He also works at the Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being a department of the Levy Economics Institute, where he is in charge of their distribution of income and wealth program.
[3] His 1974 PhD dissertation at Yale University was entitled "Models of Production and Exchange in the Works of Adam Smith and David Ricardo".
From 2003 to 2004 Edward Wolff was a visiting scholar with the Russell Sage Foundation.
[5] In a 2010 report by economist Richard Vedder and colleagues, Wolff is described as one of few academic scholars who have spoken out against problems in academia that have led to increasing number of college graduates being underemployed.
[6] Edward Wolff is serving as an Associate Editor of the Structural Change and Economic Dynamics since 1989[7] and in the past held a position of a managing editor of the Review of Income and Wealth.