My name is Jason Alexander Fenton Hall and I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Economics at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities.

My fields are growth and development, labor, innovation, and public economics. My research studies the creation of scientific human capital, why some technologies are adopted and others are not, and public policy writ large.

I am on the 2026-2027 job market. My job market paper studies how changes to government funding affect the creation of scientific human capital and through that aggregate growth. You can find that here.

You can find my CV here.