Featured Researcher: Jeffrey M. Perloff

Jeffrey M. Perloff joined the NBER's Board of Directors last fall as the representative of the American Agricultural Economics Association. He is a Fellow of that organization, and a Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Perloff holds a B.A. from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in economics from MIT. He was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania from 1976-80 before joining the Berkeley agricultural economics faculty. He was promoted to full professor in 1989.

Perloff's research on industrial organization, labor, trade, marketing, law and economics, psychology, and other topics has been widely published in professional journals. He is the author of a textbook on microeconomics and the coauthor (with Dennis Carlton) of another textbook on industrial organization. He has consulted with the Federal Trade Commission; U.S. Departments of Agriculture, Labor, Justice; the California Attorney General's Office; and other government agencies. He is a former editor of Industrial Relations, a former association editor of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, and is an associate editor of the Journal of Productivity Analysis.

He lives in Oakland, California with his wife, Jackie, and daughter, Lisa. He and his wife are interested in painting and sculpture and enjoy hiking and traveling.