Corinne Low

Corinne Low is an Associate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on the economics of gender and discrimination and has been published in top journalssuch as the American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Journal of Political Economy.


She was named one of Poets and Quants 40 MBA Professors under 40 in 2024. Her first book, Femonomics (Having It All in the US), is forthcoming with Hodder & Stoughton in September 2025.


Corinne and her work have also been featured by major popular media outlets, including Forbes, Vanity Fair, The LA Times, and NPR. Corinne is the co-creator of the Incentivized Resume Rating method for measuring hiring discrimination, and regularly speaks to and works with firms looking to improve their hiring and retention practices. She has spoken to and advised firms like Google, IFM Investors, Uber, Activision Blizzard, and Amazon Web Services, in addition to teaching in Wharton's Executive Education programs. She has given talks to top academic institutions like Harvard University, Stanford University and the University of Oxford, as well as to organizations like the New York Federal Reserve, Brookings and the US Department of Labor.


She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University, her B.S. in Economics and Public Policy from Duke University, and formerly worked for McKinsey & Company. Outside of work, she is the co-founder and volunteer executive director for Open Hearts Initiative, a New York City-based non-profit that aims to combat the homelessness crisis through pro-housing neighborhood organizing. She lives in West Philadelphia, USA.