| Department of Economics-MS22
Rice University
6100 Main Street
Houston, TX 77005-1892
U.S.A.
Phone: (713)-348-4875
Fax: (713) 348-5278
Email Address: mieszko@rice.edu
born July 5, 1936, Pelplin, Poland
Citizen of the United States
EDUCATION:
Public Schools, Granby, Quebec
B.S., McGill University, 1957
M.A., McGill University, 1959
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1963
Previous and Present University Positions:
1962-1967 Assistant Professor of Economics, Yale University
1967-1971 Associate Professor of Economics, Yale University
1971-1974 Professor of Economics, Queen's University, Canada
1974-1981 Professor of Economics, University of Houston
1981- Cline Professor of Economics and Finance, Rice University
1989-1992 Director of the Center for the Study of Institutions and Values, Rice University
Awards and Honors:
Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Chicago, 1964-1965
Consultantships, etc.:
U.S. Treasury Dept. 1967, 1977
Urban Institute, 1970
Housing and Urban Development, 1975
Associate Editor for Journal of Public Economics - 1972- 1989
Associate Editor for Public Finance Quarterly - Associate Editor for Journal of Urban Economics 1974-1992
Member Committee on Urban Economics, 1973
Member Committee on Urban Public Economics, 1974
Member of National Science Foundation Review Panel for Economics, 1975-1977
Technical Advisor Tax Policy Studies, American Enterprise Inst., 1978
Research Economist Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 1978-79
National Institute of Education, 1979
Research Associate National Bureau of Economic Research, 1979-1985
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 1986
Exxon Corporation, 1982
Ministry of Finance, Poland, 1990
World Bank, 1994.
Chief Fields of Research of Interest:
Public Finance, Urban Economics, Income Distribution Problems
Editing:
1. Current Issues In Urban Economics (with Mahlon Strazheim) John Hopkins Press, 1979.
2. Fiscal Federalism and Grants-In-Aid (with William Oakland), Urban Institute, 1979.
3. Public Sector Labor Markets (with George Peterson), Urban Institute, 1981.
4. Fiscal Federalism and the Taxation of Natural Resources (with Charles McLure), Lexington Books, 1983.
Monograph:
"Socioeconomic and Environmental Considerations," Superconducting Super Collider, Volume B, several co-authors (Houton: HARC, 1986).
Publications:
1. "The Comparative Efficiency of Tariffs and Other Tax-Subsidy Schemes as a Means of Obtaining Revenue or Protecting Domestic Production," Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 74, December 1966.
2. "On the Theory of Tax Incidence," Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 74, June 1967. Reprinted in Spanish in Hacienda Publica Espanola, No. 75, 1982, Madrid, Ministerio de Hacienda.
3. "Is a Negative Income Tax Practical?" (with James Tobin and Joseph Pechman). Yale Law Journal, Vol. 77, November 1967. Reprinted in Federal Income Tax Anthology, Paul L. Caron ed., Anderson Publishing Co., Cincinnati, 1997.
4. "The Effects of the Corporate Tax" (with John Cragg and Arnold Harberger), Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 75, December, 1967.
5. "Effects of the Carter Proposals on the Corporate Tax," Proceedings of the Twentieth Tax Conference of the Canadian Tax Foundation, 1968.
6. "Carter on the Taxation of International Income Flows," National Tax Journal, Vol. 22, March 1969.
7. "Tax Incidence Analysis: The Effects of Taxes on the Distribution of Income," Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 7, December 1969. Reprinted in Matthew P. Drennan and Dick Netzer ed., Readings in State and Local Public Finance, Blackwell, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1997.
8. "Corporation Tax Shifting: Rejoiner" (with John Cragg and Arnold Harberger), Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 78, July/August 1970.
9. "The Effects on Unionization of the Distribution of Income" (with H.G. Johnson), Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 1970, pp. 539-561. Reprinted in The Economics of Labor Unions, edited by Alison L. Booth, The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, Edgar Elgar, Hants, England 2002.
10. "The Property Tax: Excise Tax or Profits Tax," Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 1, No. 1, April 1972, pp. 73-95. Reprinted in Spanish in Hacienda Publica Espaniola, No. 75, 1982, Madrid, Ministerio de Hacienda. Reprinted in Municipal Expenditures Revenues and Services, W.P. Beaton, ed., New Brunswick, Rutgers Press. Reprinted in A. B. Atkinson, ed., Modern Public Finance, Vol. 1, The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, Vol. 15, Cambridge University Press, 1991.
11. "Integration of the Corporate and Personal Income Taxes: The Bogus Issue of Shifting," Finanzarciv, December 1972, pp. 287-297.
12. "An Estimate of Racial Discrimination in Housing" (with Thomas King), Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 81, No. 3, May/June 1973, pp. 590-606.
13. "Notes on the Economic Effects of Land Use Regulation." Paper presented at the 28th Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance: New York, September 1972. Published in Issues in Urban Public Finance, Saarbrucken, 1973, pp. 252-272.
14. "The Effects of Taxes on Small Business," a volume to mark 20th Anniversary of the Small Business Administration, The Vital Majority, Dean Carson ed., November 1973.
15. "Determinants of Real-Estate Values" (with David Grether), Journal of Urban Economics, Vol. 1, No. 2, April 1974, pp. 127-146.
16. "Public Goods, Efficiency, and Regional Fiscal Equilization" (with F. Flatters and Vernon Henderson), Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 3, May 1974, pp. 99-112. Reprinted in The Economics of Federalism, B.S. Grewal, G. Brennan and R.L. Mathews, eds., Canberra, Australian National University Press. Reprinted in Modern Classics in Regional Science: Location Theory, J. F. Thisse ed., Edward Elgar, London, 1996. Reprinted in The Economics of Fiscal Federalism and Local Finance (International Library of Critical Writings in Economics,88), Wallace E. Oates (ed.), Edgar Elgar, Hants England 1998
17. "The Indirect Market Effects of Wage-Subsidies and Public Employment Programs," Studies in Public Welfare, Paper No. 19, "Public Employment and Wage Subsidies," a publication of Subcommittee on Fiscal Policy, Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress, December 1974, pp. 138-161.
18. "On Three Aspects of Urban Land-Use Regulation," published in Metropolitan Financing and Growth Management Policies, George Break, ed., Madison, 1978.
19. "The Distributive Effects of Local Taxes: Some Extensions," published in Public and Urban Economics, Essays in Honor of William Vickrey, Ronald Grierson (ed.), Heath-Lexington, 1976.
20. "Peer-Group Effects and Educational Production Functions" (with Vernon Henderson and Yvon Sauvageau), published by the Economic Council of Canada, Ottawa, 1976, an extract from this monograph is published in Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 10, August 1978, pp. 97-107.
21. "The Returns to Investment in Language: The Economics of Bilingualism" (with Albert Breton), paper presented at the International Seminar on Public Economics, Berlin, January 1976, published in W.E. Oates ed. - The Political Economy of Fiscal Federalism, 1977.
22. "An Estimate of the Effects of Airport Noise on Property Values" (with Arthur Saper), Journal of Urban Economics, Vol, 5, October 1978, pp. 425-440.
23. "The Cash Flow Version of an Expenditure Tax," U.S. Treasury, Office of Tax Analysis, Discussion Pape 26, May 1977.
24. "The Taxation of Expenditure rather than Income," in The Economics of Taxation, essays in honor of J. Pechman, Henry Aaron and Michael J. Boskin, ed., Brookings, 1980.
25. "The Effects of Nonresidential Land Uses on the Prices of Adjacent Housing: Some Estimates of Proximity Effects," with David M. Grether, Journal of Urban Economics, July, 1980.
26. "Recent Trends in Urban and Regional Development," in Current Issues in Urban Economics II, P. Mieszkowski and M. Straszheim, eds., John Hopkins Press. 1979.
27. "Studies of Prejudice and Discrimination in Urban Housing Markets," Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Special Study, December, 1979.
28. "The Choice of Tax Base: Consumption versus Income Tax" in Federal Tax Reform Myths and Realities, M. Boskin, ed., Institute for Contemporary Studies, San Francisco, 1978.
29. "The Implications of Retroactive Coverage on Funding Private and Public Retirement Systems: To Fund or not to Fund, that is the Question" (with Alicia H. Munnell) in Public Sector Labor Markets, Urban Institute, 1981.
30. "Trends in State and Local Public Finance" (with Robert Stein) - revision of paper presented at American Economic Association meetings (Dec. 1981), Journal of Urban Economics, Vol. 14, 224-241, 1983.
31. "The Incidence of the Property Tax: The Benefit View vs. the New View" (with G.R. Zodrow), in G.R. Zodrow (ed.) Local Provision of Public Services: The Tiebout Model After Twenty-Five Years, Academic Press, 1983. Reprinted in Readings in State and Local Public Finance, Matthew, P. Drennan and Dick Netzer ed., Blackwell, Cambridge Mass., 1997.
32. "Energy Policy, Taxation of Natural Resources and Fiscal Federalism" in Charles E. McClure, Jr., ed., Tax Assignments in Federal Countries (Canberra, Australia: Australian National University Press, 1983. Reprinted in The Economics of Fiscal Federalism and Local Finance (International Library of Critical Writings in Economics,88) , Wallace E. Oates,(ed.), Edgar Elgar, Hants England 1998
33. "Options for Tax Reform and the Expenditure Tax," in John G. Head, ed., Taxation Issues of the 1980's. (Sydney, Australia, Australian Tax Research Foundation, 1983).
34. "Taxation of Energy Resources" (with Eric Toder), in Fiscal Federalism and the Taxation of Natural Resources, Charles McLure and Peter Mieszkowski, eds., Lexington Books, 1983.
35. "The National Effects of Differential State Corporate Income Taxes on Multistate Corporations" (with John Morgan), in Charles E. McClure, Jr., ed., The State Corporation Income Tax, Stanford, CA., Hoover Institute Press, 1984.
36. "The Differential Effect of the Foreign Trade Deficit on Regions in the U.S.A." in American Domestic Priorities, J.M. Quigley and D.L. Rubinfeld, eds., Berkeley, University of California Press, 1985.
37. "L'investissement linguistique et la francisation du Quebec," Economie et langue in Francois Vaillancourt, ed., Quebec City Editeur official du Quebec, 1985, with A. Breton. English version of this paper is the "The Returns to Investment in Language: The Economics of Bilingualism," University of Toronto, Institute for Policy Analysis working paper No. 7512.
38. "The Incidence of Partial State Corporate Income Tax," National Tax Journal, 38:4 (December, 1985), pp. 489-496, with George Zodrow.
39. "Pigou, Tiebout, Property Taxation and Under-Provision of Local Public Goods," Journal of Urban Economics, Vol. 19, May 1986, with George Zodrow. 40. "The New View of the Property Tax: A Reformulation," with George Zodrow, Regional Science and Urban Economics, vol. 16, (1986) pp. 309-327.
41. "On Fiscal Change and Economic Development in Texas" in Energy and the Southwest Economy, Proceedings on a 1985 Conference, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, 1986.
42. "Urban Economics," The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, edited by John Eatwell, Murray Milgate and Peter Newman, MacMillan, London, 1987.
43. "Taxation of Corporate Income," The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, edited by John Eatwell, Murray Milgate and Peter Newman, MacMillan, London, 1987.
44. "R.A. Musgrave," The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, edited by John Eatwell, Murray Milgate and Peter Newman, MacMillan, London, 1987.
45. "Taxation and the Tiebout Model: The Differential Effects of Taxes on Land Rents and Property Taxes" (with George Zodrow), The Journal of Economic Literature, September, 1989.
46. "Analyzing Urban Decentralization: The Case of Houston" with Barton Smith, Journal of Regional Science and Urban Economics, 1991, pp. 183-199.
47. "An Evaluation of Tax Reform in Poland," with Izabela Bolkowiak, Donald Lubick and Hanna Sochacka-Krysiak, in Stabilization and Structural Adjustment in Poland, Henryk Kierizkowski, Marek Okolski, and Stanislaw Wellisz, eds., Routledge, London, 1993.
48. "The Causes of Metropolitan Suburbanization," with Edwin S. Mills, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 6, No. 1, Spring 1993. Reprinted in Professor Wassemer ed., Reading in Urban Economics: Issues and Public Policy, Oxford, Blackwell Publishers, 1999. Reprinted in Been, Vicki and Robert Elickson ed., Land Use Controls: Cases and Materials, (2nd Ed.) Aspen Publishers, 1999.
49. "The Economic Change in Russia: 1985-1995, with Ronald Soligo, Problems of Post Communism, May/June, 1996, pp. 23-37.
50. "Indirect Consumption Taxes: Common Issues and Differences Among the Alternative Approaches," (with Malcolm Gillis and George Zodrow), Tax Law Review,51, No. 4, pp. 725-774, 1998.
51. Federalism, Grants and Fiscal Equalization, (with Richard A. Musgrave), National Tax Journal, 52, June 1999, pp. 239-260.
52. Taxes, Public Goods and Urban Economics: The Selected Essays of Peter Mieszkowski, Cheltenham, U.K. Edward Elgar, 1999.
53. "The Distributive Effects of Adopting a Federal Retail Sales Tax," (with Michael Palumbo), in the United States Tax Reform in the Twenty-first Century, George R. Zodrow and Peter Mieszkowski (eds.) Cambridge Press forthcoming.
Other Completed Works:
1. "The Effects of International Trade on Wage Inequality In the U.S.," with Dae Il Kim. Revised Feb. 2001.
2. Tiebout Stratification, Fiscal Federalism and School Finance," paper given at ISPE Conference, Nashville, August 1994. (Under revision.)
3. "Energy Security," (with Ronald Soligo and Amy Jaffee), Baker Institute Discussion paper, April 1997.
4. "A Proposal for a Hybrid NRST," (with Michael Palumbo), October, 1998. Unpublished manuscript (under revision).
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