Bio
Robert Haveman
is Professor Emeritus of Economics and Public Affairs and
Research Associate at the Institute for Research on Poverty. He
has published widely in the fields of public finance, the economics of
environmental and natural resources policy, benefit-cost analysis, and the
economics of poverty and social policy. Recent publications include Succeeding
Generations: On the Effects of Investments in Children.
Current projects include work on the discrepancy in reported earnings in
surveys compared to administrative records, on the adequacy of savings of older
workers beginning retirement, and on implications of increased economic
inequality for human capital in the future. He is an award-winning teacher, who
continues to teach at the La Follette School, of
which he was director from 1988 to 1991. He was director of the Institute for
Research on Poverty from 1971 to 1975. Professor Haveman
has served as senior economist, Subcommittee on Economy in Government, Joint
Economic Committee, U.S. Congress. He was a fellow at
the Russell
Sage Foundation and, on two occasions, a research associate at Resources for the
Future. In 2003, he and co-authors Andrew Bershadker
and Jonathan A. Schwabish published the book Human
Capital in the United States from 1975 to 2000: Patterns of Growth and
Utilization (Kalamazoo, MI: Upjohn Institute for Employment
Research). His work has appeared in the American Economic Review, Review
of Economics and Statistics, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Journal
of the American Statistical Association. He received his doctorate in
economics from