David Neumark

Biography

David Neumark, Ph.D., is Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of California, Irvine, where he also serves as Founding Co-Director of the Center for Population, Inequality, and Policy. He holds concurrent appointments as a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Neumark received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1987.

Neumark's research focuses on labor economics, with particular emphasis on minimum wages, age discrimination, and place-based economic development policies. His work on minimum wage effects has examined employment impacts, poverty reduction, and distributional consequences across multiple countries and contexts. He has conducted field experiments to measure age discrimination in hiring and has analyzed the effectiveness of enterprise zones, hiring tax credits, and other policies designed to create jobs and reduce poverty. His research has appeared in journals including the Journal of Political Economy, American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Journal of Labor Economics.

Neumark is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and has received the National Longitudinal Surveys Michael E. Borus Memorial Dissertation Award. He served as Co-Editor of the Journal of Urban Economics from 2012 to 2022 and currently serves on the editorial boards of multiple journals. He is the author of Minimum Wages, published by MIT Press in 2008, and has edited several volumes including On the Job: Is Long-Term Employment a Thing of the Past? He previously held faculty positions at Michigan State University and the University of Pennsylvania and served as an economist at the Federal Reserve Board.

Education

• PhD in Economics, Harvard University, 1987
• MA in Economics, Harvard University, 1985
• BA in Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 1982

Distinctions

• Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2019
• Lady Davis Fellowship, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2018
• Selected to teach at IZA European Summer School in Labor Economics, 2016
• Fulbright Scholarship
• Distinguished Professor, University of California, Irvine, 2018
• National Institute on Aging Special Emphasis Research Career Award
• Harris Distinguished Visiting Professor, Clemson University, 2016
• Chancellor's Professorship, University of California, Irvine, 2012-2018
• Choice Outstanding Academic Title for Minimum Wages, 2009
• National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship