Georgetown Public Policy Institute
Dr. Johnson is a research economist at the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the Division of Price and Index Number Research. He conducts and evaluates research using the U.S. Consumer Expenditure Survey. He has written journal articles and working papers on such topics as the allocation of reasources within the family, inequality and poverty measurement, equivalence scale estimation, and the well-being of children. He has published articles in the American Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics and The Review of Income and Wealth. He is currently working with the Bureau of the Census to examine alternative poverty measures and co-authored a recent report entitled Experimental Poverty Measures, 1990-1997. In addition, he coordinates the Bureau of Labor Statistics's participation in the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics and serves on the writing sub-committee for the production of America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-being. In this capacity, he is interested in examining the comparability of multiple federal household surveys and in using the survey data to assess the well-being of children. Currently, he is conducting research on the poverty of children and the elderly, the effects of teenage employment on family expenditures, and the history and development of family budgets. Dr. Johnson has been an adjunct faculty for the GPPP since 1992 and has taught Public Finance, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Tools for Economic Analysis and the Research Practicum.
Dr. Johnson is a research economist at the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the Division of Price and Index Number Research. He conducts and evaluates research using the U.S. Consumer Expenditure Survey. He has written journal articles and working papers on such topics as the allocation of reasources within the family, inequality and poverty measurement, equivalence scale estimation, and the well-being of children. He has published articles in the American Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics and The Review of Income and Wealth. He is currently working with the Bureau of the Census to examine alternative poverty measures and co-authored a recent report entitled Experimental Poverty Measures, 1990-1997. In addition, he coordinates the Bureau of Labor Statistics's participation in the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics and serves on the writing sub-committee for the production of America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-being. In this capacity, he is interested in examining the comparability of multiple federal household surveys and in using the survey data to assess the well-being of children. Currently, he is conducting research on the poverty of children and the elderly, the effects of teenage employment on family expenditures, and the history and development of family budgets. Dr. Johnson has been an adjunct faculty for the GPPP since 1992 and has taught Public Finance, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Tools for Economic Analysis and the Research Practicum.