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Miles Corak is a full professor of economics with the Department of Economics and the Stone Center on Socio-economic inequality at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He has published numerous articles on topics dealing with child poverty, access to university education, intergenerational earnings and social mobility, and unemployment.

He has also been a visiting researcher with the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre in Florence Italy in 2003/04, the Centre for Longitudinal Studies in London UK in 2008, with the Office of Population Research at Princeton University in 2011, the Russell Sage Foundation in 2013/14, and with Harvard University in 2015/16. During the 2017 calendar year he was the Economist in Residence at Employment and Social Development Canada, supporting the Deputy Minister's office in developing a Canadian Poverty Reduction Strategy and medium term reforms to Employment Insurance.

Miles Corak joined IZA as a Research Fellow in April 2001.

His twitter handle is @MilesCorak and he blogs at MilesCorak.com

IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3759
published in: Canadian Public Policy, 2013, 39 (S1), S107-S122
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2085
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 91 (2), 377 - 397
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1993
published in: Research on Economic Inequality, 2006, 13 (1), 143-188
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1579
published in: International Social Security Review, 2006, 59 (2), 3-36
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1574
Wen-Hao Chen, Miles Corak
revised version published in: Demography, 2008, 45 (3), 537-553
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1528
published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2008, 54 (4), 547-571
IZA Discussion Paper No. 977
Miles Corak, Garth Lipps, John Zhao
published in: Charles Beach, Robin Boadway and Marvin McInnis (eds.), Higher Education in Canada. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005
IZA Discussion Paper No. 811
Miles Corak, Wen-Hao Chen
published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2007, 26, 299-336
IZA Discussion Paper No. 184
published in: Miles Corak (ed.), Generational Income Mobility in North America and Europe. Cambridge University Press 2004
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