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.
Salvador Ascencio Pastora
Political economy, economic development and public finance.
Augustin Bergeron
Political economy of development, development economics, and economic history.
Caterina Chiopris
Political economy of inequality, economic history, law and economics, and judicial politics.
Kevin Connolly
Applied microeconomics and labor economics, with a focus on education policy.
Antonio Coran
Political economy, public finance, and labor economics.
Elizabeth Davis
Political economy of land use regulations, housing economics, residential mobility, and public finance.
Kevin DeLuca
American politics, elections, and legislative redistricting. Labor economics with a focus on subjective well-being and time use.
Enrico Di Gregorio
Political economy of development, public finance, economics of institutions, and culture and comparative politics.
Akshay Dixit
Youth civic engagement, Social accountability, Political Economy of public service provision.
Raul Duarte Gonzalez
Political economy, economic development, and public finance. With specific interests in public service delivery, inequality, 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.
Felipe Jordan
Economic development, sustainability, 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.
Andrea Passalacqua
Banking, corporate finance, entrepreneurship, and innovation.
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, economic history.
Hillary Stein
International economics and political economy.
Brian Wheaton
Political economy, empirical macroeconomics, and public finance.
Saul X. Yang
Economic history and organizational economics.