Our PhD in Political Economy and Government (PEG) students are registered at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and delve into a broad range of research areas during their time at Harvard.
Recent dissertations have examined the rising role of primary elections in Latin American politics, the role of ethnicity and institutions in the political economy of African development, and the microfoundations of economic growth.
Our current PEG students and their areas of interest are listed below.
Ahmet Akbiyik
Political economy of development, distributive politics, migration, and contentious politics.
SARAH ARMITAGE
Environmental economics, industrial organization, and public finance.
Salvador Ascencio Pastora
Political economy, economic development, and public finance.
Caterina Chiopris
Political economy of inequality, economic history, law and economics, and judicial politics.
Kevin Connolly
Labor economics, health economics, economic history, and the economics of education.
Antonio Coran
Political economy, public finance, and labor economics.
Kevin DeLuca
American politics, elections, and legislative redistricting. Labor economics with a focus on subjective well-being and time use.
Akshay Dixit
Youth civic engagement, social accountability, and political economy of public service provision.
Raul Duarte
Political economy, economic development, and public finance with specific interests in public service delivery, state capacity, social networks, and clientelism.
José Ramón Enríquez
Political economy of elites with a focus on political dynasties. Political economy of development.
Harris Eppsteiner
Labor economics, public finance, and political economy.
Casey Kearney
International political economy, international finance, economic history, and international trade with a focus on firm heterogeneities.
Martin Koenen
Public finance, labor economics, and political economy.
Michael-David Mangini
International political economy of trade, institutions, formal theory, and economic history.
Can Mutlu
Political economy and formal theory.
Casey Petroff
Economic and financial history, political economy, comparative politics, development economics, and commodity markets.
Awa Ambra Seck
Development economics, political economy, and labor economics.
Clara Sievert
Cultural economics, development economics, and economic history.
Hillary Stein
International economics and political economy.
shreya tandon
Development economics, public finance, and political economy.
Saul X. Yang
Economic history and organizational economics.
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