$70,000
Do social norms around pay influence the wage-setting behavior of firms?
2019
Ellora Derenoncourt is an assistant professor of economics at Princeton University and a member of the Industrial Relations Section of Princeton Economics. She is also the founder and faculty director for the Program for Research on Inequality at Princeton Economics. She works on labor economics, economic history, and the study of inequality.
Her recent work has focused on the northern backlash against the Great Migration and ensuing declines in black upward mobility and the role of federal minimum wage policy in racial earnings convergence during the Civil Rights Era. She received her Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.
Funded Research
$15,000
Minimum wages and racial inequality
2018
$15,000
Social preferences at work: Evidence from online lab experiments and job-to-job mobility in the LEHD dataset
2016
Grantees: Ellora Derenoncourt (opens in a new tab)
Authored by Ellora Derenoncourt
Policy
Is moving to a new place key to upward mobility for U.S. workers and their families? (opens in a new tab)
Blog FEB 14, 2022
Economic Equity & Opportunity
Household Economic Security
Policy
Why minimum wages are a critical tool for achieving racial justice in the U.S. labor market (opens in a new tab)
Issue Briefs OCT 29, 2020
By: Ellora Derenoncourt, Claire Montialoux, Kate Bahn
Economic Equity & Opportunity
Labor, Wages & Worker Power
Ellora Derenoncourt’s Working Papers
Academic
Wealth of two nations: The U.S. racial wealth gap, 1860-2020 (opens in a new tab)
Working Papers OCT 5, 2022
By: Ellora Derenoncourt, Chi Hyun Kim, Moritz Kuhn, Moritz Schularick
Economic Equity & Opportunity
Academic
Can you move to opportunity? Evidence from the Great Migration (opens in a new tab)
Working Papers FEB 14, 2022
Economic Equity & Opportunity
Household Economic Security
Academic
Minimum Wages and Racial Inequality (opens in a new tab)
Working Papers JAN 14, 2020
By: Ellora Derenoncourt, Claire Montialoux
Economic Equity & Opportunity
Labor, Wages & Worker Power
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