Robert A. Pollak
Hernreich Distinguished Professor of Economics
Areas of Expertise:
Business And Government; Economics - Environmental Economics; Economics - Microeconomics/ Industrial Organization; Law and Economics; Political Economy; Public Affairs/ Public Policy
Research interests:
Environmental economics and policy; consumer demand analysis and consumer behavior; demography, labor economics and the economics of the family
Academic/professional activities:
Editor: International Economic Review, 1976-1985
Associate Editor: International Economic Review, 1985-1997; Review of Economics and Statistics, 1987-1992; Demography, 1990-1993; Journal of Economic Literature, 1985-1997; Feminist Economics, 1994-present
Funded Research: National Science Foundation; the National Institutes of Health; the Rockefeller Foundation; and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Co-Chairs the MacArthur Foundation Network on the Family and the Economy
Awards/honors:
Mindel C. Sheps Award, Population Association of America, 2000
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 1999-2000
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Fellow)
American Association for the Advancement of Science (Fellow)
Econometric Society (Fellow)
Phi Beta Kappa
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Robert Pollak's research interests include environmental policy, demography and the economics of the family. Pollak is the author of numerous articles in professional journals and three books: From Parent to Child: Intrahousehold Allocations and Intergenerational Relations in the United States (1995, with J. Behrman and P. Taubman), Demand System Specification and Estimation (1992, with T. Wales), and The Theory of the Cost-of-Living Index (1989). Pollak is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Econometric Society. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Pollak served on the National Academy of Sciences Committee on the National Statistics panel on Cost-of-Living Indexes and is now serving on the Standing Committee on Research and Evidentiary Standards. Pollak has served as Senior Consultant to the Economics Initiative of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. From 1997-2007, he co-chaired the MacArthur Foundation Network on the Family and the Economy, an interdisciplinary group of economists, sociologists, and developmental psychologists studying the functioning of families. Pollak was awarded a Fellowship for 1999-2000 by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Pollak was President of the Midwest Economics Association in 2002-2003 and will be President of the Society of Labor Economists in 2009-2010.
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Email: pollak@wustl.edu
Phone: (314) 935-4918
Ph.D. 1964, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B.A. 1960, Amherst College
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