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Dan A. Black is a Professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, a Senior Fellow at the National Opinion Research Center (NORC), and a Research Fellow at IZA. His work bridges labor economics, economic demography, urban economics, and applied econometrics, with a focus on policy-relevant empirical analysis.
- Education: BA and MA in History from the University of Kansas; MS and PhD in Economics from Purdue University.
Black’s research explores labor market dynamics, including wage gaps, migration, human capital, and policy impacts. His methodological expertise spans econometrics, causal inference, and data reliability. He has also contributed to studies on racial and gender disparities, urban inequality, and public health economics.
His recent publications highlight interdisciplinary trends: labor economics (training, job lock, wage disparities), demography (mortality estimation, migration), and urban economics (inequality, policy evaluation). Methodological themes include instrumental variables, matching estimators, and measurement error.
- Scientific Awards:
- Fellow of the Society of Labor Economists
- Senior Fellow at NORC
- Research Fellow at IZA
Black has served on editorial boards for the Journal of Labor Economics, Labour Economics, and Journal of Urban Economics. He has advised panels for the U.S. Census Bureau, Department of Education, and Environmental Protection Agency, and consulted for governments in New Zealand, Australia, and the Inter-American Development Bank. His affiliations include the Committee on Quantitative Methods in Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences at the University of Chicago.
