Curriculum Vitae

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Fabian Lange
Assistant Professor of Economics

E-mail: fabian.lange@yale.edu

Office Address:
  37 Hillhouse Ave., Rm. 5

Office: (203) 432-3628
Fax: (203) 432-3635

Office Hours: Wednesdays, 3-4

Mailing Address:
  Department of Economics
  Yale University
  P.O. Box 208269
  New Haven, CT  06520
-8269

Department Affiliations:
  Economic Growth Center

Current Research Interests:  Social Returns to Education, Demographic Transition, Health Inequalities, Health and Retirement.

Teaching Fields: Labor Economics

 

Publications

 

 

 

 

Chronic Disease Burden and the Interaction of Education, Fertility and Growth, joint with Hoyt Bleakley, ReStat, forthcoming.

 

The Impact of the Boll-Weevil 1892-1940, joint with Alan Olmstead and Paul Rhode, forthcoming at Journal of Economic History.

 

 “The Speed of Employer Learning”, Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 25, Number 1, January 2007.

(H.G.Lewis Prize: Best Paper in the Journal of Labor Economics 2006-2007)

 

The Social Value of Education and Human Capital”, joint with Robert Topel, Handbook of Education Economics, Vol.1, eds. Eric Hanushek and Finis Welch.

 

Book Review on “The Economics of Education: Human Capital, Family Background, and Inequality”, Journal of Economic Literature, Vol 45 (1) March 2007.

 

“Working? The West German Labor Market 1964-2001. Latin American Journal of Economics, 40 (December 2003), 121, pp. 495-503.

 

 

Working Papers

 

Changes in the Characteristics of American Youth: Implications for Adult Outcomes, joint with Joseph G. Altonj and Prashant Bharadwaj,  Working Paper, under submission.

     See also: The Anemic Response of Skill Investment to Skill     Premium Growth at VoxEU http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/1110

 

Education and Allocative Efficienty. Evidence  from Breast Cancer Screening, joint with Keith Chen, under submission.

 

Equipping Immigrants: Migration Flows and Capital Movements, joint with Doug Gollin, under submission.

 

Projects

 

David Cutler, Fabian Lange, Ellen Meara, Seth Richards and Christopher Ruhm, The contribution of risk factors to the SES Gradient in Health: 1970-2000, in  progress.

 

Agar Brugiavini and Fabian Lange, Health, Retirement, and the Viability of Social Security in progress.

 

 

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