Princeton’s Program for Research on Inequality (PRI) is proud to announce that more than a dozen Princeton faculty have joined the program’s efforts to elevate and facilitate the study of inequality across the field of economics. 

Reflecting a broad range of specialties that includes finance, development economics, labor economics, immigration, trade and globalization, political economy, public finance, and more, the founding class of PRI affiliates represent the program’s commitment to research on inequality in all contexts.

“The forces that shape inequality are global, national, and local. To fully understand it, we need to be studying it not only within the context of labor policy or public finance, but also finance, trade, and so much more,” said PRI’s founding director Ellora Derenoncourt. 

“I’m so grateful that each of these faculty members, who are renowned experts in their areas of study, have agreed to dedicate their time and knowledge to furthering PRI’s mission.”  

New PRI Affiliates

Orley Ashenfelter, Joseph Douglas Green 1895 Professor of Economics

Leah Platt Boustan, Professor of Economics; Director, Industrial Relations Section

Natalie Cox, Assistant Professor of Economics

Janet M. Currie, Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs; Co-Director, Center for Health and Wellbeing

Henry S. Farber, Hughes-Rogers Professor of Economics

Thomas Fujiwara, Associate Professor of Economics

Henrik J. Kleven, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs

Ilyana Kuziemko, Professor of Economics; Co-Director, Griswold Center for Economic Policy

David Lee, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs

Alexandre Mas, William S. Tod Professor of Economics and Public Affairs

Atif Mian, Theodore A. Wells ’29 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs; Director, Julis Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance

Christopher Neilson, Assistant Professor of Economics

Stephen J. Redding, Harold T. Shapiro ’64 Professor in Economics; Co-Director, Griswold Center for Economic Policy

Maria Micaela Sviatschi, Assistant Professor of Economics

Motohiro Yogo, Professor of Economics

Owen Zidar, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs

About PRI

PRI–a new research initiative within Princeton’s Economics Department–aims to foster community among scholars of inequality, at Princeton and beyond, and to actively support research in the area. 

To do this, PRI supports graduate and undergraduate student research on economic inequality, and will host short- and long-term visitors and serve as a convener for researchers through conferences or other events.

Ellora Derenoncourt, an Assistant Professor of Economics affiliated with Princeton’s Industrial Relations Section, is the founding director of PRI. Derenoncourt’s research focuses on labor economics, economic history, and the study of inequality.

To learn more about PRI and its recent activities, visit the program’s website.