Judith K. Hellerstein
Judith K. Hellerstein is the Chair of the Economics department and Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland.[1] She is a former co-editor of The Journal of Human Resources, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research,[2] and she chairs the Technical Review Committee for the National Longitudinal Surveys.[3] She served as Chief Economist of the Council of Economic Advisers during 2011-2012,[4]
Judith Hellerstein | |
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Education | Brown University Harvard University |
Spouse(s) | Phillip Swagel |
Children | 3 |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Economics |
Institutions | Northwestern University University of Maryland |
Doctoral advisor | Lawrence F. Katz |
Website | Official website |
Professor Hellerstein is an internationally renowned labor economist. She has testified before the Montgomery County Council on the employment impacts of potential changes to the minimum wage.[5][6]
Research
Her many publications have focused on wage determination; labor market outcomes by race, gender and ethnicity; and workplace segregation. In work with David Neumark and Melissa McInerney, she showed that the spatial composition of jobs plays a relatively minor role in explaining low employment rates for Black men.[7] In work with Melinda Morrill, she found that divorce rates fall when unemployment is high.[8]
Selected works
- Spatial Mismatch or Racial Mismatch?"Journal of Urban Economics (2008)
- "Dads and Daughters: The Changing Impact of Fathers on Women's Occupational Choices," Journal of Human Resources (2011)
- The Importance of Residential Labor Market Networks,"Journal of Labor Economics (2011)
- Hellerstein, Judith K., David Neumark, and Kenneth R. Troske. "Wages, productivity, and worker characteristics: Evidence from plant-level production functions and wage equations." Journal of labor economics 17, no. 3 (1999): 409-446.
- Bayard, Kimberly, Judith Hellerstein, David Neumark, and Kenneth Troske. "New evidence on sex segregation and sex differences in wages from matched employee-employer data." Journal of labor Economics 21, no. 4 (2003): 887-922.
- Hellerstein, Judith K. "The importance of the physician in the generic versus trade-name prescription decision." The Rand journal of economics (1998): 108-136.
- Hellerstein, Judith K., David Neumark, and Kenneth R. Troske. Market forces and sex discrimination. Journal of Human Resources 37 (2), 353-380
- Hellerstein, Judith K., and David Neumark. "Workplace segregation in the United States: Race, ethnicity, and skill." The review of economics and statistics 90.3 (2008): 459-477.
References
- Schwartz, Nelson D. (January 27, 2013). "Employers Increasingly Rely on Internal Referrals in Hiring". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 23, 2019.
- "Judith K. Hellerstein". www.nber.org. Retrieved April 23, 2019.
- "C.V. of Judith K. Hellerstein, March 2016" (PDF).
- "The NBER Reporter 2011 Number 4: News". www.nber.org. Retrieved April 23, 2019.
- Turque, Bill (November 21, 2013). "Montgomery moves ahead on joint effort with District, Pr. George's to raise minimum wage". The Washington Post.
- "MEMORANDUM to County Council; from Robert H. Drummer, Senior Legislative Attorney, Josh Hamlin, Legislative Attorney, Jacob Sesker, Senior Legislative Analyst; SUBJECT: Action: Bill 27-13, Human Rights and Civil Liberties - County Minimum Wage Dollar Amount" (PDF). November 22, 2013.
- Mathur, Aparna. "The Segregation We Don't Talk About Enough". Forbes. Retrieved April 23, 2019.
- McElwee, Sean; Steinbaum, Marshall I. (January 16, 2015). "No, The Decline in Marriage Did Not Increase Inequality". The New Republic. ISSN 0028-6583. Retrieved April 23, 2019.