Allison Schrager

Allison Schrager is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. Her work focuses on economics including public finance, pensions, tax policy, labor markets, and monetary policy. She is the author of An Economist Walks Into a Brothel.

Previously, Schrager was a journalist at Quartz, led retirement product innovation at Dimensional Fund Advisors, and consulted international organizations, including the OECD and IMF. She has been a regular contributor to the Economist, Reuters, and Bloomberg Businessweek, and her writing has also appeared in  Foreign Affairs,  National Review, The New York Times, Playboy, Wall Street Journal, and Wired.

She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Edinburgh and a Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University.