{{Short description|American economist (1945–2016)}} '''Marshall Hilary Medoff''' (January 8, 1945 in Chicago, Illinois – February 14, 2016) was an American economist who taught at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) and the University of California, Irvine.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?pid=177770660 | title=Marshall H. Medoff Obituary | work=Los Angeles Times | date=18 February 2016 | access-date=4 May 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://sites.uci.edu/emeriti/in-memoriam/ | title=In Memoriam | work=University of California, Irvine | access-date=4 May 2017}}</ref>

==Education and career== Medoff received his B.S. from the Illinois Institute of Technology, his M.S. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1973.<ref>{{cite thesis |last=Medoff |first=Marshall |date=1973 |title= A theoretical and positive analysis of discrimination in the market place|type=Ph.D. |publisher=University of California, Berkeley |url= https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100791002|access-date=4 May 2017}}</ref> He joined the faculty of CSULB in 1973, where he remained until he retired from there in 2012.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://web.csulb.edu/archives/econnewsletter/2012/?pid=128 | title=Medoff Announces Retirement | work=Econ News | date=2012 | access-date=4 May 2017}}</ref>

==Research== Medoff published studies on multiple disparate topics in the field of economics, including abortion restrictions,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://psmag.com/doctored-information-c492fde930d2 | title=Doctored Information | work=Pacific Standard | date=8 October 2009 | access-date=4 May 2017 | author=Hayden, Erik}}</ref> gun control laws, and racial discrimination.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://web.csulb.edu/archives/econnewsletter/2011/?pid=75 | title=Medoff Receives Prestigious University Achievement Honors | work=Econ News | date=2011 | access-date=4 May 2017}}</ref>

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