Solomon W. Polachek is Distinguished Professor at the State University of New York at Binghamton (Binghamton University) where he has taught since 1983. From 1996-2000 he served as Dean of the Arts and Sciences College. Polachek received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and has held post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Chicago, Stanford, and Princeton. He coauthored The Economics of Earnings (Cambridge University Press) with W. Stanley Siebert, has published over 100 articles and book chapters, and presented seminars and workshops at over 60 universities. In addition, he visited Bar-Ilan University, the Catholic University of Leuven, Erasmus University, Tel Aviv University, the University of Michigan, the NBER, and the Tinbergen Institute for extended stays. Polachek is editor of Research in Labor Economics, on the editorial boards of a number of academic journals, and a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn. In 1997 he received the Daniel Hoffman Teaching Award, in 2005 the State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, and in 2011 the Leading Book Series Editor Award from Emerald Press. He was elected to serve as President of the Peace Science Society during 1999-2000 and President of the Eastern Economic Association 2014-2015. His research spans two main areas. First is the application of life-cycle models to understanding earnings differences across demographic groups, particularly men and women. Second is the integration of economics and political science to explain political conflict and cooperation among nations.