Allison Shertzer is an Assistant Professor of economics at the University of Pittsburgh and a Faculty Research Fellow in the NBER’s Development of the American Economy Program. She received bachelor’s degrees in industrial engineering and mathematics from Arizona State University in 2006 and Ph.D. in economics from UCLA in 2011. She is a member of the board of editors of Explorations in Economic History and Historical Methods.
Her main areas of research are cities and immigration in early twentieth century America. Her work on the origins of residential segregation by race has been supported by the National Science Foundation. She has also studied how the arrival of European immigrants shaped the provision of public goods in prewar urban areas.
Allison can trace her ancestry to mid-eighteenth century German immigrants who settled in Pennsylvania and is a ninth-generation resident of the state. She currently lives in Pittsburgh with her husband and two young daughters.