Zoe Cullen graduated with a PhD from Stanford in Economics in 2016. She worked from 2016-2018 as the Chief Economist for an Asian bank on the roll out of a digital transaction platform. In 2018 she joined HBS as an Assistant Professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit.
Her interests are in the design of labor markets and the choices of employers and labor platforms that affect matters of public interest, such as pay transparency, pay inequality and criminal background screening. She’s an NBER Affiliate in Labor Studies, and Associate Editor at the Journal of Political Economy.
Zoe Cullen joined IZA as a Research Fellow in May 2023.