Mark Gregory Duggan (born November 13, 1970) is the Wayne and Jodi Cooperman Professor of Economics at

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, where he is also the director of the

Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research The Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) is a nonpartisan economic research institution housed at Stanford University. It was founded in 1982 as a way to bring together economic scholars from different parts of the University. ...

(SIEPR).

Education and career

Duggan received his B.S. and M.S. in

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from the

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in 1992 and 1994, respectively. He went on to receive his Ph.D. in economics from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

in 1999, whereupon he joined the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the b ...

as an assistant professor of economics. In 2003, he left the University of Chicago to become an associate professor in the

University of Maryland The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of M ...

's economics department, where he became a full professor in 2007. From 2009 to 2010, he was a senior economist in the

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. In 2011, he left the University of Maryland to become a professor in the Department of Business Economics and Public Policy at the

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, where he was named the Rowan Family Foundation Professor in 2012. In 2014, he left the Wharton School to become The Wayne and Jodi Cooperman Professor of Economics at Stanford, as well as a senior fellow of SIEPR there in the same year. In September 2015, he became the director of SIEPR.

Research

While at the University of Chicago, Duggan worked with Steven Levitt to study whether

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matches in

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were rigged, and published multiple studies on the relationship between

gun ownership Gun ownership is the status of owning a gun, either legal or illegal. In 2018, Small Arms Survey reported that there are over one billion small arms distributed globally, of which 857 million (about 85 percent) are in civilian hands.

and rates of

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and

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. His research on gun ownership has found that it was positively related to the homicide rate, and that looser concealed carry laws do not reduce crime. More recently, he has published studies linking disability benefits programs, such as Social Security Disability Insurance and

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, to high rates of unemployment.

Personal life

Duggan is married, with two children.

References

External links

Stanford faculty pageSIEPR faculty page
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