David Lee (economist)

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David S. Lee
Institution Princeton University, University of California, Berkeley, Harvard University
Field Labor economics
Alma materA.B. (1993), Harvard College
M.A. (1996), Ph.D. (1999), Princeton University
Doctoral
advisor
David Card
Website https://www.princeton.edu/~davidlee/

David S. Lee is Chemical Bank Chairman's Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, [1] founding director of Princeton's Initiative for Data Exploration and Analytics for Higher Education, [2] and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. [3] From 2013 to 2017, he was provost of Princeton, and from 2009 to 2013 he led Princeton's Industrial Relations Section. [4] He co-edited The Review of Economics and Statistics from 2001 to 2013. He was a Sloan Research Fellow in 2006 [5] and won the John T. Dunlop Outstanding Scholar Award of the Labor and Employment Relations Association in 2007. [6]

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