Professional Experience

• • Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

  • 2010 - present

• • Associate Director

    Center for Financial Security, University of Wisconsin - Madison

  • 2009 - 2010

• • Assistant Professor

    University of Wisconsin - Madison

  • 2008 - 2011

Publications

• Burkhauser, Richard V., Maximilian D. Schmeiser, and Robert R. Weathers (2012). "The Importance of Anti-Discrimination and Workers' Compensation Laws on the Provision of Workplace Accommodations Following the Onset of a Disability," Industrial & labor relations review, vol. 65, no. 1, pp. 161-180.
• Schmeiser, Maximilian D. (2012). "Expanding New York State's Earned Income Tax Credit Programme: The Effect on Work, Income and Poverty," Applied Economics, vol. 44, no. 16, pp. 2035-2050.
• Schmeiser, Maximilian D. (2012). "The Impact of Long-Term Participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program on Child Obesity," Health Economics, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 386-404.
• Burkhauser, Richard V., John Cawley, and Maximilian D. Schmeiser (2009). "Differences in the U.S. Trends in the Prevalence of Obesity Based on Body Mass Index and Skinfold Thickness," NBER Working Papers 15005. National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
• Burkhauser, Richard V., John Cawley, and Maximilian D. Schmeiser (2009). "The Timing of the Rise in U.S. Obesity Varies with Measure of Fatness," Economics and Human Biology, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 307-318.
• Schmeiser, Maximilian D. (2009). "Expanding Wallets and Waistlines: The Impact of Family Income on the BMI of Women and Men Eligible for the Earned Income Tax Credit," Health economics, vol. 18, no. 11, pp. 1277-1294.

Presentations

• conference

  June 2012

  RAND BeFi 2012

  Good Advice, Good Outcomes? Financial Advising and Well-Being

• conference

  January 2012

  American Economic Association Meeting

  The Effect of Employer Accommodation on the Timing of Application for Social Security Disability Insurance Following the Onset of a Disability

Other Activities