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Robert W. Fairlie
Professor, Department of Economics
University of California, Santa Cruz
(831) 459-3332
rfairlie@ucsc.edu
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About Me
I am
a Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz and a
member of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). My research
interests include entrepreneurship, education, information technology, racial
and gender inequality, labor economics, and immigration. Publications from my
research have appeared in leading journals such as the AER, EJ, AEJ, RESTAT,
JOLE, JPubE, Management Science, JPAM, Demography,
JAMA: Surgery, Nature: SoE, and MIT Press. I received a Ph.D. and M.A. from
Northwestern University and B.A. with honors from Stanford University. I have
held visiting positions at Stanford University, Yale University, UC Berkeley,
and Australian National University. I have received funding for my research
from the National Science Foundation as well as numerous government agencies
and foundations, and have testified to the U.S. Senate, U.S. House of
Representatives, U.S. Department of Treasury, and the California State
Assembly, and received a joint resolution from the California State Assembly. I
am regularly interviewed by the media (e.g. NY Times, WSJ, Washington Post,
NPR, PBS, CNN, CBS, NBC) to comment on economic, education, small business,
inequality and policy issues.
Additional Links
University of
California Sacramento Center (on Faculty Council)
Institute for
Social Transformation (on Executive Board)
California
Policy Lab (affiliate and MRPI co-PI)