Joni Hersch is an economist who works in the areas of employment discrimination and empirical law and economics. Her recent research examines skin color discrimination, job risks faced by immigrant workers, costs of smoking, punitive damages awards, and judge and jury behavior. Professor Hersch joined Vanderbilt Law School as Professor of Law and Economics in 2006, with secondary appointments in the Department of Economics and the Owen Graduate School of Management. Together with Professor W. Kip Viscusi, Professor Hersch developed and is co-director of Vanderbilt's Ph.D. Program in Law and Economics. Over the course of her career, Professor Hersch has published numerous articles in the leading economics journals on group differences in labor market outcomes, the economics of home production, models of litigation, job risks, and product safety regulation. She is the author of Sex Discrimination in the Labor Market (Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, 2006) and co-editor of Labor Market Institutions for the Twenty-First Century (University of Chicago, 2004). Professor Hersch is Associate Editor of the Review of Economics of the Household and is on the editorial board of Social Science Quarterly. Professor Hersch is in her first year of service in a two-year term as a Vice-President of the Southern Economic Association. Before joining Vanderbilt's law faculty, Professor Hersch was an Adjunct Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. She was Professor of Economics at the University of Wyoming from 1989-99 and has been a Visiting Professor of Economics at Northwestern, Caltech, Duke, and Harvard. Please direct media inquiries to Amy Wolf, VU Senior Public Affairs Officer, at 615-343-2634 or amy.wolf@vanderbilt.edu.

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