Thomas DeLeire
La Follette School of Public Affairs	Department of Population Health Sciences
University of Wisconsin-Madison	School of Medicine and Public Health
1225 Observatory Drive	University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI 53706	705 WARF, 620 Walnut Drive
	Madison, WI 53727
(608) 262-4531	(608) 263-6998
deleire- at -wisc.edu
www.ssc.wisc.edu/~tdeleire
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Current Position and Affiliations Associate Professor, Department of Population Health Sciences, School of Medicine and Public Health and La Follette School of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007 to present Affiliate Associate Professor, Department of Economics, 2007 to present Affiliate Faculty, Institute for Research on Poverty, 2007 to present Research Fellow, IZA, 2008 to present Research Associate, NBER, 2009 to present
Previous Employment Senior Economist, Health and Human Resources Division, Congressional Budget Office, 2005-2007 Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Michigan State University, 2006-2007  Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Michigan State University, 2004-2006  Visiting Assistant Professor, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2003-2004 Senior Economist, Council of Economic Advisors, 2002-2003 Assistant Professor, Harris School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago, 1997-2004
Education Stanford University, Ph.D. Economics, 1997 Princeton University, A.B, Economics, 1990
Publications (click on titles for links) DeLeire, Thomas, Leonard M. Lopoo, and Kosali I. Simon. (forthcoming) “Medicaid Expansions and Fertility in the United States” Demography. (National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series No. 12907 version here). Kristen L Knutson, Eve Van Cauter, Paul J Rathouz, Thomas DeLeire, Diane S Lauderdale. (forthcoming) “Trends in the prevalence of short sleepers in the USA: 1975-2006", Sleep. Abraham, Jean Marie, Thomas DeLeire, and Anne Beeson Royalty. (2009). “Access to Health Insurance at Small Establishments: What Can We Learn from Analyzing Other Fringe Benefits?” Inquiry 46(3). (also Congressional Budget Office, Working Paper No. 2007-08). Dehejia, Rajeev, Thomas DeLeire, Erzo F.P. Luttmer, and Josh Mitchell. (2009). “The Role of Religious and Social Organizations in the Lives of Disadvantaged Youth” in Jonathan Guber (Ed.) Disadvantaged Youth. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Whitney P. Witt, and Thomas DeLeire. (2009). “A Family Perspective on Population Health: The Case of Child Health and the Family” Wisconsin Medical Journal 108(5). Thomas DeLeire, John Mullahy, and Barbara Wolfe. (2009). “Health economics at UW-Madison and the Department of Population Health Sciences” Wisconsin Medical Journal 108(5). Molly Dahl, Thomas DeLeire, and Jonathan Schwabish. (2009). "Stepping Stone or Dead End? The Effect of the EITC on Earnings Growth " National Tax Journal 62(2): 329-346. (also IZA Discussion Paper No. 4146). Levy, Helen and Thomas DeLeire (2008). “What Do People Buy When They Don’t Buy Health Insurance and What Does That Tell Us About Why They Are Uninsured?” Inquiry 45:365-379. Dahl, Molly, Jonathan Schwabish, and Thomas DeLeire (2008). Trends in Variability in Individual Earnings Household Income. Congressional Budget Office: Washington, DC. Dehejia, Rajeev, Thomas DeLeire, and Erzo Luttmer (2007).“Insuring Consumption and Happiness through Religious Organizations.” Journal of Public Economics, 91 (February): 259-279. Dahl, Molly, Thomas DeLeire, and Jonathan Schwabish (2007). Trends in Earnings Variability Over the Past 20 Years. Congressional Budget Office: Washington, DC. Dahl, Molly,  Thomas DeLeire, Ed Harris, and Ralph Smith (2007).Response to a Request by Senator Grassley About the Effects of Increasing the Federal Minimum Wage Versus Expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit. (January 9) Congressional Budget Office: Washington DC. Alsalam, Nabeel, Molly Dahl, and Thomas DeLeire. (2006). Changes in Low-Wage Labor Markets Between 1979 and 2005. Congressional Budget Office: Washington DC. DeLeire, Thomas, Judith Levine, and Helen Levy (2006). “Is Welfare Reform Responsible for Low-Skilled Women’s Declining Health Insurance Coverage in the 1990s?” Journal of Human Resources 41(3):495-528. Ziol-Guest, Kathleen M., Thomas DeLeire, and Ariel Kalil. (2006). “The Allocation of Food Expenditure in Married and Single Parent Families.” Journal of Consumer Affairs, 40(2):347-370.  [This is an electronic version of an article published in the Journal of Consumer Affairs: complete citation information for the final version of the paper, as published in the print edition of the Journal of Consumer Affairs, is available on the Blackwell Synergy online delivery service, accessible via the journal's website at http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/.] DeLeire, Thomas and Willard Manning (2006). “Labor Market Consequences of Health Impairments.” In R. Kessler and P. Stang (eds.) Health and Work Productivity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Lopoo, Leonard M. and Thomas DeLeire (2006). “Did Welfare Reform Influence the Fertility of Young Teens?” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 25(2):275-298. DeLeire, Thomas and Ariel Kalil (2005). "How Do Cohabiting Couples with Children Spend Their Money?" Journal of Marriage and Family, 67:285-294.   [This is an electronic version of an article published in the Journal of Marriage and Family.  Complete citation information for the final version of the paper, as published in the print edition of the Journal of Marriage and Family, is available on the Blackwell Synergy online delivery service, accessible via the journal's website at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/jomf or http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/.] DeLeire, Thomas and Helen Levy (2004). “Worker Sorting and the Risk of Death on the Job.” Journal of Labor Economics, 22(4): 925-954. Kalil, Ariel and Thomas DeLeire (eds.). (2004). Family investments in children’s potential: Resources and behaviors that promote success. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.   Ziol-Guest, Kathleen, Ariel Kalil and Thomas DeLeire (2004). "Expenditure Decisions in Single-Parent Households." in A. Kalil and T. DeLeire (eds.). Family investments in children’s potential: Resources and behaviors that promote success. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, pp 181-208. DeLeire, Thomas and Willard Manning (2004). “Labour Market Costs of Illness: Prevalence Matters.” Health Economics, 13(3):239-250. Coleman, Margo and Thomas DeLeire (2003). “An Economic Model of Locus of Control and the Human Capital Investment Decision.” Journal of Human Resources 38(3):701-721. Bhattacharya, Jayanta, Thomas DeLeire, Steven Haider, and Janet Currie (2003). "Heat or Eat? Cold Weather Shocks and Nutrition in Poor American Families." American Journal of Public Health 93(7):1149-1154. DeLeire, Thomas (2003). “The Americans with Disabilities Act and the Employment of People with Disabilities.” In David C. Stapleton and Richard V. Burkhauser (eds.), The Declining Employment of People with Disabilities: A Policy Puzzle Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute pp 259-275. Levy, Helen and Thomas DeLeire. (2003). “What Do Californians Buy When They Don’t Buy Health Insurance?” California Healthcare Foundation Issue Brief, July 2003. Attanasio, Orazio and Thomas DeLeire (2002). "The Effect of Individual Retirement Accounts on Household Consumption and National Saving." The Economic Journal 112(7):504-537. DeLeire, Thomas and Ariel Kalil (2002). "Good Things Come in Threes: Single-parent Multigenerational Family Structure and Adolescent Adjustment." Demography 39(2): 393-412. DeLeire, Thomas, Jayanta Bhattacharya, and Thomas MaCurdy (2002). "Comparing Measures of Overtime Across BLS Surveys." Industrial Relations 41(2):362-369. Katzelnick, David J., Kenneth A. Kobak, Thomas DeLeire, Henry J. Henk, John H. Griest, Jonathan R.T. Davidson, Franklin R. Schneier, Murray B. Stein, Cindy P. Helstad (2001). "Impact of Generalized Social Anxiety Disorder in Managed Care." American Journal of Psychiatry 158(12):1999-2007. DeLeire, Thomas (2001). "Changes in Wage Discrimination Against People with Disabilities: 1984 - 1993." Journal of Human Resources 36(1): 145-158. DeLeire, Thomas (2000). "The Unintended Consequences of the Americans with Disabilities Act." Regulation 23(1): 21-24. DeLeire, Thomas (2000). "The Wage and Employment Effects of the Americans with Disabilities Act." Journal of Human Resources 35(4): 693-715. DeLeire, Thomas (1998).  "Is There Wage Discrimination Against People With Disabilities?: Implications for Public Policy." Chicago Policy Review 2(2).
Working Papers (click on titles for links) DeLeire, Thomas and Ariel Kalil. “Does Consumption Buy Happiness? Evidence from the United States, November 2009. Abraham, Jean, Thomas DeLeire, and Anne Beeson Royalty. “Does Consumption Buy Happiness? Evidence from the United States.” NBER Working Paper No. 15410. Lindsey Jeanne Leininger, Donna Friedsam, Shannon Mok, Laura Dague, Emma Hynes, Alison Bergum, Thomas Oliver, Thomas DeLeire “Wisconsin’s BadgerCare Plus Reform: Impact on Low-Income Families’ Enrollment and Retention in Public Coverage”, November 2009. DeLeire, Thomas. “A Note on Calculating Difference in Differences Using Probit Models versus Linear Probability Models” Unpublished Paper, Michigan State University, December 2004. Shetty, Kanaka, Thomas DeLeire, Chapin White, and Jay Bhattacharya. “Changes in U.S. Hospitalization and Mortality Rates Following Smoking Bans,” NBER Working Paper 14790, March 2009.  DeLeire, Thomas and Christopher Timmins. “Roy-Model Sorting and the Value of a Statistical Life,” NBER Working Paper No. 14364, September 2008. Dahl, Molly, Thomas DeLeire, and Jonathan Schwabish. “Year-to-Year Variability in Workers Earnings and in Household Incomes: Estimates from Administrative Data” Unpublished paper, June 2008. DeLeire, Thomas, Thomas D. Jeitschko, Seamus O'Connell, and Rowena Pecchenino. “Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself: Community Formation and the Church,” Unpublished manuscript, July 2007. Dahl, Molly and Thomas DeLeire. “The Association between Children’s Earnings and Fathers’ Lifetime Earnings: Evidence from Administrative Data.” Institute for Research on Poverty Discussion Paper No. 1342-08. DeLeire, Thomas and Helen Levy. “The Material Well-Being of Single Mother Households in the 1980s and 1990s: What Can We Learn from Food Spending?” January 2005, University of Michigan, National Poverty Center Working Paper No. 05-1. Blomberg, S. Brock, DeLeire, Thomas and Hess, Gregory D., "The (After) Life-Cycle Theory of Religious Contributions" (November 2006). CESifo Working Paper No. 1854 (Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=904028)http://ssrn.com/abstract=904028 DeLeire, Thomas and Helen Levy. “How Well Can We Measure the Well-Being of the Poor Using Food Expenditure?” August 2006. University of Michigan, National Poverty Center Working Paper No. 06-29.
Selected references in major news sources The Boston Globe, October 13, 2007. “Religious upbringing found to aid children.” The Boston Globe, September 17, 2005. “Faith Provides `Insurance’ In Hard Times.” The New York Times, September 8, 2005. “In Times of Stress, Can Religion Serve as Insurance?” The Washington Post, September 7, 2001. “4% of U.S. Homes Are Multigenerational.” The Washington Times, August 02, 2000, Other side of the disability rights law Business Week, August 2, 1999. “Are We Hurting or Helping the Disabled?” Business Week, January 9, 1995. “IRAs: No Spur to Net Savings.”