David Allen Jaeger is a professor of economics at the
University of St Andrews
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, a Research Fellow at
IZA Institute of Labor Economics
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, and a Research Fellow at the
Centre for Economic Policy Research
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. He was previously a professor of economics at the
CUNY Graduate Center
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and a Research Fellow in the
National Bureau of Economic Research
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. He is the author of numerous papers in labor economics, the economics of conflict, and econometrics, including a widely cited paper on the consequences of using weak instruments in
instrumental variable
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estimation. He completed his B.A. in economics at
Williams College
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in 1986 and his Ph.D. in economics at the
University of Michigan
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in 1995. He also holds an M.A. in statistics from the
University of Michigan
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Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
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David Jaeger is married to the medieval historian
Alison Beach
Alison Isdale Beach (born October 8, 1963) is an American historian.
She is a professor of medieval history at the University of St Andrews. She completed her B.A. in history at Smith College in 1985 and her Ph.D. in religion at Columbia Univer ...