Research Economist
Tina Highfill
Education
Areas of Interest
Measuring Digital Intermediation Services: Experimental Estimates of Gross Output for Rideshare, Travel Services, and Food/Grocery Delivery Service Platforms (PDF)
Tina Highfill and Brian Quistorff
Introducing Consumer Durable Digital Services into the BEA Digital Economy Satellite Account (PDF)
Benjamin R. Bridgman , Tina Highfill , and Jon D. Samuels
Developing a National Measure of the Economic Contributions of the Bioeconomy (PDF)
Tina Highfill and Matthew Chambers
First Quarter Wages and Employment by Industry for Small Businesses Using Establishment-Based Size Classes, 2012–2021 (PDF)
Tina Highfill and Richard Cao
Estimating the United States Space Economy Using Input-Output Frameworks
Tina Highfill and Alexander MacDonald
This paper presents newly released estimates of wages, employment, and gross output by industry and enterprise size for 2012 through 2017. These estimates expand on previous U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) estimates by enterprise size in two ways. First, we increased the number of size class groupings from five to eight. Specifically, we split the small businesses category (less than 100 employees) into four subcategories: very small (0–9 employees), small 1 (10–19 employees), small 2 (20–49 employees), and small 3 (50–99 employees). We also expanded the level of detail for large businesses, splitting this category into three subcategories: large 1 (500– 999 employees), large 2 (1,000–4,999 employees), and very large (5,000 or more employees). Second, we expanded the industry detail from about 20 sectors, or 2-digit North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes, to 63 industries, aligning with 3-digit NAICS codes. The full set of estimates is available on BEA's small business website.
Patrick S. Georgi , Lonna Morrow , and Tina Highfill
Survey of Current Business
Understanding global value chains by accounting for firm heterogeneity in US pr…
James J. Fetzer , Tina Highfill , Kassu W. Hossiso , Erich H. Strassner , and Jeffrey A. Young
There is no universal definition for “small business.” While number of employees is a popular metric, many small business statistics also use revenue, income, assets, or a combination of these characteristics to classify businesses by size (U.S. Census Bureau 2020; Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) 2018; Bandhiri and others 2019). In this paper, we use Internal Revenue Service (IRS) data categorized by firm-level receipts to estimate wages and gross output by business size, industry, and legal form of organization for 1998–2003. These statistics provide an alternative for understanding small business statistics compared to the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) previous estimates of wages and gross output that use enterprise-level employment to classify business sizes (Highfill and Strassner 2017; Highfill and others 2020). Our break out of estimates by legal form of organization, including corporations, partnerships, and sole proprietors, provides an additional layer of detail to better understand the composition of small businesses.
Tina Highfill , Richard Cao , Annabel Jouard , and Richard Prisinzano
Survey of Current Business
Preliminary Estimates of the U.S. Space Economy, 2012–2018
Tina Highfill , Annabel Jouard , and Connor Franks
Measuring the Small Business Economy (PDF)
Tina Highfill , Richard Cao , Richard Schwinn , Richard Prisinzano , and Danny Leung
Measuring the U.S. outdoor recreation economy, 2012–2016
Tina Highfill and Connor Franks
Do hospitals with electronic health records have lower costs? A systematic revi…
Tina Highfill
Using disability adjusted life years to value the treatment of thirty chronic c…
Tina Highfill
Using disability adjusted life years to value the treatment of thirty chronic c…
Tina Highfill and Elizabeth Bernstein
Price Indexes for US Medical Care Spending, 1980–2006
Ana M. Aizcorbe and Tina Highfill
Accounting for Special District Governments in the U.S. National Accounts (PDF)
Melissa J. Braybrooks , Tina Highfill , and Dylan Rassier
Accounting for Firm Heterogeneity within U.S. Industries: Extended Supply-Use Tables and Trade in Value Added using Enterprise and Establishment Level Data (PDF)
James J. Fetzer , Tina Highfill , Kassu W. Hossiso , Thomas F. Howells III , Erich H. Strassner , and Jeffrey A. Young
Outdoor Recreation Satellite Account: Updated Statistics
Tina Highfill , Connor Franks , and Patrick S. Georgi
Introducing the Outdoor Recreation Satellite Account
Tina Highfill , Connor Franks , Patrick S. Georgi , and Thomas F. Howells III
Attribution of Health Care Costs to Diseases: Does the Method Matter?
Allison B. Rosen , Ana M. Aizcorbe , Tina Highfill , Michael E. Chernew , Eli Liebman , Kaushik Ghosh , and David M. Cutler
Experimental Estimates of Wages and Gross Output by Business Size and Industry, 2002-2012 (PDF)
Tina Highfill and Erich H. Strassner
US spending on personal health care and public health, 1996-2013
Joseph Dieleman , Ranju Baral , Tina Highfill , and et al
Productivity and Quality of Hospitals that Joined the Medicare Shared Savings A…
Tina Highfill and Yasar Ozcan
Comparing Estimates of U.S. Health Care Expenditures by Medical Condition, 2000…
Tina Highfill
Measuring Nursing Home Price Growth between 2000-2009 (PDF)
Tina Highfill and David Johnson
Medical Care Expenditure Indexes for the US, 1980-2006 (PDF)
Ana M. Aizcorbe and Tina Highfill
Using Disability Adjusted Life Years to Value the Treatment of Thirty Chronic Conditions in the U.S. from 1987-2010 (PDF)
Tina Highfill and Elizabeth Bernstein
Calculating Disease-Based Medical Care Expenditure Indexes for Medicare Beneficiaries: A Comparison of Method and Data Choices (PDF)
Anne E. Hall and Tina Highfill
A Regression-Based Medical Care Expenditure Index for Medicare Beneficiaries (PDF)
Anne E. Hall and Tina Highfill