Benjamin Glasner, Ph.D.

I am Benjamin Glasner, Ph.D., a Senior Economist at the Economic Innovation Group in Washington, D.C. I study labor markets, place-based policy, and social-policy design to produce evidence that helps policymakers and practitioners improve worker well-being and economic mobility.

I focus on labor markets; place-based policy; social-policy design and economic well-being. I do this work to produce clear, policy-relevant evidence that helps decision-makers improve worker opportunity, mobility, and economic resilience.

Contact and Profiles

Where You Can See My Work

Selected Research Topics

Wages, Work, and Labor-Market Institutions: How to end low-wage work forever: An 80-80 wage subsidy proposal; The American Worker: Toward a New Consensus; The Minimum Wage, Self-Employment, and the Online Gig Economy.
Place-Based Policy and Economic Geography: The Impact of Opportunity Zones on Housing Supply; The Great “Transfer”-mation; Are Opportunity Zones Working? What the Literature Tells Us.
Transfers, Poverty, and Social Policy: Effects of the expanded Child Tax Credit on employment outcomes; No Evidence the Child Tax Credit Expansion Had an Effect on the Well-Being and Mental Health of Parents; The Effectiveness of the Food Stamp Program at Reducing Racial Differences in the Intergenerational Persistence of Poverty.

Core Methods

applied microeconomics
econometric policy evaluation
large-scale data analysis
policy communication