UPDATED: Frictions in Earnings Adjustment Among the Near-Poor Elderly: Evidence from the Social Security Earnings Test
Alex Gelber, Assistant Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Alexander Gelber is an assistant professor in the Business Economics and Public Policy Department at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. During 2012-2013, he is on temporary leave from these positions to serve as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy at the U.S. Treasury Department, where his portfolio covers microeconomic issues.
His research concerns the economic effects of public sector programs and has been published in leading academic journals, including the Review of Economic Studies, the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, the Review of Economics and Statistics, and the New England Journal of Medicine. Prior to joining the Wharton faculty, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Lecturer in the Harvard University Economics Department. He graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University in 2003 with a B.A. in economics, and he received a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 2008.
