Nathan Grawe

Education & Professional History

University of Chicago, MA; PhD

Dr. Nathan Grawe is a Professor of Economics at Carleton College where he has served on the faculty since 1999.  His work as a labor economist examines intergenerational connections in education and labor market outcomes.  Among other topics, Nathan has written extensively on demographic forces and their connections to higher education demand including Demographics and The Demand for Higher Education (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018) and The Agile College (Johns Hopkins University Press 2021). Outside the classroom, Nathan served as Associate Dean of the College from 2009 to 2012.

Nathan has participated in the leadership of Carleton’s Quantitative Inquiry, Reasoning, and Knowledge (QuIRK) initiative and has shared what Carleton has learned through this initiative through invited talks and professional development workshops at dozens of colleges and universities across the US and Canada.  Since 2015 he has served as Senior editor of Numeracy, the flagship journal of the National Numeracy Network. In 2018 he took on the role of Executive Editor of the journal.