Patrick Turner

Biography

Patrick Turner is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Notre Dame and a researcher with the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO). He is an applied microeconomist who focuses on the intersection of public policy and the labor market. Through his work with LEO, he partners with state and local governments and social service agencies to quantify the impact of their adult education, workforce, and anti-poverty programs. His research has been published in the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the Journal of Human Resources, and the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. Since 2024, he is a research affiliate with the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). In 2018, he joined the University of Notre Dame as a research faculty with LEO.