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I am an Associate Professor (untenured) in the Strategy Department at Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, and I hold a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University.

My research is in the field of labor and personnel economics. Specifically, I study the staffing and promotion strategies of firms and these strategies’ implications for individual workers, firms, and market-level outcomes. A firm’s talent strategy not only directly affects its own performance, but may also shape individual workers’ careers to the extent that workers’ fortunes are tied to the fortune of their employer.

To study firms’ staffing decisions and workers’ career paths empirically, I use large administrative data sources and leverage both quasi-experimental designs and structural estimation methods.

Contact: benjamin.friedrich [at] kellogg.northwestern.edu

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