David Neumark

David Neumark

David Neumark (born July 7, 1959) is an American economist and a Professor of Economics at the University of California, Irvine.

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Early years

Neumark was born on July 7, 1959. He graduated with a B.A. in economics in 1982 from the University of Pennsylvania. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude, with Honors. He went on to completed his A.M. in 1985 and Ph.D. in 1987 in economics from Harvard University. His field was labor economics and econometrics. His thesis topic was Male-Female Differentials in the Labor Force: Measurement, Causes and Probes.

Academic career

From 1989 to 1994, Neumark was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. He became a professor at Michigan State University in 1994 and he remained at MSU till 2004. Since 2005, he is a Professor of Economics at the University of California, Irvine. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Research

Neumark's research interests include minimum wages and living wages, affirmative action, sex differences in labor markets, the economics of aging, the employment relationship, and school-to-work programs, and has also done work in demography, health economics, development, industrial organization, and finance. He is a labor economist. 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, and others.

BooksThe Economics of Affirmative Action. (Co-edited with Harry J. Holzer.) Edward Algar, 2004.

His recent book with William Wascher, Minimum Wages, published by the MIT Press, provides a summary of the dozens of papers he has written studying the effects of the minimum wage on a number of important labor market outcomes, including employment, schooling, training, and poverty.

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