"I learned empirical methodology in Ariel's industrial organization course, while Larry's labor course was much more topic-based. We had to write a term paper for Larry's class, and he had given a lecture on spatial differences in local labor markets. Meanwhile, I learned some techniques in Ariel's class that I thought would be useful for thinking about how people decide where to live and how to quantify the value of different characteristics of cities."
"Rebecca Diamond's research touches on some of today's most pressing issues: Gender pay disparities. Immigrants and innovation. The long-term impacts of rent control. "I'm getting a lot of emails from reporters about that one right now," the labor economist said. Diamond, M.A. '11, Ph.D. '13, joined the faculty this fall as the inaugural Martin Feldstein Professor of Economics. Feldstein, who died in 2019, was a public finance expert,"
Rebecca Diamond studies how geography interacts with housing and labor markets. Her research addresses gender pay disparities, immigrant-driven innovation, and long-term effects of rent control. She applies innovative data sources and advanced econometric modeling to bring empirical rigor to policy-relevant questions. She holds the Martin Feldstein Professorship in Economics. Her methodological training combined industrial organization techniques with spatial labor-market analysis. That combination informed a 2016 American Economic Review paper on U.S. workers' location choices. That paper aimed to explain two key facts, including a sharp increase in the college wage premium between 1980 and 2000.
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