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Kerwin Charles

Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor at Harris School of Public Policy

Indra K. Nooyi Dean & Frederic D. Wolfe Professor of Economics, Policy, and Management at Yale School of Management

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  • Yale School of Management
  • Harris School of Public Policy

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Biography

Harris School of Public Policy

About Kerwin Charles

Kerwin Charles is the Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor and former interim Dean at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy.

His research focuses on a range of questions in labor and applied microeconomics. The topics he has studied include racial and gender discrimination in the labor market; the propagation of wealth and earnings across different generations within a family; the effects of sectoral shocks in the economy on college attainment, occupational choice, and labor market participation; how adverse health shocks affect family stability and labor supply; and differences in visible consumption across different racial and ethnic groups.

He holds a master’s degree and a doctorate from Cornell University, and joined the University of Chicago in 2005 after teaching economics and public policy at the University of Michigan. In addition to his appointment at the University of Chicago, he is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and serves on the Board of Trustees for NORC.

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"It''s astounding that, in terms of economic rank, a black man in the middle of his economic distribution is no closer to his white counterpart in terms of earnings than was his grandfather." - Kerwin Charles on the black-white earnings gap

Yale School of Management

Kerwin K. Charles is the Indra K. Nooyi Dean and Frederic D. Wolfe Professor of Economics, Policy, and Management at the Yale School of Management.

During his scholarly career, Dean Charles has studied and published on topics including earnings and wealth inequality, conspicuous consumption, race and gender labor market discrimination, the intergenerational transmission of economic status, worker and family adjustment to job loss and health shocks, non-work among prime-aged persons, and the labor market consequences of housing bubbles and sectoral change. He is the Vice President of the American Economics Association, the Vice Chair of NORC at the University of Chicago, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and an elected Fellow of the Society of Labor Economics. He serves on the Board of Trustees of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, is a member of the Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee, and sits on the International Editorial Board of the Industrial and Labor Relations Review, as well as on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Labor Economics.

Charles was the Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergmann Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy before being named Yale SOM dean in 2019. He received his doctorate from Cornell University and taught economics and public policy at the University of Michigan before moving to the University of Chicago in 2005. He has received multiple teaching awards and his many academic leadership roles have included running centers and programs within the Harris School and serving as the school’s deputy dean and later its interim dean.

Expertise

  • Economics
  • Labor Issues

Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Cornell University
  • Master of Science - MS Cornell University
  • Bachelor of Science - BS University of Miami

Selected Works

Articles

  • Demand Conditions and Worker Safety: Evidence from Price Shocks in Mining
    K.K. Charles, M.S. Johnson, M. Stephens Jr., and D.Q. Lee
    Journal of Labor Economics
    Forthcoming

  • Leisure Luxuries and the Labor Supply of Young Men
    M. Aguiar, M. Bils, K.K. Charles, and E. Hurst
    Journal of Political Economy
    Volume 129, Issue 2, pp 337-382
    2021

  • Re-Examining the Contribution of Public Health Efforts and the Decline in Urban Mortality
    D. M. Anderson, K.K. Charles, and D. Rees
    American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
    Forthcoming

  • Occupational Licensing and Maternal Health: Evidence from Early Midwifery Laws
    D. M. Anderson, R. Brown, K. K. Charles, and D. I. Rees
    Journal of Political Economy
    Volume 128, Issue 11
    2020

  • Housing Booms and Busts, Labor Market Opportunities, and College Attendance
    K.K. Charles, E. Hurst, and M. J. Notowidigdo
    American Economic Review
    Volume 108, Issue 10, pp 2947-94
    2018

  • Divergent Paths: A New Perspective on Earnings Differences Between Black and White Men Since 1940
    P. Bayer and K.K. Charles
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics
    Volume 133, Issue 3, pp 1459-1501
    2018

  • Conspicuous Consumption and Race
    K.K. Charles, E. Hurst, and N. Roussanov
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics
    Volume 124, Issue 2, pp 425-67
    2009

  • Prejudice and Wages: An Empirical Assessment of Becker’s "The Economics of Discrimination"
    K.K. Charles and J. Guryan
    Journal of Political Economy
    Volume 116, Issue 5, pp 773-809
    2008

Working Papers

  • The Federal Effort to Desegregate Southern Hospitals and the Black-White Infant Mortality Gap
    D.M. Anderson, K.K. Charles, and D.I. Rees
    2020

  • The Effects of Sexism on American Women: The Role of Norms vs. Discrimination
    K.K. Charles, J. Guryan, and J. Pan
    2018

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