People

Supreet  Anand

Supreet Anand

Dissertation Fellow.  Ph.D. candidate, Department of Economics.

Research Interests: Development economics, including causes of private sector corruption and labor marker institutions in developing countries.

Ori  Aronson

Ori Aronson

Dissertation Fellow. S.J.D. Candidate, Harvard Law School

Research Interests: Institutional and Constitutional issues in the structure of trial court systems.

Jessica  Barnard

Jessica Barnard

Project Officer.

jbarnard@wcfia.harvard.edu
Telephone: (617) 495-8923
Street Address: 1727 Cambridge Street, room E211
Cambridge, MA 02138

Sven  Beckert

Sven Beckert

JWE Faculty Affiliate. Professor of American History
Research Interests: Social and economics history of the nineteenth century United States; history of capitalism; history of American business; history of labor in the United States.

Eva  Bitran

Eva Bitran

PhD candidate, Department of History; JD candidate, Harvard Law School

Research Interests: Migration, regulation, and the emergence of an international society in twentieth-century Morocco; and international history.

Sugata  Bose

Sugata Bose

JWE Faculty Affiliate. Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Department of History; Director, South Asia Iniative
Research Interests: Modern South Asian and Indian Ocean history.

Nikolas   Bowie

Nikolas Bowie

PhD candidate, Department of History; JD candidate, Harvard Law School

Research Interests: The historical relationship between US corporations and states, from the seventeenth century to the present.

Ryan  Bubb

Ryan Bubb

Dissertation Fellow. Ph.D., Economics Department.
Research Interests: The reciprocal relationships among legal institutions, political institutions, and economic outcomes in the developing world.

Eric  Budish

Eric Budish

Research Fellow. Ph.D. Candidate, Economics Department and Harvard Business School

Research Interests: Developing an efficient, non-manipulable, fair solution to the problem of multiunit cashless assignment.

Daniela  Cammack

Daniela Cammack

Dissertation Fellow. Ph.D. candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University.
Research Interests:
Ancient constitutional ideas and practices; modern constitutionalism;ancient and modern democratic conceptions and institutions.

Amilcar  Challu

Amilcar Challu

Dissertation Fellow. Ph.D., History Department.
Research Interests
:
Living standards, nutrition, and food supply policies in history. I am
particularly interested on the impact of grain market regulations on
food access, and their implications for regime legitimacy at the end of
the Spanish colonial rule in Latin America and Mexico in particular.

Joyce   Chen

Joyce Chen

Dissertation Fellow. Ph.D., Economics Department.
Research Interests:
Gender discrimination in children's health and education, its relative
magnitudes, and how they may change with economic development.

Steven  Cicala

Steven Cicala

Dissertation Fellow. Ph.D. candidate, Department of Economics, Harvard University.
Research Interests:
Theory and measurement of how social context induces behavioral outcomes among students.

David  Clingingsmith

David Clingingsmith

Dissertation Fellow. Ph.D., Economics Department.
Research Interests: Role of institutions in the economic development of India; economics, labor economics, and economic history.

Alison  Comfort

Alison Comfort

Dissertation Fellow. Ph.D. Candidate, Health Policy

Research Interests: Assessing the determinants of demand for preventive health care in developing countries.