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Kerwin Charles

Trustee
NORC Board of Trustees
Kerwin is an expert in applied microeconomics, labor markets, and the effects of race/gender on labor, earnings, and wealth discrimination and inequality.

Kerwin joined Yale in 2019 as the Indra K. Nooyi Dean and Frederick W. Beinecke Professor of Economics, Policy, and Management at the Yale School of Management (SOM). He was just reappointed to his second term.

As Dean of SOM, Kerwin has overseen the creation of the Broad Center at Yale SOM for training education leaders, worked with the City of New Haven to establish the Yale/New Haven Center for Inclusive Growth, launched a new degree in Asset Management, and introduced two new joint degrees with the Yale School of Engineering.

In his scholarly work, Kerwin has published on a range of topics in labor and applied economics, with much of his work touching on different dimensions of labor market inequality.

Kerwin has served as the vice president of the American Economics Association and is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is a fellow of the Society of Labor Economics; of the American Academy of Political and Social Science; and of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Education

PhD

Cornell University

MS

Cornell University

BS

University of Miami

Appointments & Affiliations

Member

Committee on Equity, Diversity, and Professional Conduct, American Economic Association; Faculty Advisory Council for Yale Center for Civic Thought; International Editorial Board for Industrial and Labor Relations Review; Executive Committee for the Institution for Social and Policy Studies; Editorial Board for Journal of Labor Economics

Past Vice President | 2021

American Economic Association

Elected Fellow

American Academy of Political and Social Science; American Academy of Arts & Sciences; Society of Labor Economics

Fellow

Sir Arthur Lewis Fellow of the American Association of Political and Social Sciences

Board of Advisors

The Connecticut Project; Journal of Economic Perspectives

Board of Trustees

Wealth and Mobility Study Scientific Advisory Board

Board of Directors

New Profit Foundation; International Rescue Committee; Institute for Social Research

Director

Yale/New Haven Center for Inclusive Growth