Foundation 1940967 “Workshop on Finding Datasets for Empirical Research in the Social Sciences” $10,000
- U.S. Department of Agriculture Increasing Accessibility and Value of USDA Food Data Resources – $535,000 for 2018-2023
- Office of Management and Budget Federal Data Strategy, $200,000 2019
- Schmidt Futures “Education and Workforce Transitions’ $500,000, 2018
- Schmidt Sciences “Rich Context: Integrated Data” with Bryan Granger, $2.2 million, 2018
- Deutsche Bundesbank “Rich Context: Integrated Data” $250,000, 2018
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation “Making Computational Research with Sensitive Data Possible and Valuable” with Bryan Granger and Fernando Perez, 2018 $1.600,000
- National Science Foundation “New Insights into STEM Pathways: The Role of Peers, Networks, and Demand”, 2018, $741,838 (part of $2.5 million collaborative grant with Bruce Weinberg and Jason Owen Smith)
- Overdeck Family Foundation “The Administrative Data Research Facility”, 2017-2018, $580,000
- Health and Human Services (subcontract from MDRC) 2017 “Promoting and Supporting Innovation in TANF Data” $893,610; Additional $2,758,351 2019.
- World Bank, “Data Science for Developing Countries”, 2018, $180,000
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation “National Data Infrastructure”, $185,000
- Institute National de Cancer 2017 “HELIOS” $75,000
- Deutsche Bundesbank 2017 “Building Research Data Center Infrastructure” $54,000
- Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, 2017 “Job Creation and Economic Development, $450,000
- National Science Foundation “Science and Social Science in Graduate Education and Workforce Development” 2016, $499,997 (with Frauke Kreuter and Rayid Ghani)
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation “Roadmapping Conference”, $200,000
- Schmidt Philanthropies “Rich context for powerful search of data on human subjects” $250,000
- Laura and John Arnold Foundation, 2016 “Data Analytics Lab”, $1,244,000
- US Census Bureau, 2016, “Building a Prototype Data Center”, $2,427,000
- Alfred P Sloan Foundation, 2015 “Developing the CUSP Data Use Facility”, $300,000
- Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, 2015 “Innovation Measurement Initiative”, $98,641
- Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, 2015 “Kauffman City Data Network” $168,118
- US Census Bureau, 2015 Intergovernmental Personnel Act, $365,000 2015-2016
- National Science Foundation: Collaborative Research: STEM Training, Employment in Industry, and Entrepreneurship, with Bruce Weinberg, Ron Jarmin, Josh Hawley and Jason Owen Smith, $2,369,713
- U.S. Census Bureau, 2014-2015 Intergovernmental Personnel Act, $166,751
- Institute for Research on Innovation and Science (IRIS), Alfred P. Sloan and Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundations, 2014, $2.5 million with Jason Owen Smith (lead), Bruce Weinberg, James Evans and Ron Jarmin.
- Scaling Insight into Science: Assessing the value and effectiveness of machine assisted classification within a statistical system, NSF, 2014, $600,000 with James Evans and Jordan Boyd-Graber
- Assessing the Outputs of Government-Funded University Research: The Case of Food Safety and Security, USDA,2013, $500,000, with Kaye Husbands Fealing
- STEM Workforce Training: A Quasi-Experimental Approach Using the Effects of Research Funding, 2013, National Science Foundation, $1,500,000 (with Bruce Weinberg, Chris Morphew, Lee Giles and Vetle Torvik)
- Building a Social Science Research Community around a new R&D Data Infrastructure, 2013, National Science Foundation, $500,000 (with Jason Owen Smith and Maggie Levenstein)
- Examining research impact, 2013, Norwegian Research Council, $200,000 (joint with Erling Barth)
- Scientific collaboration and productivity at the project level, 2013 2014, Sloan Foundation, $795,000 (joint with Paula Stephan, Jacques Mairesse and Lee Fleming)
- Australian Science, Technology and Research Assessment (ASTRA) University of Melbourne/DIISTRE 2012-2013 $233,000
- Strategic Impact Evaluation Fund, World Bank $690,000
- Research R&D platform, Army Research Lab 2012-2013 $250,000
- US Patent and Trademark Office, Patent Portfolio Visualization tools 2012-2013 $480,000 (two projects); 2014-2019 $$3.8 million
- Health Investments Observatory (HELIOS), Observatoire des Science et des Techniques, 2012-2013 $130,000
- Globalization and Economic Insecurity, January 2008-December 2009, Sloan Foundation, $365,000
- Job Quality and Volatility, Worker Inequality, and Insecurity: Regional Effects, January 2008- December 2009 MacArthur Foundation, $252,000; Ford Foundation $150,000
- Outreach for the NORC Data Enclave, Kauffman Foundation, $53,000
- Developing the Remote Access NORC Data Enclave, September 2006- September 2009
- A study on requirements and options for accelerating the transition from traditional research to virtual research organisations through e-infrastructures, European Commission, (with Franz Barjak, Simon Robinson and Rob Procter) November 2006-November 2007 €200,000
- Firms, Workers and Workforce Quality:Implications for Earnings Inequality and Economic Growth, January 1 2003 – Dec 31, 2004, Sloan Foundation (with John Abowd and John Haltiwanger), $1.4 million.
- Confidentiality Research, May 1 2003 – December 31, 2003 National Science Foundation (with John Abowd and George Duncan), $45,000
- Workers and Firms in the Low-wage Labor Market: Interactions and Long Run Dynamics, Russell Sage Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, and Department of Health and Human Services (ASPE) to the Urban Institute $700,000, September 1, 2001 August 31, 2003. (with John Abowd, John Haltiwanger, and Harry Holzer)
- The Demand for Older Workers: Using Linked Employer-Employee Data for Aging Research, National Institute on Aging, R01-AG18854-01, July 1, 2002 – November 30, 2004, $1,753,637 (with John Haltiwanger, Andrew Hildreth, and John Abowd).
- From Workshop Floor to Workforce Clusters: A New View of the Firm, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 99-12-12 to the Urban Institute, March 1, 2000 . March 31, 2002, $314,604. (with John Abowd and John Haltiwanger)
- Dynamic Employer-Household Data and the Social Data Infrastructure, National Science Foundation, SES-9978093 to Cornell University, September 28, 1999 . September 27, 2003, $4,084,634. (with John Abowd and John Haltiwanger)
- The Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Project, National Institute on Aging, interagency funding to the United States Census Bureau, September, 1999 . August, 2001, $490,000. (with John Abowd and John Haltiwanger)
Selected Fellowships and Awards
- Government Innovation Award 2018 for ADRF
- New Zealand Association of Economists, Distinguished Fellow, 2018
- Warren E. Miller Award for Meritorious Service to the Social Sciences, ICPSR, University of Michigan 2017
- Fellow, International Statistical Institute
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Fellow, Society of Economic Measurement
- Roger Herriot Award, American Statistical Association, 2014
- Julius Shiskin Award, American Statistical Association, 2014
- Gutenberg Chair, University of Strasbourg, 2014
- Fellow, American Statistical Association, 2009
- National Association of State Workforce Agencies Vladimir Chavrid Award, 2004
- Senior Research Fellow, Census Bureau 1998 – 2004 (expanding the LEHD program)
- ASA/NSF Census Fellow 1997-1998 (developing the precursor to the LEHD program)
- Research Fellow, IZA (Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn Germany)
Recent reports and research papers
- https://www.aei.org/research-products/report/the-industry-of-ideas-measuring-how-artificial-intelligence-changes-labor-markets/
- https://www.aei.org/research-products/report/reimagining-labor-market-information-a-national-collaborative-for-local-workforce-information/
- https://issues.org/democratizing-government-data-lane/
- https://www.ai.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/NAIRR-TF-Final-Report-2023.pdf
Recent Media activity and mentions
- Scientific Sense interview
https://www.youtube.com/c/scientificsense - Nature News
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00501-7
Recent and upcoming keynotes
Board of Directors/Advisory/Review Boards
- General Social Survey Board of Overseers
- American Economic Association Representative to the Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics
- Scientific Advisory Board, Statistics Sweden
- Chair, External Advisory Board, UK Administrative Data Research Network
- Meta Project, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative;
- Forschungsdaten- und Servicezentrum, Deutsche Bundesbank
- Member of research advisory boards: Human Genomics Privacy Board, University of Vanderbilt; Criminal Justice Administrative Records Systems, University of Michigan,
- Vice President, Society of Economic Measurement
Editorial Boards
- Editorial Advisory Board: Science and Public Policy, Oxford University Press
- Associate Editor, PLOS ONE
- Advisory Editor: Research Policy
- Associate Editor: Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality
Selected Professional Service
OSTP/OMB Service, Executive Office of the President
- National AI Research Resource Task Force, 2021-2023
- Advisory Committee on Data for Evidence Building 2020-2022 (https://www.bea.gov/evidence)
- Senior Advisor, OMB/OFCIO, Federal Data Strategy 2019-2021
- President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology Working group on Review of National Nanotechnology Initiative 2014
Department of Labor
- Workforce Innovation Advisory Council (reporting to Secretary of Labor)
NSF
- Advisory Board, ECR Hub: Advancing the Long-Term Potential of Fundamental Research (managed by American Institutes for Research) 2023-2028
- National Network for Critical Technology Assessment (managed by Carnegie Mellon University, 2022-2023
- Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (Committee of Visitors), 2022
AAPOR
- Big Data Task Force 2014-2015
American Statistical Association,
- Chair, Subcommittee on Privacy and Confidentiality 2012-2-14
- ASA Fellows Subcommittee 2011-2013
American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Member, Electorate Nominating Committee, Section K on Social, Economic, and Political Sciences (elected 2010)
- Chair elect, 2016, Section K, Social Economic and Political Sciences (elected 2015)
National Academies of Science
- Transportation Research Board 2013
- Committee on Revisions to the Common Rule for the Protection of Human Subjects in
Research in the Behavioral and Social Sciences 2013
- National Academy of Engineering: Career Paths of Engineers 2014-2015
- Improving the American Community Survey 2016
- “Envisioning the Data Science Discipline: The Undergraduate Perspective”, 2018
White House National Science and Technology Council
- Cochair (with Bill Valdez) the Science of Science Policy Interagency group (chartered by the Subcommittee of Social and Behavioral Sciences of the National Science and Technology Council)
International
- Advisory Board BERD@NFDI: NFDI Consortium for Business, Economic and Related Data
Research Councils UK International Panel
- International Review of eScience 2009
German Wissenschaftsrat (National Academies equivalent)
- Roadmap for Social Science and Humanities Research Infrastructure 2009-2010
- Roadmap for Science Research Infrastructure 2011-2012
- Sciencebased Energy Research Challenges 2012-2013
OECD/Global Science Forum
- Expert group on data infrastructure
Selected Conferences/Workshops Organised
- International Symposium on Linked Employer/Employee Datasets, Washington DC 1998 Funded by Sloan Foundation/Census Bureau/BLS/European Union/National Science Foundation;
- International workshop on Confidentiality, Washington DC, May 1999;
- Census Bureau (LEHD)/state workshops 2000 – 2004;
- Eurostat/UNECE workshop in Skopje Macedonia, March 2001;
- New Zealand conference on Data Integration and Linked Employer-Employee Data, 2002;
- NSF confidentiality workshop, 2004;
- on Program Committee for Eurostat Conference Privacy in Statistical Databases (Barcelona), 2004 (Rome) 2006 (Ankara) 2008;
- NSF Social, Behavioral and Economics Sciences/Computer and Information Science and Engineering workshop on Cyberinfrastructure, 2005;
- Second and Third Annual International E-Social Science Conference (Manchester, UK 2006, Ann Arbor, MI 2007);
- HHS workshop on marriage and the family, 2006;
- Spencer Foundation workshop on education and social opportunity, 2006;
- Conference on Firms and Employees, (Nurnberg, Germany 2006);
- Comparative Analysis of Enterprise Data (Chicago) 2006; (Budapest) 2008, (Tokyo) 2009;
- Advancing the Study of Innovation and Globalization in Organizations (Nurnberg) 2009 SciSIP/SOSP: 2008 and 2010 SOSP Interagency conferences;
- 2011 Bellagio conference (Rockefeller Foundation funded);
- CIC workshop on research impact, Chicago, 2013;
- Empirical Foundations of Science and Innovation Policy, 2013, Paris;
- Research Monitoring workshop, 2014, Brussels;
- Science of Science Policy, 2014, Ann Arbor;
- APPAM workshop on big data and public policy, Miami, FL, 2015;
- Bloomberg Data for Good Exchange, New York, 2016, 2017, 2018;
- Gates Foundation Roadmapping Conference, Washington DC, 2017;
- Education and Workforce Transitions, Chicago IL 2018;
- Measuring Utility and Risk in Privacy, Stanford University, 2019;
- Rich Context workshop, Washington DC, 2019;
- MidWest Collaborative, Columbus OH, 2020;
- National Convening on Jobs Data for Evidencebased Policy, Virtual, March 2021;
- Value of Science, Virtual, June 2021;
- Workforce and PostSecondary Education, Virtual, June 2021;
Selected Major Keynote or Invited Plenary Speeches
Economics
- Research Conference Employment and Labour Markets, Oslo, Norway, 2001
- New Zealand Association of Economists, Wellington, New Zealand 2002
- European Union Conference on Low Wage Work, Sandbjerg Denmark, April 2006
- CEO’s for Cities, Chicago, September 2007
- Comparative Analysis of Enterprise Data, Budapest, Hungary, May 2008
- Work, Pensions and Labour Economics Group (WPEG) annual conference, Sheffield, UK, July 2008
- Conference on Linked Employer-Employee Data, Budapest, Hungary, May 2009
- Inaugural Distinguished Lecture, RatsWD, Berlin Germany, September 2010.
- Australasian Economic/Econometric Society meetings, Tasmania, Australia, July 2014
- Qatar Research Foundation, Doha Qatar, 2016
- Government Economics Network, Wellington New Zealand, 2016
- Association of Public Opinion Researchers, Denver Colorado, 2018
- New Zealand Association of Economists, Auckland New Zealand 2018
- 8th ZEW/MaCCI Conference on the Economics of Innovation and Patenting, Mannheim, 2019
Statistics/Data Science
- Eurostat/UN confidentiality workshop in Skopje Macedonia 2001
- Conference of European Statisticians, Geneva, Switzerland, 2003
- Statistics Austria, Vienna, Austria, 2003
- Invited Overview Lecture, Joint Statistical Meetings, 2014
- Volkswagen Foundation, Herrenhausen Conference, Hannover, Germany, March 2015
- BigSurv18 Big Data and Survey Methods, Barcelona, Spain, October 2018
- International Conference on Sustainable Cities, New York, NY May 2018
- Open Data Science Conference West, San Francisco, 2018
- AWS: Reinvent, Las Vegas, 2018
- Scientific Literature Knowledge Bases, Amherst, May 2019
- Australian Social Policy Conference, Sydney, September 2019
- Simons Institute, UC Berkeley, May 2019
- Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research, 50th Anniversary, November 2019
- Data Quality as a Challenge: Research in the Age of the Digital Turn, Hannover Germany, February 2020
- AI/Data Science Conference, NYC March 2020
- Open Data Science Conference East 2020, April 2020 Boston
- World Data Forum, Bern Switzerland, October 2021
- Second Conference of the European Association for the Digital Humanities, Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, September 2021
Recent Science of Science Policy
- Federal Demonstration Partnership, 2009, 2010, 2011
- National Council of Research Administrators 2010
- European Forum On Research And Development Impact, 2009
- NIRPA, 2010
- European Parliament, 2010
- UNCTAD, 2011
- European Forum, Alpbach, Austria 2011
- Higher Education Policy Institute, Royal Society, UK, 2011
- Measuring Science Investments, Tokyo, 2012
- Measuring Science Investments, Canberra and Melbourne, 2012
- Research Excellence, EU Danish Presidency, Copenhagen 2012
- OECD, Global Science Forum 20th anniversary, Paris, 2012
- Science of Science and Innovation Policy Principal Investigator Conference, 2012
- New Zealand IceFest, Christchurch, 2012
- The Future of Research Impact, London School of Economics, 2012
- STOA, European Parliament, Strasbourg, 2013
- Science Metrics workshop, European Parliament, Brussels, 2013
- The Future of Impact, DESCRIBE project, London, 2013
- OECD Global Forum of the Knowledge Economy 2013 Istanbul
- SciELO – Scientific Electronic Library Online, 2013, Sao Paolo, Brazil
- Centre Cournot, 2014, Paris
- euroCRIS conference, 2014, Amsterdam
- Third IMF Statistical Forum, 2015, Frankfurt
- 7th Asia-Pacific Innovation Conference, 2016, in Fukuoka, Japan
- Government Economists Network, 2016, Wellington New Zealand
- HHS/OHRP Research Community Forum, 2017 New Jersey
- Federal Statistical Research Data Center conference, 2017, UCLA
- Society of Research Administrators International 50th annual meeting, 2017, in Vancouver, British Columbia
OTHER HONORS AND AWARDS
- University of Missouri: Teaching Assistant Award, 1982.
- University of Louisville School of Business Best Researcher Award: 1985, 1987
- University of Louisville Young Researcher Award: 1988
- College of Arts and Sciences, American University, General Education Teacher of the Year 1996
- American University First Annual Faculty Member of the Year: 1996 (Student Confederation)
- National Science Foundation Director’s Award for Program Management Excellence 2005.
- National Science Foundation Director’s Superior Accomplishment Award, 2010
- National Institutes of Health, Central IT Merit Award for Operational Excellence, 2011
- Federal Executive Institute, Senior Executive Training, 2011
- Economic Journal, Winner of Referee Award, 2012
Legislative Testimony and Selected Media Highlights
- https://finance.yahoo.com/video/study-reveals-impact-cutting-bonus-181342669.html
- https://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-how-much-a-reduction-in-extra-unemployment-benefits-could-slash-consumer-spending-2020-08-11?mod=elisabeth-buchwald
- https://money.yahoo.com/coronavirus-stimulus-loss-of-extra-600-unemployment-benefits-leads-to-44-drop-in-spending-192200590.html
- “Europe bets R&D spending will bring jobs to battered economy”
- https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/europe-bets-rd-spending-will-bring-jobs-battered-economy Science, June 3 2020
- “Making Big Data Work for Society” Radio New Zealand 20 June 2018
- “What can we learn from the Facebook—Cambridge Analytica scandal? ” by Brian Tarran, Significance, 29 May 2018
- A locally based initiative, Gates Foundation, May 2018
- “The Social Sciences Need to Build New Foundations” Significance, Royal Statistical Society, June 2017, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1740-9713.2017.01040.x/full
- “Academic Return” Nature, May 5, 2016 http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v533/n7601_supp/pdf/533S20a.pdf
- “Science and math PhDs earn about $65,000 — more than double what arts majors do” VoxMedia, December 11, 2015, http://www.vox.com/2015/12/11/9888856/science-math-phd-salary
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/12/10/where-new-phd-grads-find-work-and-who-earns-the-most-with-their-degree/ December 11, 2015
- https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/phds-pay-study-reveals-economic-benefit-funding-doctorates December 11, 2015
- http://www.nature.com/news/biologists-lose-out-in-post-phd-earnings-analysis-1.19009?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews December 11, 2015
- “Researchers wrestle with a privacy problem” Nature, September 22, 2015 http://www.nature.com/news/researchers-wrestle-with-a-privacy-problem-1.18396
- “Quest to Put a Value on Medical Research Illustrates the Difficulties of Trying”, Chronicle of Higher Education, August 20, 2015 http://bit.ly/1TZ2YOp
- “Cracking the Case Studies” Times Higher Education Supplement http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/tablet/208D85EC/2018555.shared
- “A call to action on social science, big data and privacy” Research Fortnight November 12, 2014, rsrch.co/11nztlA
- Using the Classroom to Bring Big Data to Statistical Agencies, November 1, 2014, with Ron Jarmin, Alan Marco and Ian Foster, Amstat News, http://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2014/11/01/classroom/
- Chronicle of Higher Education “Value of Science” April 4, 2014 http://shar.es/Biotm,
- What? Me Worry? What to Do About Privacy, Big Data, and Statistical Research”, with Victoria Stodden, Amstat News, Dec 1, 2013 http://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2013/12/01/bigdatastatresearch/
- Pour un Access aux Donnees sur la Recherche Francaise Le Monde, 2 Dec, 2013 http://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2013/12/02/pour-un-acces-aux-donnees-sur-la-recherche-francaise_3523991_1650684.html
- KFW, German Development Bank, September 26, 2013 ” How to Make the Most of Science and Technology Investments in Developing Countries”
- https://www.kfw-entwicklungsbank.de/International-financing/KfW-Entwicklungsbank/Service/Download-Center/Development-Research/Meinungsforum-Entwicklungspolitik/
- Servicio de Informacion Y Noticias Cientificas April 7, 2013 “La gente cree que la I+D es una caja en la que pones dinero y, por arte de magia, genera riqueza” http://www.agenciasinc.es/Entrevistas/La-gente-cree-que-la-I-D-es-una-caja-en-la-que-pones-dinero-y-por-arte-de-magia-genera-riqueza
- Issues in Science and Technology, National Academies, 29.2, 2013, “Measuring Science: Forum” http://issues.org/29.2/Forum.html
- Radio New Zealand 10 October, 2012 “Is Science Good for the Economy?” http://www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2012/10/10/science-the-economy-julia-lane-on-radio-nz/
- Nature, 2 August 2012, “Science Funding: Duel to the Death” http://www.nature.com/news/science-funding-duel-to-the-death-1.11073
- Region Focus, First Quarter 2012, “What We Don’t Know About Innovation” http://www.richmondfed.org/publications/research/region_focus/2012/q1/pdf/cover_story.pdf Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
- Research Trends, March 27, 2012 http://www.researchtrends.com/issue-27-march-2012/scientific-evaluation-and-metrics-an-interview-with-julia-lane/
- London School of Economics, November 2, 2011 “Electronic Footprints” http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2011/11/02/electronic-footprints-star-metics/
- Chemical and Engineering News June 27, 2011 “Measuring Chemistry’s Impact NSF program strives to put a value on federally funded research” http://pubs.acs.org/cen/government/89/8926gov1.html
- Times Higher Education Supplement, May 26 2011 “Research intelligence – The bottom line on the research ripple effect” http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=416252§ioncode=26
- Ben Bernanke, May 16, 2011 “ Promoting Research and Development The Government’s Role” http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/bernanke20110516a.htm
- Economic Principals, Dec 13, 2010 “A Few Words About the Vladimir Chavrid Award” http://www.economicprincipals.com/issues/2010.12.13/1209.html
- “Measurement in Economics”, with Arthur Kennickell, AmStat News, 2010 http://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2010/01/01/sciencepolicyjan10/ (over 19,000 views)
- The Committee on Science and Technology Subcommittee on Research and Science Education U.S. House of Representatives on The Science of Science and Innovation Policy, September 23, 2010 http://www.nsf.gov/about/congress/111/jil_policyscience_092310.jsp
- U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, invited testimony ” Driving Innovation through Federal Investments” http://www.appropriations.senate.gov/sites/default/files/hearings/American%20Institutes%20for%20Research%20-%20OWT.pdf
- European Parliament, April 14, 2010 http://www.neurope.eu/article/science-and-policy-what-really-matters; http://www.euractiv.com/en/science/eu-looks-to-us-model-for- measuring-rd-impact-news-448950
Visiting Positions
- Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand (1987, 1993, 1995);
- Bond University, Australia (1990, 1994);
- University of Technology, Sydney, 2000; SOFI;
- University of Stockholm, Sweden, 1996;
- IFAU, University of Uppsala, Sweden, 1998;
- ISUGA, Quimper, France, 2001;
- New Zealand Department of Labor, 2001, 2002, 2003;
- National Institute on Aging, 2003 – 2004;
- 1997-1999; Federal Siberian University, 2007;
- 2011-2012 Office of Science Policy Analysis, Office of the Director;
- National Institutes of Health (part-time detailee), 2012;
- Visiting Scholar, University of Melbourne, Australia, 2016 USIAS Fellow
Selected Presentations
- Professional: American Economics Association meetings (1994; 1995; 1996; 1998; 1999;2000; 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2020, 2022)
- American Statistical Association (almost every year since 1997 and invited overview lecture, 2014);
- AAPOR, 2018, American Sociological Association (2009, 2010);
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014);
- NBER (productivity group) 2000, 2001 (personnel economics) 2003, (summer institute) 2004;
- CRIW 2008;
- Academy of Management (2007, 2008);
- OECD, various presentations;
- International Association of Survey Statisticians, 1998;
- International Statistical Institute (invited) 2005;
- Universities and research institutes in Austria, Australia, France, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, and England, as well as the US.
- U.S. Government agencies, such as the Departments of Treasury, Labor, Commerce, and HHS.
- New Zealand Government agencies, such as Department of Labour, Ministry of Economic Development, and Statistics New Zealand.
- World Bank: Government officials in Madagascar, Morocco, Tunisia, Malaysia, Mexico; European Union conference on training in Barcelona, Spain; several units in Washington.
- Science of Science Policy: hundreds of national presentations to research institutions, academic and professional organizations, international institutions.
Referee
- Science
- Quarterly Journal of Economics
- American Economic Review
- Economics Letters
- Labour Economics
- Economic Development Quarterly
- Southern Economic Journal
- Oxford Economic Papers
- Journal of Regional Science
- Journal of Human Resources
- Journal of Risk and Insurance
- Journal of Economic Education
- New Zealand Economic Papers
- Applied Economics
- Economic Development Quarterly
- Journal of Labor Economics
- Industrial and Labor Relations Review
- Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
- Economic Inquiry
- Journal of Official Statistics
- International Journal of Manpower
- British Journal of Industrial Relations
- Economic Journal
Book Reviewer
- Southern Economic Journal
- Journal of Regional Science
- OECD Employment Outlook
- Labour Economics
- Industrial and Labor Relations Review
Education and Experience
Education
Ph.D. University of Missouri, Columbia, Major Area: Economics, Minor Area: German,1982
M.A. University of Missouri, Columbia, Major: Statistics, Minor: Mathematics,1982
B.A. Massey University, New Zealand, Economics and Japanese, 1977
Experience
- 05/15-present
New York University, New York City: Provostial Fellow for Innovation Analytics; Professor, Wagner School of Public Policy - 2018-2022
CoFounder of the Coleridge Initiative - 04/12 – 05/15
Senior Managing Economist and Institute Fellow, American Institutes for Research- Established the Center for Science of Science and Innovation Policy
- Established (with Stuart Graham, Alan Marco and Evgeny Klochikhin) the Patentsview project
- Developed and implemented (in conjunction with Rayid Ghani and Ian Foster) a successful Computational Data Analysis in Federal Agencies class offered by the Computer Science Department at the University of Chicago and the American Institutes for Research
- CoFounded the Institute for Research on Innovation and Science (IRIS) at the University of Michigan
- 01/08 –03/12
Senior Program Director, Science of Science and Innovation Policy Program, National Science Foundation- Developed and managed the Science of Science and Innovation Policy program
- Built the multi-agency, multi-university Consortium “Science and Technology for America’s Reinvestment: Measuring the EffecTs of Research on Innovation, Competitiveness and Science” (STAR METRICS) program (https://starmetrics.nih.gov) with a budget of $3 million.
- Conceptualized the establishment of the ScienCV program (with Wally Schaffer and the Science of Science Policy Interagency Group)
- Developed and implemented tools to meet NSF and White House strategic goals (http://readidata.nitrd.gov/star/home.html).
- 09/05 – 1/08
Senior Vice President and Director, Economics, Labor, and Population; NORC at the University of Chicago- Managed the Economics Department
- Conceptualized and led the establishment of the NORC/University of Chicago remote access data enclave http://www.norc.uchicago.edu/DataEnclave/ ).
- 09/04 –12/05
Program Director, Economics, National Science Foundation- Managed and allocated resources for the Economics program portfolio
Created a new million funding opportunity for the National Science Foundation “Next Generation Cybertools” solicitation: www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05563/nsf05563.htm
- 01/00 – 08/04
Director, Employment Dynamics Program and Principal Research Associate, The Urban Institute- Led the creation and permanent establishment of the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Program at the U.S. Census Bureau. It is now a permanent Census Bureau program with appropriated funds of $11 million/year. It has also received a Department of Commerce Gold Medal.
- Developed a research agenda that generated over $15 million in grants and contracts from a variety of foundations, national and international agencies.
- 09/90 – 12/01
Assistant, Associate and Full Professor of Economics, American University- Initiated a research agenda that led to over $5 million in grants and contracts from a variety of foundations, national and international agencies
- Won awards for teaching excellence.
- 05/92 – 12/06
The World Bank (consultancies and on sabbatical)Education and Social Policy unit.
- Analyzed and documented the return on education investment in the Philippines, Tanzania and Nadu, In
Private Sector Development unit
- Led a major skill needs project for Malaysia
- Designed and implemented evaluations in Mexico, Morocco, Tunisia, Madagascar.
- 01/84 – 05/90
Assistant and Associate Professor of Economics, University of Louisville- Established the Center for Business and Economic Research
- Received several awards for research
12/82 – 12/83
Assistant Professor of Economics, Western Illinois University