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Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Pages 161-166
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He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and a corresponding member of the British Academy. He has served on both the National Advisory Committee on Aging and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute on Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
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Burch professor of economics and law at the University of California, Berkeley, and director of the Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance. He was an assistant professor and associate professor of economics at Harvard University and a professor of law and economics at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Until fall 2009, he held RAND's distinguished chair in health economics and directed RAND's program in economics, finance, and organization. He is also an adjunct professor of health services and radiology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a research associate of National Bureau of Economic Research.
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Weil has written widely on various aspects of economic growth, including the empirical determinants of income differences among countries, the accumulation of physical capital, international technology transfer, and population growth. He has also written on assorted topics in demographic economics including population aging, Social Security, the gender wage gap, retirement, and the relation between demographics and house prices.
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She is also a professor of sociomedical sciences in the Preventive Medicine and Community Health Unit and senior fellow of the Sealy Center on Aging, also at UTMB. Prior to joining UTMB, she was on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and the Georgetown University Department of Demography and served as associate director of the University of Maryland Population Research Center.
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