Associate Professor

People are Saying....

• "The odds are better than 50/50 that AI will eliminate the jobs of the authors of the paper before it eliminates the truckers." - Marginal Revolution commenter on "Obsolescence Rents"
• "It took a research paper for white people to figure this out?" -The Atlantic commenter on "The Boss is Watching"
• "This is made up." - Fortune commenter on "The Boss is Watching"

Teaching (2022-23)

• EC220: Mathematical Economics 1A (Game Theory)
• EC9B8: Topics in Advanced Economic Theory 1

Research Interests

• Microeconomic Theory and
• Labor Economics

Grant

• "Dynamics of Occupation Choice, Skill Investment and Output Pricing with Multidimensional Skill", with Kevin Lang, National Science Foundation, $280K

Publications

• Ben-Porath Meets Lazear: Microfoundations for Dynamic Skill Formation with Kevin Lang, Journal of Political Economy (2020).
• The Boss is Watching: How Monitoring Decisions Hurt Black WorkersLink opens in a new window (with Kevin Lang and Russell Weinstein), Forthcoming in The Economic Journal. Coverage: Fortune, The Atlantic

Google Scholar PageLink opens in a new window

Working Papers

• [NEW draft!] Blackwell Equilibria in Repeated GamesLink opens in a new window [SG Talk @ TAU]Link opens in a new window (with Sambuddha Ghosh, Johannes Hörner, Eilon Solan and Satoru Takahashi)
• [NEW!] Obsolescence Rents: Teamsters, Truckers and Impending Innovations (with Qingyuan Chai, Kevin Lang, and Raghav Malhotra). Coverage: NPR
• Chunky Information and Adverse SelectionLink opens in a new window
• The Evolution of Skill Use Within and Between Jobs (with Vittoria Dicandia, Kevin Lang and Raghav Malhotra) [KL&VD Talk @ NBER/SI/Personnel]

Work in Progress

• Delegating Away Strategic Uncertainty (with Hyungmin Park)
• The Content of Education, or Who Does What and Why (with Vittoria Dicandia, César Garro-Marin, Kevin Lang, Raghav Malhotra)
• The Curses of Marriage: Signaling and Learning in Courtship (with Gautam Bose and Kevin Lang)
• Losing by Betting on Success (with Sambuddha Ghosh)