Wilbert van der Klaauw is a Vice President in the Microeconomic Studies Function of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He is a labor economist and applied econometrician whose research interests include the study of life cycle labor supply, household finance, household formation and dissolution, educational investment and productivity, the measurement and analysis of consumer expectations, and econometric approaches to program evaluation. Prior to joining the New York Fed, Dr. van der klaauw was Professor of Economics at UNC-Chapel Hill and Assistant Professor at New York University.

Van er Klaauw received a Candidatum Exam in Econometrics from Erasmus University Rotterdam in 1983, a M.Sc in Economics from Hull University in 1985, an A.M. and a Ph.D. in Economics from Brown University in 1987 and 1992 respectively.