TILL M. VON WACHTER CURRICULUM VITAE [email protected] http://www.econ.ucla.edu/tvwachter Department of Economics Cell Phone: (646) 265-8724 University of California Los Angeles Office Phone: (310) 825-1011 8283 Bunche Hall Office Fax: (310) 825-9528 Mail Stop: 147703 Los Angeles, CA 90095 Updated: Octobers 2018 CURRENT EMPLOYMENT Associate Dean for Research, Social Science Division UCLA (October 2017 – present) Full Professor, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Economics (July 2017 – present) Faculty Director, California Policy Lab UCLA (January 2017 – present) Research Professor, Institute for Employment Research (IAB), July 2015 – present) Director, California Census Research Data Center (March 2016 – present) Adjunct Research Affiliate, RAND (August 2012 – present) PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT Associate Professor (with tenure) University of California Los Angeles, Dept. of Economics (July 2012 –June 2017) Associate Director, California Center for Population Research (July 2016 – September 2017) Chair of Faculty Advisory Board, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (July 2015 – September 2017) Director of Computing, California Center for Population Research (January 2016 – June 2016) Executive Committee, California Center for Population Research (July 2014–June 2016) Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation, New York (September 2010-June 2011) Affiliate Professor, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (Summer 2010, 2011) Associate Professor (without tenure) Columbia University, Dept. of Economics (May 2009 –June 2012) Assistant Professor Columbia University, Department of Economics (July 2003 – May 2009) Researcher (IPA), Division of Economic Research, Social Security Administration (July-September 2006, June-August 2007, January 2008) Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research (January 2007 – August 2012) Research Associate, Center for Economic Policy Research (January 2007 – December 2012) CURRENT RESEARCH AFFILIATIONS Faculty Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research (September 2012 – present) Research Fellow, Center for Economic Policy Research (January 2013 – present) Faculty Research Affiliate, California Center for Population Research (July 2012 –present) Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) (December 2003 – present) Research Associate, Institute for Social and Economic Policy Research (November 2004 – present) EDUCATION Ph.D. Department of Economics, University of California Berkeley (May 2003) M.A. Economics University of Bonn, Germany, Summa cum laude (August 1997) FIELDS OF INTEREST Labor Economics, Economics of Aging, Personnel Economics, Macroeconomics 1 PUBLICATIONS: “Unlucky Cohorts: The Long-Term Effects of Entering the Labor Market in a Recession on Earnings and Health.” (joint with Hannes Schwandt, accepted, Journal of Labor Economics) “Firming Up Inequality” (Joint with Jae Song, David Price, Fatih Guvenen, and David Price, NBER Working Paper 21199, accepted, Quarterly Journal of Economics) “Whom Do Employers Want? The Role of Recent Employment and Unemployment Status and Age” (Joint with Henry S. Farber, Chris M. Herbst, and Daniel Silverman, NBER Working Paper 24605, accepted, Journal of Labor Economics) “Inequality and the disappearing large firm wage premium,” (with Fatih Guvenen, Benjamin S. Smith, Jae Song, and Till von Wachter, May 2018, American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings) “Working Conditions in the United States: Results of the 2015 American Working Conditions Survey” (joint with Nicole Maestas, Kathleen J. Mullen, David Powell, Jeffrey B. Wenger, 2017, RAND Research Report) “Social Experiments in the Labor Market” (joint with Jesse Rothstein, Handbook of Field Experiments, Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee (Editors), 2017, Elsevier-North Holland.) “A Context-robust Measure of the disincentive cost of Unemployment Insurance” (joint with Johannes Schmieder, American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 2017, Vol.107, No.5: 343-48.) “Factors Determining Callbacks to Job Applications by the Unemployed: An Audit Study.” (Joint with Daniel Silverman and Henry Farber, The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Special Issue, 2017, 3(3): 68-201.) “Effects of Unemployment Insurance Benefits: New Evidence and Interpretation” (joint with Johannes Schmieder, Annual Review of Economics, 2016, Vol. 8: 547-581.) “Determinants of Callbacks to Job Applications: An Audit Study.” (Joint with Daniel Silverman and Henry Farber, American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, May 2016, Vol. 106, No. 5: 314-318). “The Effect of Unemployment Insurance and Nonemployment Duration on Wages.” (Joint with Johannes Schmieder and Stefan Bender, American Economic Review, March 2016, Vol. 106, No.3: 739-77). “Unemployment Insurance and Disability Insurance in the Great Recession.” (Joint with Andreas I. Mueller and Jesse Rothstein, Journal of Labor Economics, January 2016, Vol. 34 (S1, pt. 2): S445-S475). “Long-Term Nonemployment and Job Displacement.” (Joint with Jae Song, in: Evaluating Labor Market Dynamics, A Symposium Sponsored by the Federal Reserve Board of Kansas City, Jackson Hole, Wyo., August 2014). “The Effect of Job Displacement on Cumulated Years Worked Across Two Decades and More” (Joint with Jae Song and Joyce Manchester, In: Life-Cycle Events and their Consequences, Kenneth A. Couch, Mary C. Daly, and Julie Zissimopoulos (Eds.), Stanford University Press, 2013.) “The Effects of Extended Unemployment Insurance Over the Business Cycle: Evidence from Regression Discontinuity Estimates Over 20 Years” (Joint with Johannes Schmieder and Stefan Bender, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2012, May, Vol. 127, No. 2: 701-752.) “The Long-Term Effect of Unemployment Insurance Extensions on Employment and Unemployment” (Joint with Johannes Schmieder and Stefan Bender, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 2012, May, Vol 102, No. 3: 514-519.) 2 “The Short- and Long-Term Career Effects of Graduating in a Recession: Hysteresis and Heterogeneity in the Market for College Graduates ,” (joint with Phil Oreopoulos and Andrew Heisz, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2012, January, Vol. 4, No.1: 1-29.) >>> Award for “BEST PAPER” in 2012 in American Economic Journal: Applied <<< “Job Displacements in Recessions: An Overview of Long-Term Consequences and Policy Options” (In: Reconnecting to Work: Policies to Mitigate Long-Term Unemployment and Its Consequences, Lauren D. Appelbaum (Ed), Upjohn Institute, 2012.) “Recessions and the Costs of Job Loss” (Joint with Steve Davis, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2011, vol. 43, issue 2 (Fall): 1-72.) “Trends in Employment and Earnings of Allowed and Rejected Social Security Disability Insurance Applicants” (Joint with Jae Song and Joyce Manchester, American Economic Review, 2011, Vol. 101 No. 7: 3308–29.) “Does Wage Persistence Matter for Employment Fluctuations? Evidence from Displaced Workers” (Joint with Johannes Schmieder, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2010, Vol. 2 No. 3: 1-21) “Job Displacement and Mortality: An Analysis using Administrative Data” (Joint with Daniel Sullivan, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2009, Vol.124, No.3: 1265-1306) “Average Earnings and Long-Term Mortality: Evidence from Administrative Data” (Joint with Daniel Sullivan, American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 2009, Vol.99, No.2: 133-38) “Summary of the Literature on Job Displacement in the US and EU: What we know and what we would like to know” (In: David Marsden and François Ryxc, “Wage Structures, Employment Adjustments and Globalization: Evidence from Linked and Firm-level Panel Data,” Applied Econometrics Association Series, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) “Following Germany's Lead: Using International Monetary Linkages to Identify the Effect of Monetary Policy on the Economy” (Joint with Julian di Giovanni and Justin McCrary, Review of Economics and Statistics, 2009, Vol.91, No.2: 315-31) “Do Initial Conditions Persist Within Firms? An Analysis of Firm-Entry Cohort Effects and Job Losers” (Joint with Stefan Bender, in: J. Lane, S. Bender, S. Bender, J. Lane, K. Shaw, F. Andersson, and T. von Wachter (eds.), “The Analysis of Firms and Employees: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches, University of Chicago Press, 2008). “Compulsory Schooling and Labour Market Institutions in Germany” (Joint with Steve Pischke, Review of Economics and Statistics, 2008, Vol. 90, No. 3: 592–598.) “In the Right Place at the Wrong Time: The Role of Firms and Luck in Young Workers’ Careers” (Joint with Stefan Bender, American Economic Review, December 2006, Vol. 96, No. 5: 1679-1705) EDITED BOOKS AND SPECIAL ISSUES: “The U.S. Labor Market During and After the Great Recession” Special Issue of The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences (joint with Arne L. Kalleberg, 2016) “The Analysis of Firms and Employees: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches.” (Joint with J. Lane, S. Bender, K. Shaw, F. Andersson, (eds.), University of Chicago Press, 2008.) SOLICITED PAPERS SUBMITTED FOR PUBLICATION: “Survey of the Literature of Job Displacement” (Journal of Economic Literature, under revision) 3 PAPERS UNDER SUBMISSION: “The End of Mandatory Retirement in the US: Effects on Retirement and Implicit Contracts” (Center for Labor Economics Working Paper No. 49, University of California Berkeley, Revise and Resubmit, Industrial Labor Relations Review, 2009) WORK IN PROGRESS: (Papers Available at http://www.econ.ucla.edu/tvwachter) “Long-Term Earnings Losses due