2009-2010 Job Market Candidates

Harvard University, Department of Economics

The Ph.D. candidates listed below would like to be considered for professional opportunities beginning Fall 2010. Additional information is available from Professors Claudia Goldin (617-495-3934) and Lawrence Katz (617-495-5148), Placement Directors or from Nicole Tateosian, Graduate Student Coordinator (natateos@fas.harvard.edu; 617-495-8927). A CV packet [pdf] can be downloaded here. A printable list [pdf] of our job market candidate can be downloaded here.

Programs are specified by (E) for Economics, (BE) for Business Economics, (PEG) for Political Economy, and Government, and (PP) for Public Policy. References listed below are members of the Department of Economics unless otherwise indicated.

Albagli, Elias (E) albagli@fas.harvard.edu
Macroeconomics, Finance
Paper Title: "Amplification of Uncertainty in Illiquid Markets"
Andrei Shleifer, John Campbell, Jeremy Stein, Aleh Tsyvinski (Yale), George-Marios Angeletos (MIT)

Beshears, John (BE) beshears@nber.org
Finance, Behavioral economics
Paper Title: "The Performance of Corporate Alliances: Evidence from Oil and Gas Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico"
David Laibson, Jeremy Stein, Malcolm Baker (HBS), Max Bazerman (HBS)

Bursztyn, Leonardo (E) bursztyn@fas.harvard.edu
Development, Macroeconomics, Political economy
Paper Title: "The Schooling Decision: Family Preferences, Intergenerational Conflict, and Moral Hazard in the Brazilian Favelas"
Andrei Shleifer, Michael Kremer, Philippe Aghion , Lawrence Katz

Cantoni, Davide (E) cantoni@fas.harvard.edu
Economic history, Macroeconomics, Applied econometrics, International trade, Political economy
Paper Title: "The Economic Effects of the Protestant Reformation: Testing the Weber Hypothesis in the German Lands"
James Robinson, Elhanan Helpman, Robert Barro, Claudia Goldin

Cavallo, Alberto (E) acavallo@fas.harvard.edu
Macroeconomics, Monetary economics
Paper Title: "Scraped Data and Sticky Prices: Frequency, Hazards, and Synchronization"
Phlippe Aghion, Roberto Rigobon (MIT), Robert Barro, Michael Bordo (Rutgers)

Chernenko, Sergey (BE) schernenko@hbs.edu
Corporate finance, Behavioral finance
Paper Title: "The Real Consequences of Market Segmentation"
David Scharfstein (HBS), Jeremy Stein, Robin Greenwood (HBS), Fritz Foley (HBS)

Coffman, Lucas (BE) lcoffman@hbs.edu
Experimental economics, Behavioral economics, Development
Paper Title: "Intermediation Reduces Punishment and Reward"
Alvin Roth, Max Bazerman (HBS), Sendhil Mullainathan, David Laibson, Muriel Niederle (Stanford)

Fainmesser, Itay (BE) fainmess@fas.harvard.edu
Economic theory, Social networks, Market design, Experimental economics
Paper Title: "Community Structure and Market Outcomes: Towards a Theory of Repeated Games in Networks"
Alvin Roth, Susan Athey, Drew Fudenberg, Chaim Fershtman (Tel Aviv)

Fetter, Daniel (PEG) dfetter@fas.harvard.edu
Urban economics, Real Estate, Labor, Economic history, Development
Paper Title: "Housing Finance and the Mid-century Tranformation in US Home Ownership: The VA Home Loan Program"
Edward Glaeser, Claudia Goldin, Lawrence Katz, Marcelo Moreira (Columbia)

Fung, Winnie (BE) fung@fas.harvard.edu
Development, Health economics, Applied microeconomics
Paper Title: "Early Childhood Malnutrition and Adult Obesity: Evidence from the 1959-61 China Famine"
David Cutler, David Canning (HSPH), Erica Field, Christopher Avery (HKS)

Ho, Justin (E) jho@fas.harvard.edu
Industrial organization, Game theory
Paper Title: "Cash Inventories and Withdrawal Availability"
Julie Mortimer, Drew Fudenberg , Katherine Ho (Columbia)

Karabarbounis, Loukas (E) karabarb@fas.harvard.edu
International economics, Macroeconomics, Political economy, Public finance
Paper Title: "Labor Wedges and Open Economy Puzzles"
Alberto Alesina, Gita Gopinath, Kenneth Rogoff, Emmanuel Farhi

Kaufman, Alex (E) akaufman@fas.harvard.edu
Applied microeconomics, Labor, Behavioral economics, Household finance, Real Estate
Paper Title: "Securitization and Moral Hazard: Evidence from a Lender Cutoff Rule"
Lawrence Katz, David Laibson, Claudia Goldin, Paul Willen (Boston Fed)

Miran, Stephen (E) miran@fas.harvard.edu
Public economics, Finance, Macroeconomics, Labor
Paper Title: "Capital Gains Taxes and Household Portfolio Rebalancing"
Raj Chetty, David Cutler, Martin Feldstein, John Campbell

Robles, Omar (E) orobles@fas.harvard.edu
Labor, Health economics, Economics of education, Economics of immigration
Paper Title: "The Health Consequences of Repealing Premarital Blood Testing"
Lawrence Katz, David Cutler, Erica Field

Santikian, Lori (E) lsantik@fas.harvard.edu
Corporate finance, Banking
Paper Title: "The Ties That Bind: Bank Relationships and Small Business Lending"
Jeremy Stein, John Campbell, David Scharfstein (HBS), Efraim Benmelech

Schwartzstein, Joshua (E) jschwart@fas.harvard.edu
Behavioral economics, Microeconomic theory
Paper Title: "Selective Attention and Learning"
Andrei Shleifer, Drew Fudenberg, Sendhil Mullainathan

Serban, Laura (BE) serban@fas.harvard.edu
Finance, Market microstructure, Market design, Corporate finance
Paper Title: "Active Traders, Capital and Liquidity"
John Campbell, Shawn Cole (HBS), Erik Stafford (HBS), Gary Chamberlain

Sheu, Gloria (E) gsheu@fas.harvard.edu
International trade, Industrial organization
Paper Title: "Price, Quality, and Variety: Measuring the Gains from Trade in Differentiated Products"
Pol Antras, Elhanan Helpman, Ariel Pakes, Julie Mortimer

Williams, Heidi (E) hlwill@fas.harvard.edu
Public economics, Health economics, Economics of innovation, Labor
Paper Title: "Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation: Evidence from the Human Genome"
Lawrence Katz, Amy Finkelstein (MIT), David Cutler

Yim, Soojin (BE) yim@fas.harvard.edu
Corporate finance, Corporate governance, Social networks
Paper Title: "The Acquisitiveness of Youth: CEO Age and Acquisition Behavior"
Jeremy Stein, Toby Stuart (HBS), David Scharfstein (HBS), Matthew Rhodes-Kropf (HBS)

Yuchtman, Noam (E) yuchtman@fas.harvard.edu
Economic history, Labor, Law and Economics, Applied microeconomics
Paper Title: "How Green Was My Valley? Coercive Contract Enforcement in Nineteenth Century Industrial Britain"
Claudia Goldin, James Robinson, Lawrence Katz

Barnhardt, Sharon (PP) sbarnhar@ksg.harvard.edu
Development, Applied microeconomics, Program evaluation
Paper Title: "Near and Dear? Evidence from India on the Impact of Neighbor Diversity on Ethnic Attitudes"
Rohini Pande (HKS), Erica Field, Lawrence Katz

Deming, David (PP) demingd@nber.org
Labor, Economics of education, Public finance, Urban economics, Applied microeconomics
Paper Title: "Better Schools, Less Crime?"
Lawrence Katz, Susan Dynarski (Michigan), Brian Jacob (Michigan), Christopher Jencks (HKS)

Wei, Thomas (PP) twei@fas.harvard.edu
Labor, Economics of education, Public, Applied econometrics
Paper Title: "Stereotype Threat, Gender, and Math Performance: Evidence from the National Assessment of Educational Progress"
Lawrence Katz, Richard Freeman, Brian Jacob (Michigan), Silvia Ardagna