城市经济学领域的一个牛人
 http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~econ/faculty/Mieszkow.htm
 Peter Mieszkowski 
Allyn R. and Gladys M. Cline
Professor of Economics and Finance 
 
CONTACT INFORMATION Baker Hall 270
Ph: 713.348.3453
Fax: 713.348.5278
Email: mieszko@rice.edu
 Curriculum Vitae 
 
EDUCATION Ph. D., Economics, Johns Hopkins University, 1963
M. A., Economics, McGill University, 1959
B. S., Chemistry, McGill University, 1957
 
RESEARCH INTERESTS Public finance, urban economics and health economics. Most research interests are centered on health insurance. Peter Mieszkowski is studying emploer provided health insurance as a local public goal where high wage employees who have high demands for health insurance cross subsidize the insurance of lower wages workers. In another project he is studying Medicaid expenditures by U.S. states for the period 1975-2004 to determine the determinants of the relative generosity of different state programs. 
 
WORKING PAPERS AND FORTHCOMING PAPERS 
"The Effects of Income, Education, and Age on Health", with Olga Kiuila, May 2006. 
 
RECENT PUBLICATIONS "Distributive Analysis of Fundamental Tax Reform", with M. Palumbo in United States Tax Reform in the 21st Century, G. Zodrow and P. Mieszkowski, Cambridge University Press, 2002. 
 "Federalism, Grants, and Fiscal Equalization", with R. Musgrave in National Tax Journal, June 1999.
 "Taxes, Public Goods and Urban Economics: The Selected Essays of Peter Mieszkowski", Edward Elgar, 1999
 "The Causes of Metropolitan Suburbanization," with Edwin S. Mills, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 6, No. 1, Spring 1993. 
 "Analyzing Urban Decentralization: The Case of Houston," with Barton Smith, Journal of Regional Science and Urban Economics, pp. 183-199, 1991.
 "Pigou, Tiebout, Property Taxation and Under-Provision of Local Public Goods," Journal of Urban Economics, Vol. 19, May 1986, with George Zodrow.