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I am the Georgia and Jim Thompson Associate Professor in the University of Nebraska's Economics department, which I joined in the Fall of 2016. I am also a Faculty Affiliate of J-PAL North America and of the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO) at the University of Notre Dame. In 2025-2026, I was a visiting research scholar in the economics department (IR Section) at Princeton University. My research on housing and homelessness is supported by an NSF CAREER award. I received my Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago.

My research areas are labor and public economics. I study socioeconomic inequality and the design of public policies and court processes that impact families, using linked administrative datasets. My recent research centers on two general themes: (1) housing and the impact of eviction on households, (2) the future of work, and better measurement in the labor market.

Email: dtannenbaum@unl.edu

Phone: (818) 568-8086