Background
Gramlich, Edward Martin was born on June 18, 1939 in Rochester, New York, United States. Son of Jacob Edward and Harriet (Williams) Gramlich.
federal official public policy educator
Gramlich, Edward Martin was born on June 18, 1939 in Rochester, New York, United States. Son of Jacob Edward and Harriet (Williams) Gramlich.
Bachelor in economics, Williams College, 1961. Master of Arts in economics, Yale University, 1962. Doctor of Philosophy in economics, Yale University, 1965.
Member staff Federal Reserve Board, 1965-1970. Director policy research division Office Economic Opportunity, 1971—1973. Senior fellow The Brookings Institution, 1973-1976.
Professor economics public policy University Michigan, 1976—1997, director Institute Public Policy Studies, 1979-1983, 1991—1995, chairman economics department, 1983—1986, dean School Public Policy, 1995—1997, interim provost & executive vice president academy affairs, 2005—2006, Richard A. Musgrave Collegiate Professor Public Policy, 2005—2006, professor emeritus, 2006—2007. Member board governors Federal Reserve Systems, 1997—2005. Richard B. Fisher Senior Fellow The Urban Institute, Washington, 2006—2007.
Visiting lecturer Monash University, Australia, 1970, Stockholm University, 1979. Adjunct professor George Washington University, 1974-1975. Visiting professor Cornell University, 1975-1976.
Consultant Reserve Bank of Australia, 1970, National Institute Education, 1973-1975, United States Department Labor, 1973-1975, Health Education & Welfare, since 1974, Congressional Budget Office, 1975-1978, Senate of Puerto Rico, 1975, Collier's Encyclopedia, 1975-1979, Industrial Research Institute, Sweden, 1979-1981, Abt Associates, 1979-1980, Minimum Wage Study Commission, 1981, Federal Reserve Board Academy Consultant, 1981.
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Author: Savings Deposits, Mortgages and Housing in the FRB-Mit-Penn Econometric Model, 1972, Educational Performance Contracting: An Evaluation of an Experiment, 1975, Setting National Priorities: The 1975 Budget, 1974, Setting National Priorities: The 1976 Budget, 1975, Benefit-Cost Analysis of Governmental Programs, 1981, Tax Reform: There Must Be A Better Way, 1982. Editorial board National Tax Journal, 1970-1973, Journal Policy Analysis and Management, 1980, Evaluation Review, 1980-1983, Journal Economic Literature, 1981-2007. Contributor articles to professional journals.
My early work was in macroeconomics, building a small macro model for my thesis and then being part of a project to build a large one at the Federal Reserve Board. One of the interesting projects I became involved in then was the question of how to model the fiscal behaviour of State and local governments — a framework I developed then and have used since to look at all kinds of questions regarding grant behaviour, conversion of grants to block form, public employment and swings in State and local saving.
Later I became interested in questions of poverty and unemployment and took a job at the Office of Economic Opportunity. Ideas for papers on the distributional impact of the business cycle and minimum wages originated there.
In addition, I was introduced to the fascinating question of programme evaluation, first with the performance contracting experiment and later continuing with my benefit-cost text. That focusses particularly on the evaluation of distributional programmes.
These earlier interests continued when I moved to Michigan, and were supplemented by a new one. Tax cut fever was in the air at the time, and I began working on the analytics of government size and growth.
Two colleagues (Paul Courant and Daniel Rubinfeld) and I did some theoretical models on this issue, and we also conducted a voter survey to try to get better data on individual spending demands. Unlike previous surveys, we tried to analyse our data within the context of a median voter model, and we also used it to test a number of hypotheses regarding tastes of public employees, the impact of tax limits, and migration. That, in turn, inspired a more intense interest in the underappreciated migration question and I am now trying to establish, from a theoretical and empirical standpoint, how important a constraint on government behaviour that really is.
Member Brookings Panel on Economic Activity, since 1973, Brookings Panel on Social Experimentation, 1973-1974, White House Summit Conference, 1974, Economic Advisory Panel National Institute of Education, 1973-1974, Education Grants Panel, National Institute Education, 1973-1974, Education and Human Resources Advisory Board, Rand Corporation, 1975-1978, Committee on Evaluation Research, Social Science Research Council, 1977-1979, New York State Productivity Commission, 1977-1979, Association for Public Policy and Management (policy council 1979-1984, vice president 1979-1980, program chairman 1981), National Academy of Sciences Education Research Foundation, 1980-2007, State of Michigan Committee on Professor and Occupational Licensure, 1981-1982, Sime-Dime Review Panel, United States Department Health & Human Services, 1980-1981, Visiting Committee Albion College Public Policy School, since 1981, Truman Scholarship Selection Panel, Michigan-Ohio, 1982-2007, Review Committee, Maryland Economics Department, 1993-2007, Chairman, National Institute of Education Policy Study Group, 1983.
Married Ruth Brown, August 29, 1964. Children: Sarah, Robert.