Learn about the dissertations of our PhD in Political Economy and Government graduates and their job placements directly following graduation.
2024
Salvador Ascencio Pastora (government track)
Dissertation Title: Essays in Environmental Economics
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Job Placement: Adjunct Lecturer, Harvard Kennedy School
Caterina Chiopris (government track)
Dissertation Title: Essays in Political Economy
Advisor:
Job Placement: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies; Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Columbia University
Antonio Coran (Economics track)
Dissertation Title: Essays in Public Economics and Labor Economics
Advisor:
Job Placement: Economist, Bank of Italy
Francesca Miserocchi (Economics track)
Dissertation Title: Essays on Gender Inequality and Migration
Advisor:
Job Placement: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard Business School; Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Tilburg University
Clara Sievert (Economics track)
Dissertation Title: Essays on the Economics of Culture and Health
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Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education-Economics Institute (CERGE-EI)
2023
Kevin deluca (government track)
Dissertation Title: Newspaper Endorsements, Candidate Quality, and Election Outcomes in the United States
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Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Yale University
josé Ramón EnrÃquez (government track)
Dissertation Title: Essays on the Political Economy of Development
Advisor: , Rema Hanna
Job Placement: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Digital Economy Lab & Golub Capital Social Impact Lab, Stanford Graduate School of Business
casey Kearney (government track)
Dissertation Title: Essays in International Finance and the Political Economy of Capital Flows
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Job Placement: Assistant Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science
casey Petroff (government track)
Dissertation Title: Essays in Political Economy
Advisor:
Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Rochester
Awa Ambra seck (economics track)
Dissertation Title: Essays in Economic Development and Political Economy
Advisor: ,
Job Placement:
- Assistant Professor, BGIE Unit, Harvard Business School
- Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard Academy
2022
Sarah Armitage
Dissertation Title: Essays in Environmental Economics
Advisor: Joseph Aldy
Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Boston University
Kevin Connolly (economics track)
Dissertation Title: The Economic, Social and Health Effects of America's Two-Year Public College
Advisor: Edward Glaeser
Job Placement: to be confirmed
alley Edlebi (economics track)
Dissertation Title: Essays in Applied Economics
Advisor:
Job Placement: to be confirmed
Michael-David Mangini
Dissertation Title: How Commerce Becomes Compromised: Economic Coercion and Credibility in the Age of the Global Economy
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Job Placement: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance
Hillary Stein
Dissertation Title: Essays on International Finance and Political Economy
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Job Placement: Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
2021
Augustin Bergeron
Dissertation Title: Essays in Development and Public Economics
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Job Placement:
- Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Southern California
- Post-Doctoral Fellow, Stanford King Center on Global Development
Enrico Di Gregorio
Dissertation Title: Essays in Public Finance and Political Economy
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Job Placement: Economist, International Monetary Fund
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Dissertation Title: Essays on the Influence of Western Institutions on Indigenous Societies
Advisor: Rema Hanna
Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Brian Wheaton
Dissertation Title: Essays on Political Economy and Macroeconomics
Advisor:
Job Placement:
- Assistant Professor, Anderson School of Management, University of California Los Angeles
- Hoover Fellow 2021-2022, Hoover Institution
2020
Andrea Passalacqua (economics track)
Dissertation Title:
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Job Placement: Economist, Federal Reserve Board
2019
Juan Sebastián Galán (government track)
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Job Placement: Assistant Professor of Economics, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
Siddharth George (economics track)
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Job Placement: Assistant Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College
Soeren J. Henn (government track)
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Job Placement: Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Innovations for Poverty Action, University of Chicago
2018
Pamela Ban (government track)
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Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California San Diego
Laura Blattner (economics track)
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Job Placement: Assistant Professor of Finance, Finance Group, Stanford Graduate School of Business
John Coglianese (economics track)
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Job Placement: Economist, Research Division, Labor Markets Group, Federal Reserve Board
Andrew Garin (economics track)
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Job Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Edoardo Teso (economics track)
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Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management
Jonathan Weigel (Government track)
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Job Placement: Assistant Professor of International Development, International Development Department, London School of Economics and Political Science
2017
Marek Hlavac (Government track)
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Job Placement: Economics Teacher, United World Colleges (UWC) Adriatic
Danial Lashkari (Economics track)
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Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Boston College
Sara Lowes (economics track)
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Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Bocconi University
MaliHeh Paryavi (economics track)
Dissertation Title:
Advisor: Iris Bohnet
Job Placement: Consultant, Trade and Competitiveness Global Practice, The World Bank
2016
Guilherme Lichand
Dissertation Title:
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Track: Economics
Job Placement:
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
University of Zurich
2015
Mauricio Fernández Duque
Dissertation Title:
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Track: Government
Job Placement:
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Harvard University
Angela Fonseca Galvis
Dissertation Title:
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Track: Government
Job Placement:
Assistant Professor
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Sabrina Howell
Dissertation Title:
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Track: Economics
Job Placement:
Assistant Professor
Department of Finance
New York University Stern School of Business
Akos Lada
Dissertation Title:
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Track: Government
Job Placement:
Economist
Core Data Science Division
Facebook
James Mahon
Dissertation Title:
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Track: Economics
Job Placement:
Manager
Transfer Pricing Division
Deloitte Tax
Jesse Schreger
Dissertation Title:
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Track: Economics
Job Placement:
Assistant Professor
Harvard Business School
(Post-Doc at Princeton University, Department of Economics)
Oren Ziv
Dissertation Title:
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Track: Economics
Job Placement:
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
Michigan State University
(Post-Doc at Dartmouth College)
2014
Jessica Blankshain
Dissertation Title:
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Track: Government
Job Placement:
Assistant Professor
United States Naval College
Joana Naritomi
Dissertation Title:
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Track: Economics
Job Placement:
Assistant Professor of Economics
London School of Economics and Political Science
Arash Nekoei
Dissertation Title:
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Track: Economics
Job Placement:
Assistant Professor of Economics
Institute for Economic Studies
Hye Young You
Dissertation Title:
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Track: Government
Job Placement:
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
Vanderbilt University
2013
Paul Novosad
Dissertation Title:
Advisor: Asim Khwaja
Track: Economics
Job Placement:
Assistant Professor of Economics
Dartmouth College
2012
Eliana Carranza
Dissertation Title: Economics Sources of Son Preference, Sex-Differential Treatment and Household Fertility Behavior
Advisor:
Track: Economics
Job Placement:
Economist
The World Bank
Tim Ganser
Dissertation Title:
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Track: Economics
Job Placement:
Associate
McKinsey & Company
Supreet Kaur
Dissertation Title:
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Track: Economics
Job Placement:
Assistant Professor of Economics and International Affairs
Columbia University
2011
Ryan Bubb
Dissertation Title: Essays in Institutional Economics
Advisor:
Track: Economics
Job Placement:
Assistant Professor of Law
New York University School of Law
Martin Kanz
Dissertation Title: Essays in Finance and Development Economics
Advisor:
Track: Economics
Job Placement:
Economist
The World Bank
Rodrigo Wagner
Dissertation Title: Macroeconomic Recovery, Export Innovation and the Coordination of Entrepreneurs in the Global Economy
Advisor: Dani Rodrik
Track: Economics
Job Placement:
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
Tufts University
2010
Lucy Clare Barnes
Dissertation Title: Essays on the Political Economy of Redistribution
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Job Placement:
Prize Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Nuffield College, University of Oxford
Magnus gustav Feldmann
Dissertation Title: Post Communist Capitalism: The Politics of Institutional Development
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Job Placement:
Assistant Professor
School of Sociology, Politics, and International Relations
University of Bristol
Daniel Fetter
Dissertation Title: Federal Policy and the Mid-century Transformation in U.S. Housing Markets
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Job Placement:
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
Wellesley College
2009
Dilyan Donchev
Dissertation Title: Essays on Corruption Measurement, Trust, and Investors in Eastern Europe
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Job Placement:
Researcher
International Finance Corporation
The World Bank
Joseph Mazor
Dissertation Title: A Liberal Theory of Natural Resource Property Rights
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Job Placement:
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Center for Human Values
Princeton University
Sandip Suktahnkar
Dissertation Title: Essays in Development Economics
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Job Placement:
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
Dartmouth College
2008
Alexis J. Diamond
Dissertation Title: Essays on Causal Inference in Observational Studies
Advisor: Rubin
Job Placement:
Economist
The World Bank
Maria Petrova
Dissertation Title: Political Economy of Media Capture
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Job Placement:
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
New Economic School, Moscow
Philipp Schnabl
Dissertation Title: Essays on Banking and Corporate Finance
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Job Placement:
Assistant Professor
Department of Finance
New York University Stern School of Business
Gilles Serra
Dissertation Title: Why and When Do Political Parties Adopt Primary Elections? A Theoretical and Comparative Study
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Job Placement:
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Nuffield College, Oxford University
Katharine Romaine Emans Sims
Dissertation Title: Balancing Land Conservation and Economic Development: Three Essays
Advisor: Robert Stavins
Job Placement:
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
Amherst College
2007
Gernot Wagner
Dissertation Title: Essays on Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
Advisor: Robert Stavins
Job Placement:
Consultant
Boston Consulting Group
2006
Randall Kekoa Quinones Akee
Dissertation Title: Three Essays in Economic Development: Lessons from Three Small Indigenous Nations
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Job Placement:
Research Associate
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Bonn, Germany
Rebecca Thornton
Dissertation Title: Incentives and Information in Developing Countries
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Job Placement:
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Population Research Center
University of Michigan
2005
Shanna Rose
Dissertation Title: Essays in Institutions and Fiscal Policy in the American States
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Job Placement:
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Alexander Wagner
Dissertation Title: Essays on Organizational Economics
Advisor: Richard Zeckhauser
Job Placement:
Assistant Professor of Finance and Financial Markets
University of Zurich
2004
Shigeo Hirano
Dissertation Title: Party Labels, Institutions and Personal Politics in the United States and Japan
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Job Placement:
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
New York University
Adrian Ma
Dissertation Title: Essays on International Price Co-Movements
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Job Placement:
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
Trent University
Martin Sandbu
Dissertation Title: Explorations in Process-Dependent Preference Theory
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Job Placement:
Post-Doctoral Fellow
The Earth Institute
Columbia University
Jeremy Weinstein
Dissertation Title: Inside Rebellion: The Political Economy of Rebel Organization
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Job Placement:
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
Stanford University
Rachel Deyette Werkema
Dissertation Title: Access, Choice, and Opportunity: Three Studies of Educational Inequality
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Job Placement:
Deputy Research Director
MassINC
Etienne Yehoue
Dissertation Title: Currency Blocs and International Risk Sharing
Advisor: Jeffrey Frankel
Job Placement:
Economist
The World Bank
2003
Amanda Friedenberg
Dissertation Title: Epistemic Analysis of Games
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Job Placement:
Assistant Professor of Economics
Olin Business School
Washington University in St. Louis
2002
Daniel Devroye
Dissertation Title: Essays on Inequality: Causes and Consequences of Income Differences in the American Political Economy
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Job Placement:
Associate
McKinsey & Company
Lucy Goodhart
Dissertation Title: Moderating Passions? Coalition Government and Policy Cycles in Advanced, Industrialized Democracies
Advisor: Jeffrey Frankel
Job Placement:
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
Columbia University
Anne Joseph
Dissertation Title: Political Appointees and Auditors of Politics: Essays on Oversight of the American Bureaucracy
Advisor: Christopher Avery
Job Placement:
Assistant Professor
Berkeley Law School
Ruben Lubowski
Dissertation Title: Determinant of Land-Use Transitions in the United States: Econometric Analysis of Changes Among the Major Land-Use Categories
Advisor: Robert Stavins
Job Placement:
Research Economist
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Jian-li Yang
Dissertation Title: Strategic Ambiguity in Electoral Politics
Advisor: Richard Zeckhauser
Job Placement:
2001
Mary Kay Gugerty
Dissertation Title: Savings, Sanctions, and Support: Essays on Collective Action and Community Organizations in Kenya
Advisor: Merilee Grindle
Job Placement:
Assistant Professor of Public Affairs
Evans School of Public Affairs
University of Washington
Nathaniel owen Keohane
Dissertation Title: Essays in the Economics of Environmental Policy
Advisor: Robert Stavins
Job Placement:
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
Yale University School of Management
Raja Nazrin
Dissertation Title: Essays on Economic Growth in Malaysia in the Twentieth Century
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Job Placement:
Crown Prince
Perak, Malaysia
2000
Miriam Jorgensen
Dissertation Title: Bringing the Background Forward: Evidence from Indian Country on the Social and Cultural Determinants of Economic Development
Advisor: Joseph Kalt
Job Placement:
Senior Researcher
Harvard Project on American Indian Development
Vladimir Klyuev
Dissertation Title: Essays on Monetary and Exchange Rate Policy in Transition Economies
Advisor: Dani Rodrik
Job Placement:
Economist
International Monetary Fund
Kathleen O’Neill
Dissertation Title: Decentralization in the Andes: Power to the People or Party Politics?
Advisor: , Jorge I. Dominguez, Dani Rodrik
Job Placement:
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
Cornell University
Anne Wren
Dissertation Title: Distributional Trade-offs and Partisan Politics in the Post-Industrial Economy
Advisor: , , ,
Job Placement:
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
Stanford University
1999
Sousan Abadian
Dissertation Title: From Wasteland to Homeland: Trauma and the Renewal of Indigenous Peoples and Their Communities
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Job Placement:
Consultant
Private Company
Alison Alter
Dissertation Title: The Allocation of Legislative Property Rights in Comparative Perspective: The German Bundesrat and the United States Senate
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Job Placement:
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
Stanford University
Roop Jyoti
Dissertation Title: Investment Appraisal of Management Strategies for Addressing Uncertainties
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Job Placement:
Vice-Chairman
Jyoti Group of Companies
Ishtiaq Pasha Mahmood
Dissertation Title: Technological Innovation in East Asia and the Role of Business Groups
Advisor: F.M. Scherer
Job Placement:
Assistant Professor
National University of Singapore
Rosemary Fernholz
Dissertation Title: Sustained Farmer Participation in Social Forestry: Case Study in the Philippines
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Job Placement:
Visiting Professor
College of Business and Economy
De La Salle University, Philippines
1998
Scott c. Bradford
Dissertation Title: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Trade Protection in Industrialized Democracies
Advisor: Robert Lawrence
Job Placement:
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
Brigham Young University
Mihir A. Desai
Dissertation Title: Essays in Corporate and Public Finance
Advisor: Christopher Avery
Job Placement:
Assistant Professor
Harvard Business School
Sven e. Feldmann
Dissertation Title: Electoral Competition, Interest Group Influence, and Direct Democracy: Three Essays in Positive Political Economy
Advisor:
Job Placement:
Assistant Professor
Harris School of Public Policy
University of Chicago
David D. Kane
Dissertation Title: Disagreement
Advisor: Richard Zeckhauser
Job Placement:
Consultant
Private Investment Company
Melissa a. Thomas
Dissertation Title: Building the Rule of Law: Government Design for Legal Implementation
Advisor:
Job Placement:
Economist
The World Bank
1997
Fausto Alzati
Dissertation Title: The Political Economy of Growth in Modern Mexico
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Job Placement:
Private Law Practice
Mark S. Bonchek
Dissertation Title: From Broadcast to Netcast: The Internet and the Flow of Political Information
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Job Placement:
Consultant
Private Software Company
Alan C. Hartford
Dissertation Title: Academic-Industry Relationships in the Biomedical Sciences: Academic Norms and Conflicts of Interest
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Job Placement:
Academic Researcher
Beth Israel Hospital
Steven J. Kafka
Dissertation Title: Delegation and Institutional Design: Bureaucratic Structure and the Political Control of Agencies
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Job Placement:
Consultant
Private Investment Company
Adam S. Posen
Dissertation Title: Monetary Realism: Central Banks and the Political Economy of Disinflation
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Job Placement:
Economist
Federal Reserve Bank
1996
Nicholas n. Eberstadt
Dissertation Title: Policy and Economic Performance in Divided Korea, 1945-1995
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Job Placement:
Consultant
American Enterprise Institute
1995
Lionel R. Ingram
Dissertation Title: Major Factors Influencing Allied Decisions Regarding the Allocation of Resources to Defense
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Job Placement:
Consultant
Private Company
Lora L. Sabin
Dissertation Title: The Development of Urban Labor Markets in Contemporary China
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Job Placement:
Researcher
College of Economics
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Alexander Schuessler
Dissertation Title: Symbols, Intention and Mass Participation: The Political Economy of Non-Rational Motivation
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Job Placement:
Assistant Professor
Department of Politics
New York University
1994
Steven A. Block
Dissertation Title: Agricultural Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Job Placement:
Research Associate
Harvard Institute for International Development
Jeffrey R. Franks
Dissertation Title: Collective Action in the Informal Sector of Developing Countries: A Rational Choice Approach
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Job Placement:
Economist
International Monetary Fund
G. Oliver Fratzscher
Dissertation Title: The Political Economy of Trade Integration: Welfare Implications in a Trading Block Model, Political Sustainability in a Pressure Group Model, and Effects of FDI in a Gravity Model
Advisor: Robert Lawrence
Job Placement:
Economist
International Monetary Fund
Janet C. Gornick
Dissertation Title: Women, Employment, and Part-Time Work: A Comparative Study of the United States, The United Kingdom, Canada and Australia
Advisor: William Julius Wilson
Job Placement:
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
City University of New York
Robert Lowry
Dissertation Title: The Political Economy of Environmental Citizen Groups
Advisor: Joseph Kalt
Job Placement:
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
Michigan State University
Kalypso a. Nicolaidis
Dissertation Title: Mutual Recognition Among Nations: The European Communities and Trade in Services
Advisor:
Job Placement:
Assistant Professor of Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School
Subramanian Rangan
Dissertation Title: The Pricing and Sourcing Responses of United States Multinationals to Exchange Rate Changes
Advisor: Robert Lawrence
Job Placement:
Assistant Professor
Corporate Strategy and International Management
Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires (INSEAD)
1993
Francois DeGeorge
Dissertation Title: Essays on Initial Public Offerings of Stock
Advisor: Richard Zeckhauser
Job Placement:
Assistant Professor
Hautes Études Commerciales
Catherine A. Rielly
Dissertation Title: Do Households Pool Their Savings? An Empirical Investigation of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations (RoSCAs) in Cameroon
Advisor:
Job Placement:
Consultant
Abt Associates
Gangadhar P. Shukla
Dissertation Title: Taxation of Exhaustible Natural Resources with Stochastic Prices
Advisor:
Job Placement:
Research Associate
Institute for International Development
Harvard University