作者’的奖学金探讨了技术变革和全球化对劳动力市场对工作两极分化,技能要求,收入水平和不平等,以及选举结果的影响。他担任詹姆斯·M·斯通和凯瑟琳·D·斯通不平等与塑造未来工作中心的联席主任。
Autor的 scholarship explores the labor-market impacts of technological change and globalization on job polarization, skill demands, earnings levels and inequality, and electoral outcomes. He serves as faculty co-director of the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work.
“I 自 1999 年以来一直在麻省理工学院工作,，我的职业生涯归功于研究所,、部门, 以及他们的同事，他们的成就与成就,” Autor 说。 “进入这个角色是一个为这个在每个阶段塑造我的地方做出贡献的机会。”
“I’ve been at MIT since 1999, and I owe my career to the Institute, the department, and colleagues who are as kind as they are accomplished,” Autor says. “Stepping into this role is a chance to contribute to a place that has shaped me at every stage.”
Autor 接替福特经济学教授 Jon Gruber,，后者自 2023 年 7 月以来一直担任系主任。
Autor succeeds Jon Gruber, the Ford Professor of Economics, who has served as department head since July 2023.
Autor 表示，他�%9目标是在应对预算紧缩和不断变化的政治格局的同时，以教职员工和学生制定的一流标准为基础。”
Autor says he “aims to build on the stellar standard set by its faculty and students while navigating budget tightening and a shifting political landscape.”
“同样重要,，我希望带领该部门抓住推进人工智能在我们的教学方式和研究内容方面带来的机遇,” 他补充道。
“Just as important, I want to lead the department toward the opportunities that advancing AI is opening in how we teach and what we research,” he adds.
Autor 因其奖学金—、美国国家科学基金会职业奖,、阿尔弗雷德·P·斯隆基金会奖学金,、因对劳动经济学领域的杰出贡献而获得的舍温·罗森奖,、2019 年安德鲁·卡内基奖学金,、2021 年进步协会奖章— 以及他的教学,（包括麻省理工学院）而获得众多奖项MacVicar 教师奖学金, James A. 和 Ruth Levitan 杰出教学奖, 本科生经济学协会教学奖, 以及麻省理工学院技术与政策项目的教师感谢奖。
Autor has received numerous awards for both his scholarship — the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, the Sherwin Rosen Prize for outstanding contributions to the field of Labor Economics, the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship in 2019, the Society for Progress Medal in 2021 — and for his teaching, including the MIT MacVicar Faculty Fellowship, the James A. and Ruth Levitan Award for excellence in teaching, the Undergraduate Economic Association Teaching Award, and the Faculty Appreciation Award from the MIT Technology and Policy Program.
2020 年，, Autor 因其工作而荣获亨氏家族基金会颁发的第 25 届亨氏特别表彰奖 “ 改变了我们对全球化和技术变革如何影响美国工人的就业和收入前景的理解。”
In 2020, Autor received the Heinz 25th Special Recognition Award from the Heinz Family Foundation for his work “transforming our understanding of how globalization and technological change are impacting jobs and earning prospects for American workers.”
In 2023, Autor was one of two researchers across all scientific fields who was named a NOMIS Distinguished Scientist.
In 2024, Autor was one of five senior scholars selected by the Schmidt Sciences Foundation as an AI2050 Senior Fellow.