Peter Gottschalk

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Peter Gottschalk (born December 25, 1942 ) is an American economist . He studied from 1961 to 1963 at the University of Michigan , then until 1967 at George Washington University , where he received his BA in 1965 and his MA in 1967. The Ph.D. he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1973 . All degrees are in economics .

Since 1987 he has been Professor of Economics at Boston College in Massachusetts ; previously he worked at the Russell Sage Foundation , Bowdoin College , Brookings Institution , Mount Holyoke College , University of California and Williams College .

He teaches in the fields of labor economics , applied econometrics , poverty and discrimination . His research contributed, among other things, to the development of the concept of income volatility.

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