Jack Fisher is an economist and formerly a postdoctoral fellow at the Platform Lab within Harvard’s D^3 Institute, and he joins the Department of Economics this fall as an assistant professor. His research aims to better understand the gig economy using insights from applied microeconomics, and more broadly, he is interested in how technology shapes labor markets. 

Fisher holds a Ph.D. in economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science, an M.Phil. in economics from the University of Oxford and a B.Sc. in economics from the University of York. He will be teaching courses on econometrics and labor economics.