Aaron Sojourner

Research Fellow

Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Sojourner is a labor economist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management. His research focuses on three areas: (1) effects of labor-market institutions on economic productivity and in politics, (2) policies to promote efficient and equitable development of human capital with a focus on early childhood and K-12 education systems, and (3) behavioral economic approaches to consumer financial decisions.

He serves on the Industrial and Labor Relations Review (ILRR) international editorial board. In 2016, he received the John T. Dunlop Scholar Award from the U.S. Labor and Employment Relations Association, which recognizes emerging scholars for outstanding research contributions to issues of national significance.

Sojourner has a wide range of policy experience and community service. He took leave for the 2016-'17 academic year and spent the year in Washington, D.C. serving as senior economist for labor at the U.S. President’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) for Presidents Obama and Trump. He has also served as policy fellow with the U.S. Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and in other policy roles.

He joined IZA as a research affiliate in September 2009 and became an IZA Research Fellow in January 2013. He received his Ph.D. in economics and a certificate in education sciences from Northwestern University in 2009, M.P.P. from the University of Chicago in 2003, and B.A. in history from Yale University in 1995.

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IZA-Publikationen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9552
Juan Chaparro, Aaron Sojourner
published as 'Differential effects from access to high-quality early care' in: In A.J. Reynolds, J.A. Temple (eds.): Sustaining Early Childhood Learning Gains, Cambridge, 2019
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8240
published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2015, 68 (4), 771 - 806
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8098
published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2017, 70 (4), 865 - 893
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7887
published in: Industrial Relations, 2015. 55 (4), 422-448
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7087
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2013, 48 (4), 945-986.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6479
published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2013, 66 (2), 467–486
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5432
published in: Economic Journal, 2013, 123 (569), 574-605.
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