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Appendix D: Biographical Sketches of Panel Members
Pages 209-214

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From page 209...
... Prior to arriving at UC Davis, she was a professor of economics at UC Irvine. She has worked at the Public Policy Institute of California, the RAND Corporation, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and the Federal Trade Commission.
From page 210...
... Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service as well as academic positions at Iowa State University. His research attempts to inform policy makers and program administrators who are seeking paths to reduce food insecurity and its consequences, with emphasis on food assistance programs, particularly the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
From page 211...
... Prior to this appointment he was a professor in the Economics Department at Northwestern University, where he taught for 17 years. His current research includes studies of poverty and inequality, government safety net programs, welfare policy, unemployment insurance, ­ orkers'w compensation, disability, the health care safety net, labor supply, and the accuracy of household surveys.
From page 212...
... She currently serves as a member of the Public Opinion Quarterly Advisory Board of the American Association for Public Opinion Research and as a member of the General Social Survey Board of Overseers. She recently completed terms as the Council on Sections Representatives for the Survey Research Methods Section of the American Statistical Association and as a member of the Census Advisory Committee of Professional Associations.
From page 213...
... Her recent empirical work estimates the effects of policies on consumer behavior, such as a bottled water tax, a plastic bag ban, and a soda tax campaign and its implementation. Other published work has focused on the economics behind legislation banning wholesale price discrimination, contractual relationships along a vertical supply chain, including the role of those contracts in explaining pass-through of cost shocks along the supply chain into the retail prices that consumers face.
From page 214...
... Dr. Ziliak has served as a visiting scholar at the Brookings Institution and as a visiting professor at University College London and the universities of Michigan and Wisconsin.


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