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Wealth, income, and consumption: a microeconomic approach to a macroeconomic question
2014
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David Johnson
Senior Program Officer
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
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David S. Johnson is a senior program officer at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and an adjunct faculty at Georgetown’s McCourt School of Public Policy. Prior, he was a research professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
His research interests include the measurement of inequality and mobility (using income, consumption, and wealth), the effects of tax rebates, equivalence scale estimation, poverty measurement, and price indexes.
He also worked for many years in the Federal Statistical System, including experience in administrative data linkages. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Minnesota.
Funded Research
Authored by David Johnson
Policy
Wealth as a driver of income and consumption mobility in the United States (opens in a new tab)
Blog JUN 7, 2023
By: Jonathan Fisher, David Johnson
Economic Equity & Opportunity
Household Economic Security
David Johnson’s Working Papers
Academic
Spending Responses to the Child Tax Credit Expansions (opens in a new tab)
Working Papers APR 2, 2024
By: Jonathan Fisher, Jake Schild, David S. Johnson
Economic Equity & Opportunity
Household Economic Security
Taxation
Academic
Intergenerational Mobility using Income, Consumption, and Wealth (opens in a new tab)
Working Papers JUN 7, 2023
By: Jonathan Fisher, David S. Johnson
Economic Equity & Opportunity
Household Economic Security
Academic
Estimating the marginal propensity to consume using the distributions of income, consumption, and wealth (opens in a new tab)
Working Papers APR 19, 2018
By: Jonathan Fisher, David Johnson, Jonathan Latner, Timothy Smeeding, Jeffrey Thompson
Economic Equity & Opportunity
Macroeconomics & Economic Measurement
Academic
Inequality in 3D: Income, consumption, and wealth (opens in a new tab)
Working Papers SEP 7, 2016
By: Jonathan Fisher, David Johnson, Timothy Smeeding, Jeffrey Thompson
Economic Equity & Opportunity
Academic
Inequality and mobility using income, consumption, and wealth for the same individuals (opens in a new tab)
Working Papers SEP 7, 2016
By: Jonathan Fisher, David Johnson, Jonathan Latner, Timothy Smeeding, Jeffrey Thompson
Economic Equity & Opportunity
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