Marek Hlaváč focuses on topics in labor economics, the political economy of redistribution, and on applied issues in comparative political economy. He currently teaches economics at UWC Adriatic in Duino (Trieste), Italy. With Harry J. Holzer, a former Chief Economist at the United States Department of Labor, he is the author of analyses of historical and recent labor market developments in the United States. In addition, he is the author of 'stargazer,' a widely used package for the R statistical programming language that produces publication-quality regression tables. In the past, Marek has worked as a Research Assistant in the World Bank’s Development Economics Research Department, and as a Research Analyst at NERA Economic Consulting, where he focused on antitrust cases and litigation in the health care industry. Marek holds a Ph.D. in Political Economy and Government from Harvard University, a Master’s degree in Public Policy from Georgetown University, and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics, summa cum laude, from Princeton University.