Dr. James Feigenbaum
Symposium Speaker
James Feigenbaum is an Assistant Professor in the Boston University Department of Economics. He is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the NBER in the Development of the American Economy program and a Junior Faculty Fellow at BU’s Hariri Institute for Computing. He is an economic historian with interests in labor economics and political economy. His research includes work on inequality, intergenerational mobility, health and mortality, and labor markets from the 19th and early 20th century US to today.