Earle received his MA and PhD in economics from Stanford University and undergraduate degrees in economics and music from Oberlin College and Conservatory. In addition to his position as senior economist at the Upjohn Institute, he is professor of economics and director of the Labor Project at the Central European University. He has also taught at Stanford University for 10 years as well as at the Stockholm School of Economics and the University of Vienna.

Earle’s policy experience includes stints at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, the Congressional Budget Office, and the U.S. Geological Survey in Washington, DC, and policy advising and consulting with the World Bank, OECD, USAID, and the European Commission. He has been an affiliated researcher with the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan, the Stanford Institute for International Studies, the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics, the Brookings Institution, the Institute for Advanced Studies, and the Institute for the Study of Labor.