Pat’s research focuses on a wide range of subjects, including racial inequality and segregation, social interactions, discrimination, neighborhood effects, housing market dynamics, education, and criminal justice. His most recent work has been published in EconometricaReview of Economic Studies, American Economic Review, and Quarterly Journal of Economics. He is currently working on projects that examine unequal jury representation and its consequences, school spending, the intergenerational consequences of residential segregation, neighborhood tipping, gentrification, policing, and criminal justice.

Pat is currently Gilhuly Family Professor of Economics at Duke University and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He served as Chair of the Duke Economics Department from 2009-15.

Pat received his PhD in Economics from Stanford University in 1999 and his BA in Mathematics from Princeton University in 1994.  He served on the faculty at Yale University for seven years before joining Duke’s Economics Department in 2006.

 

Contact

Phone: (919) 660-1815

Email: patrick.bayer@duke.edu

Office: Social Sciences 228E

Mail: 213 Social Sciences Building, Box 90097, Durham, NC 27708 USA