Biography:Sam Schulhofer-Wohl

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Short description: American economist
Samuel Aryeh Schulhofer-Wohl
Alma materUniversity of Chicago, (PhD)
Swarthmore College, (BA)
Scientific career
Fieldsmacroeconomics, applied econometrics
InstitutionsFederal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Princeton University
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Sam Schulhofer-Wohl is an American economist who is senior vice president and senior advisor to the president at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.[1] He was previously Senior Vice President and Director of Financial Policy at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Research Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis,[2] and an economics professor at Princeton University.[3][4]

Life and education

Raised in Philadelphia and Chicago , Schulhofer-Wohl studied physics and economics at Swarthmore College while preparing for a career as a journalist.[5] He spent four years working as a copy editor and reporter at The Journal-Standard, the Birmingham Post-Herald, and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, before returning to Chicago for a PhD in economics at the University of Chicago.[6]

Research

Schulhofer-Wohl's research focuses on applied econometrics, monetary policy, and macroeconomics.[2][7] With Miguel Garrido, he showed that the 2007 closure of The Cincinnati Post affected voter turnout and the re-election chances for incumbents.[3][8] With Greg Kaplan, he has studied the decline in migration among American workers.[9][10]

Selected works

  • Yang, Yang, Sam Schulhofer-Wohl, Wenjiang J. Fu, and Kenneth C. Land. "The intrinsic estimator for age-period-cohort analysis: what it is and how to use it." American Journal of Sociology 113, no. 6 (2008): 1697–1736.
  • Kaplan, Greg, and Sam Schulhofer‐Wohl. "Understanding the long‐run decline in interstate migration." International Economic Review 58, no. 1 (2017): 57–94.
  • Kaplan, Greg, and Sam Schulhofer-Wohl. "Interstate migration has fallen less than you think: Consequences of hot deck imputation in the Current Population Survey." Demography 49, no. 3 (2012): 1061–1074.
  • Schulhofer-Wohl, Sam, and Miguel Garrido. "Do newspapers matter? Short-run and long-run evidence from the closure of The Cincinnati Post." Journal of Media Economics 26, no. 2 (2013): 60–81.
  • Schulhofer-Wohl, Sam. "Heterogeneity and tests of risk sharing." Journal of Political Economy 119, no. 5 (2011): 925–958.
  • Hall, Robert E., and Sam Schulhofer-Wohl. "Measuring job-finding rates and matching efficiency with heterogeneous job-seekers." American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 10, no. 1 (2018): 1-32.

References

  1. "Samuel Schulhofer-Wohl, Dallas Fed" (in en). https://www.dallasfed.org/fed/leadership/schulhofer-wohl. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Saphir, Ann (2016-09-10). "Minneapolis Fed seeks new research chief after Schulhofer-Wohl leaves" (in pt). Reuters. https://br.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fed-minneapolisfed-idUSKCN11G00D. [|permanent dead link|dead link}}]
  3. 3.0 3.1 Robertson, Laura. "When Papers Die: Princeton economist and ex-journalist Sam Schulhofer-Wohl examines the fallout: dangers to democracy." (in en). https://www.styleweekly.com/richmond/when-papers-die/Content?oid=1363875. 
  4. "Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Names New Research Director | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis" (in en). https://www.minneapolisfed.org:443/news-releases/2013/federal-reserve-bank-of-minneapolis-names-new-research-director-20131023. 
  5. Ryan, Barbara Haddad (June 2000). "The New Swarthmore Journalists: From the newsroom to the Internet, young Swarthmoreans are making their mark in the media.". Swarthmore College Bulletin. https://bulletin.swarthmore.edu/bulletin-issue-archive/wp-content/archived_issues_pdf/Bulletin_2000_06.pdf. 
  6. "College Corner: Gazette Founder Sam Schulhofer-Wohl '98 - The Phoenix" (in en-US). 2008-04-19. https://swarthmorephoenix.com/2008/04/19/college-corner-gazette-founder-sam-schulhofer-wohl-98/. 
  7. "Sam Schulhofer-Wohl" (in en-GB). https://www.theigc.org/person/sam-schulhofer-wohl/. 
  8. "Paper Trail | On the Media" (in en). https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/131367-paper-trail. 
  9. "American workers find less incentive to relocate" (in en). https://www.princeton.edu/news/2013/03/08/american-workers-find-less-incentive-relocate. 
  10. Lowrey, Annie (2013-12-10). "Why Are Americans Staying Put? (Published 2013)" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/15/magazine/why-are-so-many-americans-staying-put.html.