Dan A. Black is Professor and Deputy Dean at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago and a Senior Fellow at the National Opinion Research Center. He is research director of the CWICstats program, a research and data initiative that collects, analyzes, and disseminates information on the performance of Chicago area workforce development programs.. He currently serves as the principal investigator for the 1997 Cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Labor Economics, Labour Economics, and Growth and Change. His research focuses on labor economics and applied econometrics. His papers have appeared in the top journals in economics, statistics, and demography. He has served on panels for the Census Bureau, the Department of Education, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Science Foundation, and the National Academy of Science and has served as a consultant for the New Zealand and Australian governments. Before joining the Harris School, he was on faculty at the University of Kentucky and Syracuse University, held visiting appointments at the University of Chicago, Australian National University, and Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Black holds a B.A. and M.A. in history from the University of Kansas and an M.S. and Ph.D. in economics from Purdue University.