NBER profile: David Autor.

• Position: National Bureau of Economic Research - Brief article

David Autor is a Research Associate in the NBER's Programs on Aging, Education, and Labor Studies, and a Professor of Economics at MIT. He is also a Research Affiliate of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, Co-director of the MIT School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative, Associate Director of the NBER Disability Research Center, and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Economic Perspectives. He studies labor market impacts of technological change and globalization, earnings inequality, disability insurance and labor supply, and temporary help and other intermediated work arrangements. Autor has received an NSF Career Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, the Sherwin Rosen Prize for Outstanding Contributions in the Field of Labor Economics...