Frank Heiland
Associate Professor, Baruch College, City College of New York (CUNY)
Frank Heiland’s research focuses on labor, health, and demographic economics and he has worked on a wide range of topics: retirement, housing wealth, obesity, child wellbeing, fertility preferences, and migration. He has published on the effects of the early retirement rules of the US Social Security system on labor supply and benefit claiming behavior, the social dynamics of obesity, the effects of fertility and parental relationship status on child wellbeing, and on the determinants of East-West German migration after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.