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Peter Gottschalk

Peter Gottschalk

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
49
Citations
14593
World Ranking
1420
National Ranking
863

Overview

Peter Gottschalk was affiliated with Boston College in the United States during their research career. Their academic work broadly contributed to the field of Social Sciences, with publications crossing various subfields such as Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science, Visual Arts and Performing Arts, and Law.

Their research topics included labor market dynamics and wage inequality, gender, labor, and family dynamics, income, poverty, and inequality, South Asian cinema and culture, as well as environmental law and policy.

Among their recent papers were:

  • "A MOST MODERN SUBJECT: THE DISCIPLINE OF HISTORY AND THE FASHIONING OF NATIONALIST AND OTHER MODERN SUBJECTIVITIES," published in 2020 in History and Theory
  • "Foundations of Comparison," published in 2020 in Fieldwork in Religion
  • "Family Income Dynamics 1970-2018: Putting the Pieces Together," published in 2024 in Journal of Labor Economics

Throughout their career, Gottschalk frequently collaborated with other researchers such as Ji-Liang Shiu and Sisi Zhang.

They published in several academic venues, including:

  • Journal of Labor Economics
  • History and Theory
  • Fieldwork in Religion

Best Publications

  • An Analysis of Sample Attrition in Panel Data: The Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics

    John Fitzgerald;Peter Gottschalk;Robert Moffitt

  • Cross-National Comparisons of Earnings and Income Inequality

    Peter Gottschalk;Timothy M. Smeeding

  • Inequality, Income Growth, and Mobility: The Basic Facts

    Peter Gottschalk

  • The Growth of Earnings Instability in the U.S. Labor Market

    Peter Gottschalk;Robert Moffitt;Lawrence F. Katz;William T. Dickens

  • Empirical evidence on income inequality in industrialized countries

    Peter Thomas Gottschalk;Timothy Michael Smeeding

  • Some Evidence on the Importance of Sticky Wages

    Alessandro Barattieri;Susanto Basu;Peter Gottschalk

  • Equity in the finance of health care: some international comparisons.

    Adam Wagstaff;Eddy van Doorslaer

  • TRENDS IN THE TRANSITORY VARIANCE OF EARNINGS IN THE UNITED STATES

    Robert A. Moffitt;Peter Gottschalk

  • Uneven Tides: Rising Inequality in America

    Sheldon H. Danziger;Peter Gottschalk

  • INEQUALITY OF WAGE RATES, EARNINGS AND FAMILY INCOME IN THE UNITED STATES, 1975–2002†

    Peter Gottschalk;Sheldon Danziger

  • An Analysis of the Impact of Sample Attrition on the Second Generation of Respondents in the Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics

    Peter Gottschalk;John Fitzgerald;Robert Moffitt

  • The Rising Instability of U.S. Earnings

    Peter Gottschalk;Robert Moffitt

  • On the Evaluation of Economic Mobility

    Peter Gottschalk;Enrico Spolaore

  • Equity in the delivery of health care: some international comparisons.

    Eddy van Doorslaer;Adam Wagstaff

  • Changes in Job Instability and Insecurity Using Monthly Survey Data

    Peter Gottschalk;Robert Moffitt

  • Cross-National Differences in the Rise in Earnings Inequality: Market and Institutional Factors

    Peter Gottschalk;Mary Joyce

  • Working wives and family income inequality among married couples.

    Cancian M;Danziger S;Gottschalk P

  • Downward Nominal-Wage Flexibility: Real or Measurement Error?

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  • Earnings Inequality among Males in the United States: Trends and the Effect of Labor Force Growth

    Martin D. Dooley;Peter Gottschalk

  • Chapter 5 Empirical evidence on income inequality in industrialized countries

    Peter Gottschalk;Timothy M. Smeeding

  • The Measurement of Poverty: Implications for Antipoverty Policy

    Sheldon Danziger;Peter Gottschalk

  • Uneven Tides: Rising Inequality in America.

    John Bound;Sheldon Danziger;Peter Gottschalk

Frequent Co-Authors

Sheldon Danziger
Sheldon Danziger University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Robert A. Moffitt
Robert A. Moffitt Johns Hopkins University
Timothy M. Smeeding
Timothy M. Smeeding University of Wisconsin–Madison
Susanto Basu
Susanto Basu Boston College
Richard B. Freeman
Richard B. Freeman Harvard University
Björn Gustafsson
Björn Gustafsson University of Gothenburg
Philip J. Cook
Philip J. Cook Duke University
John Engberg
John Engberg RAND Corporation
Frank D. Bean
Frank D. Bean University of California, Irvine
Douglas A. Wolf
Douglas A. Wolf Syracuse University

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