Ellora Derenoncourt is currently a postdoctoral research associate in the Economics Department at Princeton University. Her research interests are in labor economics, public finance, and economic history. Her work currently focuses on the historical determinants of racial gaps in earnings and upward mobility and firm-level drivers of inequality. She received her Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 2019 and will join the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley as an assistant professor in the Economics Department and the Goldman School of Public Policy.