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Lawrence F. Katz

Lawrence F. Katz
Born 1959 (age 57–58)
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Nationality United States
Institution Harvard University
Field Labor economics
Alma mater MIT (Ph.D.)
University of California, Berkeley (A.B.)
Doctoral
advisor
Henry Farber
Doctoral
students
Jonathan Gruber
Jeffrey R. Kling
David Autor
Justin Wolfers
Heidi Williams
Marianne Bertrand
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Lawrence Francis Katz (born 1959) is Elisabeth Allison Professor of Economics at Harvard University and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1981 and earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1985.

He served as the chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor from 1993 to 1994 under Robert Reich, Bill Clinton’s then Secretary of Labor.

Along with fellow Harvard colleague Claudia Goldin, who is a "personal as well as research partner", Katz wrote The Race Between Education and Technology in 2008, which argued that the United States became the world’s richest nation thanks to its schools. It was praised as "a monumental achievement that supplies a unified framework for interpreting how the demand and supply of human capital have shaped the distribution of earnings in the U.S. labor market over the twentieth century", and Alan Krueger of Princeton University said that it "represent[ed] the best of what economics has to offer".

Katz has been editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics since 1991. He also serves as the Principal Investigator for the long-term evaluation of the "Moving to Opportunity", a randomized housing mobility experiment.


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