Overview
Economist at the Division of Economic Research, Social Security Administration. Works with Harriet Orcutt Duleep on immigrant earnings trajectories, microsimulation methodology, and Social Security policy impact for the foreign-born population.
Key Contributions / Features
- Co-author of the Duleep and Dowhan (2008) Social Security Bulletin pair — "Adding Immigrants to Microsimulation Models" and "Research on Immigrant Earnings" — building on earlier (2002) work: developed the MINT microsimulation extensions for immigrant cohorts stratified by nativity, year of entry, and source region.
- Co-established the emigration exponential decay framework and the "beacons of change" supplementation approach for OIS-based flow projections.
- Co-author of Duleep and Dowhan (2008) "Research on Immigrant Earnings": synthesizes the literature on immigrant earnings trajectories and documents the inverse entry-earnings-growth relationship using longitudinal SSA/CPS matched data.
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