Dan A. Black, Ph.D.
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Dan Black is a professor and deputy dean in the Harris School. |
Dan A. Black is a professor and deputy dean in the Harris School and a senior fellow at the National Opinion Research Center. He currently serves as the principal investigator for the 1997 Cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Labor Economics, Labour Economics, Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics, and Growth and Change. His research focuses on labor economics and applied econometrics, and he is the author of over sixty papers and two books. His papers have appeared in the American Economic Review, Economic Journal, European Economic Review, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Review Economic Statistics, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal Human Resources, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Labour Economics, and Demography.
Before joining the Harris School, he was on faculty at the University of Kentucky and Syracuse University, held visiting appointments at the University of Chicago, Australian National University, and Carnegie Mellon University, and was a senior fellow at the Carnegie Mellon University Regional Census Data Center. Black's work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration of the Department of Labor, Small Business Administration, Social Security Administration, Department of Defense, Environmental Protection Agency, Appalachian Regional Commission, the governments of Australia and New Zealand, and various state governments, foundations, and private firms. Black holds a B.A. and M.A. in history from the University of Kansas and an M.S. and Ph.D. in economics from Purdue University.
Contact Information
1155 E. 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637
E-mail: danblack@uchicago.edu
Phone: 773-702-0623
