I am an Assistant Professor of Economics and the Jones Jr. Faculty Fellow in Applied Economics at Middlebury College in Vermont. I am a macroeconomist who researches U.S. labor markets and inequality. In my free time I enjoy skiing, and recently, I co-produced a feature-length documentary film.
Email: wolcott@middlebury.edu
You can follow me on Bluesky or @DrErinWolcott
Photo by Yeager Anderson
Forthcoming in AEA Papers and Proceedings is a partial report on a large field experiment where we persistently change incorrect beliefs about the racial composition of welfare and UI beneficiaries.
Out in the September 2024 issue of Economics Letters: Pandemic Layoffs and the Role of Stay-At-Home Orders, co-authored with Marianna Kudlyak.
The Workshop on Economic Dynamics I co-organize with Rob Lester (Colby College) and Seth Neumuller (Wellesley College) will be at Wellesley in summer 2025.