About Me

David A. Jaeger is a Professor in the Ph.D. Program in Economics and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is also a Research Fellow at the Institute for Labor Economics (IZA, Bonn), Research Fellow at CESifo (Munich) and an External Research Fellow at the Center for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM) at University College London. He has held permanent and visiting positions at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Hunter College, the College of William and Mary, the University of Cologne, Bonn University, and Princeton University, among others. In 1996, he was the first recipient of the W.E. Upjohn Dissertation Prize and has been honored with a fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and as an invited lecturer at the IZA Summer School. His primary current research areas of the economics of education, immigration and migration, fertility, conflict and terrorism, and quantitative medieval history. He also holds the WSET Level 3 Certificate in Wines and blogs about German red wine at here.