Jesse M. Shapiro is an American

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and academic. He is the George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration at Harvard University, having previously held the George S. and Nancy B. Parker Professorship at

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

. In 2021, Shapiro was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.

Education and career

Shapiro was

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in 1997. He holds a PhD (2005) in Economics, an MA (2001) in Statistics and a BA (2001) in Economics, all from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

. Shapiro has published a number of influential papers in the area of industrial organization,

political economy Political economy is the study of how Macroeconomics, economic systems (e.g. Marketplace, markets and Economy, national economies) and Politics, political systems (e.g. law, Institution, institutions, government) are linked. Widely studied ph ...

and

behavioral economics Behavioral economics studies the effects of psychological, cognitive, emotional, cultural and social factors on the decisions of individuals or institutions, such as how those decisions vary from those implied by classical economic theory. ...

. He has written about obesity in the United States. Recently his research has focused on polarization in the media and in political opinions. Before joining the Brown faculty, he was an inaugural Becker Fellow at the Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory and the Chookaszian Family Professor of Economics at the

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Booth School of Business. In 2008, ''

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'' listed Shapiro as one of the top 8 young economists in the world. In 2021, he was named a MacArthur Fellow for "devising new frameworks of analysis to advance understanding of media bias, ideological polarization, and the efficacy of public policy interventions."

Selected works

* Cutler, David M., Edward L. Glaeser, and Jesse M. Shapiro. "Why have Americans become more obese?." Journal of Economic perspectives 17, no. 3 (2003): 93-118. * Gentzkow, Matthew, and Jesse M. Shapiro. "What drives media slant? Evidence from US daily newspapers." Econometrica 78, no. 1 (2010): 35-71. * Shapiro, Jesse M. "Smart cities: quality of life, productivity, and the growth effects of human capital." The review of economics and statistics 88, no. 2 (2006): 324-335. * Gentzkow, Matthew, and Jesse M. Shapiro. "Media bias and reputation." Journal of political Economy 114, no. 2 (2006): 280-316. * Gentzkow, Matthew, Jesse M. Shapiro, and Michael Sinkinson. "The effect of newspaper entry and exit on electoral politics." American Economic Review 101, no. 7 (2011): 2980-3018. * Gentzkow, Matthew, and Jesse M. Shapiro. "Ideological segregation online and offline." The Quarterly Journal of Economics 126, no. 4 (2011): 1799-1839.

Personal life

Shapiro is the son of Joyce and Arvin Shapiro. He married economist

Emily Oster Emily Fair Oster (born February 14, 1980) is an American economist and author. She is currently the JJE Goldman Sachs University Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs at Brown University, where she has taught since 2015. He ...

, in June 2006, and they have two children.

References

External links

Jesse Shapiro main page

Curriculum Vitae
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