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APPENDIX D
Biographical Sketches of
Panel Members and Staff
DAVID M. BETSON (Chair) is associate professor of economics at the
University of Notre Dame. His previous positions have been as a visiting
scholar at the joint Center for Poverty Research of the University of Chi-
cago and Northwestern University, a research associate at the Institute for
Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin, and an economist in
the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation in the
U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. His research exam-
ines the effects of governments on the distribution of economic well-being
with special reference to the measurement of poverty and the analysis of
child support policy. He received a Ph.D. degree in economics from the
University of Wisconsin-Madison.
PAUL BUESCHER is head of the Statistical Services Branch of the State
Center for Health Statistics in North Carolina. He oversees branch activi-
ties including the production, editing, and analysis of vital statistics data
files; analyses of Medicaid, hospital discharge, and county health depart-
ment patient data files; and publication of many annual reports and special
studies of the Center. He serves as project director for both the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Pregnancy Risk Assessment Moni-
toring System (PRAMS) and the CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance
System (BRFSS) in North Carolina. He is adjunct associate professor in the
Department of Maternal and Child Health ofthe University of North Caro-
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line School of Public Health and works with university colleagues to pro-
mote collaborative research agendas. He received a Ph.D. in sociology and
demography from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
ALICIA CARRIQUIRY is associate professor of statistics at Iowa State
University. She specializes in linear models, Bayesian statistics, and general
methods. Her recent research focuses on nutrition and dietary assessment.
She is on the editorial board of Bayesian Statistics and an editor for Statisti-
cal Science. She is currently a member of the Committee on Uses and Inter-
pretations of Dietary Reference Intakes at the Institute of Medicine. She
has been elected a fellow of the American Statistical Association and is an
elected member of the International Statistical Institute. She received a
Ph.D. in statistics and animal science from Iowa State University.
CONSTANCE F. CITRO is a senior program officer for the Committee
on National Statistics. She is a former vice president and deputy director of
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., and was an American Statistical Asso-
ciation/National Science Foundation research fellow at the U.S. Census
Bureau. For the committee, she has served as study director for numerous
projects, including the Panel on Poverty and Family Assistance, the Panel
to Evaluate the Survey of Income and Program Participation, the Panel to
Evaluate Microsimulation Models for Social Welfare Programs, and the
Panel on Decennial Census Methodology. Her research has focused on the
quality and accessibility of large, complex microdata files, as well as analysis
related to income and poverty measurement. She is a fellow of the Ameri-
can Statistical Association. She received a B.A. degree from the University
of Rochester and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in political science from Yale
University.
lANET CURRIE is professor of economics at the University of California.
Los Angeles. She was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an
assistant and then associate professor. Her recent work focuses on the ef-
fects of welfare programs on poor children. In particular, she has studied
the Head Start program and Medicaid. She is a consultant with the labor
and population group at RAND; a research associate at the National Bu-
reau of Economic Research; and a faculty associate at the Chicago/North-
western Poverty Center. She is an editor of the Journal of Labor Economics
and on the editorial board of the Quarterly Journal of Economics and the
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Journal of Health Economics. She received a Ph.D. in economics from
Princeton University.
lULIE DaVANZO is an economist/demographer who is a senior econo-
mist at RAND. She directs RAND's Center for the Study of the Family in
Economic Development and its Population Matters project, whose pur-
pose is to disseminate the policy-relevant findings of population research.
She has served as a member of the National Research Council's Committee
on Population and as a member of the Population Research Committee of
the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. She is
currently a member of the Committee on National Statistics. She has de-
signed and directed the Malaysian Family Life Surveys (1976, 1988, 2001),
a widely used data base for the study of demographic and health issues in
developing countries. She has also done research on infant feeding, both in
the United States and in several developing countries. She received M.A.
and Ph.D. degrees in economics from the University of California, Los
Angeles.
lOHN F. GEWEKE is the Harlan McGregor chair in economic theory as
well as professor of economics and statistics at the University of Iowa. For-
merly he was a professor in the Department of Economics at the University
of Minnesota and adviser to the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. He
was the director of the Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences at Duke
University and professor in the Department of Economics at the University
of Wisconsin. He is currently a member of the National Research Council's
(NRC) Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education and is a
former member of the NRC's Committee on National Statistics and the
Panel on the Demographic and Economic Impacts of Immigration. He is a
fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Statistical Association.
His research has included time series and Bayesian econometric methods,
with applications in macroeconomics and labor economics. He has a B.S.
from Michigan State University and a Ph.D. in economics from the Uni-
versity of Minnesota.
DAVID GREENBERG is professor of economics at the University of
Maryland, Baltimore County. He is a member of the American Economic
Association, the Industrial Relations Research Association, and the Asso-
ciation for Public Policy and Management. He is also a research affiliate of
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the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin. He
has been a research fellow at the Centre for Research in Social Policy at
Loughborough University. He has served on advisory panels for several
different federally funded research projects, including a special U.S. Gen-
eral Accounting Office Advisory Panel on Computer Matching Cost-Effec-
tiveness Methodology and a Maryland Expert Panel on Drug Abuse Ben-
efits. He has consulted widely for both public- and private-sector
organizations and regularly serves as a referee for various academic journals.
He received a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Tech-
nology.
ROBERT P. INMAN is the Miller-Sherrerd professor of finance and eco-
nomics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and pro-
fessor of economics and law at the Law School of the University of Pennsyl-
vania. In addition to his appointment as a professor at the Wharton School,
he currently serves as a senior fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute of
Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania; as a research associate of
the National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts;
and as a fellow of the Center of Fiscal and Monetary Affairs, part of the
Government of lapan. He is an associate editor of two professional research
journals, Public Finance Quarterly and Regional Science and UrlDan Econom-
ics. His research focuses on the design and impact of fiscal policies. He was
elected a fellow of the Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral
Sciences (1992-1993) and the Fulbright professor of economics (2000) at
the European University Institute. He received a Ph.D. in economics from
Harvard University.
NAMES LEPKOWSKI is a senior research scientist at the Institute for So-
cial Research and associate professor of biostatistics at the University of
Michigan. He is also a research professor in the joint Program in Survey
Methodology at the University of Maryland. He currently directs the Uni-
versity of Michigan's Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques,
while continuing to conduct a variety of survey methodology research. He
designs and analyzes a variety of survey samples, including area probability
and telephone samples of households in the United States and in develop-
ing countries. He actively consults on sample designs for surveys in Africa,
Asia, and Europe. The substantive content of most of this work has been
health or social conditions, including those that occur infrequently in the
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population. He received a B.S. in mathematics from Illinois State Univer-
sity and a Ph.D. in biostatistics from the University of Michigan.
lOHN KARL SCHOLL is a professor of economics and director of the
Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
In 1997-1998 he was the deputy assistant secretary for tax analysis at the
U.S. Department of the Treasury, and from 1990-1991 he was a senior
staff economist at the Council of Economic Advisers. He has written exten-
sively on the earned income tax credit and low-wage labor markets. He also
writes on public policy and household saving, charitable contributions, and
bankruptcy laws. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Eco-
nomic Research. He received a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford Univer-
Slty.
CAROL WEST SUITOR is a nutrition consultant working out of
Northfield, Vermont. Currently, she is assisting the March of Dimes' Task
Force for Nutrition and Optimal Human Development. Recently, she as-
sisted the year 2000 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee; studied
school children's diets in conjunction with Mathematica Policy Research,
Inc.; and served on the advisory committee for the Harvard School of Pub-
lic Health's Dietary Intake, Economic Research Service/U.S. Department
of Agriculture grant. A study director for the Institute of Medicine for eight
years, she directed studies of nutritional status during pregnancy and lacta-
tion (four studies); WIC nutrition risk criteria; dietary reference intakes on
the B vitamins and choline; and others. At the National Center for Educa-
tion in Maternal and Child Health, Georgetown University, she managed
projects on maternal and child nutrition. At Harvard School of Public
Health, she worked on the development and testing of instruments for
collecting dietary information from low-income women. She currently
serves on the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Dietary Risk Assess-
ment in the WIC Program. She has a B.S. degree from Cornell University,
an M.S. from the University of California at Berkeley, and Sc.M. and Sc.D.
degrees from the Harvard School of Public Health.
MICHELE VER PLOEG (Stud~y Director) is a member of the staff of the
Committee on National Statistics. In addition to the study on Estimating
WIC Eligibility and Participation, she directed the panel study on Data
and Methods for Measuring the Effects of Changes in Social Welfare Poli-
cies. Her research interests include the effects of social policies on families
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and children, the outcomes of children who experience poverty and changes
in family composition, and individuals' education attainment choices. She
received a B.A. in economics from Central College and a Ph.D. in policy
analysis and management from Cornell University.
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