Daniel S. Hamermesh

Research Fellow

University of Texas at Austin

Daniel S. Hamermesh is Sue Killam Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin and Professor Emeritus, Royal Holloway University of London, and . His A.B. is from the University of Chicago (1965), his Ph.D. from Yale (1969). He taught from 1969-73 at Princeton, from 1973-93 at Michigan State, from 1993-2014 at the University of Texas at Austin, from 2009-12 at Maastricht University, from 2012-2017 at Royal Holloway University of London, from 20107-2022 at Barnard College, and has held visiting professorships in the United States, Europe, Australia and Asia. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and was President of the Society of Labor Economists in 2001. In 2013 that Society gave him the Mincer Award for Lifetime Contributions while he was awarded the IZA Prize in Labor economics in the same year. That year he also received the John R. Commons Award from Omicron Delta Epsilon.

Hamermesh authored Labor Demand, The Economics of Work and Pay, Economics Is Everywhere, Beauty Pays, Spending Time, and a wide array of articles in labor economics in the leading general and specialized economics journals.

His research concentrates on time use, labor demand, discrimination, social insurance programs (particularly unemployment insurance), and unusual applications of labor economics (to suicide, sleep and beauty).

He joined IZA as a research fellow in July 1998. From December 2001 until July 2008, he was IZA Program Director for the institute's research program "The Future of Labor." He served as IZA Director of Research from August 2008 until January 2009. Currently he acts as Editor-in-Chief of IZA World of Labor.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15739
Daniel S. Hamermesh, Lea-Rachel Kosnik
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15001
published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2022, 47, 101175
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14881
revised version published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2023, 24, 813 - 838
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14762
published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 73, 102153
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14343
published as 'Widows' Time: Adjusting to Loss' in: Research in Labor Economics, 2023, 50, 369-396
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13997
published in: Jose Alberto Molina (ed.), Mothers in the Labor Market, Springer Publishers, 2022, 1-27.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13140
published as 'Life satisfaction, loneliness and togetherness, with an application to Covid-19 lock-downs' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2020, 18, 983 - 1000
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13061
published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2021, 40, 1120-1139.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12708
Daniel S. Hamermesh, Rachel A. Gordon, Robert Crosnoe
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2023, 212, 275–289
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12410
published in: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2019, 5 (5), 68-87 (https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2019.5.5.04)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11997
published as 'Income, wages and household production theory' in: Economics Letters, 2020, 192, 109188
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11266
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 66, 137-41
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10496
published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2021, 74 (2), 272-292
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10404
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2019, 54 (1), 255 - 265
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10403
published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings 2017, 107(5): 37–40
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9593
published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2018, 56, 111 - 156
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9095
part of this paper published as 'Unemployment and Effort at Work' in: Economica, 2020, 87 (347), 662 - 681
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8828
published in: M. Szenberg and L. Ramrattan (eds.): Collaborative Research in Economis, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, 65 - 93
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8423
published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2015, 68 (5), 1007-1018
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8077
published in: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2017, 44, 1-12
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7380
published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (594), 1503-1527
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7070
published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2013, 103 (3), 99-104
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6700
published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 24, 205-216
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6579
published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2012, 1:2
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6445
published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2013, 2:7
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6199
published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102(3), 612-616
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5945
published as 'Wage discrimination over the business cycle' in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2013, 2:7
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5600
published in: European Economic Review, 2013, 64, 351-368
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5010
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (2), 507-530
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4921
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 94 (1), 202-207
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4610
published as 'Reputation and Earnings: The Roles of Quality and Quantity in Academe' in: Economic Inquiry, 2012, 50 (1), 1 - 16
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4378
published as "Incentives, time use and BMI: The roles of eating, grazing and goods" in: Economics and Human Biology, 2010, 8 (1), 2-15
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3955
published in: Economics Letters, 2010, 107 (2), 131-133
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3899
published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (4), 1410-1435
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3885
published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 105/106, 15-34
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2767
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2008, 90 (3), 562-572
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2760
published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2007, 40 (3), 715-733
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2705
published as 'Total Work and Gender: Facts and Possible Explanations' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (1), 239-261
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2580
published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (4), 663-673
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2270
published in: Tito Boeri, Michael Burda, Francis Kramarz (eds.), Working Hours and Job Sharing in the EU and USA: Are Americans Crazy? Are Europeans Lazy? Oxford Univ. Press, 2008
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2060
published as 'Cues for Timing and Coordination: Latitude, Letterman and Longitude' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2008, 26 (2), 223-246
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2030
published as 'A Structural Model of the Fixed Time Costs of Market Work' (with Stephen G. Donald) in: Economics Letters, 2009, 104 (3), 125-128
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1965
published in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2007, 89 (4), 852-863; excerpts also publishd in Economics Letters, 2008, 98 (1), 31-34
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