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Evan Starr

Evan Starr

Associate Professor

Ph.D, Economics, University of Michigan


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.

News

Smith School Awards 14 Faculty Grants for Innovative Research
Fourteen faculty teams at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business have been awarded three-year grants from the…
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Five Things To Know About Noncompete Clauses

It wasn’t the most talked-about hearing on Capitol Hill this week, but for workers across the economy, the topic was vital.

Evan…

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Signing Away Your Right to Get a New Job

Amazon does it. So do Jimmy John’s and many other companies. They require new employees to sign noncompete clauses, a practice now being…

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Research

How Noncompete Agreements Stifle Workers

Evan Starr’s Latest Research Shows Low-Wage Workers Do Better Without Noncompetes

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Show Your Work: A Plea For Better Research Methods

New Paper Pushes Management Researchers to Show More Data

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Machine Learning Has a Flaw. It’s Gullible.

In new research, how humans can shield ML from manipulation

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Insights

New Year, New Goals

Smith Faculty Makes Resolutions for 2023

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Management Professor’s Research Spurs U.S. Push to Ban Noncompete Agreements for Workers

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Smith Professor’s Research Leads to Newly Passed Bill to Curb Workplace Sexual Harassment

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