Honors and Professional activities
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
Grants and Contracts (Academics)
Grants and Contracts (Non Academics)
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
Selected Fellowships and Awards
- Fellow, National Academy of Public Administration, 2023
- 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
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)
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
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
- National Institute on Aging, Future Directions in Data Sharing and Archiving, Virtual, March, 2023
- State Higher Education Executive Officers, Denver CO, August 2023
- Research Data Framework, NIST, Washington DC, September 2023
- Making Data Count, Washington DC, September 2023
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