Jon Guryan

Jonathan Guryan is the Lawyer Taylor Professor of Education and Social Policy and Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University, where he is also member by courtesy of the Economics Department and the Kellogg School of Management. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a co-founder and co-director of the Education Lab in the Urban Labs at the University of Chicago. Guryan is a labor economist who studies labor market discrimination, the economics of education, and human capital. His research on these topics has been published in leading economics journals, including the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the Journal of Political Economy. Guryan has served as a testifying expert and testified in state and federal court, including in cases involving allegations of labor market discrimination, worker misclassification, false advertising, wrongful death, tortious interference, and anticompetitive behavior in labor and product markets. He has served as an editor of the Journal of Labor Economics and received his B.A. in Economics from Princeton University and his Ph.D. in Economics from MIT.