Paul Taubman

Paul James Taubman (1939 – 1995)^[1] was an American economist who taught at the University of Pennsylvania. He conducted a prominent twin study on the heritability of income, which was published in 1976.^[2][3] This study has been cited as a pioneering one in the field of genoeconomics.^[4] Subsequently, Arthur Goldberger published a paper critiquing Taubman's study, noting that heritability estimates were highly sensitive to assumptions about the degree of overlap between genetic and environmental variables.^[5] During the 1970s, Taubman also researched the effect of schooling on individual earnings among World War II veterans.^[6]

Biography

Taubman received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He became an assistant professor at Harvard University in 1964, and left Harvard to become a staff member of the Council of Economic Advisers in 1965. He served as an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania from 1966 until 1972, when he was promoted to full professor there.^[7] He was elected a fellow of the Econometric Society in 1977.^[8] He continued to serve as professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania until his death on May 4, 1995.^[9][10]

References

1. Rosenzweig, M. R.; Stark, Oded (1997-05-07). Handbook of Population and Family Economics. Gulf Professional Publishing. p. 560. ISBN 9780444826459.
2. Taubman, Paul (1976). "The Determinants of Earnings: Genetics, Family, and Other Environments: A Study of White Male Twins". The American Economic Review. 66 (5): 858–870. ISSN 0002-8282. JSTOR 1827497.
3. Berkowitz, Edward D.; Santangelo, Mark J.; Medicine, Institute of (1999-08-24). The Medical Follow-up Agency: The First Fifty Years, 1946-1996. National Academies Press. p. 60. ISBN 9780309596954.
4. Neyfakh, Leon (2012-05-13). "In search of the money gene". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 2019-06-18.
5. Conley, Dalton; Fletcher, Jason (2018-11-13). The Genome Factor: What the Social Genomics Revolution Reveals about Ourselves, Our History, and the Future. Princeton University Press. p. 13. ISBN 9780691183169.
6. Passell, Peter (1992-08-19). "Twins Study Shows School Is Sound Investment". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-06-18.
7. Housing in the seventies working papers 1 [and] 2: national housing policy review. Department of Housing and Urban Development. 1976. p. 1598.
8. "In Memoriam". The Econometric Society. Retrieved 2019-06-18.
9. Behrman, Jere R.; Pollak, Robert A.; Taubman, Paul (1995-08-15). From Parent to Child: Intrahousehold Allocations and Intergenerational Relations in the United States. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226041575.
10. "In Memoriam: Paul J. Taubman". Journal of Asian Economics. 6: 152. 1995.