Kerwin Charles

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 (SOM). Prior to this role, Charles was an Edwin and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor, Harris School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago. During his scholarly career, 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 Editorial Board of the Journal of Labor Economics, as well as on the International Editorial Board of the Industrial and Labor Relations Review.