David Weiman
Affiliation
- Faculty Fellow, Department of Economics, Barnard College
Research
David Weiman is Alena Wels Hirschorn Professor of Economics at Barnard College and Member of the History Graduate Faculty, Columbia University. He is also Senior Research Associate of the Community College Research Center, Teachers College. An economic historian by training, his current research in this area focuses on the historical evolution and regulation of payments system and telecommunications networks and on the historical evolution of metropolitan centers as nodes in communications and financial networks. With co-author John James (Virginia), he is working on From the Second Bank to the Federal Reserve, which analyzes the transformation of the U.S. payments system in the absence of a central bank and explains the origins of the Fed from the perspective of the payments system. He is also researching the systemic limits to financial development in U.S. south after the Civil War.
Before coming to Barnard, Weiman was a Senior Program Officer at the Russell Sage Foundation, where he was primarily responsible for its Future of Work program and a new initiative on the education of low-skilled workers. Weiman still coordinates the Foundation's working group on the economic and social impacts of mass incarceration and is helping to launch a new initiative on education and training for mid-level jobs with a focus on community colleges. With Mary Patillo and Bruce Western, he is editing a volume for Russell Sage on the impacts of incarceration on families and communities. He is also coordinating the research on the next volume in this series, which will focus on the impacts of incarceration on individual labor market outcomes.
Selected Work
- "The Role of the Fed in the Payments System: Historical and Comparative Perspectives" John James and David Weiman
- "Building Universal Service? in the Early Bell System: The Co-Evolution of Regional Urban Systems and Long Distance Telephone Networks" David Weiman, in William Sundstrom et al, eds., History Matters: Essays on Economic Growth, Technology, and Demographic Change. Stanford University Press, forthcoming
- "The Labor Market Consequences of Incarceration" Bruce Western, Jeffrey Kling, and David Weiman, Crime and Delinquency, Vol. 46, No.2. July 2002
- "Metropolitan Development, Regional Banking Centers, and the Founding of the Fed in the Lower South, 1860 to 1920" Kerry Odell and David Weiman, Journal of Economic History, Vol. 58, No. 1. March 1998
