NATALIE MILLAR

Welcome! I am a labor economist and the Styslinger Family Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. 

My research focuses on labor markets and business incentives, combining frontier econometric methods with the construction, collection, and curation of novel datasets—including individual training records as well as firm-level surveys, business incentives, job training plans, grant applications, and grant contracts—linked with large-scale administrative data.

My research on labor markets examines human capital investments, measures the returns to these investments, studies the role of specific skills, and analyzes how public policy interacts with employer demand to shape skill development, job placements, and career progression. My work on business incentives quantifies the prevalence and impact of incentives and evaluates policies targeting job creation, capital investment, and workforce development.

I am an affiliate of Stanford University’s Department of Economics, the Stanford Initiative for Business, Taxation, and Society (STAX) at the Graduate School of Business, and the State and Local Governance Initiative at the Hoover Institution. I received my Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Alabama.

Email: nemillar@stanford.edu

For more information, please see my CV.