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Justin Wolfers

Justin Wolfers

Australian and american economist and public policy scholar

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Justin Wolfers is a professor of public policy and economics at the University of Michigan. He also serves as a member of the Congressional Budget Office Panel of Economic Advisers. Wolfers' research interests include labor economics, macroeconomics, political economy, social policy, law and economics, and behavioral economics.

Previously, Wolfers was an associate professor of business and public policy at the University of Pennsylvania and a visiting professor at Princeton University. He is a research associate with the National Bureau for Economic Research, a senior fellow of the Brookings Institution, a senior fellow of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, a research affiliate with the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London, and an international research fellow at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy in Germany. He is also a contributing columnist with the New York Times.

Justin earned a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Sydney and his AM and PhD in economics from Harvard University.

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Higher Wages for Low-­Income Workers Lead to Higher Productivity

Justin Wolfers, Jan Zilinsky

http://users.nber.org/~jwolfers/policy/RealTime%20Economic%20Issues%20Watch%20Higher%20Wages%20for%20Low-Income%20Workers%20Lead%20to%20Higher%20Productivity.pdf

How Should We Think About the Taxpayer Consequences of Divorce?

Betsey Stevenson, Justin Wolfers

http://users.nber.org/~jwolfers/policy/TaxpayerConsequencesofDivorce(CCF).pdf

Prediction Markets: The Collective Knowledge of Market Participants

Justin Wolfers

http://users.nber.org/~jwolfers/policy/PredictionMarkets(CFA).pdf

The Death Penalty: No Evidence for Deterrence

John J. Donohue, Justin wolfers

http://users.nber.org/~jwolfers/policy/DeathPenalty(BEPress).pdf

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Birthdate
December 11, 1972
Birthplace
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea
Location
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Educated at
Harvard University
Harvard University
University of Sydney
University of Sydney
James Ruse Agricultural High School
James Ruse Agricultural High School
Occupation
Economist
Economist

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Doctoral Advisor
Olivier Blanchard
Olivier Blanchard
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David Rothschild
David Rothschild

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United States
United States
Australia
Australia
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Q1714242

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