David Neumark (born July 7, 1959) is an American economist and a Chancellor's Professor of Economics at the

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, where he also directs the Economic Self-Sufficiency Policy Research Institute.

Education

Neumark graduated with a B.A. in

economics Economics () is a behavioral science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interac ...

in 1982 from the University of Pennsylvania. He graduated

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, Summa Cum Laude, with Honors. He went on to complete his M.A. in 1985 and Ph.D. in 1987 in economics from Harvard University. His fields were

labor economics Labour economics seeks to understand the functioning and dynamics of the markets for wage labour. Labour is a commodity that is supplied by labourers, usually in exchange for a wage paid by demanding firms. Because these labourers exist as pa ...

and

econometrics Econometrics is an application of statistical methods to economic data in order to give empirical content to economic relationships. M. Hashem Pesaran (1987). "Econometrics", '' The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics'', v. 2, p. 8 p. 8 ...

. His dissertation was entitled ''Male-Female Differentials in the Labor Force: Measurement, Causes and Probes'', and published in parts in the ''

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''.

Academic career

From 1989 to 1994, Neumark was an assistant professor of economics at the

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. He became a professor at

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in 1994 and remained at MSU until 2004. Since 2005, he is a professor of economics at the University of California, Irvine. He is also a research associate at the

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and the

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(IZA).

Research

Neumark's research interests include minimum wages and living wages, affirmative action, sex differences in labor markets, the nature of labor market discrimination (e.g., taste-based versus

statistical Statistics (from German language, German: ', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a s ...

discrimination), the economics of aging, and school-to-work programs, and he has also done work in demography,

health economics Health economics is a branch of economics concerned with issues related to Health care efficiency, efficiency, effectiveness, value and behavior in the production and consumption of health and healthcare. Health economics is important in dete ...

, development, industrial organization, and finance. His work has been published in economics journals like the ''American Economic Review'', the ''Quarterly Journal of Economics'', the ''Journal of Political Economy'', the ''Journal of Labor Economics'', the ''Journal of Human Resources''. He is currently the editor of the ''IZA Journal of Labor Policy'' and a co-editor of the ''Journal of Urban Economics''. ;Books *''The Economics of Affirmative Action''. (Co-edited with Harry J. Holzer.) Edward Algar, 2004. His 2008 book with William Wascher, ''Minimum Wages'', published by the MIT Press, provides a summary of the dozens of papers he and others have written on the effects of minimum wages. The book covers the effects of minimum wages on employment, schooling, training, income inequality, and poverty.

References

External links

Personal website of David Neumark

CV of David Neumark

David Neumark, Research Fellow
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