#  Lawrence Katz 

Elisabeth Allison Professor of Economics

 

 

 



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 laptop\_windows [Homepage](http://scholar.harvard.edu/lkatz/home) 

 

 



 

   
*Research interests*: Labor economics and the economics of social problems. History of U.S. economic inequality and the roles of technological change and the pace of educational advance in affecting the wage structure. Impacts of neighborhood poverty on low-income families.

 Currently working with Claudia Goldin on a major project studying the evolution of career and family choices and outcomes for U.S. college men and women.



 

 

 





 

 

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