João M. Souto-Maior
Economist at The Burning Glass Institute
Research on learning opportunities, the changing labor market, and economic mobility.
I study how students and workers can better navigate a rapidly changing labor market and advance economic mobility. Rapid technological change and lengthening working lives are reshaping careers, education, and retirement. I am motivated to produce research that helps us navigate this challenging (and exciting) economic moment.
Background
I was trained at the intersection of sociology and economics, with a technical specialization in computational social science. I hold a Ph.D. in Sociology of Education from New York University (2023), and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison (2017). My work leverages large-scale data, simulation-based approaches, and formal theory.
Before joining Burning Glass, I was a postdoctoral scholar at the Stanford Center on Longevity, an experience that fundamentally shaped my research on the changing life course.