David Allen Jaeger is a professor of economics at the University of St Andrews, a Research Fellow at IZA Institute of Labor Economics, and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research. He was previously a professor of economics at the CUNY Graduate Center and a Research Fellow in the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is the author of numerous papers in labor economics, the economics of conflict, and econometrics, including a widely cited paper on the consequences of using weak instruments in instrumental variable estimation. He completed his B.A. in economics at Williams College in 1986 and his Ph.D. in economics at the University of Michigan in 1995. He also holds an M.A. in statistics from the University of Michigan. Since 2021 he is the Editor of the Scottish Journal of Political Economy. In 1995 he was the first winner of the W.E. Upjohn Institute Dissertation Award. In 2003-2004 he was the recipient of a fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. David Jaeger is married to the medieval historian Alison Beach. References External links David A. Jaeger's Homepage David A. Jaeger at Google Scholar David A. Jaeger at RePEc Living people 1964 births 20th-century American economists 21st-century American economists University of Michigan alumni Williams College alumni Academics of the University of St Andrews City University of New York faculty Academic staff of the University of Cologne College of William & Mary faculty