$75,000
How Do Place-Based Policies Affect People? Lessons and Implications for the Inflation Reduction Act
2025
John Voorheis is a principal economist in the Center for Economic Studies at the U.S. Census Bureau. His research focuses on using administrative records to improve survey measurement and to answer questions at the intersection of environmental, labor, and public economics.
His research has been published in leading academic journals, including the American Economic Review and Science. Voorheis received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Oregon.
Funded Research
$85,624
Who Weathers the Storm? The Unequal Effects of Hurricanes in the United States
2021
$15,000
State legislative political polarization and income inequality in the United States
2015
Authored by John Voorheis
Policy
New research shows that reductions in air pollution have intergenerational consequences (opens in a new tab)
Blog FEB 11, 2021
By: Jonathan Colmer, John Voorheis
Economic Equity & Opportunity
Household Economic Security
John Voorheis’s Working Papers
Academic
The Grandkids Aren’t Alright: The Intergenerational Effects of Prenatal Pollution Exposure (opens in a new tab)
Working Papers FEB 11, 2021
By: Jonathan Colmer, John Voorheis
Economic Equity & Opportunity
Household Economic Security
Academic
The distributional effects of minimum wages: Evidence from linked survey and administrative data (opens in a new tab)
Working Papers MAY 15, 2018
By: Kevin Rinz, John Voorheis
Labor, Wages & Worker Power
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