Fabian Lange
Associate Professor of Economics

IZA Young Labor Economist 2008.

H.G. Lewis Prize Winner 2006-2007.

Curriculum Vitae

 

Research Interests

Labor Economics

1.         Information and Careers: Employer Learning, Duration Dependence in Unemployment.

2.         The Role of Performance Evaluations in Employers Personnel Practices.

3.         Earnings and Skill Inequality.

Health and Population Economics

1.         Empirical Evidence on the Fertility Transition.

2.         Health Inequality: The Role of Education.

3.         Dynamics of Health among the Elderly.

 

 

Teaching Fields: Labor Economics and Econometrics

 

 

 

 

Publications

Links are to working papers or earlier versions of the published papers.

 

 

 

 

1.      Changes in the Characteristics of American Youth: Implications for Adult Outcomes, joint with Joseph G. Altonji and Prashant Bharadwaj, Journal of Labor Economics, 2011.

            NBER Working Paper 13883.

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

 

2.      Explaining the Rise in Educational Gradients in Mortality,  joint with David Cutler, Ellen Meara, Seth Richards and Christopher Ruhm, Journal of Health Economics, 30 (2011) pp 43-54.

            NBER Working Paper 15678.  

 

3.      Education and Allocative Efficiency. Evidence from Cancer Screening, Journal of Health Economics 30 (2011), pp. 43-54.

             Earlier Version.

 

4.      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. )

            Earlier Version.

 

5.      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.

 

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

 

7.      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.

 

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

 

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

 

 

 

 

Working Papers and Manuscripts

 

 

 

1.      Learning about Employee and Employer Learning: Dynamics of Performance and Wage Measures, joint with Lisa Kahn, under submission.

 

2.      The Evolution of Latent Health over the Life Course, joint with Doug McKee, presented at 2011 AEA meetings.

 

3.      Fertility Transitions Along the Extensive and Intensive Margin, joint with Dan Aaronson and Bhash Mazumder Working paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

 

4.      Performance Evaluations and Careers: Similarities and Differences across Firms, joint with Anders Frederiksen and Ben Kriechel.

 

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

 

 

 

Projects

 

 

1.      Duration Dependence in Unemployment: An Audit Study, joint with Kory Kroft and Matt Notowidigdo.

 

2.      The Role of Dynamics in the Health-Education Gradient, joint with Doug McKee.

 

3.      Health across the Generations, joint with Costas Meghir and Marten Palme.

 

4.       Predicting Earnings Inequality in 2030 – The Role of Labor and Skill Supply, joint with Rebecca Edwards.

 

5.      Employee or Employer Learning?, joint with Seik Kim.

 

6.      Health, Retirement, and the Viability of Social Security, joint with Agar Brugiavini and Doug McKee.

 

 

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Data Links

 

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

AFQTmatch.pdf

 

Code and Data

AFQT MATCHING.zip