Kevin M. Murphy

Economist Kevin M. Murphy is a professor at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution.

In 1997 Murphy was awarded the prestigious John Bates Clark Medal by the American Economic Association, given once every two years to the most outstanding American economist under the age of forty and widely considered to be the second most prestigious prize in economics (after the Nobel Prize in Economics). Murphy was cited for his study of the causes of growing income inequality between white-collar and blue-collar workers in the United States and his research linking the growth in income inequality to growth in the demand for skilled labor.

Murphy has authored over 50 published articles on a variety of topics.

Education: B.A. (economics), University of California, Los Angeles, 1981; Ph.D. (economics, Phi Beta Kappa), University of Chicago, 1986 (thesis: Specialization and Human Capital).

External links

• University of Chicago press release announcing John Bates Clark Medal
• Selected bibliography of articles by Kevin M. Murphy