Steven Durlauf

Steven Neil Durlauf (born August 12, 1958) is an American social scientist and economist.

He is currently Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor and the inaugural Director of the Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility at the Harris School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago.

Other research has focused on the development of techniques for policy evaluation and the construction of an econometrics of cross country income differences.

[citation needed] Durlauf was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011.

In late 2022, he was selected as the inaugural director of the Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility.

Steven N. Durlauf, Director of the Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility, and Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago.