Benjamin Schoefer

Benjamin Schoefer is an associate professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley and a nonresident scholar at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. His research covers macroeconomics and labor economics.

In much of his work, he uses microeconomic data and quasi-experimental variation generated by economic policies to study macroeconomic theories of wage determination and employment adjustment. He holds B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University.