John Eric Humphries

John Eric Humphries

Assistant Professor of economics at Yale University and faculty research fellow at NBER; he is also affiliated with HCEO, CESifo and the Inclusive Economy Lab.
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About

John Eric is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Yale University, an NBER Faculty Research Fellow in Labor Studies and Economics of Education, and an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (2026). He completed all of his degrees — BA, MA, and PhD — at the University of Chicago, finishing the PhD in 2017 (under James Heckman’s HCEO group), then was a Cowles Postdoctoral Associate at Yale before joining the Yale faculty in 2018. His research is in labor economics and the economics of decision-making over the life cycle, with substantial work on self-employment, education choices, eviction and housing, and criminal-justice outcomes. He and Christopher are coauthors on the QJE study of small firms and the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America, the Journal of Public Economics paper on information frictions and the Paycheck Protection Program, and the Econometrica R&R on parents’ earnings and the returns to universal pre-Kindergarten.

Background

  • Labor Economics
  • Public Economics
  • Economics of Education
  • Housing and Eviction
  • Criminal Justice

Education

  • PhD, Economics · The University of Chicago (2017)
  • MA, Economics · The University of Chicago (2012)
  • BA, Economics · The University of Chicago (2009)

Career

  • Assistant Professor of Economics, Yale University (2018–present)
  • Cowles Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University, Department of Economics (2017–2018)
  • Visiting Scholar, Princeton University (2024)
  • Visiting Scholar, Stanford GSB (2021)
  • Visiting Scholar, Harvard University (2021)

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