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

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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 and

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. 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 Michigan State University 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 discrimination), the economics of aging, and school-to-work programs, and he has also done work in demography, health economics, 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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