Daniel S. Hamermesh

Chief Coordinator, IZA Network; Editor-in-Chief, IZA World of Labor

Barnard College

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Daniel S. Hamermesh is Distinguished Scholar, Barnard College, Professor Emeritus, Royal Holloway University of London, and Sue Killam Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin 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 2009-12 at Maastricht University, 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; he was awarded the IZA Labor Prize; and he received the John R. Commons Award from Omicron Delta Epsilon.

He authored Labor Demand, The Economics of Work and Pay, Economics Is Everywhere, Beauty Pays, 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.

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IZA Discussion Paper No. 11997
Taking Time Use Seriously: Income, Wages and Price Discrimination
Daniel S. Hamermesh, Jeff E. Biddle
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11266
Why Are Professors "Poorly Paid"?
Daniel S. Hamermesh
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 66, 137-41
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10496
Racial/Ethnic Differences in Non-Work at Work
Daniel S. Hamermesh, Katie R. Genadek, Michael C. Burda
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10404
Labor Supply Elasticities: Overcoming Nonclassical Measurement Error Using More Accurate Hours Data
Garry F. Barrett, Daniel S. Hamermesh
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2019, 54 (1), 255 - 265
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10403
Replication in Labor Economics: Evidence from Data, and What It Suggests
Daniel S. Hamermesh
published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings 2017, 107(5): 37–40
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9593
Citations in Economics: Measurement, Uses and Impacts
Daniel S. Hamermesh
published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2018, 56, 111 - 156
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9095
Not Working at Work: Loafing, Unemployment and Labor Productivity
Michael C. Burda, Katie R. Genadek, Daniel S. Hamermesh
part of this paper forthcoming as "Unemployment and Effort at Work" in: Economica, 2019
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8828
Age, Cohort and Co-Authorship
Daniel S. Hamermesh
published in: M. Szenberg and L. Ramrattan (eds.): Collaborative Research in Economis, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, 65 - 93
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8793
The Stress Cost of Children
Hielke Buddelmeyer, Daniel S. Hamermesh, Mark Wooden
published in: European Economic Review, 2018, 109, 148 - 161
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8423
Long Workweeks and Strange Hours
Daniel S. Hamermesh, Elena G. F. Stancanelli
published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2015, 68 (5), 1007-1018
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8077
Does Labor Legislation Benefit Workers? Well-Being after an Hours Reduction
Daniel S. Hamermesh, Daiji Kawaguchi, Jungmin Lee
published in: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2017, Vol. 44, 1-12
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7380
Endophilia or Exophobia: Beyond Discrimination
Jan Feld, Nicolas Salamanca, Daniel S. Hamermesh
published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (594), 1503-1527
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7070
Cyclical Variation in Labor Hours and Productivity Using the ATUS
Michael C. Burda, Daniel S. Hamermesh, Jay Stewart
published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2013, 103 (3), 99-104
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6700
A Gift of Time
Daiji Kawaguchi, Jungmin Lee, Daniel S. Hamermesh
published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 24, 205-216
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6579
Tall or Taller, Pretty or Prettier: Is Discrimination Absolute or Relative?
Daniel S. Hamermesh
published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2012, 1:2
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6445
Wage Discrimination over the Business Cycle
Jeff E. Biddle, Daniel S. Hamermesh
published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2013, 2:7
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6199
Aggregate Impacts of a Gift of Time
Jungmin Lee, Daiji Kawaguchi, Daniel S. Hamermesh
published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102(3), 612-616
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5945
Cycles of Wage Discrimination
Jeff E. Biddle, Daniel S. Hamermesh
published as 'Wage discrimination over the business cycle' in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2013, 2:7
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5600
"Beauty Is the Promise of Happiness"?
Daniel S. Hamermesh, Jason Abrevaya
published in: European Economic Review, 2013, 64, 351-368
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5010
How Do Immigrants Spend Their Time? The Process of Assimilation
Daniel S. Hamermesh, Stephen Trejo
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (2), 507-530
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4921
Charity and Favoritism in the Field: Are Female Economists Nicer (To Each Other)?
Jason Abrevaya, Daniel S. Hamermesh
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 94 (1), 202-207
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4610
Markets for Reputation: Evidence on Quality and Quantity in Academe
Daniel S. Hamermesh, Gerard A. Pfann
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
Grazing, Goods and Girth: Determinants and Effects
Daniel S. Hamermesh
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
Unemployment, Market Work and Household Production
Michael C. Burda, Daniel S. Hamermesh
published in: Economics Letters, 2010, 107 (2), 131-133
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3899
Strike Three: Umpires' Demand for Discrimination
Christopher A. Parsons, Johan Sulaeman, Michael C. Yates, Daniel S. Hamermesh
published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (4), 1410-1435
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3885
The Timing of Labor Demand
Ana Rute Cardoso, Daniel S. Hamermesh, José Varejão
published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 105/106, 15-34
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2767
The Demand for Variety: A Household Production Perspective
Daniel S. Hamermesh, Reuben Gronau
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2008, 90 (3), 562-572
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2760
Replication in Economics
Daniel S. Hamermesh
published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2007, 40 (3), 715-733
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2705
Total Work, Gender and Social Norms
Michael C. Burda, Daniel S. Hamermesh, Philippe Weil
published online as 'Total Work and Gender: Facts and Possible Explanations' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26(1), 239-261
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2580
Fun with Matched Firm-Employee Data: Progress and Road Maps
Daniel S. Hamermesh
published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (4), 663-673
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2270
The Distribution of Total Work in the EU and US
Michael C. Burda, Daniel S. Hamermesh, Philippe Weil
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
Cues for Coordination: Light, Longitude and Letterman
Daniel S. Hamermesh, Caitlin Knowles Myers, Mark L. Pocock
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
The Time and Timing Costs of Market Work, and their Implications for Retirement
Daniel S. Hamermesh
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
Time to Eat: Household Production under Increasing Income Inequality
Daniel S. Hamermesh
published in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2007, 89 (4), 852-863; excerpts also publishd in Economics Letters, 2008, 98 (1), 31-34
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1815
Stressed Out on Four Continents: Time Crunch or Yuppie Kvetch?
Daniel S. Hamermesh, Jungmin Lee
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2007, 89 (2), 374-383
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1680
The Economics of Workaholism: We Should Not Have Worked on This Paper
Daniel S. Hamermesh, Joel Slemrod
published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2008, 8 (1), Article 3
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1580
The Value of Peripatetic Economists: A Sesqui-Difference Evaluation of Bob Gregory
Daniel S. Hamermesh
published in: Economic Record, 2006, 82 (257), 138-149
IZA Discussion Paper No. 308
Two-Sided Learning, Labor Turnover and Worker Displacement
Gerard A. Pfann, Daniel S. Hamermesh
published as 'Two-Sided Learning with Applications to Labor Turnover and Worker Displacement' in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2008, 228 (5-6), 423 - 445
IZA Discussion Paper No. 173
Timing, Togetherness and Time Windfalls
Daniel S. Hamermesh
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2002, 15 (4), 601-623
IZA Discussion Paper No. 42
The Changing Distribution of Job Satisfaction
Daniel S. Hamermesh
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2001, 36 (1), 1-30
IZA World of Labor Article
Do labor costs affect companies' demand for labor?
Daniel S. Hamermesh
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