Edward Lazear

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

  • 3.1 Literature
  • 3.2 External links
  • 3.3 footnotes

Life

After his schooling Lazear attended the University of California, Los Angeles, which he left in 1971 with a bachelor and a master. At Harvard University, he received a Ph.D. in 1974 for economy. 1974-1978 he worked as a research assistant at the University of Chicago and he is since 1974 also research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. In 1978 he became an associate professor of industrial relations and 1981-1985 full professor. In 1985, Edward Lazear for Isidore Brown and Gladys J. Brown Professor of the Graduate School of Business appointed at the University of Chicago and remained so until 1995. 1992 Lazear also Professor of the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University and was promoted to the Jack Steele Parker Professor in 1995. Since 2000 he is a member of the Advisory Board of the Hong Kong Institute of Economics and Business Strategy at the University of Hong Kong. In 2002, he was still Morris Arnold Cox Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution after he was already there since 1985 Senior Fellow. In 2004 he was awarded the IZA Prize in Labor Economics. In 2006, Edward Lazear, chairman of the Economic Advisory Board of the U.S. government ( Council of Economic Advisers ); this position he held until the end of the term of President George W. Bush in January 2009. He was succeeded by Christina Romer.

Besides his work as a professor, he served as advisor to governments in Romania (1990-1992), Czechoslovakia (1991 ), Russia ( 1991-1993), Ukraine (1993) and Georgia (1994).

Edward Lazear is married and has one daughter.

Publications

  • 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.
  • Published by Rita Ricardo -Campbell: Issues in Contemporary Retirement. Stanford, CA 1988.
  • Publisher 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.
  • Publisher: 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
  • Publisher: Education in the Twenty - first Century. Stanford 2002, ISBN 0-8179-2892-8.

Articles (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 (ed.): Women in the Labor Market. New York 1979
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • By 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, p 322-339.

References

Edwin Griswold Nourse Arthur F. Burns Raymond J. Saulnier Walter Heller Gardner Ackley Paul McCracken (economist) Alan Greenspan Charles Schultze Murray Weidenbaum Beryl Wayne Sprinkel Laura Tyson Martin Neil Baily Harvey S. Rosen Alan Krueger Jason Furman Integrated Authority File
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