Authors

David Neumark

David Neumark

Chancellor's Professor of Economics

University of California, Irvine

DAVID NEUMARK is Chancellor’s Professor of Economics at the University of California, Irvine, where he directs the Economic Self-Sufficiency Policy Research Institute (ESSPRI). He does research in numerous areas of labor economics that intersect with important public policy issues, most significantly with respect to anti-poverty policy, discrimination, and local economic development incentives. Professor Neumark was one of the original contributors to the “new minimum wage research,” helping to pioneer the use of state-level minimum wage variation to estimate minimum wage effects. His subsequent work moved well beyond the debate over employment effects, to study the effects of minimum wages on the income distribution, long-run effects of minimum wages on human capital and earnings, and complementarities between minimum wages and the Earned Income Tax Credit. In related work, he was the first to assemble data and explore methods to study the effects of city living wage laws, as well as contributing to understanding the political economy of these laws. His current work on anti-poverty policies focuses on comparisons between the minimum wage and alternative policies, with a particular emphasis on the long-term effects of these policies in encouraging economic self-sufficiency. Professor Neumark received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1987. He has held prior positions at the Public Policy Institute of California, Michigan State University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Federal Reserve Board. He is currently also a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.