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Mary Kaltenberg

Mary Kaltenberg

Assistant Professor
Director
Dyson College of Arts and Sciences
Economics NY

Mary Kaltenberg

NYC

Biography

Faculty Bio

I am an applied microeconomist in the field of innovation and labor economics interested in the scientific production of scientists (inventors and academics) and more recently, policy analysis of local childcare programs. My expertise in my research is twofold ÄÐÅ®²Ù±ÆÊÓƵÈí¼þ“ building large datasets that contains unique data through web-scraping and applied econometrics.

Education

PhD, Maastricht University, 2020

MA, The New School for Social Research, 2012

BA, The New School, New York, 2009

Research and Creative Works

Research Interest

My research is primarily focused on the intersection of labor and innovation. As a graduate student, I was interested in how automation impacted the demand of skills within occupations and industries and how the diversity of certain skill combinations provided a wage premium. My prior work focused on the returns to cognitive, physical, or social skills, but I was interested in how automation increased wage premiums for the intersection of these skills (social and cognitive, for example) in knowledge-based industries such as finance and education. I later focused more on the skills of inventorsÄÐÅ®²Ù±ÆÊÓƵÈí¼þ•particularly how cognitive skills change as one ages and if that can be reflected in how disruptive an invention is over the life course. More recently, IÄÐÅ®²Ù±ÆÊÓƵÈí¼þ™ve evaluated policy-based interventions and their effect on labor market outcomes of parents, such as the effect of maternity leave on female inventorsÄÐÅ®²Ù±ÆÊÓƵÈí¼þ™ productivity and inventiveness, the impact of access to childcare and schooling during COVID-19, and its impact on a variety of labor market outcomes of parents.

Courses Taught

Past Courses

ECO 106: Principles of Economics: Micro
ECO 240: Quantitative Anlys & Forcastng
ECO 270: Internet Economics
ECO 395: Independent Study in Economics
ECO 400: Seminar in Economic Theory
ECO 585: Applied Econometrics
ECO 590: Data Analytics (R and Python)
ECO 699: Mstr Thss or 3 Pblc Plcy Essys
MBA 802: Managerial Eco for Dec Making

Publications and Presentations

Publications

Invention and the life course: Age differences in patenting.
Kaltenberg, M. A., Jaffe, A. B. & Lachman, M. E. (2023). Research Policy. Vol 52 (Issue 1)

Related News and Stories

Students

Kristina Krichmaryov '26 found her passion with Computational Economics. She highlights the unique community of predominantly female students and the numerous opportunities for intellectual growth and leadership.

Faculty and Staff

Assistant Professor Mary Kaltenberg, PhD, discusses PaceÄÐÅ®²Ù±ÆÊÓƵÈí¼þ™s new Computational Economics program, which merges economics and computer science to prepare students for data-focused careers. She also shares how her research on labor and innovation provides students hands-on experience with real-world economic questionsÄÐÅ®²Ù±ÆÊÓƵÈí¼þ”skills they present at professional conferences.