2013 Waino Pihl Lecture with Professor Jeffrey Grogger

The Waino Pihl Lecture will be given by Professor Jeffrey Grogger of the University of Chicago on November 15, 2013, from 1 to 2:30 p.m. at WSU in Alumni House. The lecture is open to the public and all are welcome.

Jeff Grogger received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, San Diego in 1987. He is the Irving Harris Professor in Urban Policy in the Harris School of Public Policy Studies of the University of Chicago. Before joining the Harris School, he was a Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles and a Research Associate at RAND Corporation.

He has co-authored two books on welfare reform and published widely in labor economics, applied microeconomics, applied econometrics, and economics of crime. He is well known for his rigorous use of statistical and econometric methods in empirical work.

Some of his recent publications concern the impact of legalized abortion on teen childbearing, the effect of immigration on African-American employment opportunities, and changes in the selectivity or quality of foreign-born Ph.D. recipients in the U.S., including the effect on this of the level of student immigration. For his work on racial profiling, Professor Grogger received the Outstanding Statistical Application Award for 2007 from the American Statistical Association.

He was a co-editor of the Journal of Human Resources from 1996 to 2008, and the Chair of the National Longitudinal Surveys Technical Review Committee for seven years. He is currently an associate editor of the Journal of Population Economics.