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January 4, 2013

Robert Haveman

Professor Emeritus of Public Affairs and Economics
Faculty Affiliate, Institute for Research on Poverty

Office: 204 Observatory Hill Office Building and
7418 Sewell Social Sciences Building
Phone: 608-262-4585
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Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs
University of Wisconsin - Madison
1225 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706-1211

Robert Haveman is Professor Emeritus of Economics and Public Affairs and Research Associate at the Institute for Research on Poverty. He is also Adjunct Professor of Economics at Australian National University. He has published widely in the fields of public finance, the economics of environmental and natural resources policy, benefit-cost analysis, and the economics of poverty and social policy. Recent publications include Succeeding Generations: On the Effects of Investments in Children (with Barbara Wolfe), Russell Sage Foundation, 1994, and Human Capital in the United States from 1975 to 2000: Patterns of Growth and Utilization (with Andrew Bershadker and Jonathan A. Schwabish), Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2003.

Current projects include estimating the adequacy of savings of older workers at and during retirement, evaluating the impacts of the Section 8 housing voucher program, and assessing cross-national patterns of social mobility. He is an award-winning teacher, who continues to teach at the La Follette School, of which he was director from 1988 to 1991. He was director of the Institute for Research on Poverty from 1971 to 1975, and Chair of the Department of Economics from 1993-1996.

Professor Haveman has served as senior economist, Subcommittee on Economy in Government, Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress. He was a fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation in 1991-92, research associate at Resources for the Future in 1964-65 and 1999-1970, Fulbright Siena Professor in 2003, and fellow at the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study in 1975–1976, 1996–97, 1996-97, and 2007. His work has appeared in the American Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Journal of the American Statistical Association.

He received his doctorate in economics from Vanderbilt University.

Research

Carlson, Deven; Haveman, Robert; Kaplan, Thomas; and Barbara Wolfe. 2011. "The Benefits and Costs of the Section 8 Housing Subsidy Program: A Framework and
Estimates of First-Year Effects." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 30, No. 2, 233–255 (2011). Available online.

Carlson, Deven, Robert Haveman, Tom Kaplan, Barbara Wolfe. 2012. "Long-term earnings and employment effects of housing voucher receipt." Journal of Urban Economics 71 (2012) 128–150.

Wolfe, Barbara, Jessica Jakubowski, Robert Haveman and Marissa Courey. 2012. "The Income and Health Effects of Tribal Casino Gaming on American Indians."
Demography. Url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13524-012-0098-8

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Curriculum vitae

Course

PA 880 Microeconomic Policy Analysis: fall 2009, fall 2008, fall 2007, fall 2006

La Follette School Working Paper Series

Long-Term Effects of Public Low-Income Housing Vouchers on Neighborhood Quality and Household Composition / La Follette School Working Paper No. 2012-002
U.S. Health Care Reform: A Primer and an Assessment / La Follette School Working Paper No. 2010-013
The Benefits and Costs of the Section 8 Housing Subsidy Program: A Framework and First-Year Estimates / La Follette School Working Paper No. 2009-025
What Does It Mean to be Poor in a Rich Society? / La Follette School Working Paper No. 2009-001
Long-Term Effects of Public Low-Income Housing Vouchers on Work, Earnings, and Neighborhood Quality / La Follette School Working Paper No. 2008-013
The Chicago O'Hare Expansion: A Case Study of Administrative Manipulation of Benefit-Cost Principles / La Follette School Working Paper No. 2006-022
Generational Income Mobility: A Review Essay / La Follette School Working Paper No. 2006-021
Do Youth Nonmarital Childbearing Choices Reflect Expected Income and Relationship Consequences? / La Follette School Working Paper No. 2006-020
The Sufficiency of Retirement Savings: A Comparison of Two Cohorts of Retired Workers at the Time of Retirement / La Follette School Working Paper No. 2006-019
Gender Issues and Social Security Reform: Assessing the Role of Social Security and Personal Savings in Well-Being During Retirement / La Follette School Working Paper No. 2006-002
Economic Inequality in College Access, Matriculation, and Graduation / La Follette School Working Paper No. 2005-032
Work and Earnings of Low-Skill Women: Do Survey Response and Administrative Records Provide Consistent Information? / La Follette School Working Paper No. 2005-031
SCHIP Expansion and Parental Coverage: An Evaluation of Wisconsin's BadgerCare / La Follette School Working Paper No. 2005-030
What Does Increased Economic Inequality Imply about the Future Level and Dispersion of Human Capital? / La Follette School Working Paper No. 2005-013
Do Newly Retired Workers in the U.S. Have Sufficient Resources to Maintain Well-Being? / La Follette School Working Paper No. 2005-012