Robert Fairlie | UCLA

I am a Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Economics at UCLA. I hold a joint appointment with the Anderson School of Management at UCLA and am a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). My research interests include public policy, entrepreneurship, education, inequality, AI and technology, labor markets, immigration, and developing countries. The overarching goal of my research is to have broad impact by providing rigorous, unbiased and objective evidence on questions that are important for society and often involve highly-charged policy debates. The methodological focus of my work includes implementing randomized control field experiments, employing advanced econometric techniques and identification strategies, and working with and building large administrative datasets. Publications from my research have appeared in leading journals in economics, policy, management, science, and medicine (e.g. AER, AEJ: Applied, AEJ: Policy, JPE: Micro, ReSTAT, JPAM, Management Science, and JAMA: Surgery), and I have written three books published with MIT Press. I received a Ph.D. and M.A. from Northwestern University and B.A. with honors from Stanford University. I have held a position at UCSC and visiting positions at Stanford University, Yale University, UC Berkeley, and Australian National University. I have testified in front of the U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, California State Assembly, and was honored with a joint resolution from the California State Assembly and Senate. I am regularly interviewed by the media to comment on various economic, education, and policy issues.