David Autor

David Autor is an affiliated professor of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he is the Ford Professor of Economics and the director of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)'s Disability Research Centre. His fields of specialisation span labour market impacts of technological change and globalisation, earnings inequality, disability insurance and labor supply, as well as temporary help and other intermediated work arrangements.

David is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award for his research on labor market intermediation, the Alfred P Sloan Foundation Fellowship, the Sherwin Rosen Prize (2008) for outstanding contributions in the field of labour economics, and the John T Dunlop Outstanding Scholar Award (2006) given by the Labor and Employment Relations Association.

David took a PhD in public policy from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.