Jonathan Hall

Jonathan Hall

Chief Economist & Director of Public Policy

Uber

PhD: Harvard, 2011

Dynamic Pricing Labor Economics Platform Markets

About

Jonathan Hall is Uber's Chief Economist, responsible for pricing strategy including surge pricing. His research on the labor supply of Uber drivers reshaped how we understand gig work. Previously at Google and Pandora.

Key Work

2017

An Analysis of the Labor Market for Uber's Driver-Partners

NBER Working Paper

Foundational research on gig work flexibility

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2016

The Effects of Uber's Surge Pricing

Working Paper

Why dynamic pricing improves markets

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