David Powell
Education
Overview
Biography
David Powell is an associate economist at the RAND Corporation. His areas of expertise include public finance, health economics, and econometrics. Powell's research has examined the impact of income taxes on wages, occupational choice, and labor income. He also introduced a new framework for estimation of quantile treatment effects. In recent work, Powell has introduced a model of optimal health insurance. He is currently studying the impact of health insurance on medical care consumption. Powell earned his Ph.D. in economics from MIT.
Research Focus
Selected Publications
David Powell, "Compensating Differentials and Income Taxes: Are the Wages of Dangerous Jobs More Responsive to Tax Changes than the Wages of Safe Jobs?" Journal of Human Resources, 47(4), 2012
David Powell and Hui Shan, "Income Taxes, Compensating Differentials, and Occupational Choice: How Taxes Distort the Wage-Amenity Decision," American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 4(1), 2012
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