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Session 6: U.S. Policy and the Changing Global Landscape
Rapid changes in the world economy mean that our basic policies across a wide spectrum of areas--such as education, income security, and health care--need to be rethought if the U.S. will continue to keep its lead role. Does the broad agenda of change proposed by the Hamilton Project group meet these needs, or would other approaches work better?
Links of Interest
Jeffrey Kling's home page at Brookings
Presentations
Speakers
Charles Steindel
Senior Vice President
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, moderator
Douglas Holtz-Eakin
Economic Policy Chair
John McCain 2008, The Exploratory Committee
Douglas Holtz-Eakin is the former Director of the Congressional Budget Office. Currently, he is the Economic Policy Chair for the John McCain 2008 Campaign.
Jeffrey R. Kling
Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of Economic Studies
Brookings Institution
Jeffrey Kling is Deputy Director and Senior Fellow in the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution. Kling is co-director of the Policy Evaluation Project, which coordinates the selection, design, implementation, and analysis of randomized experiments conducted in partnership with private firms and government agencies that test policy innovations. He is also currently examining unemployment insurance, Medicare prescription drug insurance, and other aspects of social insurance in the U.S.
Over the past ten years he has led interdisciplinary teams of researchers in studies of housing vouchers and the effects of moving out of high-poverty neighborhoods, based on extensive data collection about experiences of families in HUD’s Moving To Opportunity randomized voucher experiment. He has also examined the effects of incarceration on reintegration into the labor market after release from prison. He was awarded a Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation and a Scholar Award from the W. T. Grant Foundation for his work integrating qualitative and quantitative research methods in identifying the causal effects of public policies. The results of this research have been published in leading journals, including the American Economic Review, Econometrica, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics.
Kling has previously served as Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Affairs in the Department of Economics and the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, Special Assistant to the Secretary at the United States Department of Labor, and Assistant to the Chief Economist at the World Bank. He is a graduate of Harvard University where he was elected Phi Beta Kappa with a bachelor’s degree in Economics he and holds a PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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