I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Associate Director of the UMass Computational Social Science Institute.

My research areas are labor economics, the economics of science and innovation, international development and economic history.  

I am an Affiliated Researcher at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) at the Stockholm School of Economics and the Laboratory for Innovation Science (LISH) at Harvard University.

In 2018, I received the Russian National Prize in Applied Economics, awarded biennially to recognize published research on the Russian economy.