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Personnel Economics: Overview and Frontier

Professor Lazear from Stanford University Speaks on Personnel Economics   9-13-2004
Department of Applied Economics

Title: Personnel Economics: Overview and Frontier

Speaker: Edward P. Lazear, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University

Time: 1:00 –2:30 pm, Monday, September 13, 2003

Location: Room 201, Guanghua Building

About the speaker:

    Edward P. Lazear is the Jack Steele Parker Professor of Human Resources, Management and Economics at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business.  He is also the Morris Arnold Cox Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution.

    Professor Lazear has done outstanding research on labor economics and personnel economics.   He has written extensively on labor markets and personnel issues; microeconomic theory; issues involving worker compensation and effects on productivity; government policies on discrimination, affirmative action, and comparable worth; the doctrine of employment at will; distribution of income within the household; and pricing and marketing policies.  Lazear has more than one hundred published papers.  His book Personnel Economics (MIT Press, 1995) expands on his 1993 Wicksell Lectures.  He also edited the textbook Personnel Economics for Managers (Wiley, 1998).

    Founding editor of the Journal of Labor Economics, Professor Lazear is also an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Econometric Society, and the Society of Labor Economists.  He is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Board on Testing and Assessment. His research is currently supported by the National Science Foundation.  Lazear was the first vice-president and president of the Society of Labor Economists.

    This Monday, Professor Lazear will give us an overview of personnel economics—what has been done in the field and what remains to be explored.  In particular, he will talk about his own recent works, some of which are published /or forthcoming in the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy and Quarterly Journal of Economics.

    Lazear's vitae and papers can be accessed through his personal webpage at http://faculty-gsb.stanford.edu/lazear/Personal/homepage.htm.

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