Rate My Professor Daniel Tannenbaum

Daniel Tannenbaum is the Georgia and Jim Thompson Associate Professor of Economics in the College of Business at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he joined the faculty as an assistant professor in 2016. He earned his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago in 2014 and his B.A. in economics-mathematics from Columbia University in 2005. Earlier in his career, Tannenbaum served as a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago from 2014 to 2016 and as a Research Associate at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia from 2005 to 2008. He holds faculty affiliations with the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities at the University of Notre Dame since 2019 and the Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools since 2017.

Tannenbaum's research specializes in labor and public economics, addressing topics such as the long-term effects of evictions on children, the evolution of work, the impact of new technologies on the labor market, child support laws' effects on marriage and fertility, and the consequences of gun ownership disclosure on crime rates. His publications include 'Eviction and Poverty in American Cities' in The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2024, with coauthors), 'The Geography of Job Tasks' in the Journal of Labor Economics (2024), 'The Evolution of Work in the United States' in American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (2020, with Enghin Atalay, Phai Phongthiengtham, and Sebastian Sotelo), 'The Effect of Child Support on Selection into Marriage and Fertility' in Journal of Labor Economics (2020), 'Does the Disclosure of Gun Ownership Affect Crime? Evidence from New York' in Journal of Public Economics (2020), and 'New Technologies and the Labor Market' in Journal of Monetary Economics (2018, with coauthors). Tannenbaum has received the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award in 2025 for $430,587 to investigate eviction impacts using linked administrative data, the Best Paper Award for Applied Economics from the American Economic Journal in 2023, the W.E. Upjohn Institute Early Career Research Award in 2017, and grants from the Russell Sage Foundation, Spencer Foundation, Arnold Foundation, and Washington Center for Equitable Growth. His CAREER project also supports educational initiatives, including a new undergraduate course on field experiments, an annual student workshop, and an interdisciplinary symposium on housing policy.