John Karl Scholz
Dean of the College of Letters & Science, UW-Madison; formerly Professor of Economics, University of Wisconsin - Madison
John Karl Scholz is the Dean of the College of Letters and Science at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Prior to this he was the Nellie June Gray Professor of Economics and Department Chair at Wisconsin. In 1997-98 he was the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Analysis at the U.S. Treasury Department, and from 1990-91 he was a senior staff economist at the Council of Economic Advisors. Professor Scholz writes on diverse topics including household saving, the earned income tax credit and low-wage labor markets, financial barriers to higher education, and bankruptcy laws. In 2007 Scholz and his colleagues Ananth Seshadri and Surachai Khitatrakun were awarded the twelfth annual TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award for Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security for their paper Are Americans Saving ‘Optimally’ for Retirement. He is coeditor of the American Economic Journal – Economic Policy (though he soon will be giving up the coeditorship) and is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His undergraduate degree is from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota and his Ph.D. is from Stanford University.
Projects
- UM16-06: The Interaction Between Consumption and Health in Retirement
- UM14-03: Long-Run Determinants of Intergenerational Transfers.
- UM13-11: The Assets and Liabilities of Cohorts: The Antecedents of Retirement Security
- UM13-01: Health Insurance and Retirement Decisions
- UM12-09: The Interplay of Wealth, Retirement Decisions, Policy and Economic Shocks
- UM11-12: The Influence of Public Policy on Health, Wealth and Mortality
- UM10-19: New Explorations of Health and Wealth
- UM09-04: What Replacement Rates Should Households Use?
- UM08-01: Are All Americans Saving Adequately for Retirement
- UM07-12: Children and Household Wealth
Publications
- Children and Household Wealth (2007 RRC)
- Health and Wealth In a Lifecycle Model (2013 RRC)
- The Interaction between Consumption and Health in Retirement (Research Brief)
- The Interaction between Consumption and Health in Retirement (Working Paper)
- Long-Run Determinants of Intergenerational Transfers (Research Brief)
- Long-Run Determinants of Intergenerational Transfers (Working Paper)
- Health Insurance and Retirement Decisions (Research Brief)
- The Assets and Liabilities of Cohorts: The Antecedents of Retirement Security (Research Brief)
- Health Insurance and Retirement Decisions (Working Paper)
- The Assets and Liabilities of Cohorts: The Antecedents of Retirement Security (Working Paper)
- Health and Wealth In a Lifecycle Model (Conference Paper)
- The Interplay of Wealth, Retirement Decisions, Policy and Economic Shocks (Research Brief)
- The Interplay of Wealth, Retirement Decisions, Policy and Economic Shocks (Working Paper)
- The Influence of Public Policy on Health, Wealth and Mortality (Working Paper)
- The Influence of Public Policy on Health, Wealth and Mortality (Research Brief)
- Health and Wealth in a Life-Cycle Model (Working Paper)
- Health and Wealth in a Life-Cycle Model (Research Brief)
- What Replacement Rates Should Households Use? (Research Brief)
- What Replacement Rates Should Households Use? (Working Paper)
- Are All Americans Saving 'Optimally' for Retirement? (Research Brief)
- Are All Americans Saving ‘Optimally’ for Retirement? (Working Paper)
- Are All Americans Saving 'Optimally' for Retirement? (Conference Paper)
- Children and Household Wealth (Working Paper)
- Children and Household Wealth (Conference Paper)
Researchers by Institution
- AARP
- Abt Associates
- American University
- Arizona State University
- Australian National University
- Bocconi University
- Boston University
- Brookings Institute
- Brown University
- California State University
- Carleton University
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Center for Retirement Research at Boston College
- Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
- City College of New York (CUNY)
- City University of New York
- Claremont Graduate University
- Columbia University
- Concordia University-Canada
- Copenhagen Business School
- Cornell University
- Dartmouth College
- Duke University
- European Commission
- Federal Reserve Bank of Minneanapolis
- Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
- Federal Reserve Bank-Richmond
- Federal Reserve Bank-San Francisco
- Federal Reserve Board
- Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
- Florida State University
- George Washington University
- Georgetown University
- Goethe University
- Harvard University
- HEC Montréal
- Imperial College London
- Institute for Fiscal Studies
- Ithaca College
- Johns Hopkins University
- Kyoto University
- Louisiana State University
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Mathematica Policy Research
- Max Planck Institute
- Michigan State University
- National Institute on Aging
- National University of Singapore
- New School of Social Research
- New York University
- Occidental College
- Ohio State University
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- Other
- Pennsylvania State University
- Princeton
- Purdue University
- RAND Corporation
- Social Security Administration
- Southern University and A&M College
- Stanford University
- SUNY-Buffalo
- SUNY-Stony Brook
- Syracuse University
- Texas A&M University
- Texas Tech University
- The College of William & Mary
- Tilburg University
- U.S. Census Bureau
- Universidad de Chile
- University College London
- University of Alabama
- University of Arkansas
- University of Bristol
- University of California-Berkeley
- University of California-Davis
- University of California-Irvine
- University of California-Los Angeles
- University of California-San Diego
- University of Cambridge
- University of Chicago
- University of Colorado at Boulder
- University of Colorado Denver
- University of Essex
- University of Frankfort
- University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
- University of Michigan
- University of Minnesota
- University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- University of New Hampshire Institute on Disability
- University of New South Wales
- University of Notre Dame
- University of Oregon
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Pittsburgh
- University of Southern California
- University of Texas
- University of Victoria
- University of Virginia
- University of Washington
- University of Wisconsin – Madison
- Urban Institute
- Vanderbilt University
- Washington University in St. Louis
- Wayne State University
- Wellesley College
- Williams College
- Yale University