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.
The Interaction between Consumption and Health in Retirement
2016