Chris Esposito
Osborne Postdoctoral Fellow in the Strategy Unit at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management
Chris Esposito researches the causes of regional economic development, in particular how regional development is shaped by technological change. His dissertation developed theory and data to study how technologies evolve over long time periods, investigated how new geographical centers for innovation emerge, and mapped out the geography of breakthrough innovation. In two related lines of research, Chris studied the impacts of Los Angeles’ minimum wage increase on the local economy and labor force, and the causes of the slowdown in R&D productivity. Chris received his Ph.D. in Geography from UCLA in June 2021. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago with appointments in the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation and the Knowledge Lab in the Department of Sociology.