Simeon Alder is a faculty associate in the Department of Economics at UW-Madison. Previously, he has been on faculty at the University of Notre Dame. His research focuses on the macroeconomics of growth and development, the role of entrepreneurial and managerial talent markets in supporting aggregate economic activity, and structural models of labor and human capital markets. In recent work with Lee Ohanian and David Lagakos, he highlighted the structural role of labor and output market institutions in the Rust Belt’s secular decline since the end of World War II. A 2000 MIA graduate of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a 2009 PhD graduate of UCLA, he joined the economics department at UW-Madison in 2017.