May 31, 2016 ALEXANDER MICHAEL GELBER 2607 Hearst Ave Email: agelber@berkeley.edu Berkeley, CA 94720 http://www.nber.org/~agelber Personal Information: Date of Birth: 2/9/1980 (San Francisco, California) Citizenship: USA Employment: Goldman School of Public Policy, U.C. Berkeley Assistant Professor, - U.S. Treasury Department Acting Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy and Acting Chief Economist, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy, - The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Assistant Professor, Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, 2009- Harvard University Department of Economics Lecturer on Economics, Spring 2009 National Bureau of Economic Research Post-Doctoral Fellow in Aging and Health, 2008-9 Affiliations: National Bureau of Economic Research Faculty Research Fellow in Public Economics, 2009- Faculty Research Fellow in Aging, - Institute for Labor Market Policy Evaluation (IFAU), Uppsala, Sweden Affiliated Researcher, 2008-2016 Education: Ph.D., Economics, Harvard University, 2008 Advisors: Lawrence Katz, David Cutler, Martin Feldstein, and Caroline Hoxby A.B., Economics, Harvard University, magna cum laude, 2003 Honors, Grants, and Fellowships: 2015-2016 National Institutes of Aging Pilot Grant 2015-2016 UC Berkeley IRLE Grant 2015-2017 Sloan Foundation Grant (with Damon Jones and Daniel Sacks) -15 UC Berkeley IRLE grant -15 UC Berkeley CGIF grant 1
- 2009, 2008-9 American Economic Review Excellence in Refereeing Award UC Berkeley Regents Junior Faculty Fellowship UC Berkeley Committee on Research grant UC Berkeley IRLE grant U.S. Treasury Meritorious Service Award American Economic Review Excellence in Refereeing Award Journal of Public Economics Certificate of Reviewing Excellence Social Security Retirement Research Consortium Grant (with Damon Jones) National Institutes of Health R03 Grant (with Damon Jones) Social Security Disability Research Consortium Grant (with Timothy Moore) Wharton Dean s Research Fund Grant Duke Young Economists Jamboree for Empirical Microeconomics Wharton Entrepreneurship and Family Business Research Center Grant Upjohn Institute Grant Wharton Mack Center Grant Wharton Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Grant Wharton Global Initiatives Grant University of Pennsylvania TRIO Grant Wharton Center for Human Resources Grant Wharton Risk and Decision Processes Center Grant Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (for post-doctoral fellowship at NBER, through NIA Grant Number T32-AG00186) Derek Bok Teaching Award, Harvard University 2007, 8 2005-6; 2007-8 Starr Family Fellowship, Harvard University 2003-5 Economics Department Fellowship, Harvard University 2002 Phi Beta Kappa 2000-2002 John Harvard Scholarship, Harvard University 2000 Detur Book Prize, Harvard University 1998 National Merit Scholar Peer-Reviewed Publications: The Effects of Youth Employment: Evidence from New York City Lotteries, with Adam Isen and Judd Kessler. Quarterly Journal of Economics 2016, 131(1), 381-422. Optimal Taxation when Children s Abilities Depend on Parents Resources, with Matthew Weinzierl. National Tax Journal 2016, 69(1), 11-40 (lead article). Taxation and the Earnings of Husbands and Wives: Evidence from Sweden, Review of Economics and Statistics, 96(2), 287-305 (earlier versions circulated as Taxation and Family Labor Supply and Taxation and the Earnings of Husbands and Wives ). Children s Schooling and Parents Behavior: Evidence from the Head Start Impact Study, with Adam Isen, Journal of Public Economics, 101, 25-38. Taxes and Time Allocation: Evidence from Single Women and Men, with Joshua W. Mitchell, Review of Economic Studies, 79(3): 863-897 (lead article; earlier version circulated as NBER Working Paper 15583, Taxes and Time Allocation: Evidence from Single Women ). How do 401(k)s Affect Saving? Evidence from Changes in 401(k) Eligibility, American Economic 2
Journal: Economic Policy, 3:4, 103-122. Reprinted in Economic Behaviour and Taxation, edited by James Alm and J. Sebastian Leguizamon. Prize Structure and Information in Tournaments: Experimental Evidence, with Richard B. Freeman, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2:1, 149 164 (earlier version circulated as NBER Working Paper 12588, Optimal Inequality/Optimal Incentives: Evidence from a Tournament ). Changes in the Incidence and Duration of Periods without Insurance, with David M. Cutler, New England Journal of Medicine 2009, 360:17, 1740-1748. Academic Working Papers Under Review: Earnings Adjustment Frictions: Evidence from the Social Security Earnings Test, with Damon Jones and Daniel Sacks, November 2015, NBER Working Paper 19491 (second revise and resubmit, Review of Economic Studies). The Impact of Disability Insurance on Beneficiaries Earnings with Timothy Moore and Alexander Strand, May 2016, NBER Working Paper 21851 (revise and resubmit, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy). The Role of Social Security Benefits in the Turnaround of Older Women s Labor Force Participation: Evidence from the Notch Cohorts, with Adam Isen and Jae Song, May 2016. Revising for edited NBER volume on Women Working Longer, ed. Lawrence Katz and Claudia Goldin. The Effects of High-Skilled Immigration Policy on Firms: Evidence from Visa Lotteries, with Kirk Doran and Adam Isen, February 2016, NBER Working Paper 20668. The Supply Elasticity of Military Enlistments: Evidence from Two Novel Estimation Strategies, May 2016. Firm Regulations and Employment: Evidence from Administrative Data, with Adam Isen, May 2016. The Effect of Pension Income on Elderly Earnings: Evidence from Social Security and Full Population Data, with Adam Isen and Jae Song, May 2016. Academic Working Papers in Preparation for First Submission: Estimating Extensive Margin Responses to Kinked Budget Sets: Evidence from the Earnings Test, with Damon Jones, Daniel Sacks, and Jae Song, May 2016. The Effect of Disability Insurance on Mortality with Timothy Moore and Alexander Strand, January 2016. Reports: The Social Security Earnings Test and Retirement, with Damon Jones and Daniel Sacks, September 2015. Social Security Administration report 14-08r. 3
SSDI Replacement Rates and Beneficiary Life Expectancy, with Timothy Moore and Alexander Strand, May 2015. Social Security Administration report NB14-06. The Effect of Disability Insurance on Work Activity: Evidence from a Regression Kink Design, with Timothy Moore and Alexander Strand, April. Social Security Administration report NB13-05. How do Individuals Respond to the Earnings Test, with Damon Jones and Daniel Sacks, September. Social Security Administration report NB13-07. Policy statement: Statement by Acting Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy Alexander Gelber for the Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee, April 29, 2016. Presentations and Discussions (completed and scheduled): 2016: NBER, Sloan Foundation conference on Women Working Longer, White House Council of Economic Advisors 2015: UCLA, LSE, NBER, Sloan Foundation conference on Women Working Longer : UC Santa Cruz, NBER Summer Institute, University of Utah, Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management, California Neurological Society : All-California Labor Economics Conference, National Tax Association, NBER Summer Institute, Social Security Retirement Research Consortium, UC Berkeley (Goldman School of Public Policy), UC San Diego, UC Davis Poverty Research Center, UC Santa Barbara Laboratory for Aggregate Economics and Finance, National Congress of American Indians, Brookings, Kettering Foundation : Columbia, NBER Summer Institute, IZA Workshop on Recent Advances in Labor Supply Modeling, University of Virginia, Young Economists Jamboree (Empirical Microeconomics) sponsored by Economic Research Initiatives at Duke : American Economic Association, Columbia Tax Workshop, National Tax Association, U.S. Treasury Office of Tax Analysis, University of Oslo workshop on household behavior, University of Chicago (Harris School of Public Policy), University of Toronto : Econometric Society, Econometric Society World Congress, Georgia State (Young School of Policy Studies), IFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar, Hebrew University, Humboldt University of Berlin, INSEAD, IZA/SOLE Transatlantic Conference, National Tax Association, NBER Labor Studies, NBER Summer Institute, Public Economics UK Conference, Society for Economic Dynamics 2009: American Economic Association, Brookings (2), Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), National Tax Association, NBER Public Economics meetings, NBER Summer Institute, Nordic Summer Institute for Empirical Labor Economics, RAND, Stanford, Stockholm School of Economics, Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Tax Policy Center, University of British Columbia, University of Michigan (Office of Tax Policy Research), University of 4
Michigan (Economics Department), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Uppsala 2008: Boston University, Cornell (Policy Analysis and Management), Harvard, IFN Stockholm Conference, IZA/CEPR European Summer Symposium in Labour Economics, London School of Economics, NBER Summer Institute, Northwestern, Society for Economic Dynamics, Tel Aviv University, UC Berkeley, University of Chicago GSB, UCLA, University College London, University of Maryland, Wharton 2007: NBER Summer Institute, Texas A&M, Uppsala 2006: NBER Summer Institute, NBER Economics of National Security Conference, Uppsala Referee service: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, American Economic Review, Berkeley Electronic Press, Economic Journal, European Economic Review, Games and Economic Behavior, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, International Economic Review, International Journal of Industrial Organization, International Tax and Public Finance, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Urban Economics, Labour Economics, National Tax Journal, Review of Economics and Statistics, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Industrial Organization, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Social Science Research, Quarterly Journal of Economics Other Professional Activities: 2015-present: consultant to Premise Data Corporation on economic data collection 2009,, : Program Committee, National Tax Association 2008: gave informal tax policy help to Obama presidential campaign 5