Directors
Philipp Kircher
- Director, Labor Dynamics Institute
- Irving M. Ives Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University
Philipp Kircher's research focuses on the consequences of search frictions in labor markets, in particular regarding wage setting and assignment of workers to jobs.
Michèle Belot
- Director, Labor Dynamics Institute
- Frances Perkins Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Economics
Michèle Belot's research interests are broadly in applied microeconomics, with a special interest in experimental work in areas related to labor, health and education.
Lars Vilhuber
- Executive Director, Labor Dynamics Institute
- Senior Research Associate, Department of Economics at Cornell University
Lars Vilhuber's interest in statistical disclosure limitation issues is a consequence of his other research interest: working with highly detailed longitudinally linked data to analyze the effects
Affiliates
Erica Groshen
- Senior Economics Advisor, Labor Dynamics Institute
- Extension Faculty, ILR School
From 2013 to 2017, she served as the 14th Commissioner of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics; in addition to her role at ILR, she is a Research Fellow at the Upjohn Institute for Employment Res
John M. Abowd
- Executive Senior Advisor for the Research and Methodology Directorate, U.S. Census Bureau
- Edmund Ezra Day Professor Emeritus of Economics, Statistics and Data Science
Professor Abowd joined ILR in 1987 and became Chief Scientist and Associate Director for Research and Methodology at the Census Bureau in 2016, moving to his current post in October 2022.
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Postdocs and Predocs
Mary-Jo Ajiduah
Ryan Ali
Andres Aradillas Fernandez
Ananya Bakshi
Vidya Balaji
Dhilan Bansal
Kevin Bao
Surita Basu
Talia Boehm
Leonel Borja Plaza
Jacob Brogdon
Melanie Brown
Ethan Carlson
Manvir Chahal
Kate Chanpong
Lincy Chen
Melanie Chen
Yanyun Chen
Christine Cho
Ashley Cooray
Jill Crosby
Liam Cushen
Taren Daniels
Satya Datla
Hongyi Duan
Kirin Eicher
Sam Evans
Adam J. Faridi
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Leslie Geng
Manas Gogula
Elian Gomez
Vansh Gupta
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Sylverie Herbert
Kate Hofer
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Nehedin Juarez
Zechariah Karsana
Suvd Khaliun
Anjini Khanna
Ilona Khimey
Leah Kim
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Eli Kolozezh
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Matthew LaFontaine
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Crystal Lim
Louis Liu
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Nathan Maidi
Siddhi Malvankar
Janet Malzahn
Jared Martin
Phalguni Miraj
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Franklin Otieno
Joshua Passell
Asha Patt
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Andrew Phiri
Andreas Psahos
Jacob Recht
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Jessica Rizzo
Peter Sanchez
Arnaav Sareen
Emma Sbrollini
Craig Schulman
Kayla Scott
Valerie Setiawan
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Weilun Shi
Jaeyoung Shim
Dmitry Shlyapnikov
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Alice Wei
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