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Daniel Gross CV

Associate Professor of Business Administration
Fuqua School of Business
100 Fuqua Drive, A105K, PO Box 90120, Durham, NC 27708
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Overview


Daniel P. Gross is an Associate Professor of Business Administration at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He researches the causes and consequences of technological change. Recurring themes in his work include crisis innovation and its impacts on the innovation system; automation and its effects on firms, workers, and labor markets; and incentives and other tools for managing creative workers within organizations. His work frequently uses historical examples of industries undergoing significant technological change as contexts to investigate recurrent or modern economic questions.

Current Duke Appointments & Affiliations


Associate Professor of Business Administration · 2026 - Present Fuqua School of Business

Recent News Items


Published March 16, 2026
Washington Post
See which jobs are most threatened by AI and who may be able to adapt
Published February 3, 2026
Planet Money
5 papers from the Super Bowl of Economics
Published December 19, 2025
The Argument
Don't get fancy with your labor market fixes for AI

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Recent Scholarly Works


Measuring the production of scientific human capital: New data, methods, and evidence on the U.S. scientific training ecosystem

Journal article Research Policy · December 1, 2026 We develop a dissertation-based methodology for measuring PhD populations and use it to present new evidence on who funds STEM PhD training in the United States, how many graduates are trained in areas of strategic national importance, and the effects of p ... Full text Cite

WWII and the evolution of US federal research funding.

Journal article Science (New York, N.Y.) · July 2026 Many fundamental innovation policies were developed during World War II that persist in some form to this day. ... Full text Cite
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Recent Grants


The Decline of Government R&D in U.S. Innovation: Establishing Facts and Evaluating Consequences

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2024 - 2027

The Effects of the World War II Research Effort on Postwar U.S. Science, Technology, and Innovation

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2020 - 2024

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Education


University of California, Berkeley · 2015 Ph.D.
Tufts University · 2008 B.A.