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William W. Beach
Director, Center for Data Analysis
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areas of expertise:
Economic analysis, Social Security, and Tax Reform
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summary:
As Director of The Heritage Foundation's Center for Data Analysis, William Beach is the think tank's chief "number cruncher": He oversees Heritage's original statistical research on taxes, Social Security, crime, education, trade and a host of other issues, ensuring it's both rigorous in its technical scholarship and produced in time to help inform the public debate over the issue.
Under Beach's leadership, Heritage has acquired one of the largest privately-held public-policy databases in the United States, as well as a variety of peer-reviewed analytical models. Together, these acquisitions allow the center to produce some of the most sophisticated calculations done anywhere in the world.
In addition to acquiring analytical models, Beach helps build them. He was instrumental in developing the state-of-the-art econometric models Heritage uses to estimate in detail how proposed tax changes will likely affect individuals, families, and various business sectors-as well as the overall national economy. Indeed, the center has become the leading proponent of dynamic scoring, which shows how much federal revenues change when the U.S. economy reacts to a tax increase or a tax cut.
Under Beach's direction, the center has progressed to the point that it regularly competes with the Congressional Budget Office, the Office of Management and Budget, the Joint Committee on Taxation, or any other government agency when it comes to "scoring" potential costs and benefits of legislation. Indeed, federal lawmakers often ask the center to analyze legislation they have drafted, knowing they can get a reliable estimate more quickly from the CDA than from any Capitol Hill agency.
Prior to joining Heritage in 1995, Beach held a variety of posts in the public, private and academic sectors. He served as a litigation economist with two Kansas City, Mo., law firms-Campbell & Bysfield and Watson, Ess, Marshall & Enggas – where he specialized in analyzing how anti-trust legal remedies would alter product pricing and availability. Later, as an economist for Missouri's Office of Budget and Planning, he designed and managed the state's econometric model and advised the governor on revenue and economic issues. After a stint in the corporate headquarters of Sprint United Inc., Beach moved to the Washington, D.C., area to serve as president of the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University.
A graduate of Washburn University in Topeka, Kan., Beach also holds a master's degree in history and economics from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Beach also is a visiting fellow at the University of Buckingham in Great Britain.
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Commentaries
 March 1, 2008 July 25, 2005 February 7, 2005
Media Appearances
Fox Business Network: America?s Nightly Scoreboard Housing Crisis (03/28/2008)
FOX Business Network : America's Nightly Scoreboard Rate Cut on W.S. (01/29/2008)
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