David Grusky is Edward Ames Edmonds Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, professor of sociology, senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, director of the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, and coeditor of Pathways Magazine. His research addresses the changing structure of late-industrial inequality and addresses such topics as the future of extreme inequality in the United States, recent trends in social mobility, the sources of gender inequality, the role of social classes and social closure in reducing opportunity, new ways to improve the country’s infrastructure for monitoring labor market outcomes, and bold new policies for reducing poverty and increasing mobility. He holds a B.A. from Reed College and an M.S. and Ph.d. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, all in sociology.
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David Howell
David R. Howell is a professor of economics and public policy and directs the doctoral program in public and urban policy at The New School. He is an affiliated member of the New School’s economics department, a faculty research fellow at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (The New School), and a research scholar at the Political Economy Research Institute (University of Massachusetts Amherst). His research focuses on institutions and labor market outcomes.
David Autor
David Autor is the Ford Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is co-director of the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Labor Studies Program and co-leader of both the MIT Work of the Future Task Force and the MIT J-PAL Work of the Future experimental initiative. His scholarship explores the labor market impacts of technological change and globalization on job polarization, skill demands, earnings levels and inequality, and electoral outcomes. Autor has received numerous awards for both his scholarship—the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, the Sherwin Rosen Prize for outstanding contributions to the field of Labor Economics, and the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship just last year—and for his teaching, including the MIT MacVicar Faculty Fellowship. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. in public policy from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and his B.A. in psychology from Tufts University.
David Dorn
David Dorn is professor of international trade and labor markets at the University of Zurich and affiliated professor at the UBS Center of Economics in Society. He was previously a tenured associate professor at the Center for Monetary and Financial Studies in Madrid, a visiting professor at Harvard University, and a visiting scholar at Boston University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Chicago. His research connects the fields of labor economics, international trade, economic geography, and macroeconomics. In particular, he studies how globalization and technology affect labor markets. Dorn is a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London, the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, and the Center for Economic Studies/ifo Institute (CESifo) in Munich. He is a member of the editorial board of the Review of Economic Studies and an associate editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association. He is also the recipient of an European Research Council-level Starting Grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation. Dorn received his Ph.D. in economics and his M.Sc. in economics and international management from University of St. Gallen.
Danny Yagan
Danny Yagan is chief economist at the Office of Management and Budget. During his government service, he will be on leave from his positions as assistant professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, faculty research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research, faculty associate of the Berkeley Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance, and faculty co-director of the Taxation and Inequality Initiative of the Berkeley Opportunity Lab. In 2018, Yagan was awarded a Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship in recognition of early-career achievement. In addition to receiving a grant from Equitable Growth, his work has been supported by the Sloan Foundation, Arnold Foundation, and centers at the University of California, Berkeley, Harvard University, Rutgers University, and the University of California, Davis. He holds a B.A. and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.
Darrick Hamilton
Darrick Hamilton is the Henry Cohen Professor of Economics and Urban Policy at The New School. He is also the founding director of the Institute on Race, Power, and Political Economy at The New School. Prior, he was the executive director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State University. Hamilton is a pioneer and internationally recognized scholar whose work fuses social science methods to examine the causes, consequences, and remedies of racial, gender, ethnic, tribal, and nativity inequality in education, economic, and health outcomes. This work involves crafting and implementing innovative routes and policies that break down social hierarchy, empower people, and move society toward greater equity, inclusion, and civic participation. He is a graduate of Oberlin College and earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He has authored numerous scholarly articles on socioeconomic stratification in education, marriage, wealth, homeownership, health (including mental health), and labor market outcomes. His op-eds have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Atlanta Journal Constitution, The American Prospect, the Christian Science Monitor, Dissent Magazine, and The Huffington Post.
Daniel Schneider
Daniel Schneider is a professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He was previously a faculty member in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation postdoctoral scholar in health policy research at UC-Berkeley and UC-San Francisco. His research interests are focused on social demography, inequality, and the family. He has written on class inequality in parenting, the role of economic resources in marriage, divorce, and fertility, the effects of the Great Recession, and the scope of household financial fragility. As co-director of The Shift Project at the Malcom Wiener Center for Social Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, his current research focuses on how precarious and unpredictable work schedules affects household economic security and worker and family health and wellbeing. He completed his B.A. in public policy at Brown University in 2003 and earned his Ph.D. in sociology and social policy from Princeton University in 2012.
Daniel Tannenbaum
Daniel Tannenbaum is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His research interests are labor and public economics. Prior to his position at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, he was a postdoctoral scholar at the Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics at the University of Chicago. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago in 2014, and received a B.A. in economics and mathematics from Columbia University.
Daniel Carpenter
Daniel Carpenter, who directs the social sciences program at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Stud, is the Allie S. Freed Professor of Government in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. He combines theoretical, historical, statistical, and mathematical analyses to examine the development of political institutions, particularly in the United States, focusing on public bureaucracies and government regulation—particularly the regulation of health and financial products. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago and his A.B. in honors government from Georgetown University.
Christopher Ruhm
Christopher J. Ruhm is professor of public policy and economics at the University of Virginia. He previously held faculty positions at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro and Boston University. In 1996–1997, he served as senior economist on President Bill Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers with main responsibilities in the areas of health policy and aging. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor, or IZA, in Bonn, Germany. Ruhm’s recent research has focused on the role of government policies in helping parents with young children balance the competing needs of work and family life and on examining how various aspects of health are produced. Ruhm is currently an associate editor of the Journal of Health Economics and Southern Economic Journal, on the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Health Economics, Economics Letters, and the Journal of Labor Research, on the Board of Directors of the American Society of Health Economists, a Steering Committee member of the Southeastern Health Economics Study Group, and is a past president of the Southern Economic Association. His Ph.D. in economics is from the University of California, Berkeley.