CURRICULUM VITAE DANIEL T. SLESNICK December 2012 Department of Economics University of Texas Austin, TX 78712 EDUCATION Ph.D. Economics, Harvard University, 1982 B.S. Mathematics, summa cum laude, University of Washington, 1978 PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS Senior Vice Provost for Resource Management, 2012-present. Vice Provost for Resource Management, 2010-2012. Associate Dean for Research and Technology, College of Liberal Arts, 2007-2010. Rex G.Baker, Jr. Professor of Political Economy, University of Texas, 1998-2007. Professor of Economics, University of Texas, 1993-present. Acting Director, Center for Economic Research, University of Texas, 1992-1993. Visiting Scholar,Department of Economics, Harvard University, 1990. Associate Professor of Economics, University of Texas, 1986-1993. Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Texas, 1982-1986. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Principles of Microeconomics (undergraduate) Intermediate Microeconomic Theory (undergraduate) Economic Statistics (undergraduate) Introductory Econometrics (undergraduate) Core Concepts of Microeconomics (graduate) Mathematical Statistics (graduate) Core Econometrics (graduate) Advanced Econometrics (graduate) Fundamentals of Public Finance (graduate)
-2- PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Member, Census Advisory Committee of Professional Associations, 2000-2002. Advisory Editor, Economics Letters, 1996-2010. Refereeing for professional journals Economic Consultant FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS Phi Beta Kappa H.B. Earhart Fellowship 1980-1982. Carl Fink, Jr. Endowed Faculty Fellowship in Economics, 1987-1988. BOOKS Consumption and Social Welfare: Living Standards and their Distribution in the United States, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2001. ARTICLES "Individual and Social Cost of Living Indexes" in W.E. Diewert and C. Montmarquette (eds.) Price Level Measurement, Ottawa, Statistics Canada, pp. 241-323, 1983 (with D.W.Jorgenson). "Aggregate Consumer Behavior and the Measurement of Inequality," Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 51, No. 166, pp. 369-392, 1984 (with D.W. Jorgenson). "Inequality in the Distribution of Individual Welfare" in R.L. Basmann and G.F. Rhodes (eds.) Advances in Econometrics, Vol. 3, Greenwich, JAI Press, pp. 67-130, 1984 (with D.W. Jorgenson). "General Equilibrium Analysis of Economic Policy" in J. Piggott and J. Whalley (eds.) New Developments in Applied General Equilibrium Analysis, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp. 293-370, 1985 (with D.W. Jorgenson). "Efficiency versus Equity in Petroleum Taxation," Energy Journal, Vol. 6, Special TaxIssue, pp. 171-188, 1985 (with D.W. Jorgenson). "Efficiency versus Equity in Natural Gas Price Regulation," Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 30, Nos. 1/2, October/November, pp. 301-316, 1985 (with D.W. Jorgenson). "The Measurement of Effective Commodity Tax Progressivity," Review ofeconomics and Statistics, Vol. 68, No. 2, May, pp. 224-231, 1986.
-3- "Welfare Distributional Change and the Measurement of Social Mobility," Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 68, No. 4, November, pp.586-593, 1986. "General Equilibrium Analysis of Natural Gas Price Regulation," in E. Bailey (ed.), Public Regulation: New Perspectives on Institutions and Policies, Cambridge, MIT Press, pp. 153-190, 1987 (with D.W. Jorgenson). "Aggregate Consumer Behavior and Household Equivalence Scales", Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Vol. 5, No. 2, April, pp. 219-232, 1987 (with D.W. Jorgenson). "Two Stage Budgeting and Consumer Demand for Energy" in J.R. Moroney (ed.), Advances in the Economics of Energy and Resources, Greenwich, JAI Press, Vol. 6, pp. 125-162, 1987 (with D.W. Jorgenson and T.M. Stoker). "Two Stage Budgeting and Exact Aggregation", Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 313-325, 1988 (with D.W. Jorgenson and T.M. Stoker). "Specific Egalitarianism and Total Welfare Inequality: A Decompositional Analysis", Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 71, No. 1, February, pp. 116-127, 1989. "The Measurement of Horizontal Inequality" Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 71, No. 3, August, pp. 481-490, 1989. "Redistributional Policy and the Measurement of Poverty" in D.J. Slottje (ed.), Research on Economic Inequality, Greenwich, JAI Press, Vol. 1, pp. 1-48, 1989 (with D.W. Jorgenson). "Inequality and the Standard of Living", Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 43, No. 1/2, January/February, pp. 103-120, 1990 (with D.W. Jorgenson). "Inflation, Relative Price Variation and Inequality", Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 43, Nos. 1/2, January/February, pp. 135-151, 1990. "Specification of Household Engel Curves by Nonparametric Regression: Comment", Econometric Reviews, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 197-202, 1990. "Aggregate Deadweight Loss and Money Metric Social Welfare", International Economic Review, Vol. 32, No. 1, February, pp. 123-146, 1991. "Normative Index Numbers", Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 50, No. 1/2, October/November, pp. 107-130, 1991. "The Standard of Living in the United States", Review of Income and Wealth, Series 37, No. 4, December, pp. 363-386, 1991.
-4- "Carbon Taxes and Economic Welfare", Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Microeconomics, pp. 393-431, 1992 (with D.W. Jorgenson and P.J. Wilcoxen). "Aggregate Consumption and Saving in the Postwar United States." Review ofeconomics and Statistics, Vol. 74, No. 4, November, pp. 585-597, 1992. "Gaining Ground: Poverty in the Postwar United States." Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 101, No. 1, February, pp. 1-38, 1993. "Consumption, Needs and Inequality." International Economic Review, Vol. 35, No. 3, August, pp. 677-703, 1994. "Consumption and Poverty: How Effective are In-Kind Transfers?", Economic Journal, Vol. 106, No. 439, November, pp. 1527-1545, 1996. "Are our Data Relevant to the Theory? The Case of Aggregate Consumption", Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Vol. 16, No. 1, January, pp. 52-61, 1998. "Unemployment Insurance and Household Welfare: Microeconomic Evidence 1980-93", in L.J. Bassi and S.A. Woodbury, Research in Employment Policy, Vol. 1, Greenwich, JAI Press, pp. 33-61, 1998, (with D. Hamermesh). "Empirical Approaches to the Measurement of Welfare", Journal of Economic Literature,Vol. 36, No. 4, December, pp. 2108-2165, 1998. "Indexing Government Benefits for Changes in the Cost of Living", Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Vol. 17, No. 2, April, pp. 170-181, 1999 (with D. Jorgenson). Living Standards in the United States: A Consumption-Based Approach, American Enterprise Institute Press, Washington, D.C., 2000. "Innovations in Applied Welfare Economics" in L.J. Lau (ed.), Econometrics and the Cost of Capital: Essays in Honor of Dale Jorgenson, Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, pp. 187-225, 2000. "Prices and the Regional Variation in Welfare", Journal of Urban Economics, Vol. 51, No. 3, May,pp. 446-468, 2002. "Prices and Demand: New Evidence from Micro Data", Economics Letters, Vol. 89, No. 3, December,pp. 269-274, 2005. "Consumer Surplus", in S. Durlauf and L. Blume (eds.), The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics,Second Edition, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. "U.S. Labor Supply and Demand in the Long Run", Journal of Policy Modeling, Vol. 30, No. 4, July-August, pp. 603-618, 2008 (with D. Jorgenson, R. Goettle, M.
-5- Ho, and P. Wilcoxen). "Consumption and Labor Supply", Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 147, No. 2, December, pp. 326-335, 2008 (with D. Jorgenson). "The Distributional Impact of Climate Policy", The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, Vol. 10, Issue 2 (Symposium), Article 17, 2010 (with D. Jorgenson, R. Goettle, M. Ho, and P.Wilcoxen). "An Econometric Approach to General Equilibrium Modeling", in P.B. Dixon and D.W. Jorgenson, Handbook of Computable General Equilibrium Modeling, Amsterdam, Elsevier,forthcoming (with D. Jorgenson, H. Jin, P. Wilcoxen). WORKING PAPERS "Consumption at the End of the Life Cycle", September 2006 (with Aydogan Ulker). "Inequality and the Life Cycle: Age, Cohort Effects and Consumption", November 2006, (with Aydogan Ulker). "Charges and Reimbursements: Evidence from the MEPS", January 2008, (with Brett Wendling). "Prices, Utilization and Expenditure Growth: A New Look at Physician Services", January 2010, (with Brett Wendling). "Measuring Social Welfare in the National Accounts", August 2012, (with Dale Jorgenson). BOOK REVIEWS Microeconomic Modeling and Policy Analysis: Studies in Residential Energy Demand, by Thomas G. Cowing and Daniel L. McFadden, in Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 24, No. 2, June, pp. 718-719, 1986. Macroeconomic problems and policies of income distribution: Functional, personal, international, Paul Davidson and Jan A. Kregel, (eds.), Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 29, No. 2, June, pp. 608-609, 1991. A System-Wide Analysis of International Consumption Patterns, by Saroja Selvanathan, Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 33, No. 4, December, pp. 1984-1986, 1995.