Tom Ahn, Author at Pioneer Institute

About Tom Ahn

Tom Ahn is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Defense Management at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS). After serving in the South Korean army for three-years, he completed a two-year post-doctorate position at Duke University. He taught at the University of Kentucky for seven-years and has been at NPS since 2017. Ahn has pub-lished in Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, and Journal of Urban Economics.

Entries by Tom Ahn

What We Do and Don’t Know about Online Platform Rideshare/Delivery Workers in Massachusetts

September 21, 2022/by Tom Ahn

After Massachusetts’ Supreme Judicial Court declared an initiative that was to appear on the November ballot unconstitutional, the issue of how to classify app-based rideshare/delivery workers is back in the hands of the state Legislature. A new study published by Pioneer Institute distills from the research literature eight questions legislators must answer before determining how to address this fast-growing industry.