Learn about the dissertations of our PhD in Political Economy and Government graduates and their job placements directly following graduation.

Dissertations and Job Placements of PEG PhD Graduates

2023

Kevin deluca (government track)

Dissertation Title: Newspaper Endorsements, Candidate Quality, and Election Outcomes in the United States
Advisor: James M. Snyder
Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Yale University

josé Ramón Enríquez (government track)

Dissertation Title: Essays on the Political Economy of Development
Advisor: Jeffry FriedenRema 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
Advisor: Jeffry Frieden
Job Placement: Assistant Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science

casey Petroff  (government track)

Dissertation Title: Essays in Political Economy
Advisor: Jeffry Frieden
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: Nathan Nunn, Emily Breza
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: Crystal Yang
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
Advisor: Jeffry Frieden
Job Placement: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance

Hillary Stein

Dissertation Title: Essays on International Finance and Political Economy
Advisor: Kenneth Rogoff
Job Placement: Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

 

2021

Augustin Bergeron

Dissertation Title: Essays in Development and Public Economics
Advisor: Nathan Nunn
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
Advisor: Stefanie Stantcheva
Job Placement: Economist, International Monetary Fund

Felipe Jordán

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: Robert J. Barro
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: Essays in Banking and Corporate Finance
Advisor: Jeremy Stein
Job Placement: Economist, Federal Reserve Board
 

2019

Juan Sebastián Galán (government track)

Dissertation Title: Essays on the Political Economy of Latin American Development
Advisors: Melissa DellNathan Nunn
Job Placement: Assistant Professor of Economics, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia

Siddharth George (economics track)

Dissertation Title: Essays in Development Economics
Advisor: Rohini Pande
Job Placement: Assistant Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College

Soeren J. Henn (government track)

Dissertation Title: Essays on State Building and Economic Development
Advisors: Torben IversenNathan Nunn
Job Placement: Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Innovations for Poverty Action, University of Chicago
 

2018

Pamela Ban (government track)

Dissertation Title: The Changing Influence of Committees in Congress
Advisor: James M. Snyder, Jr.
Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California San Diego

Laura Blattner (economics track)

Dissertation Title: Essays on Finance and Economic Policy
Advisors: Gita GopinathJeremy Stein
Job Placement: Assistant Professor of Finance, Finance Group, Stanford Graduate School of Business

John Coglianese (economics track)

Dissertation Title: Essays on the Macroeconomics of Labor Markets
Advisor: Lawrence Katz
Job Placement: Economist, Research Division, Labor Markets Group, Federal Reserve Board

Andrew Garin (economics track)

Dissertation Title: Essays on the Economics of Labor Demand and Policy Incidence
Advisors: Nathaniel HendrenLawrence Katz
Job Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 

Edoardo Teso (economics track)

Dissertation Title: Essays in Political Economy
Advisor: Alberto Alesina
Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management

Jonathan Weigel (Government track)

Dissertation Title: Taxation, Corruption, and Engagement With the Formal State: Experimental Evidence From the D.R. Congo
Advisor: James Robinson
Job Placement: Assistant Professor of International Development, International Development Department, London School of Economics and Political Science
 

2017

Marek Hlavac (Government track)

Dissertation Title: Essays in Political Economy
Advisor: Torben Iversen
Job Placement: Economics Teacher, United World Colleges (UWC) Adriatic

Danial Lashkari (Economics track)

Dissertation Title: Essays on Innovation and Growth
Advisors: Pol AntràsMarc Melitz
Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Boston College

Sara Lowes (economics track)

Dissertation Title: Understanding the Process of Economic Development: Essays on Culture and Institutions
Advisor: Nathan Nunn
Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Bocconi University

MaliHeh Paryavi (economics track)

Dissertation Title: Essays on Gender and Decision Marking in Political Economy
Advisor: Iris Bohnet
Job Placement: Consultant, Trade and Competitiveness Global Practice, The World Bank

2016

Guilherme Lichand

Dissertation Title: Essays in Development Economics
Advisor: Nathan Nunn
Track: Economics

Job Placement:
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
University of Zurich

2015

Mauricio Fernández Duque

Dissertation Title: Essays on Social Influence in Political Economy: How Expectations and Identity Affect Pro-Social Leading and Following
Advisor: Michael Hiscox
Track: Government

Job Placement:
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Harvard University

Angela Fonseca Galvis

Dissertation Title: Essays on Political Economy
Advisor: James Robinson
Track: Government

Job Placement:
Assistant Professor
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana 

Sabrina Howell

Dissertation Title: Essays in Energy Economics and Entrepreneurial Finance
Advisors: Josh LernerDavid S. Scharfstein
Track: Economics

Job Placement:
Assistant Professor
Department of Finance
New York University Stern School of Business

Akos Lada

Dissertation Title: The Clash of Brothers: Wars to Avoid Diffusion in a Contagious World
Advisors: James RobinsonAndrei Shleifer
Track: Government

Job Placement:
Economist
Core Data Science Division
Facebook

James Mahon

Dissertation Title: Essays in U.S. Fiscal Policy
Advisors: Raj ChettyEdward Glaeser
Track: Economics

Job Placement:
Manager
Transfer Pricing Division
Deloitte Tax

Jesse Schreger

Dissertation Title: Essays in International Finance and Macroeconomics
Advisors: Gita GopinathKenneth Rogoff
Track: Economics

Job Placement:
Assistant Professor
Harvard Business School
(Post-Doc at Princeton University, Department of Economics)

Oren Ziv

Dissertation Title: Essays in Economic Geography
Advisors: Edward GlaeserMarc Melitz
Track: Economics

Job Placement:
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
Michigan State University
(Post-Doc at Dartmouth College)

2014

Jessica Blankshain

Dissertation Title: Essays on Interservice Rivalry and American Civil-Military Relations
Advisor: Daniel Carpenter
Track: Government

Job Placement:
Assistant Professor
United States Naval College

Joana Naritomi

Dissertation Title: Essays in Public Finance and Development Economics
Advisor: Raj Chetty, Michael Kremer
Track: Economics

Job Placement:
Assistant Professor of Economics
London School of Economics and Political Science

Arash Nekoei

Dissertation Title: Essays on Unemployment and Labor Supply
Advisor: Raj Chetty, Lawrence Katz
Track: Economics

Job Placement:
Assistant Professor of Economics
Institute for Economic Studies

Hye Young You

Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Lobbying
Advisor: James M. Snyder, Jr.
Track: Government

Job Placement:
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
Vanderbilt University

2013

Paul Novosad

Dissertation Title: Essays on Local Economic Growth in India
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: Lawrence Katz
Track: Economics

Job Placement:
Economist
The World Bank

Tim Ganser

Dissertation Title: Politics and Policy: Essays in Economics
Advisor: Andrei Shleifer
Track: Economics

Job Placement:
Associate
McKinsey & Company

Supreet Kaur

Dissertation Title: Essays on Labor Markets in Developing Countries
Advisor: Sendhil Mullainathan
Track: Economics

Job Placement:
Assistant Professor of Economics and International Affairs
Columbia University

2011

Ryan Bubb

Dissertation Title: Essays in Institutional Economics
Advisor: Sendhil Mullainathan
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: Andrei Shleifer
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
Advisor: Torben Iversen

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
Advisor: Torben Iversen

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
Advisor: Edward Glaeser

Job Placement:
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
Wellesley College

2009

Dilyan Donchev

Dissertation Title: Essays on Corruption Measurement, Trust, and Investors in Eastern Europe
Advisor: Jeffry Frieden

Job Placement:
Researcher
International Finance Corporation
The World Bank

Joseph Mazor

Dissertation Title: A Liberal Theory of Natural Resource Property Rights
Advisor: Dennis F. Thompson

Job Placement:
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Center for Human Values
Princeton University

Sandip Suktahnkar

Dissertation Title: Essays in Development Economics
Advisor: Sendhil Mullainathan

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
Advisor: Kenneth A. Shepsle

Job Placement:
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
New Economic School, Moscow

Philipp Schnabl

Dissertation Title: Essays on Banking and Corporate Finance
Advisor: Sendhil Mullainathan

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
Advisor: Kenneth A. Shepsle

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
Advisor: Sendhil Mullainathan

Job Placement:
Research Associate
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Bonn, Germany

Rebecca Thornton

Dissertation Title: Incentives and Information in Developing Countries
Advisor: Michael Kremer

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
Advisor: James Alt

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
Advisor: James Alt

Job Placement:
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
New York University

Adrian Ma

Dissertation Title: Essays on International Price Co-Movements
Advisor: Dale Jorgenson

Job Placement:
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
Trent University

Martin Sandbu

Dissertation Title: Explorations in Process-Dependent Preference Theory
Advisor: Amartya Sen

Job Placement:
Post-Doctoral Fellow
The Earth Institute
Columbia University

Jeremy Weinstein

Dissertation Title: Inside Rebellion: The Political Economy of Rebel Organization
Advisor: Robert H. Bates

Job Placement:
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
Stanford University

Rachel Deyette Werkema

Dissertation Title: Access, Choice, and Opportunity: Three Studies of Educational Inequality
Advisor: Katherine S. Newman

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
Advisor: Adam Brandenburger

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
Advisor: Richard B. Freeman

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
Advisor: C. Peter Timmer

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: Robert H. Bates, 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: Robert H. BatesPeter A. HallTorben IversenPaul Pierson

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
Advisor: Amartya Sen

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
Advisor: Kenneth A. Shepsle

Job Placement:
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
Stanford University

Roop Jyoti

Dissertation Title: Investment Appraisal of Management Strategies for Addressing Uncertainties
Advisor: Glenn P. Jenkins

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
Advisor: C. Peter Timmer

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: Kenneth A. Shepsle

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: Robert H. Bates

Job Placement:
Economist
The World Bank

1997

Fausto Alzati

Dissertation Title: The Political Economy of Growth in Modern Mexico
Advisor: C. Peter Timmer

Job Placement:
Private Law Practice

Mark S. Bonchek

Dissertation Title: From Broadcast to Netcast: The Internet and the Flow of Political Information
Advisor: Sidney Verba

Job Placement:
Consultant
Private Software Company

Alan C. Hartford

Dissertation Title: Academic-Industry Relationships in the Biomedical Sciences: Academic Norms and Conflicts of Interest
Advisor: David Blumenthal

Job Placement:
Academic Researcher
Beth Israel Hospital

Steven J. Kafka

Dissertation Title: Delegation and Institutional Design: Bureaucratic Structure and the Political Control of Agencies
Advisor: Kenneth A. Shepsle

Job Placement:
Consultant
Private Investment Company

Adam S. Posen

Dissertation Title: Monetary Realism: Central Banks and the Political Economy of Disinflation
Advisor: Benjamin Friedman

Job Placement:
Economist
Federal Reserve Bank

1996

Nicholas n. Eberstadt

Dissertation Title: Policy and Economic Performance in Divided Korea, 1945-1995
Advisor: C. Peter Timmer

Job Placement:
Consultant
American Enterprise Institute

1995

Lionel R. Ingram

Dissertation Title: Major Factors Influencing Allied Decisions Regarding the Allocation of Resources to Defense
Advisor: Richard Neustadt

Job Placement:
Consultant
Private Company

Lora L. Sabin

Dissertation Title: The Development of Urban Labor Markets in Contemporary China
Advisor: Dwight H. Perkins

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
Advisor: Kenneth A. Shepsle

Job Placement:
Assistant Professor
Department of Politics
New York University

1994

Steven A. Block

Dissertation Title: Agricultural Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa
Advisor: C. Peter Timmer

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
Advisor: Kenneth A. Shepsle

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: Robert O. Keohane

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: C. Peter Timmer

Job Placement:
Consultant
Abt Associates

Gangadhar P. Shukla

Dissertation Title: Taxation of Exhaustible Natural Resources with Stochastic Prices
Advisor: Glenn P. Jenkins

Job Placement:
Research Associate
Institute for International Development
Harvard University