I am an economist who studies education, skills, inequality, and the future of work. My early career research focused on the long-run impacts of schooling on later life outcomes. I have also written several papers about higher education expansion in the U.S., including “free college” plans.
More recently, I have become interested in how work is changing to place greater emphasis on “soft skills” like teamwork, social perceptiveness, decision-making, and adaptability. My work is data-driven, ranging from secondary analysis of large-scale data to lab and field experiments. You can find non-technical versions of my work by reading Forked Lightning - my Substack newsletter, my columns in the New York Times or other media listed on my research page. Here is a short version of my academic CV.
In 2022, I was awarded the Sherwin Rosen Prize for outstanding contributions to Labor Economics. The prize announcement was published in the Journal of Labor Economics.