David’s research interests are in applied microeconomics, particularly labour economics, health economics, policy analysis, and applied econometrics.  He has also worked on terrorism and conflict. His work has been published in the American Economic Review, the Review of Economics and Statististics, the Journal of Labor Economics, the Journal of Public Economics, and the Journal of the American Statistical Association, among others.

For a complete list of publications, see David's curriculum vita and Google Scholar page.

David Jaeger received his BA in Economics at Williams College (1986), MAs in Economics (1990) and Statistics (1993) from the University of Michigan, and his PhD in Economics at the University of Michigan (1995).  He has held regular faculty positions at Hunter College (CUNY), the College of William and Mary, the University of Cologne, and the CUNY Graduate Center.  He has been a visiting professor at Princeton University and the University of Bonn, among others.  David joined the School of Economics and Finance at St Andrews in January 2020.

David is currently Editor of the Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Associate Editor of the Journal of Wine Economics, a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), the Institute for Labor Economics (IZA), the Centre for Economic Studies (CESifo), and the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM).  Before coming to St Andrews he was a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).

At St Andrews, David is a member of the Applied Microeconomics Cluster,  as well as an affiliate of the Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTV) and the Centre Higher Education Research (CHER).

David's Twitter handle is @DavidAJaeger.

Labour economics, health economics, immigration, education, causal inference, conflict and terrorism, economic history.

EC4424 - Economics of Migration

EC4425 - Econometrics of Impact Evaluation

EC4434 - Personnel Economics

EC5612 - Causal Inference