David H. Autor is a Ford Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His scholarship explores the labor market impacts of technological change and globalization on earning levels, electoral outcomes, inequality, job polarization, and skill demand. Autor is the co-director of the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Labor Studies Program, co-director of the MIT School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative, and scientific advisor to the NBER Disability Research Center. He has received numerous awards for his academic work—the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, the Sherwin Rosen Prize for outstanding contributions in the field of labor economics, and an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship—and for his teaching, including the MIT MacVicar Faculty Fellowship. In 2017, Bloomberg recognized Autor as one of the 50 people who defined global business that year. In March of 2019, during a segment on John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight exploring automation and employment, Autor appeared as a “twerpy MIT economist” and is currently figuring out to how merchandise this title. He earned a BA in psychology from Tufts University and a PhD in public policy from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Benjamin K. Couillard joined the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston in January 2017, and works as a senior research assistant with Christopher L. Foote. Couillard’s scholarly interests center on the digital economy, with a particular emphasis on how recent technological innovations and market institutions influence the spatial organization of economic activity. He also concentrates on solving research questions in economics that require the application of significant computational methodologies. Prior to joining the Boston Fed, Couillard was a teaching assistant and a research assistant at the University of Toronto. He plans to apply to PhD programs in economics for the 2020–2021 academic year. Couillard earned a BA in economics and public policy and an MA in economics from the University of Toronto.
Gilles Duranton is the Dean’s Chair in Real Estate Professor and the head of the real estate department at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, which he joined in 2012. Duranton’s current research focuses on land use and urban growth in emerging cities, the measurement of urban transportation and congestion, land development, and the geography of innovation and technology. His other research interest is evaluating the effects of infrastructure and place-based policies. Duranton frequently consults on regional and urban policy for national governments and international organizations. Before joining Wharton, Duranton taught at the University of Toronto and at the London School of Economics. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a co-editor for the Journal of Urban Economics, and a member of the editorial board for several other academic journals. He recently served as the 2016–2017 president of the Urban Economics Association. Duranton has degrees from HEC Paris and Sorbonne University, and he obtained a PhD in economics from the London School of Economics and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
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Richard Florida is a University Professor at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management; in 2018 he became the first Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the University of Toronto’s newly created School of Cities. One of the world’s leading urbanists, Florida has written several global bestsellers, including The Rise of the Creative Class (2002) and The New Urban Crisis (2017). He serves as a senior editor for The Atlantic, where he is a co-founder and editor-at-large of CityLab. Florida founded the Creative Class Group, a global advisory firm that works closely with companies and governments worldwide. A 2013 MIT study named him the world’s most influential thought leader. Florida holds several non-tenured positions: he has been a Distinguished Fellow at New York University’s Schack Institute of Real Estate since 2012, a visiting fellow at Florida International University’s Miami Urban Future Initiative since 2014, and in 2018 he was the inaugural recipient of the Philadelphia Fellowship, created as a collaboration between Drexel University, Thomas Jefferson University, and the University City Science Center. Before joining the University of Toronto in 2007, Florida taught at Carnegie Mellon University, George Mason University, and Ohio State University. He earned a BA in political science from Rutgers College and a PhD in urban planning from Columbia University.
Christopher L. Foote is a senior economist and policy advisor in the research department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, which he joined in October 2003. His research and policy interests include the labor market and housing. Foote also teaches intermediate macroeconomics in Harvard University’s department of economics, where he was named a professor of the practice in 2012. From 1996 to 2002, Foote was an assistant and then an associate professor in Harvard’s economics department, where he served as the director of undergraduate studies from 1998 to 2001. In July of 2002, Foote accepted a position as senior staff economist with the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), and then became the CEA’s acting chief economist in February 2003. From May to September 2003, Foote served as an economic advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad, returning briefly to Iraq in early 2004. Foote has a BA from the College of William and Mary and a PhD in economics from the University of Michigan.
Davide Furceri is the deputy chief of the development macroeconomics division in the research department at the International Monetary Fund. He has published extensively on a wide range of topics in macroeconomics, public finance, international economics, and structural reforms. Along with his IMF colleague Prakash Loungani, Furceri has ongoing work comparing migration patterns in the United States and Europe. He joined the IMF as an economist in 2011, was promoted to senior economist in 2016, and then to his current position in May of 2019. From 2008 to 2011, Furceri was an economist at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, where he worked in the office of the chief economist and in the macroeconomic analysis division. He was an economist in the fiscal policy division at the European Central Bank from 2007 to August 2008. As of 2019, he is ranked in the top 1 percent of economists in the world, based on his publication record over the last ten years. Furceri earned a laurea in statistics and economics from the University of Palermo, an MA in economics from the Consortium for Research and Continuing Education in Economics (Torino), a doctoral degree in economic analysis and territorial development from the University of Palermo, and an MA and a PhD in economics from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Edward L. Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard University, which he joined in 1992. Glaeser regularly teaches microeconomic theory and occasionally teaches urban and public economics. He has published dozens of papers on cities, economic growth, and law and economics. In particular, his research has focused on the determinants of city growth and the role that cities play as centers of idea transmission. The books that Glaeser has authored on these topics include Cities, Agglomeration, and Spatial Equilibrium (2008), Rethinking Federal Housing Policy (2008), and Triumph of the City (2011); he has also served as a co-author or co-editor for many other volumes. Glaeser was inducted by the American Academy of Political and Social Science as the 2018 Herbert Simon Fellow. From 2004 to 2014, he served as the director of two initiatives administered by Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government: the Taubman Center for State and Local Government and the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston. From 2007 to 2018, Glaeser was a member of the advisory panel for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s United States Program. He received an AB in economics from Princeton University and his PhD in economics from the University of Chicago.
Carol Graham is the Leo Pasvolsky Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, where she is the research director for the global economy and development program. In addition, Graham is a College Park Professor at the University of Maryland and a senior scientist at Gallup. She specializes in developing economies, inequality, Latin America, market reforms, poverty, and subjective well-being. Graham has authored numerous journal articles and books, most recently Happiness for All? Unequal Hopes and Lives in Pursuit of the American Dream (2017) and The Pursuit of Happiness: Toward an Economy of Well-Being (2011). Her work has been reviewed in publications such as Science, the New Yorker, the Financial Times, and the New York Review of Books. One of the first economists to explore happiness, well-being, and quality-of-life, Graham received the 2018 Distinguished Researcher Award from the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies. In 2017, she received a Pioneer Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Graham has served as a vice president at Brookings, as a special advisor to the vice president of the Inter-American Development Bank, and as a visiting fellow in the Office of the Chief Economist of the World Bank. She has consulted for the International Monetary Fund and the Harvard Institute for International Development. Graham holds an AB from Princeton University, an MA from Johns Hopkins University, and a DPhil from Oxford University.
Jonathan Gruber is a Ford Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he serves as the associate head of the economics department. Gruber also is the director of the Health Care Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He specializes in public economics and studies a range of government-provided insurance programs, with a focus on health issues. Gruber has published more than 175 research articles, has edited six research volumes, and is the author of Public Finance and Public Policy (5th edition, 2016), a leading undergraduate textbook, and Health Care Reform: What It Is, Why It’s Necessary, How It Works (2012), a graphically illustrated book about the Affordable Care Act. His most recent book, co-authored with Simon Johnson, is titled Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream (2019). From 2003 to 2006, he was a key architect of Massachusetts’s ambitious effort to reform how it delivers health care, and in 2006 he was an inaugural member of the Health Connector Board which implemented this effort. In 2009 and 2010 Gruber served as a technical consultant to the Obama Administration and worked with Congress to help craft the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Econometric Society, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Academy of Social Insurance. Gruber earned a BS in economics from MIT and a PhD in economics from Harvard University.
Matthew E. Kahn is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Economics and Business at Johns Hopkins University, where he also serves as the director of the 21st Century Cities Initiative. Kahn specializes in environmental and urban economics, and holds positions as a non-resident scholar at the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Urban Research and at the Urbanization Project, sponsored by New York University’s Stern School of Business. He also is a research associate at the National Bureau for Economic Research and a research fellow at IZA. Besides having authored more than 90 journal articles, Kahn has written six books: An Introduction to Empirical Microeconomics (2017), Blue Skies over Beijing: Economic Growth and the Environment in China (2016, co-authored with Siqi Zheng), Fundamentals of Environmental and Urban Economics (2016), Climatopolis: How Our Cities Will Thrive in the Hotter Future (2010), Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War (2009, co-authored with Dora L. Costa), and Green Cities: Urban Growth and the Environment (2006). Before starting at his current position in July 2019, Kahn was a professor at the University of Southern California (2016–2019) and at the University of California, Los Angeles (2006–2016). He has also taught at Columbia, Harvard, Stanford, and Tufts. Kahn earned a BA in economics from Hamilton College, a GC in economic history from the London School of Economics, and a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago.
Lawrence F. Katz is the Elisabeth Allison Professor of Economics at Harvard University. His wide-ranging research in labor economics and the economics of social problems has explored trends in wage inequality; educational wage differentials and the labor market returns to education; the impact of globalization and technological change on the labor market; the economics of immigration, unemployment, and unemployment insurance; regional labor markets; the problems of low-income neighborhoods; and the social and economic consequences of the birth control pill. Katz is the co-scientific director of J-PAL [Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab] North America, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and one of the four main editors of the Quarterly Journal of Economics. He is leading the long-term assessment of the Moving to Opportunity program, a randomized housing mobility experiment, begun in the mid-1990s, to learn if relocating from a high-poverty neighborhood to a lower-poverty community improves the social and economic prospects of low-income families. Along with Claudia Goldin, Katz wrote The Race between Education and Technology (2008), a history of US economic inequality and how technological change and the pace of educational advancement affect the wage structure. In 1993 and 1994, Katz served as the chief economist for the US Department of Labor. He has an AB in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Paul Krugman is a Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center, where he is a fellow at the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality. Krugman is the author or co-author of many academic papers and numerous books aimed at both professional and general audiences, including Market Structure and Foreign Trade (1985, co-authored with Elhanan Helpman), Geography and Trade (1991), The Return of Depression Economics (1999), and The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 (2008). In recognition of his work on international trade and economic geography, Krugman received the American Economic Association’s John Bates Clark Medal in 1991, the Prince of Asturias award for social science in 2004, and the 2008 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Before joining the CUNY Graduate Center, he held teaching positions at Stanford University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Princeton University. Krugman is best known to the general public as an op-ed columnist for the New York Times,which also hosts his blog, The Conscience of a Liberal, ranked first of the 25 Best Financial Blogs by Time magazine in 2011. He has 4.5 million Twitter followers. Krugman earned an AB in economics from Yale College and a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
László J. Kulcsár is a professor of rural sociology and demography at the Pennsylvania State University, where he heads the department of agricultural economics, sociology, and education. Kulcsár’s field of expertise is social demography, with an emphasis on migration, urbanization, aging, and regional development. His research on population dynamics and community development in rural areas focuses on aging, depopulation, and the use of natural resources. Kulcsár has published numerous papers, contributed chapters to and/or edited many books, and he currently serves as the editor of Rural Sociology. Before joining Penn State in August 2017, Kulcsár was a faculty member at Kansas State University from 2005 through July 2017, teaching in the department of sociology, anthropology, and social work. He served as the director of graduate studies from 2012 to 2015, and then as the department chair from 2015 to 2017. Prior to embarking on his academic career, Kulcsár consulted for the European Union on various rural development projects and worked in the public opinion polling industry in Hungary. Kulcsár has an MA in public administration from the College of Public Administration and an MA in sociology from Eötvös Loránd University (both institutions are located in Budapest), while he earned a PhD in development sociology from Cornell University.
Raven Saks Molloy is the chief of the real estate finance section, division of research and statistics, at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, where she also serves as an assistant director. Her primary research fields are housing, urban economics, and labor economics. Molloy has written on topics such as housing supply regulation, foreclosure, vacancy, mortgage credit availability, migration, and executive compensation. Her current policy responsibilities pertain to residential and commercial mortgage credit conditions, real estate prices, and housing markets. Molloy joined the Federal Reserve Board as an economist in 2005, was promoted to senior economist in 2010, and then assumed her current post in 2014. She serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Housing Economics, the Journal of Urban Economics, and Regional Science and Urban Economics. Molloy received a BA in economics and Asian studies from the University of Virginia and an MA and a PhD in economics from Harvard University.
David Neumark is a Distinguished Professor in the department of economics at the University of California, Irvine, where he also serves as the director of the Economic Self-Sufficiency Policy Research Institute (ESSPRI). Throughout his career, Neumark has made significant scholarly contributions in labor economics that intersect with important public policy issues. His early work on wage equation decompositions better tied these measurement methods to underlying models of discrimination. Later he developed methods of using matched employer-employee data to test for discrimination, and authored numerous studies on the measurement of age discrimination in labor markets and tests of alternative models of the age-earnings profile. As one of the original contributors to the “new minimum wage research,” Neumark helped pioneer the use of state-level minimum wage variation to estimate minimum wage effects. His current research, part of his work at ESSPRI, examines the long-run effects of alternative anti-poverty policies on earnings, income, and public assistance (broadly defined as “economic self-sufficiency”). Much of this ongoing work focuses on the effectiveness of policy interventions directed at disadvantaged neighborhoods, such as enterprise zones and other types of tax credit programs. Neumark has a BA in economics from the University of Pennsylvania, and he earned an MA and a PhD in economics from Harvard University.
Sérgio Pinto is a doctoral candidate at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy and expects to finish his PhD in 2020. Pinto’s research interests span subjective well-being, the impact of labor market reforms, and social mobility. This work explores the effects that public policies and institutional features, such as the minimum wage and unionization rates, have on a wide range of worker and firm-level outcomes. In collaboration with Carol Graham, Pinto has analyzed race and income-based heterogeneities in markers of subjective well-being and traced how these markers map into premature mortality trends, how well-being can matter for policy, and the unhappiness and ill-being of prime-age men who drop out of the labor force. The results of these studies have been published in academic journals such as Science, the Journal of Population Economics, and IZA World of Labor. Prior to entering the doctoral program at Maryland, Pinto worked for the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. Pinto earned a BA in business administration and an MSc in economics from Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics, and he holds an MPP from the University of Maryland.
Eric S. Rosengren is the president and the chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, a post he assumed in 2007, and is a 2019 voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee. Rosengren has led the Boston Fed’s efforts to expand its outreach to low- and moderate-income communities. One current initiative is a competition for postindustrial New England cities to develop cross-sector collaboration with other local stakeholders—with the ultimate goal of helping to improve the lives of lower-income residents. An earlier effort involved sponsoring sizable foreclosure-prevention workshops during the Great Recession. Rosengren’s work as an economist concentrates on the link between financial stability and the real economy; he has published extensively on macroeconomics, international banking, bank supervision, and risk management. Rosengren joined the Bank in 1985 as an economist in the research department, was promoted to assistant vice president in 1989, and to vice president in 1991, when he also became head of the department’s banking and monetary policy section. In 2000, Rosengren was named senior vice president and head of the department of supervision, regulation, and credit; in 2003 he was given the additional title of chief discount officer; and in 2005 he became an executive vice president. While in the bank supervision function, Rosengren was active in domestic and international regulatory policy. He currently chairs the board of trustees at Colby College. Rosengren earned a BA in economics from Colby College and an MS and a PhD in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Katheryn N. Russ is an associate professor of economics at the University of California, Davis, where she has taught since 2004. Her research focus is on the macroeconomic outcomes that arise from international trade and investment. From July 2015 through December 2016, Russ was a member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, where she served as the senior economist for international trade and finance. Russ is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas’s Institute for Globalization and Monetary Policy, and she is a visiting research professor at the Halle Institute for Economic Research in Germany. She has previously served as a visiting scholar at the Banque de France, the Deutsche Bundesbank, and at the Federal Reserve Banks of Saint Louis and San Francisco. In 2010, Russ received the Thomas Mayer Award for Distinguished Teaching in Economics at the University of California, Davis. After earning her master’s degree, she spent two years working for the Peace Corps before starting her doctoral studies. Russ has a BA in economics from the College of William and Mary, an MS in agricultural and applied economics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and a PhD in economics from Johns Hopkins University.
Amy Ellen Schwartz is a professor of economics, public administration, and international affairs in the department of economics at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, where she also holds the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Chair in Public Affairs and is a senior research associate at the Center for Policy Research. Schwartz’s scholarship broadly focuses on education policy and urban economics, particularly on the nexus of schools, neighborhoods, and public services. Her current projects include a study of the role that transportation plays on school choice, commuting, and student outcomes that uses unique microdata on New York City public school children; an examination of the impact that housing vouchers have on school success and academic outcomes; a study of how neighborhood crime shapes student success and the link between the retail and built environment on children’s success; and an investigation of school food and special education programs. Her past research has considered infrastructure investment, school finance, school reform, and the causes of and solutions to educational inequality. Before joining the Maxwell School in 2014, Schwartz was a professor of public policy, education, and economics at New York University, where she also served as the director of the Institute for Education and Social Policy from 2006 to 2015. She earned a BS with distinction in applied economics from Cornell University, and an MA, MPhil, and a PhD in economics from Columbia University.
Jay C. Shambaugh is the director of the Hamilton Project and a senior fellow in the economic studies program at the Brookings Institution. He is also a professor of economics and international affairs at George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Schambaugh is a specialist in international economics and macroeconomics who has analyzed how exchange rate regimes interact with monetary policy, capital and trade flows, international reserves, country balance sheet exchange rate exposure, the eurozone crisis, the cross-country impact of fiscal policy, and regional inequality and responses to shocks in the United States. He is the author of Exchange Rate Regimes in the Modern Era (2009). Shambaugh served two stints in public service, both with the White House Council of Economic Advisers. Most recently, he was a member of the Council from August 2015 to January 2017. He served as the senior economist for international economics from 2009 to 2010 and as chief economist from 2010 to 2011. Shambaugh has an AB in ethics, politics, and economics from Yale College; an MALD in international economics and international political economy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University; and a PhD in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
Jonathan S. Skinner is a James O. Freedman Presidential Professor in the department of economics at Dartmouth College and a professor at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine, where he works in the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. Skinner’s research interests include the economics of government transfer programs, technology growth and disparities in health care, and the savings behavior of aging baby boomers. His numerous scholarly publications are equally balanced between articles in economics journals and articles in medical journals. Skinner is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, where he directs the Aging Program. He also is a member of the National Academy of Medicine. Before joining Dartmouth in 1995, he taught at the University of Virginia (1981–1995) and held visiting professorships at the University of Washington (1987), Stanford University (1989), and Harvard University (1992–1993). Skinner received a BA in political science and economics from the University of Rochester, and an MA and a PhD in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Christopher L. Smith is a principal economist in the labor markets section, division of research and statistics, at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. With his frequent co-authors, Raven Saks Molloy (Federal Reserve Board) and Abigail Wozniak (director of the Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute, housed at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis), Smith has written extensively about the potential causes and consequences of the multi-decade decline in internal migration within the United States. His research interests also include the decline in labor market dynamism and trends in labor force participation, particularly the long-run decline in labor force attachment for younger adults. Smith joined the Federal Reserve Board in 2008 as an economist, was promoted to senior economist in 2013, and to principal economist in 2015. He received a BS in industrial and labor relations from Cornell University and earned a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Betsey Stevenson is a tenured associate professor of public policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and has a courtesy appointment in the University of Michigan’s department of economics. A labor economist, Stevenson focuses on the impact that public policies have on outcomes both in the labor market and for families as they adjust to changing labor market opportunities. Her research explores women’s labor market experiences, the economic forces shaping the modern family, and the potential value of subjective well-being data for public policy. From 2013 to 2015, Stevenson was a member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, and from 2010 to 2011 she served as the chief economist at the US Department of Labor. From 2004 to 2012, Stevenson was an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where she taught in the business and public policy department at the Wharton School. Stevenson is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research and at CESifo. She serves on the board of directors of the American Law and Economics Association, and she is a visiting associate professor at the University of Sydney. She earned a BA in economics from Wellesley College and an MA and a PhD in economics from Harvard University.
Lawrence H. Summers is the Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus at Harvard University. He directs the Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government. When he was 28 years old, Summers became one of the youngest full professors in Harvard’s recent history. In 1987, he was the first social scientist to receive the National Science Foundation’s annual Alan T. Waterman Award for scientific achievement, and in 1993 he was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal, given every two years to the outstanding US economist under the age of 40. While serving in various senior policy positions, Summers made key contributions to addressing every major financial crisis that has occurred over the last two decades. These roles include serving as the World Bank’s chief economist and vice president of development economics from 1991 to 1993; successive posts at the US Department of the Treasury from 1993 to 2001, including as the 71st US Secretary of the Treasury from 1999 to 2001; and serving as director of the National Economic Council from 2008 to 2010. Summers received an SB from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a PhD in economics from Harvard University.
Jeffrey P. Thompson is a senior economist and policy advisor in the research department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, where he serves as the director of the New England Public Policy Center. Thompson’s research broadly focuses on applied microeconomics, including household finance; income, wealth, and consumption inequality; labor economics; public economics; regional economics; and state and local taxation. Before starting his current position at the Boston Fed in May of 2018, Thompson worked at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in the microeconomic surveys section, first as an economist from 2012 to 2015, then as a principal economist from 2015 to 2018. Prior to joining the Federal Reserve System, Thompson was an assistant research professor at the Political Economy Research Institute, an independent unit of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He earned a BA in political science, with a minor in economics, from Lewis & Clark College and a PhD in economics from Syracuse University.
Sarah E. Turner teaches at the University of Virginia, where she has been the University Professor of Economics and Education since 1998. She was named the Souder Family Endowed Chair in 2014. Turner’s research focus is on the economics of higher education, with an emphasis on college choice and the impact that receiving financial aid has on collegiate outcomes. She is collaborating with John Bound on a current project (supported by the Russell Sage Foundation) that is using US Census data to analyze the mobility of college-educated workers. Her research also examines scientific labor markets and the internationalization of higher education, with a focus on understanding the distribution of students by country of origin and the factors affecting the persistence of foreign-born students in the US labor market. Turner is a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research and a research affiliate with the University of Michigan’s Population Studies Center. From 2013 through 2016, Turner chaired the department of economics at the University of Virginia. She received an AB from Princeton University and a PhD in economics from the University of Michigan.
