Damon Clark is an Associate Professor (with tenure) in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Irvine. He is also a Research Associate at the NBER, a Research Fellow at IZA and a Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, London. His main research interest is in the economics of education. Other research interests include labor economics, public economics and applied econometrics. Before joining UCI, Clark was an Assistant Professor at Cornell University, a Visiting Assistant Professor at Princeton University and an Assistant Professor at the University of Florida. He completed his PhD at Oxford University and spent two years at the Center for Labor Economics at UC Berkeley.