William Wascher

William Wascher
Nationality	American
Academic career
Field	Labor economics
Institution	Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Alma mater	University of Delaware, University of Pennsylvania
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

William Louis Wascher is an American economist and the deputy director of the Division of Research and Statistics in the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.

Education

Wascher graduated with a B.A. in economics and mathematics from the University of Delaware in 1978. He went on to complete his M.A. in 1980 and Ph.D. in 1983 in economics from the University of Pennsylvania.[1]

Professional career

Wascher has been with the Federal Reserve Board of Governors since 1983. In addition, he was a visiting economist with the Bank for International Settlements from 1998 to 1999 and served as a senior staff economist on the Council of Economic Advisers during the administration of George H. W. Bush.[2]

Research

Wascher is known for his research on the economic effects of the minimum wage and aggregate supply,[3] and is the co-author (with David Neumark) of the 2008 book Minimum Wages (MIT Press).[4] Wascher and Neumark have also collaborated on multiple peer-reviewed studies on the employment effects of the minimum wage.[5]

References

1. "The Fed - William L. Wascher".
2. "The Fed - William L. Wascher".
3. "William L. Wascher, AS78". UD Messenger. Retrieved 2017-10-14.
4. "William Wascher Bio" (PDF).
5. Weissmann, Jordan (2013-02-13). "Helpful, Harmful, or Hype? 5 Economists Weigh In on Obama's Minimum-Wage Proposal". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2017-10-14.

External links

• Personal page at the Federal Reserve website
• William Wascher publications indexed by Google Scholar