Christina Langer

Research Team

At the Lab, I get to explore big questions about work and technology that have real-world relevance. And I’m lucky to do it with a team that’s not only brilliant but also genuinely committed to making a difference.

Areas of Research

Christina is a Postdoc at the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, where she studies how technology reshapes work, skills, and the decisions firms make. She also holds affiliations as a Honorary Research Fellow at the UCL School of Management and as a Guest Researcher at the ifo Institute in Munich.

She has worked with large datasets ranging from apprenticeship curricula she collected herself to administrative records and millions of online job postings, and she also conducts field experiments. Her work examines how skills evolve, how hiring changes, and what happens when new technologies like AI enter the workplace.

Prior to joining Stanford, she was a Postdoc at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Germany and a Research Fellow at the Project on Workforce at Harvard. She completed her PhD in Economics at KU Eichstaett-Ingolstadt and obtained her M.Sc. with honors and her B.Sc. in Economics from the University of Regensburg in Germany. When she is not researching the future of work, she enjoys yoga and weighted calisthenics.