HOWARD CHERNICK

Howard Chernick holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a Research Affiliate of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/irp/ . Before coming to Hunter College in 1982, he was a senior researcher in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. From 1989-90 he was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation. Professor Chernick's research specializes in the economics of the public sector, with special attention to the distributional impacts of government spending and taxation. He is actively involved in public policy in New York, serving as a consultant to The New York City Independent Budget Office, and sitting on the economic advisory board to the New York State Comptroller. His most recent research project, funded by the Joint Center for Poverty Research of the University of Chicago and Northwestern http://www.jcpr.org/, studies the effect of Food Stamps on the fiscal behavior of states.

Department of Economics
Hunter College, CUNY
695 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10021
Tel: 212.772.5440
Fax: 212.772.5398

Howard.Chernick@hunter.cuny.edu