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David H. Autor

David H. Autor

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
81
Citations
94548
World Ranking
255
National Ranking
189

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Andrew Carnegie Fellow
  • 2014 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2003 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

David H. Autor is affiliated with MIT in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on economics, econometrics, finance, and social sciences, with attention to subfields including economics and econometrics, sociology and political science, general economics, demography, and education.

They have contributed notably to topics such as labor market dynamics and wage inequality, economic growth and productivity, global trade and economics, migration, ethnicity, and the economy, firm innovation and growth, fiscal policy and economic growth, and migration and labor dynamics.

Their recent papers include the following:

  • The Fall of the Labor Share and the Rise of Superstar Firms, 2020, The Quarterly Journal of Economics
  • Importing Political Polarization? The Electoral Consequences of Rising Trade Exposure, 2020, American Economic Review
  • Artificial Intelligence and Jobs: Evidence from Online Vacancies, 2022, Journal of Labor Economics
  • Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation: Evidence from US Patents, 2020, American Economic Review Insights
  • Importing Political Polarization? The Electoral Consequences of Rising Trade Exposure, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent co-authors of David H. Autor include:

  • David Dorn
  • Gordon Hanson
  • Christina Patterson
  • Lawrence F. Katz
  • Daron Acemoğlu

Their work has been published extensively across several venues, including:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • The Quarterly Journal of Economics
  • American Economic Review

David H. Autor also has book publications with The MIT Press, notably "The Work of the Future," published in 2022.

Their academic recognition includes awards such as:

  • Andrew Carnegie Fellow (2019)
  • Fellows of the Econometric Society (2014)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2012)
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (2003)

Best Publications

  • The Skill Content of Recent Technological Change: An Empirical Exploration

    David H. Autor;Frank Levy;Richard J. Murnane

  • The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States

    David H. Autor;David Dorn;Gordon H. Hanson

  • Computing Inequality: Have Computers Changed the Labor Market?

    David H. Autor;Lawrence F. Katz;Alan B. Krueger

  • Skills, Tasks and Technologies: Implications for Employment and Earnings

    Daron Acemoglu;David Autor

  • The Growth of Low-Skill Service Jobs and the Polarization of the US Labor Market

    David H Autor;David Dorn

  • Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future of Workplace Automation

    David H. Autor

  • The fall of the labor share and the rise of superstar firms

    David Autor;David Dorn;Lawrence F Katz;Christina Patterson

  • Changes in the Wage Structure and Earnings Inequality

    Lawrence F. Katz;David H. Autor

  • Trends in U.S. Wage Inequality: Revising the Revisionists

    David H. Autor;Lawrence F. Katz;Melissa S. Kearney

  • Importing political polarization? The electoral consequences of rising trade exposure

    David Autor;David Dorn;David Dorn;Gordon H. Hanson;Kaveh Majlesi

  • The China Shock: Learning from Labor Market Adjustment to Large Changes in Trade

    David H. Autor;David Dorn;Gordon H. Hanson

  • The Polarization of the U.S. Labor Market

    David Autor;Lawrence Katz;Melissa Kearney

  • Outsourcing at Will: The Contribution of Unjust Dismissal Doctrine to the Growth of Employment Outsourcing

    David H. Autor

  • Import competition and the great U.S. employment sag of the 2000s

    Daron Acemoglu;David H. Autor;David Dorn;Gordon H. Hanson

  • Skills, education, and the rise of earnings inequality among the “other 99 percent”

    David H. Autor

  • The Rise in the Disability Rolls and the Decline in Unemployment

    David H. Autor;Mark G. Duggan

  • Trade Adjustment: Worker Level Evidence*

    David H. Autor;David Dorn;Gordon H. Hanson;Gordon H. Hanson;Jae Song

  • The Skill Content of Recent Technological Change: An Empirical Exploration

    David H. Autor;David H. Autor;David H. Autor;Frank S. Levy;Richard J. Murnane;Richard J. Murnane

  • DOES EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION REDUCE PRODUCTIVITY? EVIDENCE FROM US STATES*

    David H. Autor;William R. Kerr;Adriana D. Kugler

  • Untangling Trade and Technology: Evidence from Local Labour Markets

    David H. Autor;David Dorn;Gordon H. Hanson

  • Concentrating on the Fall of the Labor Share

    David H. Autor;David Dorn;Lawrence F. Katz;Christina Patterson

Frequent Co-Authors

Gail Hanson
Gail Hanson University of California, Riverside
Lawrence F. Katz
Lawrence F. Katz Harvard University
Mark Duggan
Mark Duggan Stanford University
Richard J. Murnane
Richard J. Murnane Harvard University
Melissa S. Kearney
Melissa S. Kearney University of Notre Dame
David N. Figlio
David N. Figlio University of Rochester
John Van Reenen
John Van Reenen London School of Economics and Political Science

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