Professor David Autor
Ford Professor of Economics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics
Professional career and research topics
David H. Autor received his Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Tufts University in 1989 and his Master’s degree (1994) and doctorate (1999) in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (Massachusetts).
Autor has been Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge (USA) since 2008. He was also Visiting Professor of Economics at the Harvard University Department of Economics, Visiting Professor at Harvard Kennedy School and Director of the NBER Disability Research Center. He is currently vice-president of the American Economic Association.
David Autor was appointed an IAB Research Fellow in 2012.
His fields of specialization include human capital; skill supply and demand; earnings inequality; the labour market impacts of technological change and globalisation; disability insurance and labour force participation.
David Autor has published his research in numerous major journals, such as the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Labor Economics, and the Industrial and Labor Relations Review.