- Office Address
- Taubman-380
- Mailing Address
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John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 114
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Profile
Erzo F.P. Luttmer, Associate Professor of Public Policy,
teaches public economics and microeconomics. His research interests
include public economics, labor economics, and applied
econometrics. Within these fields, his research focuses on income
redistribution programs and the role of social effects on economic
outcomes. In recent research, he has conducted a randomized
experiment to examine the effect of the race and income of Katrina
victims on Americans generosity towards them, explored the
efficiency gains of giving people a choice of tax schedules, and
investigated whether individuals respond to the link between their
current payment of Social Security taxes and their expected future
Social Security benefits. From 1999 to 2000, he worked as an
economist at the World Bank. Luttmer received a masters degree in
econometrics from Erasmus University Rotterdam and a PhD in
economics from Harvard University.
Courses
Fall
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API-101-A
Markets and Market Failure
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API-129
Social Problems and Government Responses
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Research
For a complete list of faculty citations from 2001 - present, please visit the Harvard Kennedy School Research Report Online.
Selected Publication Citations:
- Academic Journals
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Luttmer, Erzo F.P. “Group Loyalty and the Taste for
Redistribution.” Journal of Political Economy 109.3 (June
2001): 500-528.
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Glaeser, Edward L., and Erzo F.P. Luttmer. "The Misallocation of
Housing Under Rent Control." American Economic Review 93.4
(September 2003): 1027-1046.
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Luttmer, Erzo F.P. "Neighbors as Negatives: Relative Earnings and
Well-Being." Quarterly Journal of Economics 120.3 (August
2005): 963-1002.
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Dehejia, Rajeev, Thomas DeLeire, and Erzo F.P. Luttmer. "Insuring
Consumption and Happiness Through Religious Organizations."
Journal of Public Economics 91.1-2 (February 2007): 259-279.
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Shue, Kelly, and Erzo F.P. Luttmer. "Who Misvotes? The Effect of
Differential Cognition Costs on Election Outcomes." American
Economic Journal: Economic Policy 1.1 (February 2009): 229-257.
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Fong, Christina M., and Erzo F.P. Luttmer. "What Determines Giving
to Hurricane Katrina Victims? Experimental Evidence on Racial Group
Loyalty." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 1.2
(April 2009): 64-87.
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Finkelstein, Amy, Erzo F.P. Luttmer, and Matthew J. Notowidigdo.
"Approaches to Estimating the Health State Dependence of the
Utility Function." American Economic Review, Papers and
Proceedings 99.2 (May 2009): 116-121.
- HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series
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Luttmer, Erzo F.P., and Monica Singhal. "Culture, Context, and the
Taste for Redistribution." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper
Series and NBER Working Papers (RWP08-038 and 14268), August 2008.
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Liebman, Jeffrey, Erzo F.P. Luttmer, and David G. Seif. "Labor
Supply Responses to Marginal Social Security Benefits: Evidence
from Discontinuities." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series
:RWP09-003, January 2009.
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Fong, Christina M., and Erzo F.P. Luttmer. "Do Race and Fairness
Matter in Generosity? Evidence from a Nationally Representative
Charity Experiment." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series
RWP09-014, June 2009.