Gregory Niemesh is an Assistant Professor of economics at Miami University and a Faculty Research Fellow in the NBER’s Development of the American Economy Program. He received a bachelor’s degree in Economics from DePauw University in 2004, where he first became interested in economic history. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Vanderbilt University in 2012.
His main areas of research are health outcomes, labor markets, and their interaction in the early 20th-century United States. He has published work on labor unions and inequality during the Great Compression, the impact of underregistration of births on infant mortality rates, and the labor market impacts of nutrient fortification in the U.S. He has recently started a new research agenda on medical education and licensing reforms, physician labor supply, and health outcomes.
With his recent foray into historical record linkage, his genealogist mother and grandmother now find his research more applicable to real world problems. He currently resides in Oxford, Ohio with his wife, son, and a new daughter on the way.