Edward Paul Lazear, Ph.D.

Jack Steele Parker Professor of Human Resources, Management, and Economics, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University; Morris Arnold Cox Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution

Labor, Industrial Relations

Edward Paul Lazear is the Morris Arnold Cox Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Jack Steele Parker Professor of Human Resources, Management, and Economics at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, where he has taught since 1992. He taught previously at the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business, where he was the Brown Professor of Urban and Labor Economics.

Professor Lazear is the founding editor of the Journal of Labor Economics, and is also an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Econometric Society, and the Society of Labor Economists. He is a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research and a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Board on Testing and Assessment. His research is currently supported by the National Science Foundation.

Professor Lazear has written extensively on labor markets and personnel issues; microeconomic theory; issues involving worker compensations and effects on productivity; government policies on discrimination, affirmative action, and comparable worth; the doctrine of employment at well; distribution of income within the household; and pricing and marketing policies. He has published over one hundred academic papers and several books, including Personnel Economics (MIT Press, 1995).

Professor Lazear has been a visiting professor at the Institutes for Advanced Study in Vienna and Jerusalem, the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris, and the Center for the Study of New Institutional Economics at the University of Saarlandes in Germany. He has also lectured by invitation at other premier institutions worldwide, including Norway, Finland, the Netherlands, England, Spain, Australia, and India. A frequent keynote speaker, he was the Astra-Erikkson Lecturer and the 1993 Wicksell Lecturer in Stockholm, Sweden.

Professor Lazear received the Distinguished Teaching Award from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business in 1994, was named the Michael and Monica Spence Faculty Fellow in 2000-2001, and received the Distinguished Service Award from Stanford University in 2002. He has an honorary doctorate from Albertson College of Idaho and delivered the 2002 UCLA Commencement Address. Lazear was awarded the 1998 Leo Malamed Biennial Price for outstanding research and the 2003 Adam Smith Price from the European Association of Labor Economists.

Professor Lazear received his A.B. and A.M. degrees from the University of California at Los Angeles and his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.