I'm an Associate Professor in the Work and Organizations Group at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management.
My research is in personnel economics, and I work with companies to analyze HR-related topics like hiring, promotions, performance evaluation, and compensation. My work has been published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Labor Economics, Academy of Management Journal, Management Science, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, American Sociological Review, Demography, the ILR Review, and Industrial Relations, and covered by the NY Times, WSJ, NPR, the Economist, Financial Times, and other outlets.
I'm also Academic Director for the University of Minnesota's excellent Master of Human Resources and Industrial Relations program, and as a member of the graduate faculty of the Department of Applied Economics and the Minnesota Population Center. I am also Senior Editor at Organization Science, where I typically handle papers involving the experimental or econometric analyses of people and organizations, and Associate Editor at the ILR Review, where I more broadly handle submissions in labor economics and labor relations. I was Associate Editor at Management Science from January 2021-July 2024.
I received my PhD in 2013 from the MIT Sloan School of Management and my BS from Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations. I teach Masters Compensation and Benefits, MBA Negotiations, and PhD Economics of HR. My digital self is tirelessly teaching Managing Employee Compensation on Coursera.
I'm also currently helping edit a special issue of Organization Science on remote and hybrid work! The submission deadline is July 15, 2025.