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Appendix D: Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff
Pages 199-204

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... PAUL BUESCHER is head of the Statistical Services Branch of the State Center for Health Statistics in North Carolina. He oversees branch activities including the production, editing, and analysis of vital statistics data files; analyses of Medicaid, hospital discharge, and county health department patient data files; and publication of many annual reports and special studies of the Center.
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From page 200...
... 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.
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... 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.
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... 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 Economics.
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... Recently, she assisted 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 Public Health's Dietary Intake, Economic Research Service/U.S. Department of Agriculture grant.
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... in economics from Central College and a Ph.D. in policy analysis and management from Cornell University.
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  • health economics
  • senior fellow
  • paul buescher
  • social research
  • cdc behavioral

  • county health
  • methodology research
  • statistical institute
  • managed projects
  • public finance

  • wic program
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  • directed studies
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  • program participation
  • adjunct associate
  • monetary affairs
  • income tax
  • patient data


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