Glenn Ellison

Glenn Ellison

J-PAL Affiliated Professor

Gregory K. Palm Professor of Economics

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Glenn Ellison is the Gregory K. Palm Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is known for both theoretical and empirical work in industrial organization, the economics of education, game theory, finance, economic geography, and the economics of talent. 

Glenn is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He previously served as the Head of the MIT Economics Department and as Editor of Econometrica. Prior to joining MIT, Glenn was an Assistant Professor of economics at Harvard University. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, and is a recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. 

Glenn received his PhD in economics from MIT.