Ellora Derenoncourt
Ellora Derenoncourt is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Princeton University and a member of the Industrial Relations Section of Princeton Economics. She works on labor economics, economic history, and the study of inequality. Recently she has studied 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.
Her work has been featured in the Economist, the New York Times, and Wall Street Journal. I received my PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 2019.
Education
Ph.D. Economics, Harvard University, 2019
MSc in Human Geography Research, London School of Economics (Merit), 2011
B.A., Harvard University, Magna Cum Laude, 2009
Selected Publications
Voluntary Minimum Wages: The Local Labor Market Effects of National Retailer Policies (with David Weil). Forthcoming, Quarterly Journal of Economics. Updated working paper, February 2025.
Atlantic Slavery's Impact on European and British Economic Development. May 2025. Journal of Historical Political Economy.
Community Engagement with Law Enforcement after High-profile Acts of Police Violence (with Desmond Ang, Panka Bencsik, and Jesse Bruhn), March 2025. American Economic Review: Insights. Previously titled “Police violence reduces civilian cooperation and engagement with law enforcement."
Wealth of Two Nations: The U.S. Racial Wealth Gap, 1860-2020 (with Chi Hyun Kim, Moritz Kuhn, and Moritz Schularick). May 2024. Quarterly Journal of Economics. (Lead article.) [Non-technical Summary] [NBER Working Paper Version]