Corinne Low, Ph.D.

Corinne Low, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

Corinne Low, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Having It All: What Data Tells Us About Women’s Lives and Getting the Most Out of Yours. Her research focuses on the economics of gender and discrimination and has been published in top journals such as the American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Journal of Political Economy. She was named one of Poets and Quants “40 MBA Professors under 40” in 2024.

Low and her work have also been featured by major popular media outlets, including Forbes, Vanity Fair, The Los Angeles Times, and NPR. She is the co-creator of the Incentivized Resume Rating method for measuring hiring discrimination and regularly speaks to and works with firms looking to improve their hiring and retention practices. She has spoken to and advised firms like Google, IFM Investors, Uber, Activision Blizzard, and Amazon Web Services, in addition to teaching in Wharton’s Executive Education programs. Low has given talks to top academic institutions like Harvard University, Stanford University, and Oxford, as well as to organizations like the New York Federal Reserve, Brookings Institution, and the US Department of Labor.

Low received her Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University, her B.S. in Economics and Public Policy from Duke University, and formerly worked for McKinsey and Company.