David Blau is Professor of Economics and affiliate of the Initiative in Population Research at Ohio State University. He is a labor and population economist with research interests in two main areas: the economics of aging, and the economics of child care and child well being. Blau published his first paper on child care in 1988 and has published many papers on child care and other issues related to children in refereed journals. He organized a conference and edited the resulting conference volume on The Economics of Child Care (1991), co-edited a special issue of The Journal of Human Resources (Winter 1992) on child care, and authored a paper on child care subsidies in a National Bureau of Economic Research volume on means-tested transfers in the U.S. His book, The Child Care Problem: An Economic Analysis, was published in October 2001 by The Russell Sage Foundation. He has presented papers at numerous conferences, forums, and government meetings on child care, and attended the White House conference on child care in 1997. He has been awarded many grants to study child care issues and other issues involving children. 

Expertise: Older Workers/ Aging Workforce, Retirees, Single Parents, Child Care, Phased Retirement, and Dependent Care Tax Assistance