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David M. Blau
Research Fellow

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Blau David Blau is Professor of Economics at Ohio State University. He is a labor and population economist with research interests in aging and children. Blau’s aging research focuses on the dynamics of employment behavior of individuals and couples at older ages. His recent research examines links between saving and retirement decisions; rigidities in the labor market for older workers; explaining long run trends in the timing of retirement; and a behavioral economics approach to understanding the impact of changes in Social Security policy on labor force exit. Blau has studied numerous aspects of child care, including the impact of the cost of child care on women’s labor force participation, mode of care, and fertility; the determinants and consequences of the quality of child care; and the impact of child care subsidies on employment and welfare participation. His book, The Child Care Problem: An Economic Analysis, was published by the Russell Sage Foundation in 2001. His current research on children analyzes the impact of family structure and parental time allocation on child outcomes. Blau is a past co-editor of the Journal of Human Resources, a past deputy editor of Demography, and a past member of the NIH Social Sciences and Population Study Section. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1980.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in November 2003.
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IZA Discussion Papers:
No. Author(s)
Title
5554  David M. Blau
Pensions, Household Saving, and Welfare: A Dynamic Analysis
5310  Luc Behaghel
David M. Blau
Framing Social Security Reform: Behavioral Responses to Changes in the Full Retirement Age
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2012, 4 (4), 41-67)
4912  David M. Blau
Wilbert van der Klaauw
What Determines Family Structure?
(forthcoming in: Economic Inquiry, 2012, [Early View])
3001  David M. Blau
Wilbert van der Klaauw
A Demographic Analysis of the Family Structure Experiences of Children in the United States
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2008, 6 (3), 193-221)
2996  David M. Blau
Tetyana Shvydko
Labor Market Rigidities and the Employment Behavior of Older Workers
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2011, 64 (3), 464-484)
2991  David M. Blau
Ryan Goodstein
What Explains Trends in Labor Force Participation of Older Men in the United States?
(revised version published as 'Can Social Security Explain Trends in Labor Force Participation of older Men in the United States?' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2010, 45 (2), 328 - 363)
2986  David M. Blau
Retirement and Consumption in a Life Cycle Model
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2008, 26 (1), 35-71)
383  David M. Blau
Erdal Tekin
The Determinants and Consequences of Child Care Subsidies for Single Mothers
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2007, 20 (4), 719 - 741)
David M. Blau
Regina T. Riphahn
Labor Force Transitions of Older Married Couples in Germany
(published in: Labour Economics, 1999, 6 (2), 229-251;
see IZA Reprints 22/99)
 

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