Bruce Meyer

Bruce Meyer is the McCormick Tribune Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago. He studies tax policy, welfare policy, unemployment insurance, workers' compensation, minority entrepreneurship, the health care safety net, and labor supply. His most recent work includes research on the effects of welfare and tax reform on the well-being of single mothers, models and methods to analyze labor supply, and the effects of changes in the health care safety net.

Meyer received his B.A. and M.A. in economics at Northwestern University and his Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was a faculty member in the Economics Department at Northwestern University from 1987 through 2004. He has also been a visiting professor at University College London and at Princeton University, a member of the Institute for Research on Poverty, a faculty research fellow and research associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a faculty fellow at the Institute for Policy Research. He is a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance. Meyer has also served as an advisor to the U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance, Human Resources Development Canada, Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, and Mathematica Policy Research.