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Todd Sorensen

Associate Economics and Business Management Professor Todd Sorensen
Professional Title: 
Associate Teaching Professor
Email: 
tsorensen@ucmerced.edu
Office: 
COB1 346
Education: 
  • PhD, University of Arizona - 2007
  • Labor Economics
  • Industrial Orgnization
  • Econometrics
Research Interests: 
  • Labor Market Structure
  • Immigrtion
  • Discrimination
Bio: 

Todd Sorensen is an Associate Teaching Professor at UC Merced and a fellow at IZA and GLO. He joined UCM in 2022 as a Visiting Associate Professor and was an Associate Professor at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) from 2014 to 2023. 

Before moving to UNR, Todd started his career with seven years as an Assistant Professor at UC Riverside. Todd has taught courses at the introductory, intermediate, advanced undergraduate, and graduate level. He enjoys teaching labor and econometrics the most. Todd's research on imperfect competition in labor markets has been published in ILR Review, Labour Economics, and the Journal of Population Economics. His work was recently cited in the Economic Report of the President. Todd's spouse is also UC faculty and, between the two of them, they have held affiliations at six different UC Campuses.