Marshall Steinbaum is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Utah and a Senior Fellow in Higher Education Finance at Jain Family Institute. He is an empirical labor economist by training, and his research investigates the existence and implications of employer power in labor markets, with applications to antitrust, higher education, and student debt. In addition to his academic research, he has written for a number of popular outlets relating to his expertise in inequality, antitrust, labor markets, the history of economic ideas and intellectual history more generally, student debt and higher education policy, as well as book reviews related to those subjects. Contact CV

Boston Review ↗︎

Phenomenal World (Jain Family Institute) ↗︎

Law and Political Economy Blog ↗︎

American Prospect ↗︎

Current Affairs ↗︎

Jacobin ↗︎

Democracy Journal ↗︎

ProMarket ↗︎

Contexto y Acciόn ↗︎


Work




Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Utah

Senior Fellow in Higher Education Finance, Jain Family Institute


Education

Ph.D. in Economics–University of Chicago, 2014 (M.A. 2013) Dissertation: “Migration and Geography in a Search-and-Matching Labor Market.”

B.A. (Honors) in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics–Oxford University, 2005


Professional Experience

Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT. July 2019 – present

Research Director and Fellow, Roosevelt Institute, Washington, DC. July 2016 – April 2019

Research Economist, Washington Center for Equitable Growth, Washington, DC. May 2014 – June 2016