Job Market Candidates

Placement Directors:

Professor Pol Antràs Professor Marc Melitz
617-495-1236 617-495-8297

Graduate Administrator:
Brenda Piquet
617-495-8927

Job Market Candidate Summary Sheet

Programs are specified by (E) for Economics, (BE) for Business Economics, (PEG) for Political Economy and Government, (PP) for Public Policy, and (HP) for Health Policy.

Agarwal, Ruchir (E) ragarwal@fas.harvard.edu
Financial Economics, Macroeconomics
Paper Title: "Strategic Corporate Layoffs"
N. Gregory Mankiw, Jeremy Stein, Emmanuel Farhi, Lawrence Katz, Alp Simsek

Aguilar, Arturo, (E) aaguilar@fas.harvard.edu
Development Economics, Labor Economics, Applied Econometrics
Paper Title: "El Niño and Mexican Children: Medium-Term Effects of Early-Life Weather Shocks on Cognitive and Health Outcomes”
Lawrence Katz, Gary Chamberlain, Rema Hanna, Rohini Pande

Azevedo, Eduardo (E) azevedo@fas.harvard.edu
Applied Microeconomic Theory, Market Design
Paper Title (1): “A Supply and Demand Framework for Two-Sided Matching Markets”
Paper Title (2): "Strategyproofness in the Large as a Desideratum for Market Design"
Alvin Roth, Susan Athey, Oliver Hart

Baldiga, Katherine (E) kbaldiga@fas.harvard.edu

Microeconomic Theory, Experimental Economics

Paper Title (1): “A Failure of Representative Democracy”
Paper Title (2): "Gender Differences in Willingness to Guess and the Implications for Test Scores"

Jerry Green, Iris Bohnet, Drew Fudenberg, Alvin Roth

Bernstein, Shai (BE) sbernstein@hbs.edu

Corporate Finance

Paper Title: “Does Going Public Affect Innovation?”

Jeremy Stein, Andrei Shleifer, Josh Lerner, Fritz Foley

Carlsson, Kjell Ke-Li (BE) carlsson@fas.harvard.edu

International Business, Strategy, Multinational Firms, Emerging Markets

Juan Alcacer, Oliver Hart, Jordan Siegel

Dew-Becker, Ian (E) idew@fas.harvard.edu

Asset Pricing, Macroeconomics

Paper Title: “A Model of Time-Varying Risk Premia with Habits and Production”

John Campbell, Effi Benmelech, Emmanuel Farhi, David Laibson

Eccleston, Melissa (E) mecclest@fas.harvard.edu

Labor Economics, Development Economics

Paper Title: “In Utero Exposure to Maternal Stress: Effects of 9/11 on Birth and Early Schooling Outcomes in New York City”

Lawrence Katz, Claudia Goldin, Sendhil Mullainathan

Fabinger, Michal (E) fabinger@fas.harvard.edu

International Trade, International Finance

Paper Title: “Trade and Interdependence in a Spatially Complex World”

Gita Gopinath, Pol Antràs, Marc Melitz, Glen Weyl

Gottlieb, Joshua (E) jdgottl@fas.harvard.edu

Public Economics, Health Economics, Urban and Real Estate Economics

Paper Title: “Do Physicians' Financial Incentives Affect Treatment Patterns and Patient Health?”

Edward Glaeser, Amitabh Chandra, David Cutler, Lawrence Katz, Andrei Shleifer

Hémous, David (E) hemous@fas.harvard.edu

International Trade, Macroeconomics, Environmental Economics

Paper Title: “Environmental Policy and Directed Technical Change in a Global Economy: Is there a Case for Carbon Tariffs?”

Philippe Aghion, Daron Acemoglu, Pol Antràs, Elhanan Helpman

Kamada, Yuichiro (E) ykamada@fas.harvard.edu

Microeconomic Theory, Political Economy, Market Design

Paper Title: “Multi-Agent Search with Deadline”

Drew Fudenberg, Attila Ambrus, Alvin Roth, Tomasz Strzalecki

Kaur, Supreet (PEG) kaur@fas.harvard.edu

Development Economics

Paper Title: “Nominal Wage Rigidity in Village Labor Markets: Evidence from Demand Shocks”

Sendhil Mullainathan, Michael Kremer, Lawrence Katz, Rohini Pande

Leshno, Jacob (BE) jleshno@fas.harvard.edu

Microeconomic Theory, Market Design

Paper Title: “Dynamic Matching in Overloaded Systems”

Alvin Roth, Susan Athey, Drew Fudenberg, Ariel Pakes

Li, Hongyi (BE) hongyili@mit.edu

Organizational Economics

Paper Title: “Developing Shared Knowledge”

Robert Gibbons, Oliver Hart, Philippe Aghion, Eric Van den Steen

Mericle, David (E) mericle@fas.harvard.edu

Macroeconomics, Computational Economics

Paper Title: “Uncertainty, the Liquidity Trap, and Social Insurance”

N. Gregory Mankiw, Emmanuel Farhi, David Laibson

Pflueger, Carolin (BE) pflueger@fas.harvard.edu

Asset Pricing, Macroeconomics

Paper Title: “Inflation Risk in Corporate Bonds”

Luis Viceira, John Campbell, Erik Stafford, James Stock

Rao, Neel (E) rao@fas.harvard.edu

Labor Economics, Organizational Economics
Paper Title: “Social Learning in the Labor Market”

Lawrence Katz, Raj Chetty, Oliver Hart

Rotz, Dana (E) drotz@fas.harvard.edu
Labor Economics, Economic Demography, Applied Econometrics

Paper Title: “Why Have Divorce Rates Fallen? The Role of Women's Age at Marriage”

Claudia Goldin, Lawrence Katz, Roland Fryer

Rouzet, Dorothee (E) drouzet@fas.harvard.edu

International Trade, Political Economy, Financial Markets, Macroeconomics

Paper Title: “Improving ‘National Brands’: Quality Reputation and Export Promotion Strategies”

Philippe Aghion, Elhanan Helpman, Marc Melitz

Sinkinson, Michael (BE) msinkins@fas.harvard.edu

Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics, Econometrics

Paper Title: “Pricing and Entry Incentives with Exclusive Contracts: Evidence from Smartphones”

Ariel Pakes, Bharat Anand, Matthew Gentzkow, Guido Imbens

Stella, Andrea (E) astella@fas.harvard.edu

Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Political Economics, Applied Time Series

Paper Title: “The Magnitude of Menu Costs: A Structural Estimation”

Alberto Alesina, N. Gregory Mankiw, James Stock

Stephens-Davidowitz, Seth (E) sstephen@fas.harvard.edu

Political Economy, Labor Economics

Paper Title: “The Effects of Racial Attitudes on Voting: Evidence Using Google Search Data”

Alberto Alesina, David Cutler, Edward Glaeser

Veuger, Stan (E) veuger@fas.harvard.edu

Political Economy, Public Finance, Applied Microeconomics, International Finance
Paper Title: "Do Political Protests Work? Evidence from the Tea Party Movement"

Martin Feldstein, Alberto Alesina, Jeff Frieden

Kishore, Avinash (PP) avinash_kishore@hksphd.harvard.edu

Environment Economics, Development Economics, Health Economics

Paper Title: “Clean Cooking Fuel, Women’s Intra-household Status, and Son Preference in Rural India”

Dale Jorgenson, James Hammitt, Robert Stavins

Meeks, Robyn (PP) robyn_meeks@hksphd.harvard.edu

Development Economics, Environmental Economics

Paper Title: "Water Works: The Economic Impact of Water Infrastructure"

Michael Kremer, Rema Hanna, Rohini Pande, Robert Stavins

Ranson, Matthew (PP) matthew_ranson@hksphd.harvard.edu

Environmental and Natural Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Behavioral Economics

Paper Title: “What are the Welfare Costs of Coastal Shoreline Loss? Housing Market Evidence from a Discontinuity Matching Design”

Richard Zeckhauser, Robert Stavins, Martin Weitzman

Ye, Maoliang (PP) mye@fas.harvard.edu

Public Economics, Experimental and Behavioral Economics, Political Economics

Paper Title: “When Does Gradualism Build Coordination? Evidence from Laboratory Experiments”

Raj Chetty, Alberto Alesina, Iris Bohnet, Brigitte Madrian

Zajonc, Tristan (PP) tzajonc@fas.harvard.edu

Econometrics, Labor Economics, Development Economics, Economics of Education

Paper Title: “Bayesian Inference for Dynamic Treatment Regimes: Mobility, Equity, and Efficiency in Student Tracking”

Guido Imbens, Alberto Abadie, Dale Jorgenson, Asim Khwaja

Jeremy Barofsky (HP) jbarofsk@hsph.harvard.edu

Health Economics

Paper Title: “Estimating the Impact of Health Insurance in Developing Nations: Evidence from Mexico's Seguro Popular”
David Canning, David Cutler, Amitabh Chandra, David Laibson

Richardson, Samuel (HP) richard5@fas.harvard.edu

Health Economics

Paper Title: “Integrating Pay-for-Performance into Health Care Payment Systems”

Thomas McGuire, Amitabh Chandra, Meredith Rosenthal, Christopher Avery, Michael Chernew