Jack Mountjoy
Associate Professor of Economics (untenured) and Robert H. Topel Faculty Scholar
University of Chicago Booth School of Business


Primary Research Fields

• Labor Economics
• Economics of Education
• Applied Econometrics

Curriculum Vitae

• CV (PDF)

Contact

• jack.mountjoy@chicagobooth.edu

Publications

• On the Use of Outcome Tests for Detecting Bias in Decision Making (preprint)

Review of Economic Studies, 91(4), July 2024 (Featured Article) (with Ivan Canay and Magne Mogstad)

• Community Colleges and Upward Mobility (preprint) (appendix) (Econimate video) (CBR video)

American Economic Review, 112(8), August 2022

• Improving Educational Pathways to Social Mobility: Evidence from Norway's Reform 94 (preprint) (appendix) 

Journal of Labor Economics, 39(4), October 2021 (with Marianne Bertrand and Magne Mogstad)

Working Papers

• Marginal Returns to Public Universities (NBER) (BFI) (Podcast) (NBER Digest)

Reject and Resubmit, Quarterly Journal of Economics

• The Returns to College(s): Relative Value-Added and Match Effects in Higher Education (with Brent Hickman) (NBER) (BFI) 

Work in Progress

• Long-Run Impacts of Charter Schools

(with Joshua Angrist and Parag Pathak)

• Non-Pecuniary Returns to College 

(with Jeff Denning, Emily Leslie, and Cody Tuttle)

• Private Scholarships: Access and Impact 

(with Joshua Angrist, Raymond Han, Maggie Liu, and Andrew Whitten)

• Pay vs. Productivity 

(with Thibaut Lamadon, Magne Mogstad, and Gaute Torsvik)