OnPoint Analytics is pleased to introduce the latest addition to our team of experts: Professor Mark R. Killingsworth.
Dr. Killingsworth is a Professor in the Department of Economics at Rutgers University where he has served as Director of Graduate Studies and Department Chair. He has many years of consulting experience and has served as an expert in numerous cases involving claims of race, age or gender discrimination. Dr. Killingsworth is intimately familiar with the challenges of proving common impact and a feasible class-wide damage methodology at the certification stage. He has testified before the U.S. Congress on immigration reform and comparable worth, and has been a consultant to U.S. District Court Judge Robert L. Carter, the Canadian Department of Justice, and the U.S. Departments of Justice and Labor. His testimony has been cited by numerous Federal Courts and is especially valued for its clarity and simplicity, as well as its quantitative rigor.
Professor Killingsworth was an undergraduate at the University of Michigan (where he was editor of The Michigan Daily) and received his Ph.D. from the University of Oxford, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar. His publications include two books – Labor Supply and The Economics of Comparable Worth – and numerous papers in economics journals. Dr. Killingsworth’s research interests include labor supply and pricing, discrimination, human capital, public assistance programs, and fertility. His work in progress includes analyses of the effect of childhood religious education on adult labor-market outcomes, and of the pay of public university presidents. Dr. Killingsworth has served as editor of the prestigious Journal of Economic Literature.
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