Regular biography
Kate Antonovics is a Teaching Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California, San Diego. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, awarded in 2000. Her research focuses on Public Economics and Labor Economics, with interests in racial discrimination, gender discrimination, affirmative action, the economics of education, intergenerational income mobility, learning, and wage dynamics. Antonovics is also Provost of the Seventh College at UCSD. Her faculty profile can be accessed at https://economics.ucsd.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty-profiles/antonovics.html.
Scholar-generated biography
Kate Antonovics is a Teaching Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California San Diego, specializing in Labor Economics. Her research explores topics such as racial discrimination, affirmative action, and gender dynamics in labor markets. She investigates how policies like affirmative action impact college admissions and human capital accumulation. Her work also examines the intergenerational transmission of human capital, gender interactions in the workplace, and the effects of discrimination on wage inequality. Antonovics has published extensively on statistical discrimination, racial profiling, and the role of education in shaping economic outcomes. Her research combines both experimental and field-based methodologies to uncover the mechanisms behind labor market disparities.