Isaac Sorkin

Stanford University (608) 440-0052

Department of Economics sorkin@stanford.edu
579 Serra Mall https://sites.google.com/site/isaacsorkin/
Stanford, CA 94305 Last updated: December 2018

Current appointments and affiliations

Stanford University: Assistant Professor of Economics, July 2016 - .
Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research: Faculty Fellow, September 2016 - .

National Bureau of Economic Research: Faculty Research Fellow, May 2017 - .

Previous full-time appointments

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago: Business Economist, July 2015 - June 2016.

Brookings Institution: Research Assistant, October 2007 - July 2009.

Education
Ph.D. Economics, University of Michigan, December 2015.
M.A. Economics, University of Michigan, December 2010.
B.A. Economics and Mathematics, Swarthmore College, High Honors, June 2007.

Research
Working Paper
Bartik Instruments: What, When, Why, and How (with Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham and Henry Swift),
July 2018, revise and resubmit, American Economic Review .

Peer-Reviewed Publications
Reconsidering the Consequences of Worker Displacements: Firm versus Worker Perspective (with Aaron
Flaaen and Matthew D. Shapiro), American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, April 2019.
Ranking Firms Using Revealed Preference, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 133(3): 1331-1393,
2018.

Industry Dynamics and the Minimum Wage: A Putty-Clay Approach (with Daniel Aaronson, Eric French
and Ted To), International Economic Review , 59(1): 51- 84, 2018.
Are There Long-Run Effects of the Minimum Wage? Review of Economic Dynamics, 18(2):
306-333, 2015.
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Other Publications
The Role of Firms in Gender Earnings Inequality: Evidence from the U.S. American Economic
Review, Papers and Proceedings, 107(5): 384-387, 2017.
What Does the Changing Sectoral Composition of the Economy Mean for Workers? Chicago Fed
Letter #358, 2016.
(Editor). “Brookings Trade Forum, 2009: Climate Change, Trade and Competitiveness.” Brookings
Institution Press: 2009 (with Lael Brainard).

Awards/Fellowships/Grants/Honors
Stanford IRiSS Faculty Fellow, 2018-2019.
Honorable Mention, W.E. Upjohn Institute Dissertation Award (2016).
Review of Economic Studies European Tour (2016).

University of Michigan: George Katona Economic Behavior Research Award (2015); Robert V. Roosa
Dissertation Fellowship (2014-2015); John E. Parker Memorial Prize (2014); Marshall Weinberg Research
Fellowship (2014); Population Studies Center NICHD Traineeship in Economic Demography (2010-2011).
Swarthmore College: Adams Prize in Economics (2007).

Miscellaneous
Referee reports: American Economic Journals (Applied, Economic Policy, and Macroeconomics); Amer-
ican Economic Review ; American Economic Review: Insights; Econometrica; Economic Journal ; Games
and Economic Behavior ; Journal of Applied Econometrics; Journal of Economic Theory; Journal of
Economic Dynamics and Control ; Journal of the European Economic Association; Journal of Human
Resources; Journal of Labor Economics; Journal of Macroeconomics; Journal of Political Economy;
Journal of Public Economics; Labour Economics; Quantitative Economics; Quarterly Journal of Eco-
nomics; Review of Economic Dynamics; Review of Economic Studies; Social Science Quarterly.
Grant reviews: European Research Council.

US Census Bureau: Special Sworn Status, August 2012 - .

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago: Consultant, May 2012 - May 2015; July 2016 -June 2017.
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS): Visiting Researcher, May 2014 - November 2016.

Co-organizer, Advances in Empirical Labor Economics, Barcelona GSE Summer Forum, June 2017.
Program Committee, 11th Annual All-California Labor Economics Conference, September 2017.
Co-organizer, Micro and Macro of Labor Markets, Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics (SITE),
August 2018.