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Altonji came to Yale this year from Northwestern University, where has taught and been a faculty fellow of the Institute for Policy Research since 1986. He was the associate director of the institute since 1996. For the past 10 years, he has been a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Altonji's major area of interest has been in the contributions of labor market experience, job seniority and job mobility to wage growth over the course of a career. His other areas of research have focused on educational choice, inherited wealth, downward nominal wage rigidity and econometric methodology.
Working with his Northwestern University colleague Christopher Tabor, Altonji has developed methodology to evaluate the effects of Catholic schools and looked at the impact of single-sex schools on curriculum, college major and occupational choice. He also has investigated causes for the gap in wealth holding between African Americans and whites, race and gender differences in the labor market and the economic motivations underlying family exchange.
Altonji has written more than 40 articles and scholarly papers, and his research has appeared in such publications as the Journal of Labor Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Human Resources and the Journal of Economics, among others.
The economist earned both his B.A. and M.A. from Yale in 1975. He went on to obtain his Ph.D. at Princeton University. Prior to joining the faculty at Northwestern, he taught at Columbia University, where he was also a senior research associate for the National Center of Education and Employment at Columbia's Teachers College. He has been a visiting assistant professor at Princeton University and was a visiting research associate in the Industrial Relations Section there.
Altonji has served as a consultant to the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and to the Center for Naval Analysis.
A fellow of the Econometric Society, Altonji is listed in the third edition of "Who's Who in Economics." His other honors include the Harry Johnson Prize from the Canadian Economics Association.
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