Christopher Mackie

Improving Measurement of Productivity in Higher Education

15 Chicago. Christopher Mackie (cmackie@nas.edu) is a study director with the National Academies’ Committee on National Statistics specializing in economic measurement and statistics. He has participated in expert panels on assessing the value of measures of self-reported well-being, measuring civic engagement and social cohesion, developing cost-ofliving and price indices, designing nonmarket accounts for the US, and accounting for health and health care. He is the author of Canonizing Economic Theory: How Theories and Ideas Are Selected in Economics. He has taught at the University of North Carolina, North Carolina State University, and Tulane University.

The Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration

More than 40 million people living in the United States were born in other countries, and almost an equal number have at least one foreign-born parent. Together, immigrants and their children comprise almost one in four Americans. As employees, to what extent are immigrants complementing or displacing native-born workers? As workers, entrepreneurs, and innovators, to what extent are they contributing to economic growth? And what impacts are they having on federal, state, and local budgets?