Evan Starr

Evan Starr is an Assistant Professor of Management & Organization at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. He received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan and a bachelor's degree from Denison University. He originally hails from Claremont, California. Starr's current research examines issues at the intersection of human capital accumulation, employee mobility, entrepreneurship, and innovation. In a recent set of projects utilizing employee-employer matched data and survey data that he and coauthors developed, Starr examined the use and impacts of noncompete agreements and their enforceability on the provision of firm-sponsored training, employee mobility and earnings, and on the creation, growth, and survival of new ventures.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) University of Michigan (2007 — 2014)
• Master's degree University of Michigan (2007.09 — 2009.05)
• BA Denison University (2003 — 2007)

Companies

• Associate Professor University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business (2021)
• Assistant Professor Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland (2015 — 2021)
• Assistant Professor in the School of Labor and Employment Relations and the Department of Economics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2014 — 2015)
• Graduate Student Instructor University of Michigan (2008 — 2014)
• Instructor: NUS Business School National University of Singapore (2010 — 2011)