David Bloom

David Bloom is the Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography at Harvard University and Director of Harvard University’s Program on the Global Demography of Aging (funded by the National Institute of Aging). He received a B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University in 1976, and a Ph.D. in Economics and Demography from Princeton University in 1981. Bloom has worked and taught extensively in the areas of labor, population, and health economics, and published more than 500 articles, book chapters, and books. Bloom is Faculty Research Associate at NBER, Research Associate at IZA, elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Andrew Carnegie Fellow of the Carnegie Corporation of New York.