Danoff Dean of Harvard College
Isabelle and Scott Black Professor of Public Policy
William Henry Bloomberg Professor of Economics
Research
Education, Skills, Inequality
I am an economist who studies education, skills, AI, and the future of work. My early career research focused on the long-run impacts of schooling on later life outcomes. I have written several papers about how work is changing to place greater emphasis on “soft skills” like teamwork, social perceptiveness, decision-making, and adaptability.
My more recent work explores the economic implications of the rapid rise of generative AI on labor markets in the U.S. and around the world. Another recent paper uses internal data from OpenAI to study how people use ChatGPT.
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.
Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy
I am a faculty affiliate of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. The Wiener Center is a community of faculty, students, research fellows, and staff working on pressing social policy issues in areas such as health care, criminal justice, inequality, education, and labor markets. We support research and bring together communities of policy and practice around these issues. Here are links to our current news and events and our core faculty.
