Magnus Lofstrom

Magnus Lofstrom is a policy research fellow at PPIC. He also holds appointments as research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Germany; research associate at the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California, San Diego; and is a member of the California State Controller’s Council of Economic Advisors as well as the Editorial Board of Industrial Relations. His research focuses on entrepreneurship, immigration, public safety, and education and has been published in such journals as the Journal of Human Resources, Demography, Small Business Economics, Economics of Education Review, Journal of Population Economics and Industrial Relations. Prior to joining PPIC, he was an assistant professor of economics at the University of Texas at Dallas. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, San Diego.