Professor Zvi Eckstein received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1981. His teaching areas include labor economics, applied econometrics, and monetary economics. Professor Eckstein's research focuses on immigrants and their transition to a new labor market, estimating labor search models, and labor market discrimination.
Office: 922 Heller Hall Telephone: (612) 625-0145 E-mail: eckstein@econ.umn.edu Personal Web Page Current CV
Selected publications include: "Why Youth Drop out of High School: The Impact of Preferences, Opportunities and Abilities", (with K.I. Wolpin), Econometrica 67:6 (1999) 1295-1339. "Estimating the Effect of Labor Market Discrimination on First Job Wage Offers", (with K.I. Wolpin), Review of Economics and Statistics 81:3 (1999): 384-392. "A Quantitative Analysis of Swedish Fertility Dynamics: 1751-1990", (with M. Pedro and K. I. Wolpin), Review of Economic Dynamics 2 (1999): 137-165. "Transaction Services, Inflation and Welfare", (with S. R. Aiyagari, T. Braun), Journal of Political Economy 106 (1998): 1274-1301.