Robert Pollak

Research Fellow

Washington University, St. Louis

Robert A. Pollak is the Hernreich Distinguished Professor of Economics at Washington University in St. Louis where he has taught since 1995. He received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1964. His research interests include the economics of the family and demography. Pollak is the author of more than 70 articles, and three books including From Parent to Child: Intrahousehold Allocations and Intergenerational Relations in the United States, (joint with Jere R. Behrman and Paul Taubman).

In 1999-2000 Pollak held a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation fellowship and in 2000 he received the Mindel C. Sheps Award for mathematical demography from the Population Association of America. He co-chaired the MacArthur Foundation Network on the Family and the Economy from 1997-2007. Pollak is a fellow of the Econometric Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Society of Labor Economists, and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He will become president of the Society of Labor Economists (SOLE) in May 2009.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in February 2006.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8813
publlished in: European Economic Review, 2023, 157, 104513
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7607
published in: Leah Platt Boustan, Carola Frydman and Robert A. Margo (eds.), Human Capital in History: The American Record, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014, 241-272.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3826
published in: Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 2008, 63 (6), S349-S358.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3109
published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2011, 57 (2), 216-244
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2715
published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2007, 21 (2), 3-26
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