Randall K. Filer

Dr. Randall Filer is a professor of economics at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He also serves as the chair of Hunter’s Senate Budget Committee. He teaches courses in the Principles of Economics, Development Economics (MA), Economic Growth (MA), Labor Economics and Economics of the Arts Sector.

Prior to joining the faculty at Hunter, Dr. Filer served as a visiting professor of economics and senior scholar at CERGE-EI in Prague. He also acted as the Central and Eastern European coordinator of the World-Bank sponsored Global Development Network. Dr. Filer is a current member of the Academic and Governing Boards at the International School of Economics (ISET) in Tbilisi, Georgia and the Scientific Committee of the Croatian National Bank. He is a Research Fellow of IZA (Bonn), CESifo (Munich) and the Manhattan Institute (NYC).

Dr. Filer received his PhD from Princeton University where he was affiliated with the Industrial Relations Section and the Office of Population Research. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the ACE program of the European Union, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Volkswagen Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, among others. Dr. Filer has appeared in leading professional journals, including The American Economic Review, The Journal of Political Economy, The Review of Economics and Statistics, The European Economic Review, The Journal of Development Economics, Economic Development and Cultural Change and The Economics of Transition.

Dr. Filer has twice been a Fulbright Scholar as well as a visiting scholar at the Economics Institute, Zagreb, Croatia. He holds over 25 external research grants and has supervised over 30 PhD dissertations and MA theses.

• Princeton University (PhD)
• Princeton University (MA)
• Haverford College (BA)

• “Male Female Wage Differences: The Importance of Compensating Differentials,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review, April 1985.
• “The Starving Artist: Myth or Reality? Earnings of Artists in the United States,” Journal of Political Economy, February 1986.
• “A Job-Characteristics Theory of Retirement” (with Peter Petri) Review of Economics and Statistics, February 1988.
• “Variation in the Extent of Homelessness Across American Cities: The Importance of Labor and Housing Market Conditions” (with Marjorie Honig) American Economic Review, March 1993.
• “Evaluating the Effect of a Compulsory Sub-Contractor Law on Construction Costs in New York Using Almost Randomized Trials” (with Orley Ashenfelter and David Ashmore) Rand Journal of Economics, Spring 1997.
• “Lange and Hayek Revisited: Lessons from Czech Voucher Privatization” (with Jan Hanousek) Cato Journal, 2002.
• “Research Data from Transition Economies” (with Jan Hanousek) Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2002.
• “The Effect of Firm Financial Condition on Occupational Safety” (with Devra Golbe) Journal of Industrial Economics, 2003.
• “A Rise by Any Other Name: Sensitivity of Growth Regressions to Data Source” (with Jan Hanousek and Dana Hajkova) Journal of Macroeconomics, 2008.
• “Responses of Private and Public Schools to Voucher Funding” (with Daniel Munich) Economics of Education Review, 2013.
• “Tax Reform in Georgia and the Size of the Shadow Economy” (with Karine Torosyan) Economics of Transition, 2014.
• “Effect of Terrorism on Foreign Direct Investment” (with Dragana Staniśić) Review of Development Economics, 2015.
• “Hidden in Plain Sight: Using Household Data to Measure the Shadow Economy” (with Jan Hanousek and Thomas Lichard), Empirical Economics, 2019