Ellora Derenoncourt

Ellora Derenoncourt is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Princeton University, a member of the Industrial Relations Section of Princeton Economics, and the founding director of the Program for Research on Inequality at Princeton Economics. She works on labor economics, economic history, and the study of inequality. Recently she has studied the long-run evolution of racial wealth gaps, the northern backlash against the Great Migration and ensuing declines in Black upward mobility, and the role of federal minimum wage policy in racial earnings convergence during the Civil Rights Era. She received her Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 2019.