Rate My Professor Alicia Modestino

Modestino's research focuses on labor and health economics, including youth employment and training, the future of work, skills mismatch, childcare, gender differences in the labor market, and the opioid crisis. Her work employs large-scale empirical evaluations using diverse data and methods. Key publications include "Gender Differences in Economics Seminars" (American Economic Review, 2026, with Dupas et al.), "No Longer Qualified? Changes in the Supply and Demand for Skills within Occupations" (Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2026, with Burke et al.), "School’s Out: How Summer Youth Employment Programs Impact Academic Outcomes" (Education Finance and Policy, 2023, with Paulsen), "Upskilling: Do Employers Demand Greater Skill When Workers Are Plentiful?" (Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020, with Shoag and Ballance), and "How Do Summer Youth Employment Programs Improve Criminal Justice Outcomes, and for Whom?" (Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2019). She has amassed over $10 million in external funding from sources such as Arnold Ventures, the National Science Foundation, and the Spencer Foundation. Awards include Data Champion from the National Youth Employment Coalition (2025), Evidence Champion from J-PAL (2024), Global Network Accelerator Award (Northeastern, 2023), Excellence in Research and Creative Activity Award (Northeastern, 2022), and Outstanding Teaching Award (Northeastern, 2019). Her affiliations include Affiliated Researcher at J-PAL North America, Nonresident Fellow at Brookings, and Research Fellow at IZA Institute of Labor Economics.