David Powell
Senior Economist, RAND Corporation
David Powell is a Senior Economist at RAND and professor at Pardee RAND Graduate School. He received his Ph.D. at MIT. His dissertation work focused on the impacts of income taxes on individual and firm behavior. Specifically, he studied how changes in income tax rates affected pre-tax wages, occupational choice, and labor earnings. Dr. Powell also has a strong econometric background. He has written several papers that extend quantile estimation to new, useful contexts. This work has centered on the inclusion of fixed effects in quantile models and has included instrumental variable extensions as well.
Projects
- UM24-02: Developing a Survey to Understand Barriers to Applying for Disability Insurance
- UM23-18: The Impact of Affordable and Accessible Broadband on SSDI and SSI Receipt
- UM23-10: The Mortality Impacts of the SSDI Waiting Periods
- UM20-15: Firm Willingness to Offer Bridge Employment
- UM17-08: Understanding Job and Retirement Transitions
- UM15-04: Labor Supply Responses to Changes in the Payroll Tax for Older Individuals
- UM12-02: Tax Elasticity of Labor Earnings for Older Individuals
Publications
- The Impact of Affordable and Accessible Broadband on SSDI and SSI Participation (Research Brief)
- The Impact of Affordable and Accessible Broadband on SSDI and SSI Participation (Working Paper)
- Bridging Employment for Older Workers and the Role of Flexible Scheduling Arrangements (Research Brief)
- Bridging Employment for Older Workers and the Role of Flexible Scheduling Arrangements (Working Paper)
- 2019 RDRC Meeting: Is the Rise in Illicit Opioids Affecting Labor Supply and Disability Claiming Rates? (2019 RDRC)
- Understanding Job Transitions and Retirement Expectations Using Stated Preferences for Job Characteristics (Research Brief)
- Understanding Job Transitions and Retirement Expectations Using Stated Preferences for Job Characteristics (Working Paper)
- 2015 American Working Conditions Survey: Focus on Older Versus Younger Workers (Research Brief)
- 2015 American Working Conditions Survey: First Findings (Research Brief)
- 2015 American Working Conditions Survey: First Findings (Working Paper)
- 2015 American Working Conditions Survey: Focus on Older Versus Younger Workers (Working Paper)
- Do Payroll Taxes in the United States Create Bunching at Kink Points? (Research Brief)
- Do Payroll Taxes in the United States Create Bunching at Kink Points? (Working Paper)
- Tax Elasticity of Labor Earnings for Older Individuals (Working Paper)
- Tax Elasticity of Labor Earnings for Older Individuals (Research Brief)
- Tax Elasticity of Labor Earnings for Older Individuals (Conference Paper)
Researchers by Institution
- AARP
- Abt Associates
- American University
- Arizona State University
- Australian National University
- Bocconi University
- Boston University
- Brookings Institute
- Brown University
- California State University
- Carleton University
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Center for Retirement Research at Boston College
- Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
- City College of New York (CUNY)
- City University of New York
- Claremont Graduate University
- Columbia University
- Concordia University-Canada
- Copenhagen Business School
- Cornell University
- Dartmouth College
- Duke University
- European Commission
- Federal Reserve Bank of Minneanapolis
- Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
- Federal Reserve Bank-Richmond
- Federal Reserve Bank-San Francisco
- Federal Reserve Board
- Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
- Florida State University
- George Washington University
- Georgetown University
- Goethe University
- Harvard University
- HEC Montréal
- Imperial College London
- Institute for Fiscal Studies
- Ithaca College
- Johns Hopkins University
- Kyoto University
- Louisiana State University
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Mathematica Policy Research
- Max Planck Institute
- Michigan State University
- National Institute on Aging
- National University of Singapore
- New School of Social Research
- New York University
- Occidental College
- Ohio State University
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- Other
- Pennsylvania State University
- Princeton
- Purdue University
- RAND Corporation
- Social Security Administration
- Southern University and A&M College
- Stanford University
- SUNY-Buffalo
- SUNY-Stony Brook
- Syracuse University
- Texas A&M University
- Texas Tech University
- The College of William & Mary
- Tilburg University
- U.S. Census Bureau
- Universidad de Chile
- University College London
- University of Alabama
- University of Arkansas
- University of Bristol
- University of California-Berkeley
- University of California-Davis
- University of California-Irvine
- University of California-Los Angeles
- University of California-San Diego
- University of Cambridge
- University of Chicago
- University of Colorado at Boulder
- University of Colorado Denver
- University of Essex
- University of Frankfort
- University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
- University of Michigan
- University of Minnesota
- University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- University of New Hampshire Institute on Disability
- University of New South Wales
- University of Notre Dame
- University of Oregon
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Pittsburgh
- University of Southern California
- University of Texas
- University of Victoria
- University of Virginia
- University of Washington
- University of Wisconsin – Madison
- Urban Institute
- Vanderbilt University
- Washington University in St. Louis
- Wayne State University
- Wellesley College
- Williams College
- Yale University