Research Bio

Patrick Kline is a labor economist whose research develops empirical and theoretical methods to study inequality, labor markets, and public policy. His work examines how firms shape wage inequality, how local labor markets and neighborhoods influence economic opportunity, and how advances in econometric methodology facilitate the evaluation of public policies. Kline is a Faculty Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, and a Co-Editor of Econometrica.  In 2018, he was awarded the Sherwin Rosen Prize for outstanding contributions to labor economics, and in 2021 he was awarded the IZA Young Labor Economist award for his contributions to empirical methodology in the field.

Research Expertise and Interest

inequality, place based policies, firm wage setting policies, employment discrimination, econometrics, discrimination