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Corinne Low (PSC Research Associate) was featured in a Knowledge@Wharton podcast segment on how Jeopardy! revealed hiring bias when seeking out a new host.
Corinne Low (PSC Research Associate) co-authored an opinion piece in The Los Angeles Times about ending racial and gender bias in hiring.
New research by PSC Associate Corinne Low and co-authors aims to develop a method for studying the hiring process without relying on subterfuge: incentivized resume rating. The model has hiring managers knowingly review fake resumes before being matched with real-life candidates with similar qualifications. Read more at Penn Today and Knowledge@Wharton.
Assistant Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy
Ph.D., Economics, Columbia University, 2014
Corinne Low is an Assistant Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Wharton School, specializing in family economics and economic development. Her research brings together applied microeconomic theory with lab and field experiments to understand the determinants of who gets how much across gender and age lines. Current ongoing projects focus on the tradeoff women make between career and family in the US, the impact of teaching girls negotiation skills in Zambia, and how expanded access to in vitro fertilization affects women in Israel.
Corinne received her PhD in economics from Columbia University and her undergraduate degree in economics and public policy from Duke University, after which she worked as a consultant for McKinsey and Co. At Wharton, Corinne teaches Managerial Economics in the MBA program.
