Doug Wissoker, Affiliated Researcher (Urban Institute)
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BiographyDouglas A. Wissoker is a labor economist focusing on labor and health policy research with expertise in statistical and survey methods. He is an affiliated researcher with CALDER and serves as an internal consultant at the Urban Institute on a variety of analytic and sample design issues. In this role, Dr. Wissoker designed the sample for a recent survey of public school districts and private schools in those districts for the Department of Education. He recently formulated the survey sampling design for a survey of principals and teachers at schools operating a pay-for-performance plan funded through the Department of Education’s Teacher Incentive Fund program and designed the sample for a World-Bank sponsored survey of coastal fishing households in Sierra Leone. In his methodological work, Dr. Wissoker has conducted research on nonresponse bias and analysis of noncontact in large household surveys. In 2001-2003, he was a visiting senior researcher at the Central Bureau of Statistics in Israel, where he studied non-response to the Israeli Labor Force Survey and wrote a detailed description of the sampling methodology used for that survey. He recently analyzed the quality of data in the Synthetic SIPP/IRS files for the Social Security Administration. He has taught trainings on “Practical Statistics” and “Regression for Policy Research” as part of USAID-sponsored projects to develop capacity in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Azerbaijan and modules on sampling and regression analysis at George Washington University. Dr. Wissoker’s research has covered a variety of topics and methods. He has analyzed the results of welfare reform, the effects of working for a temporary agency using propensity score matching, and discrimination in entry-level employment and insurance quotes using paired testers. He recently worked on revisions of the employment and earnings modules of the Polisim and MINT simulation models for the Social Security Administration. In his health policy research, Dr. Wissoker has studied post-acute care for Medicare beneficiaries in Skilled Nursing Facilities and other settings. He recently completed an analysis of benchmarks for the National Park Service.
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