DOUGLAS HOLTZ-EAKIN
Center for Policy Research
426 Eggers Hall
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY 13244-1020
(315) 443-3115
Fax: (315) 443-1081
E-mail: djheakin@maxwell.syr.edu
Born February 3, 1958
United States citizen
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
B.A., Denison University (Ohio), 1980 (Economics and Mathematics)
Ph.D., Princeton University (New Jersey), 1985 (Economics)
Dissertation: "The Determination of Municipal Budgets: Four Empirical Essays"
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
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Syracuse University, Department of Economics, Chair, July 1997 to present.
- Syracuse University, Department of Economics, Associate Professor, August 1990 to June
1995. Full Professor, July 1995 to present.
- Syracuse University, Maxwell Center for Policy Research, Senior Research Associate,
August 1990 to June 1996. Associate Director, July 1996 to present.
- National Bureau of Economic Research, Faculty Research Fellow and Research Associate,
February 1986 to present.
- Council of Economic Advisers, Executive Office of the President, Senior Staff Economist,
August 1989 to July 1990.
- Columbia University, Department of Economics, Assistant Professor, July 1985 to June
1990.
- Princeton University, Department of Economics, Visiting Assistant Professor, July 1988 to
June 1989.
- Princeton University, Department of Economics, Lecturer, September 1984 to June 1985.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Principles of Economics for undergraduate media majors.
Macroeconomic Theory for graduate and undergraduate students in Economics.
Public Finance for graduate and undergraduate students in Economics.
Financial Theory for undergraduate students in Economics and graduate students in Public
Administration.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
- Referee for:
American Economic Review, Cambridge University Press, Eastern Economic
Journal, Econometric Reviews, Economic Development Quarterly, Economic Inquiry,
Economic Journal, Economics and Politics, Industrial and Labor Relations Review,
International Economic Review, International Review of Economics and Finance, Journal
of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of
Econometrics, Journal of Economic Education, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of
Economic Literature, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal
of Macroeconomics, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Money, Credit and
Banking, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Journal of Productivity Analysis,
Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Urban Economics, National Academy of Science,
National Science Foundation, National Tax Journal, Oxford Economics Papers, Papers in
Regional Science, Public Finance Quarterly, Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics,
Review of Economics and Statistics, Review of Economic Studies, Science, Urban Studies,
and The World Bank.
- Interviewed for "The Global Hand" article in Forbes Magazine, April 1997
- Associate-Editor, Regional Science and Urban Economics (RSUE), 1997 to present.
- Co-Editor, Journal of Human Resources, January 1997 to present.
- Panelist, Economics Advisory Panel, National Science Foundation, 1996 to present.
- Editorial Board, Public Works Management and Policy, 1995 to present.
- Panelist, National Science Foundation, Civil Infrastructure Initiative, July 1995.
- Editorial Board, Economics and Politics, 1994 to present.
- Technical Advisory Committee, Federal Infrastructure Strategy, Federal Highway
Administration, 1994.
- Member, Board of Economic Advisers, New York State Assembly Committee on Ways and
Means.
- Consultant, New York State Office for the Aging, 1992.
- Outside Review Team Member, Department of Economics, Denison University, March 1991.
- Consultant, State of Arizona Joint Select Committee on State Revenues and Expenditures,
1989.
- Consultant, State of New Jersey State and Local Expenditure and Revenue Policy
Commission, September 1986 to May 1987.
GRANTS AND AWARDS
- 1996 Co-Principal Investigator, "Causes and Consequences of Self-Employment at
Older Ages," National Institute on Aging.
- 1994 Co-Principal Investigator, "Capital Market Constraints, Parental Wealth and the
Transition to Self-Employment Among Men and Women," United States
Department of Labor.
- 1993 Co-Principal Investigator, "Health Insurance and the Supply of Entrepreneurs,"
Robert Woods Johnson Foundation.
- 1989 Principal Investigator, "State Fiscal Policies and Production Incentives: Data
Collection and Empirical Analysis," National Science Foundation.
PUBLICATIONS IN PROFESSIONAL JOURNALS
- "Labor Earnings Mobility and Inequality in the United States and Germany During the
Growth Years of the 1980s" (with R. Burkhauser and S. Rhody), International Economic
Review, forthcoming.
- "Health Insurance and the Supply of Entrepreneurs" (with J. Penrod and H. S. Rosen),
Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 62, Nos. 1-2, October 1996, pp. 209-235.
- "Fundamental Tax Reform and State and Local Governments," National Tax Journal, Vol.
XLIX, No. 3, September 1996, pp. 475-486.
- "Consumption-Based Tax Reform and the State-Local Sector: A Study for the American
Tax Policy Institute," The American Journal of Tax Policy, Vol. 13, No. 1, Spring 1996, pp.
115-143.
- "Scale Economies, Returns to Variety and the Productivity of Public Capital" (with M.
Lovely), Regional Science and Urban Economics, Vol. 26, 1996, pp. 105-123.
- "Technological Linkages, Market Structure, and Optimum Production Policies" (with M.
Lovely), Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 61, 1996, pp. 73-86.
- "Infrastructure in A Structural Model of Economic Growth" (with A. E. Schwartz), Regional
Science and Urban Economics, Vol. 25, 1995, pp. 131-151.
- "Should Small Businesses Be Tax-Favored?" National Tax Journal, Vol. XLVII, No. 3,
September 1995, pp. 387-395.
- "Spatial Productivity Spillovers from Public Infrastructure: Evidence from State Highways"
(with A. E. Schwartz), International Tax and Public Finance, Vol. 2, 1995, pp. 459-468.
- "Stoking the Fires? CO2 Emissions and Economic Growth" (with T. Selden), Journal of
Public Economics, Vol. 57, 1995, pp. 85-101.
- "Intertemporal Analysis of State and Local Government Spending: Theory and Tests" (with
H. S. Rosen and S. Tilly), Journal of Urban Economics, Vol. 35, 1994, pp. 159-174.
- "Public Sector Capital and the Productivity Puzzle," Review of Economics and Statistics,
Vol. 76, No. 1, 1994, pp. 12-21.
- "Entrepreneurial Decisions and Liquidity Constraints" (with D. Joulfaian and H. S. Rosen),
Rand Journal of Economics, 23, No. 2, Summer 1994, pp. 334-347.
- "Sticking it Out: Entrepreneurial Survival and Liquidity Constraints" (with D. Joulfaian and
H. S. Rosen), Journal of Political Economy, February 1994, pp. 53-75.
- "Solow and the States: Capital Accumulation, Productivity, and Economic Growth,"
National Tax Journal, Vol. XLVI, No. 4, December 1993, pp. 425-440.
- "State-Specific Estimates of State and Local Government Capital," Regional Science and
Urban Economics, Vol. 23, No. 2, April 1993, pp. 185-210.
- "The Carnegie Conjecture: Some Empirical Evidence" (with D. Joulfaian and H. S. Rosen),
Quarterly Journal of Economics, CVIII, No. 2, May 1993, pp. 413-436.
- "Municipal Construction Spending: An Empirical Examination" (with H. S. Rosen),
Economics and Politics, March 1993, pp. 61-84.
- "Elections and Aggregation: Interpreting Econometric Analyses of Local Governments,"
Public Choice, Vol. 74 (1992): pp. 17-42.
- "Bond Market Conditions and State-Local Capital Spending," National Tax Journal, Vol.
44, No. 4 (December 1991): pp. 105-120.
- "Municipal Labor Demand under Uncertainty: An Econometric Approach" (with H. S.
Rosen), Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 9, No. 3 (July 1991): pp. 276-293.
- "Federal Deductibility and Local Property Tax Rates" (with H. S. Rosen), Journal of Urban
Economics, Vol. 27, No. 3 (May 1990): pp. 269-284.
- "The 'Rationality' of Municipal Capital Spending: Evidence from New Jersey" (with H. S.
Rosen), Regional Science and Urban Economics (1989): pp. 517-536.
- "The Revenues-Expenditures Nexus: Evidence from Local Government Data" (with W.
Newey and H. S. Rosen), International Economic Review (May 1989): pp. 415-430.
- "The Line Item Veto and Public Sector Budgets: Evidence from the States," Journal of
Public Economics, Vol. 36 (1988): pp. 269-292.
- "Estimating Vector Autoregressions with Panel Data" (with W. Newey and H. S. Rosen),
Econometrica, Vol. 56 (November 1988): pp. 1371-1396.
- "Testing for Individual Effects in Autoregressive Models," Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 39
(1988): pp. 297-307.
- "Unobserved Tastes and the Determination of Municipal Services," National Tax Journal
(December 1986): pp. 527-532.
- "Public Opinion and the Balanced Budget" (with A. Blinder), The American Economic
Review, Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 74, No. 2 (May 1984): pp. 144-149.
- "Housing Tenure, Uncertainty, and Taxation" (with H. S. Rosen and K. Rosen), Review of
Economics and Statistics, Vol. 66, No. 3 (August 1984): pp. 405-416.
- "Mobility and Inequality in the 1980s: A Cross-National Comparison of the United States
and Germany" (with R.V. Burkhauser and S. Rhody), in The Distribution of Welfare and
Household Production: International Perspectives, forthcoming.
- "The Uneasy Empirical Case for Abolishing the Estate Tax," New York University Tax Law
Review, forthcoming.
- "Comments on 'Taxes, Mortgage Borrowing, and Residential Land Prices,'" in H. Aaron and
W. Gale (eds.), Economic Effects of Fundamental Tax Reform. Washington, DC: The
Brookings Institution, 1996, pp. 198-208.
- "Presidential Politics and the Flat Tax Issue," Syracuse University Magazine, Vol. 13 No. 1
(Fall 1996), pp. 34-35.
- "Public Policy and Entrepreneurship," Center for Policy Research Policy Brief 5, The
Maxwell School, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, 1995.
- "Capital Market Constraints, Parental Wealth, and the Transition to Self-Employment
Among Men and Women" (with T. Dunn), NLS Discussion Paper Series, U.S. Department
of Labor, August 1995.
- "Is Health Insurance Crippling Start-Up Business?" Health Care Quarterly, CNY Business
Journal, March 6, 1995.
- "Health Insurance Provision and Labor Market Efficiency in the United States and
Germany," in R. Blank and R. Freeman (eds.), Social Protection versus Economic
Flexibility: Is There a Tradeoff?, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994, pp. 157-187.
- "Income, Wealth, and Intergenerational Economic Relations" (with T. Smeeding), The
Demography of Aging, National Academy of Science, Committee on Population,
Washington: National Academy Press, 1994, pp. 102-145.
- "Changes in the Distribution of Wage Earnings During the Growth Years of the 1980s: A
Cross-National Comparison of the United States and Germany" (with R. Burkhauser),
Viertel Jahrs Hefte Zur Wirtschaftsforschung, No. 3-4, 1993.
- "Comments on 'Macroeconomic Relationships Between Public Spending on Infrastructure
and Private Sector Productivity in the United States'," in J. Mintz and R. Preston (eds.),
Infrastructure and Competitiveness, John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic
Policy, 1993, pp. 111-121.
- "Is Health Insurance Crippling the Labor Market?" Policy Briefs, The Jerome Levy
Economics Institute, December 1993.
- "Comment on Alicia Munnell," Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 1993, pp. 231-234.
- "Why a Federal Plan Isn't Needed," Spectrum: The Journal of State Government, Fall 1993,
Vol. 66, No. 4, pp. 35-44.
- "Demographics, Political Power, and Economic Growth," Public Finance/Finances
Publiques, Vol. 48, supplement, 1993, pp. 349-365.
- "New Federal Spending for Infrastructure: Should We Let This Genie Out of the Bottle?"
Policy Briefs, The Jerome Levy Economics Institute, No. 4, 1993.
- "Developments in 1989 and Future Prospects" (with B. Madigan and P. Taylor), Chapter 2 in
Economic Report of the President, February 1990.
- "Design of Fiscal, Monetary, and Financial Policies" (with S. Collins, B. Madigan and J.
Stein), Chapter 3 in Economic Report of the President, February 1990.
- "Investing In America's Future" (with M. Robinson), Chapter 4 in Economic Report of the
President, February 1990.
- "State Grants-in-Aid and Municipal Government Budgets: A Case Study of New Jersey"
(with T. McGuire), in Research in Urban Economics, Vol. 7, ed. by M. Bell (New York: JAI
Press, 1988), pp. 229-265.
- "Tax Deductibility and Municipal Budget Structure" (with H. S. Rosen), in Fiscal
Federalism: Quantitative Studies, ed. by H. S. Rosen (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1988), pp. 107-126.
- "TRA86: Simplicity, Equity, and Efficiency," Akron Tax Journal, Vol. 4 (1987): pp. 69-82.
- "Expected Future Tax Policy and Tax Exempt Bond Yields: A Comment," Studies in State
and Local Public Finance, ed. by H. S. Rosen (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986),
pp. 49-51.
- "Inventory Fluctuations in the United States Since 1929" (with A. Blinder), The American
Business Cycle: Continuity and Change, ed. by R. Gordon (Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1986), pp. 183-236.
UNPUBLISHED PAPERS
- "Entrepreneurs, Income Taxes, and Investment," (with Robert Carroll, Mark Rider and
Harvey S. Rosen), mimeo, April 1997.
- "Where Does the Money Come From? The Financing of Small Entrepeneural Enterprises,"
(with Zsuzsanna Fluck and Harvey S. Rosen), mimeo, April 1997.
- "Fundamental Tax Reform and the Small Business Sector" (with William Gale), Research
Institute for Small and Emerging Business, Working Paper Series, 1997.
- "The Cost-Saving Effects of the Federal Highway System," (with Randall Eberts), mimeo,
December 1996.
- "Horatio Alger Meets the Mobility Tables," (with Harvey S. Rosen), mimeo, December
1996.
- "Fundamental Tax Reform, Dynamic Adjustment and Residential Housing Values," (with
Donald Bruce), mimeo, November 1996.
- "Financial Capital, Human Capital, and the Transition to Self-Employment: Evidence from
Intergenerational Links," (with Thomas A. Dunn), mimeo, May 1996.
- "Income Taxes and Entrepreneurs' Use of Labor," (with Robert Carroll, Mark Rider, and
Harvey S. Rosen), mimeo, May 1996.
- "A Note on Testing for Endogeneity in a Least Absolute Deviations Framework," mimeo,
Syracuse University, December 1994.
- "Specialists' Services, Quality of Care, and Cost Controls," Syracuse University, June 1994.
- "The Productivity of Private and Public Capital, By State," mimeo, Syracuse University,
January 1993.
- "New Estimates of State-Local Capital Stocks by State," mimeo, Syracuse University, July
1991.
- "Demographics, The Median Voter, and Growth," unpublished, Columbia University, 1989.
- "The Spillover Effects of State-Local Capital," Columbia University, Discussion Paper No.
435, 1989.
- "Private Output, Government Capital, and the Infrastructure `Crisis'," Columbia University
Discussion Paper No. 394, May 1988.
- "Will They Know Me When I'm Gone? An Epitaph for Federal General Revenue Sharing"
(with T. McGuire), Columbia University Discussion Paper No. 385, March 1988.
- "The Effect of the Line Item Veto on State Budgets," unpublished, Columbia University,
March 1987.
- "Short Run Dynamics of Municipal Budgets," Columbia University Discussion Paper
No. 320, March 1986.
- "An Analysis of Public Preferences for a Balanced Federal Budget," unpublished, Princeton
University, 1984.
- "A Further Investigation of the Balloon Rule for the Correlation Coefficient" (with R.
Quandt), Financial Research Memorandum No. 50, Princeton University, 1984.