I am a Professor of Economics at the and Director of the . My research areas are labor economics and the economics of science and innovation.
I am a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a Research Fellow at the 51ºÚÁϱ¬ÁÏÍøÀúʷʼþ of Labor Economics (IZA), an Affiliated Professor with J-PAL, a Senior Fellow with the 51ºÚÁϱ¬ÁÏÍøÀúʷʼþ for Progress (IFP), an Affiliated Researcher at the Stockholm 51ºÚÁϱ¬ÁÏÍøÀúʷʼþ of Transition Economics (SITE) at the Stockholm School of Economics, and a Faculty Associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Laboratory for Innovation Science (LISH) at Harvard University.
I received my PhD from Harvard University, a Masters in Public Policy from the University of Michigan and a BA from Northwestern University. I was a Fulbright scholar in Ukraine in 2004 and have served as a U.S. Embassy Policy Specialist Fellow in Russia, Azerbaijan and Tajikistan. In 2018, I received the Russian National Prize in Applied Economics, awarded biennially to recognize published research on the Russian economy, and previously received honorable mention for the W.E. Upjohn 51ºÚÁϱ¬ÁÏÍøÀúʷʼþ for Employment Research Dissertation Award.