EDUCATION
Ph.D., Public Policy, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, June 1999.
Thesis: Essays on the Changing Labor Market: Computerization, Inequality, and the Development of the
Contingent Work Force.
M.A., Public Policy, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, June 1994.
Thesis: Charting the Impacts of the Computer Revolution: New Evidence from the Current Population
Survey.
B.A., Psychology (concentration in Computer Science), Tufts University, Medford, MA, 1989. (Summa
cum Laude. Phi Beta Kappa.)
FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION
Human capital, skill demands, and earnings inequality; Labor market and societal impacts of
technological change and globalization; Disability insurance and labor force participation.
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
2022 – 23 Vice President, American Economic Association
2021 – 22 Visiting Professor, Harvard Kennedy School
2020 – 21 Associate Department Head
2018 – 20 Co-Director, MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future
2017 – Co-Director, NBER Labor Studies Program
2016 – Ford Professor of Economics
2016 – 18 Director, NBER Disability Research Center, funded by the Social Security Administration
2015 – 18 Elected Member, American Economic Association Executive Committee
2014 – 16 Elected Member, Society of Labor Economists Executive Committee
2014 – 18 Associate Department Head, MIT Department of Economics
2014 Faculty Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research (Aging program)
2013 – 14 Visiting Professor of Economics, Harvard University, Department of Economics
2013 Research Affiliate, Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, Cambridge
2012 – 16 Associate Director, NBER Disability Research Center, funded by the Social Security
Administration
2011 Co-Director, MIT School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative (SEII)