Lawrence F. Katz
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Larry Katz | |
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Born | 1959 (age 61–62) Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S. |
Institution | Harvard University |
Field | Labor economics |
Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley (BA) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA, PhD) |
Doctoral advisor | Henry Farber |
Doctoral students | Cecilia Rouse Jon Gruber[1] Judith K. Hellerstein Jeffrey Liebman Sandra Black[2] Marianne Bertrand[3] Sendhil Mullainathan David Autor[4] Mário Centeno[5] Bridget Terry Long[6] Justin Wolfers[7] Raj Chetty[8] Heidi Williams[9] |
Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Website | Official website |
Lawrence Francis Katz (born 1959) is Elisabeth Allison Professor of Economics at Harvard University and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.[10]
Education and career[]
He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1981 and earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1985.[10]
He served as the chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor from 1993 to 1994 under Robert Reich, Bill Clinton’s then Secretary of Labor.[11]
Katz and his fellow Harvard colleague Claudia Goldin, who is his "personal as well as research partner,"[12] wrote The Race Between Education and Technology in 2008, which argued that the United States became the world’s richest nation thanks to its schools.[13] It was praised as "a monumental achievement that supplies a unified framework for interpreting how the demand and supply of human capital have shaped the distribution of earnings in the over the twentieth century",[14] and Alan Krueger of Princeton University said that it "represent[ed] the best of what economics has to offer".[15]
Katz has been editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics since 1991.[16] He also serves as the Principal Investigator for the long-term evaluation of the "Moving to Opportunity", a randomized housing mobility experiment.
He is the co-Scientific Director of J-PAL North America, past President of the Society of Labor Economists, and has been elected a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Econometric Society, and the . Katz serves on the Panel of Economic Advisers of the Congressional Budget Office as well as on the Boards of the Russell Sage Foundation and the .[10]
References[]
- ^ Changes in the structure of employer-provided health insurance
- ^ Black's website
- ^ https://www.aeaweb.org/content/file?id=580 An Interview with Marianne Bertrand, 2004 Elaine Bennett Research Award Winner
- ^ Essays on the Changing Labor Market: Computerization, Inequality, and the Development of the Contingent Work Force: Dissertation Summary Retrieved September 24, 2016.
- ^ Lawrence Katz Past Ph.D. Students Retrieved 31 December 2018.
- ^ Longs's CV
- ^ WolfersCV
- ^ [1]
- ^ "Williams's CV". Archived from the original on 2019-02-20. Retrieved 2016-09-25.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Biographical Sketch". The President and Fellows of Harvard College. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
- ^ Bevir, M.; Trentmann, F. (2002-10-28). Critiques of Capital in Modern Britain and America: Transatlantic Exchanges 1800 to the Present Day. Springer. ISBN 978-0-230-50572-8.
- ^ Jonas, Michael (November 3, 2011). "Learning curve". CommonWealth magazine (Fall 2011/American Dream Special Issue). Archived from the original on July 30, 2014. Retrieved December 17, 2014.
- ^ Kotkin, Stephen (October 5, 2008). "Minding the Inequality Gap". New York Times.
- ^ Daron Acemoğlu; David Autor (June 2012). "What Does Human Capital Do? A Review of Goldin and Katz's The Race between Education and Technology". Journal of Economic Literature. 50 (2): 426–463. doi:10.1257/jel.50.2.426. hdl:1721.1/73913. S2CID 1160680.
- ^ Goldin, Claudia Dale; Katz, Lawrence F. (2009). The Race between Education and Technology. ISBN 978-0674035300.
- ^ States, United; Committee, United States Congress Joint Economic (1993). High-wage Jobs in a Competitive Global Economy: Hearing Before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, One Hundred Second Congress, Second Session, September 16, 1992. U.S. Government Printing Office. ISBN 978-0-16-043229-3.
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