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Michael R. Dalton is a Research Economist in the Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a position he has held since July 2013. His research interests are labor economics, data science, machine learning, and applied microeconomics.

• Putting the Paycheck Protection Program into Perspective: An Analysis Using Administrative and Survey Data

  National Tax Journal, 2023.

• Telework during the COVID-19 pandemic: estimates using the 2021 Business Response Survey

  With Jeffrey A. Groen. Monthly Labor Review, 2022.

• The K-Shaped Recovery: Examining the Diverging Fortunes of Workers in the Recovery from the COVID-19 Pandemic Using Business and Household Survey Microdata

  With Jeffrey Groen, Mark Loewenstein, David Piccone, Anne Polivka. Journal of Economic Inequality, 2021.

• Overattention to First-Hand Experience in Hiring Decisions: Evidence from Professional Basketball

  With Peter Landry. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 175 (2020): 98-113.

• Mitigating the Consequences of a Health Condition: The Role of Intra- and Interhousehold Assistance

  With Daniel LaFave. Journal of Health Economics, 2017, 53.

• Teaching experience

  Lecturer in Undergraduate Statistics and Undergraduate Econometrics at Catholic University of America, 2014-2018.

  Instructor for Undergraduate Intermediate Microeconomics at Duke University.

• Honors and awards

  Bureau of Labor Statistics Innovation Award, 2021, for work on the Business Response Survey; Bureau of Labor Statistics Innovation Award, 2019, for work on the Quarterly Business Survey.