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Sojourner is an associate professor at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management. His research focuses on (1) effects of labor-market institutions, (2) early childhood and K-12 education systems that promote efficient and equitable development of human capital, and (3) behavioral economics in consumer financial decisions.

Sojourner Profile

Remembrance of Sue Sojourner, 1941-2020

Aaron Sojourner, labor economist

Scholarly Writing

Ruffini, K., A. Sojourner & A. Wozniak (forthcoming) Who's in and who's out under workplace COVID symptom screening? Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.
In Published Papers
Press Mentions

Greenwood, B., R. Hardeman, L. Huang, & A. Sojourner (2020) Physician-Patient Racial Concordance and Disparities in Birth Outcomes for Newborns. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117 (35): 21194-21200.
In Published Papers
Press Mentions

Benson, A., A. Sojourner, & A. Umyarov (2020) Can reputation discipline the gig economy? Experimental evidence from an online labor market. Management Science. 66(5):1802-1825
In Published Papers
Working Papers Press Mentions

Popular Writing

Nonprofit Quarterly, Designing Workforce Programs with Worker Power in Mind (with S. Kahn & S. Naidu)

Roosevelt Institute, Employer Power and Employee Skills: Understanding Workforce Training Programs in the Context of Labor Market Power (with Suresh Naidu)
Summaries

Roosevelt Institute & Workrise webinar
Summary site at Roosevelt Institute
Nonprofit Quarterly op-ed: Designing workforce programs with worker power in mind

Casey Family Programs. Are there parallels between hiring and child protection processes that can help reduce bias and narrow child welfare’s front door?. Aug. 19, 2020.

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