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Education PhD, Yale University
AB, University of Chicago Experience Daniel S. Hamermesh is the Edward Everett Hale Centennial Professor of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Hamermesh previously taught at Princeton University and Michigan State University. He has held visiting professorships at universities in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia, and he has lectured at universities in 46 states and 25 foreign countries. Dr. Hamermesh has been retained as an expert witness in a number of areas, including labor demand, age discrimination, employee raiding, unpaid overtime, lost earnings, and wrongful termination. He has provided expert witness testimony in both state and federal courts and has testified on liability and damages in both class action and single plaintiff matters. His research has concentrated on time use, labor demand, social programs, academic labor markets, and unusual applications of labor economics. Dr. Hamermesh has published in nearly 100 refereed papers in scholarly journals, including the American Economic Review, Journal of Human Resources, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Labor Economics, and Handbook of Labor Economics. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society and the Society of Labor Economists, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, program director at the Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA), and a past president of the Society of Labor Economists and of the Midwest Economics Association. Dr. Hamermesh received the President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award and the Dads’ Association Award for Outstanding Teaching of Freshmen at the University of Texas and the Distinguished Faculty Award at Michigan State.
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