NBER profile: Daniel S. Hamermesh.

• Position: National Bureau of Economic Research - Brief article

Daniel S. Hamermesh is a Research Associate in the NBER's Program on Labor Studies. He is also Sue Killam Professor in the Foundations of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin and professor of labour economics at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. (The Killam Professorship recognizes his teaching of introductory economics to over 20,000 students during his career, not his contributions to economic theory.)

Hamermesh received his A.B. from the University of Chicago in 1965 and his Ph.D. from Yale in 1969. He taught at Princeton and Michigan State University before moving to Texas in 1993. His research has focused on a number of areas, including issues of labor demand, time use, and some more unusual topics including economic analyses of suicide, sleep, and the role of personal beauty in markets. In 2011...