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NBER: Sad News -- Eddie Lazear
Dear NBER Colleagues -
I am very sorry to share the news that Eddie Lazear, a Research
Associate in the Aging, Education, and Labor Studies programs who had
been an NBER affiliate for more than 45 years, passed away on Tuesday.
He was the Davies Family Professor of Economics at the Stanford Graduate
School of Business and the Morris Arnold Cox and Nona Jean Cox Senior
Fellow at the Hoover Institution.
Lazear was a widely-celebrated labor economist who made fundamental
contributions on many topics, including personnel economics and the
analysis of within-firm labor markets, compensation structures, the
determinants of worker productivity, and the role of defined benefit
pensions and mandatory retirement provisions in optimal labor
contracts. Among his many honors, he was recognized by the Society of
Labor Economics (SOLE) with the Jacob Mincer Prize for Lifetime Achievement.
Lazear chaired the President's Council of Economic Advisers from 2006
until 2009, and he was an important provider of public goods within the
economics profession. He was the inaugural editor of the /Journal of
Labor Economics; /he edited the journal for nearly two decades. He was
also a founder of SOLE, which recently created the Lazear Prize for
Contributions to Labor Economics Research, the Economics Profession, and
Civil Society in his honor.
Lazear received both an A.B. and an A.M. degree in economics from UCLA,
and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. He taught at the University of
Chicago Graduate School of Business from 1974 until 1992, when he moved
to Stanford.
Lazear was an engaged participant in many NBER activities, most notably
the Personnel Economics working group, which he launched in 2002. He
will be deeply missed.
Jim Poterba
Received on Wed Nov 25 2020 - 07:13:52 EST
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