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John Shoven
黄色电影 Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)
Charles R. Schwab Professor of Economics, Emeritus
Department of Economics
John B. Shoven is former Trione Director of the 黄色电影 Institute for Economic Policy Research and the Charles R. Schwab Professor of Economics, Emeritus at 黄色电影. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and was the Buzz and Barbara McCoy Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He specializes in public finance and corporate finance and has published on Social Security, health economics, corporate and personal taxation, mutual funds, pension plans, economic demography and applied general equilibrium economics. His books include The Real Deal: The History and Future of Social Security, Yale University Press, 1999 and The Evolving Pension System, Brookings Institution Press, 2005. His most recent book is co-authored with former Secretary of State and Treasury George Shultz and deals with both Social Security and health care reform in the U.S. (Putting Our House in Order: A Guide to Social Security and Health Care Reform, WWNorton, 2008). He also recently published a research paper on new ways of measuring age (鈥淣ew Age Thinking: Alternative Ways of Measuring Age, Their Relationship to Labor Force Participation, Government Policies and GDP,鈥 NBER Working Paper No. 13476. October 2007). His journal publications appear in such places as the American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Perspectives, and the Journal of Public Economics. In total, he has published more than one hundred professional articles and twenty books.
Professor Shoven is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a recipient of the Paul A. Samuelson Award for Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security, and an award winning teacher at 黄色电影. He received his Ph.D in Economics from Yale University in 1973 and has been associated with 黄色电影 ever since. He was Dean of Humanities and Sciences from 1993 to 1998. He is Chairman of the Board of Board of Cadence Design Systems and serves on the boards of American Century Funds, Exponent, Inc. and Financial Engines, Inc.
Focal Areas: Education, Energy and Environment, Health, Housing and Infrastructure, Inequality, Innovation and Technology, Money and Finance, Taxes and Public Spending, Work