Jonathan Dingel studies international economics and urban economics. His research interests include the geographic distributions of human capital, industries, and occupations. In recent research, he uses microdata from the US Census of Manufactures and Commodity Flow Survey to identify the determinants of quality specialization within US manufacturing.

At the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Dingel teaches Managing the Firm in the Global Economy. Previously, he taught international economics at the University of Oxford and was a teaching assistant for “Globalization, Markets, and the Changing Economic Landscape” at Columbia Business School.

Dingel earned his Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University in 2014. He received an M.Phil. in economics with Distinction from the University of Oxford in 2008 and an Honors B.A. in economics and political science from Gonzaga University in 2006.