David S. Lee is Chemical Bank Chairman's Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University,^[1] founding director of Princeton's Initiative for Data Exploration and Analytics for Higher Education,^[2] and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.^[3] From 2013 to 2017, he was provost of Princeton, and from 2009 to 2013 he led Princeton's Industrial Relations Section.^[4] He co-edited The Review of Economics and Statistics from 2001 to 2013. He was a Sloan Research Fellow in 2006^[5] and won the John T. Dunlop Outstanding Scholar Award of the Labor and Employment Relations Association in 2007.^[6]

Selected works

• Lee, David S., and Thomas Lemieux. "Regression discontinuity designs in economics." Journal of economic literature 48, no. 2 (2010): 281–355.
• Lee, David S. "Randomized experiments from non-random selection in US House elections." Journal of Econometrics 142, no. 2 (2008): 675–697.
• Lee, David S. "Training, wages, and sample selection: Estimating sharp bounds on treatment effects." The Review of Economic Studies 76, no. 3 (2009): 1071–1102.
• Lee, David S. "Wage inequality in the United States during the 1980s: Rising dispersion or falling minimum wage?." The Quarterly Journal of Economics 114, no. 3 (1999): 977–1023.
• Lee, David S., and Alexandre Mas. "Long-run impacts of unions on firms: New evidence from financial markets, 1961–1999." The Quarterly Journal of Economics 127, no. 1 (2012): 333–378.