Kerwin joined Yale in 2019 as the Indra K. Nooyi Dean and Frederick W. Beinecke Professor of Economics, Policy, and Management at the Yale School of Management (SOM). He was just reappointed to his second term.
As Dean of SOM, Kerwin has overseen the creation of the Broad Center at Yale SOM for training education leaders, worked with the City of New Haven to establish the Yale/New Haven Center for Inclusive Growth, launched a new degree in Asset Management, and introduced two new joint degrees with the Yale School of Engineering.
In his scholarly work, Kerwin has published on a range of topics in labor and applied economics, with much of his work touching on different dimensions of labor market inequality.
Kerwin has served as the vice president of the American Economics Association and is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is a Fellow of the Society of Labor Economics; of the American Academy of Political and Social Science; and of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.