Edward Lazear

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Edward Lazear

Edward Paul Lazear (born August 17, 1948 in New York City ) is an American economist with a focus on human capital .

Life

After finishing school, Lazear attended the University of California, Los Angeles, which he left in 1971 with a bachelor's and master's degree . He received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1974. for economy. From 1974 to 1978 he worked as a research fellow at the University of Chicago and since 1974 he has also been a research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research . In 1978 he became associate professor for industrial relations and 1981 to 1985 full professor. In 1985 Edward Lazear was appointed Isidore Brown and Gladys J. Brown Professor of the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago and remained so until 1995. In 1992 Lazear was also appointed Professor of the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University and was appointed Jack Steele Parker Professor there in 1995. Since 2000 he has been a member of the advisory boards of the Hong Kong Institute of Economics and Business Strategy at the University of Hong Kong and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 2002 he became a Morris Arnold Cox Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, having been a Senior Fellow there since 1985 . In 2004 he received the IZA Prize in Labor Economics . In 2006, Edward Lazear was Chairman of the Economic Advisory Committee of the US government ( Council of Economic Advisers ); he held this post until the end of President George W. Bush's term in January 2009. His successor was Christina Romer .

In addition to his work as a professor, he was a consultant for governments in Romania (1990–1992), Czechoslovakia (1991), Russia (1991–1993), Ukraine (1993) and Georgia (1994). Since 2016 Thomson Reuters has counted him among the favorites for a Nobel Prize ( Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates ) due to the number of his citations .

Edward Lazear is married with one daughter.

Publications

Books

  • with John P. Gould, Jr .: Microeconomic Theory. 6th edition, Richard D. Irwin, Homewood, IL 1988.
  • with Robert T. Michael: Allocation of Income Within the Household. Chicago 1988.
  • Editor with Rita Ricardo-Campbell: Issues in Contemporary Retirement. Stanford, CA 1988.
  • Editor with Melvyn B. Krauss: Searching for Alternatives: Drug-Control Policy in the United States. Stanford, CA 1991.
  • Personnel Economics. Cambridge 1995, ISBN 0-262-12188-3 .
  • Editor: Economic Transition in Eastern Europe and Russia: Realities of Reform. Stanford, California 1995, ISBN 0-8179-9332-0 .
  • Culture wars in America. Stanford 1996, ISBN 0-8179-5762-6
  • Editor: Education in the Twenty-first Century. Stanford 2002, ISBN 0-8179-2892-8 .

Article (selection)

  • Age, Experience, and Wage Growth. In: American Economic Review. Volume 66, No. 4, September 1976, pp. 548-58.
  • Schooling as a Wage Depressant. In: Journal of Human Resources. Volume 12, No. 2, Spring 1977, pp. 164-76.
  • Male-Female Wage Differentials: Has the Government Had Any Effect? In: Cynthia B. Lloyd, Emily S. Andrews, and Curtis L. Gilroy (Eds.): Women in the Labor Market. New York 1979
  • with Robert Michael: Real Income Equivalence Among One-Earner and Two-Earner Families. In: American Economic Review. Volume 70, No. 2, May 1980, pp. 203-208.
  • with Robert L. Moore: Incentives, Productivity, and Labor Contracts. In: Quarterly Journal of Economics. Volume 99, No. 2, May 1984, pp. 275-296
  • Job Security Provisions and Employment. In: Quarterly Journal of Economics. Volume 105, No. 3, August 1990, pp. 699-726.
  • with Sherwin Rosen: Publicly Provided Goods and Services In a Transition Economy. In: Economic Transition in Eastern Europe and Russia: Realities of Reform. Stanford, CA 1995, pp. 322-339.

References

literature

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Edward Lazear ( Memento of the original from April 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / touch.amirite.com
  2. ↑ a b c d Website of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Edward Paul Lazear - Curriculum Vitae , January 2006 ( Memento from May 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Skip to navigation Skip to content Hoover Institution - Fellows - Edward Paul Lazear
  4. ↑ EDWARD PAUL LAZEAR CURRICULUM VITAE
  5. ^ Book of Members. (PDF) Retrieved July 23, 2016 (English).
  6. ↑ OECD, Ministerial Council Meeting 2007 - Dr. Edward P. Lazear , accessed Oct. 11, 2009
  7. ↑ Edward Lazear
  8. ↑ Web of Science Predicts 2016 Nobel Prize Winners. (No longer available online.) In: ipscience.thomsonreuters.com. September 21, 2016, archived from the original on September 21, 2016 ; accessed on September 21, 2016 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ipscience.thomsonreuters.com
  9. ^ Hoover Institution Stanford University website, Edward Paul Lazear , accessed Oct. 11, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Lazear, Edward
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lazear, Edward Paul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American economist
DATE OF BIRTH August 17, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City