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David Autor

MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

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David Autor is a Professor and Associate Department Head of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Economics. He is also a Faculty Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and Editor in Chief of the Journal of Economic Perspectives (published by the American Economic Association), and has served on the Board of Editors at the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics and the Journal of Labor Economics. Autor received a BA in Psychology from Tufts University in 1989 and a PhD in Public Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government in 1999.


His current fields of specialization include human capital and earnings inequality, labor market impacts of technological change and globalization, disability insurance and labor supply, and temporary help and other intermediated work arrangements

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$3,850

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$3,850

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