Curriculum Vitae

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Fabian Lange
Assistant Professor of Economics

IZA Young Labor Economist 2008.

H.G. Lewis Prize Winner 2006-2007.

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

Teaching Fields: Labor Economics and Econometrics.

 

 

Publications

 

 

 

 

“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.

IZA Young Labor Economist Award 2008: Best Paper by a Labor Economist under the age of 40. )

 

The Social Value of Education and Human Capital”, joint with Robert Topel, Handbook of Education Economics, 2006, Vol.1, eds. Eric Hanushek and Finis Welch.

 

Chronic Disease Burden and the Interaction of Education, Fertility and Growth, joint with Hoyt Bleakley, ReSview of Economics and Statistics, February 2009, 91(1).

 

The Impact of the Boll-Weevil 1892-1940, joint with Alan Olmstead and Paul Rhode, The Journal of Economic History, vol 69,  issue 03 (Sept. 2009), pp. 685-718.

 

 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,  revise and resubmit at Journal of Labor Economics.

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

 

Learning about Employee and Employer Learning: Dynamics of Performance and Wage Measures, joint with Lisa Kahn, in progress.

 

Education and Allocative Efficienty. Evidence from Cancer Screening, under submission.

 

Explaining the Rise in Educational Gradients in Mortality,  joint with David Cutler, Ellen Meara, Seth Richards and Christopher Ruhm, NBER Working Paper 15678, under submission.

 

Equipping Immigrants: Migration Flows and Capital Movements, joint with Doug Gollin, IZA working paper 2745 and CreAM Discussion Paper Series 0914, under submission.

 

 

Projects

 

 

Fabian Lange and Doug McKee, Dynamics of Health, in progress.

 

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

 

Fabian Lange and Doug McKee, Retirement, Incentives and Health: Lessons from Germany, in progress.

 

Rebecca Edwards and Fabian Lange, Predicting Earnings Inequality in 2030 – The Role of Labor and Skill Supply, in progress.

 

Seik Kim and Fabian Lange, Employee or Employer Learning?, in progress.

 

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Data Links

 

AFQT Matching Procedure used in Altonji, Bharadwaj, Lange (2009)

AFQTmatch.pdf

 

Code and Data

AFQT MATCHING.zip