Dan Black

Dan A. Black is a Senior Fellow in NORC’s Economic, Labor, and Population Studies department, a research fellow at IZA, and a Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy Studies, the College, and the Committee on Quantitative Methods in Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on economic inequality, human capital, the economics of discrimination, economic demography, urban economics, and measurement. He is a Fellow of the Society of Labor Economists. Black has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Labor Economics, Labour Economics, and the Journal of Urban Economics as co-editor of Labour Economics and the Journal of Urban Economics. He has served on panels for the Census Bureau, the U.S. Department of Education, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Science Foundation, and the National Academy of Science, and has served as a consultant for industry, the city of Chicago, the Commonwealth of Kentucky, New Zealand, and Australian governments. Before joining the Harris School, he was on faculty at the University of Kentucky and Syracuse University, and held visiting appointments at the University of Chicago, Australian National University, and Carnegie Mellon University.