Matthew Gentzkow (born April 27, 1975) is an American economist and a professor of economics at Stanford University. Previously, he was the Richard O. Ryan Professor of Economics and Neubauer Family Faculty Fellow at the

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

Booth School of Business The University of Chicago Booth School of Business (Chicago Booth or Booth) is the graduate business school of the University of Chicago. Founded in 1898, Chicago Booth is the second-oldest business school in the U.S. and is associated with 10 N ...

. He was awarded the 2014

John Bates Clark Medal The John Bates Clark Medal is awarded by the American Economic Association to "that American economist under the age of forty who is adjudged to have made a significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge." The award is named after the ...

. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.

Academic career

Gentzkow received his A.B. in Economics in 1997, A.M. in Economics in 2002, and Ph.D. in Economics in 2004, all 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 high ...

. His research is in the fields of

Industrial Organization In economics, industrial organization is a field that builds on the theory of the firm by examining the structure of (and, therefore, the boundaries between) firms and markets. Industrial organization adds real-world complications to the perf ...

and

Political Economy Political economy is the study of how economic systems (e.g. markets and national economies) and political systems (e.g. law, institutions, government) are linked. Widely studied phenomena within the discipline are systems such as labour ...

Selected publications

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References

External links

Website at Stanford
1975 births Living people 21st-century American economists Harvard College alumni Stanford University Department of Economics faculty University of Chicago faculty Fellows of the Econometric Society Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences {{US-economist-stub