Salman Khan

I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in the Economics of Crime. My research focuses on investigating inequalities in the economics of crime, higher education and the labor market, and AI and the future of work. In my research, I draw on labor economics and econometrics to identify the causal impacts of different policies in schools, colleges, and society.

I earned my PhD from Harvard University in May 2025. At Harvard, I was a Stone PhD Scholar in Harvard’s Inequality & Social Policy Program, an IES-PIER Fellow, and an inaugural Research & Policy Fellow at the U.S. Department of Education Office of Federal Student Aid. I was named a Presidential Scholar by Harvard University, Semifinalist for the NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship, and Finalist for the AERA-NSF Dissertation Grant. I am a Research Lead with the Project on Workforce at Harvard and an Affiliate of The Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) at Harvard.