David Deming (economist)
American educational economist (1979-)
David James Deming is an American economist and academic administrator. He is the dean of Harvard College and the William Henry Bloomberg Professor of Economics at Harvard University. His research focuses on the economics of education and the labor market, including early childhood programs, college admissions, the value of social skills at work, and the adoption of artificial intelligence. He received the David N. Kershaw Award in 2018 and the Sherwin Rosen Prize in 2022.
Early life and education
David Deming earned a B.S. in economics and a B.A. in political science from Ohio State University in 2002, followed by a M.P.P. from UC Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy in 2005 and a Ph.D. in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) in 2010.
Career
Following his Ph.D., Deming was an assistant professor of public policy and economics at Carnegie Mellon University from 2010 to 2011. He joined the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) as assistant professor in 2011 and was promoted to university professor with tenure in 2016, when he also became a professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He was named the Isabelle and Scott Black Professor of Political Economy at the Kennedy School in 2021.
At Harvard Kennedy School, Deming was faculty director of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy from 2019 to 2022 and academic dean from 2021 to 2024. He has been a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research since 2016 and is a faculty lead of the Project on Workforce, a Harvard research initiative on the transition from education to work.
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