Joni Hersch, Ph.D., is Professor of Law and Economics at Vanderbilt University. She joined the Vanderbilt law faculty in 2006, with secondary appointments in the Department of Economics and the Owen Graduate School of Management.

Over the course of her career, Professor Hersch has published numerous articles in the leading economics journals on gender and race disparities in labor market outcomes, the economics of home production, law and economics, job risks, and product safety regulation. Her recent research examines discrimination on the basis of darker skin tone among immigrants and African Americans, tort liability litigation costs, and the private mortality costs to smokers. She is the author of Sex Discrimination in the Labor Market (Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, 2006) and co-editor of Emerging Labor Market Institutions for the Twenty-First Century (University of Chicago, 2004). She is currently on the editorial board of Social Science Quarterly.

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