Saul D. Hoffman
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Saul D. Hoffman is Professor of Economics and Department Chair at the University of Delaware, where he has taught since 1977. He is also a Core Faculty Associate, Program in Women's Studies, University of Delaware and a Research Associate at the Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania.
With co-author Susan Averett (Lafayette College), he is the author of Women and the Economy: Family, Work, and Pay, published by Addison Wesley, 2005; a second edition is forthcoming, January, 2009. With UD colleague Larry Seidman, he is the author of Helping Working Families: The Earned Income Tax Credit, published by the Upjohn Institute Press, 2003. The book is a major extension of their 1990 book on the EITC, The Earned Income Tax Credit: Anti-Poverty Effectiveness and Labor Market Impacts, also published by Upjohn. Most recently, he is the author of By the Numbers: The Public Costs of Teen Childbearing, published by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, October, 2006 and co-editor of Kids Having Kids (Revised Edition) to be published by the Urban Institute in 2008.
He has published extensively on the relationship between economic forces and demographic behavior, including research on the economic consequences of divorce and of teen and non-marital childbearing and also on the impact of the welfare system on family structure. He is also the author of "Welfare: A Special Report" in the 1995 World Book Year Book. He serves on the Research Advisory Task Force of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy.
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