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Nicolas Bottan

Nicolas is an applied micro-economist who uses behavioral insights to study important policy questions. His research interests fall in the fields of public economics, behavioral economics and development economics. In his work, Nicolas combines different empirical strategies, such as field experiments and natural/policy experiments. His current research focuses on studying the extent to which social comparisons matter and how they shape individual’s behavior. For example, his research shows that social comparisons affect location decisions, and individual effort and performance in the context of sports and education. Nicolas also works on understanding social consequences of public policy more broadly, such as the effect of legalized gambling on crime, and studying the interplay between government and nonprofit service provision.

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Max Kapustin

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Ariel Ortiz-Bobea

Ariel Ortiz-Bobea is an applied economist with interests in agricultural, resource and development economics. At present, his research program is broadly focused on agricultural sustainability issues with particular emphasis on the statistical and econometric evaluation of climate change impacts on agriculture and other sectors of the economy.

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Philipp Kircher

Philipp Kircher is the Irving M. Ives Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations in the Department of Economics who works mostly on how firms and workers meet and stay together: How wages attract workers of different talent, how this affects the productivity of firms with different production technologies, and how technological change and automation affect this. Since the meeting process in the labor market is somewhat similar to the meeting process underlying the spread of diseases, he has also worked on the spread of infectious diseases, how individuals protect themselves, and how this affects policy efficacy. He has explored this in the context of HIV/AIDS and of Covid-19.

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Michèle Belot

Michèle Belot is Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics and at the School of Industrial Labor Relations. She held previous appointments in the United Kingdom (University of Edinburgh, Oxford University and the University of Essex) and at the European University Institute. She obtained her Ph.D. in Economics from Tilburg University (CentER) in 2003. Her research interests are broadly in applied microeconomics, with a special interest in experimental work in areas related to labour, health and education. She has published in journals such as the Review of Economic Studies, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Health Economics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science and The Economic Journal. She is the current President of the European Association of Labour Economists.

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Seth Sanders

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Pauline Leung

Pauline Leung is an assistant professor in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management. Her research focuses on social and labor market policy for economically vulnerable populations. Pauline received herPh.D. in Economics from Princeton University.

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C.-Y. Cynthia Lin Lawell

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Catherine Kling

Catherine L. Kling is a Professor in the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management and Faculty Director at the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future. She is past Director of the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development at Iowa State University where she also held the President's Chair in Environmental Economics. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2015.

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Thomas Hoe

I am an Assistant Professor at Cornell University in the Department for Policy Analysis and Management (PAM). I am also affiliated with the Institute for Fiscal Studies in London.

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George Orlov

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Jaroslav Vanek

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Erik Thorbecke

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Richard Schuler

Article: Economist Richard Schuler dies at age 81

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Peter McClelland

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Tom E. Davis

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Robert Aronson

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Fei Fei Wang

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Lars Vilhuber

His interest in statistical disclosure limitation issues is a consequence of his other research interest: working with highly detailed longitudinally linked data to analyze the effects and causes of mass layoffs, worker mobility, and the dynamics of the local labor market.He is presently on the faculty of the Department of Economics at Cornell University, a Senior Research Associate at the ILR School at Cornell University, Ithaca, Executive Director of ILR’s Labor Dynamics Institute. He is the American Economic Association‘s Data Editor, affiliated with the U.S. Census Bureau (Center for Economic Studies, CES), and on advisory boards for French and Canadian restricted-access research data centers.Over the years, he has also gained extensive expertise on the data needs of economists and other social scientists, having been involved in the creation and maintenance of several data systems designed with analysis, publication, replicability, and maintenance of large-scale code bases in mind.Dr. Lars Vilhuber has an undergraduate degree in Economics from Universität Bonn, Germany, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada. He has worked in both research and government. He has consulted with government and statistical agencies in Canada and the United States.

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Stephanie Thomas

Stephanie R. Thomas is a Lecturer in the Department of Economics at Cornell University. She teaches courses in microeconomics, labor economics and personnel economics. From August 2013 through June 2016, Dr. Thomas also served as the Program Director of the ILR School’s Institute for Compensation Studies, an interdisciplinary initiative that analyzes, teaches and communicates about monetary and non-monetary rewards from work. Dr. Thomas earned her Ph.D. in Economics from the New School for Social Research.

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Robert Smith

Robert S. Smith, the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, is also a Professor in the School's Labor Economics Department. After receiving his Ph.D. in Economics at Stanford University in 1971, he taught at the University of Connecticut and worked as an economist in the U.S. Department of Labor before coming to Cornell in 1974. He has authored numerous articles in the field of labor economics and is co-author ofModern Labor Economics: Theory and Public Policy, the leading textbook in its field for 3 decades (and now in its 12th edition).

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Bruno Salcedo

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Evan Riehl

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Gary Fields

Gary Fields is the John P. Windmuller Professor of International and Comparative Labor and Professor of Economics at Cornell University, Program Coordinator of the IZA Program on Labor and Development, and a UNU-WIDER Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow. He is the 2014 winner of the IZA Prize in Labor Economics, the top world-wide award in the field. He has been an Ivy League teacher and professor for fifty years. After receiving Bachelor's, Master's, and Ph.D. degrees in economics from the University of Michigan, he became an assistant professor at Yale University at age 25 and an associate professor at age 29. Two years later, he took up a tenured professorship at Cornell University. At Cornell, he teaches and conducts research in labor economics and development economics in the Department of Economics and the ILR School. He chaired ILR's Department of Labor Economics three times and chaired ILR's Department of International and Comparative Labor for eighteen years. He has received perfect teacher ratings in several Cornell University courses (5.0/5.0), has an 88% 5.0 rating on ratemyprofessors.com, and is a three-time recipient of the General Mills Foundation Award for Exemplary Graduate Teaching.

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Ronald Ehrenberg

Ronald G. Ehrenberg is the Irving M. Ives Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Economics at Cornell University and aStephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow. He also is Director of the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute. From July 1, 1995to June 30, 1998 he served as Cornell’s Vice President for Academic Programs, Planning and Budgeting.

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