Jesse Shapiro

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Jesse M. Shapiro is an American economist and professor who holds a professorship in political economy at Brown University . Shapiro was singled out as one of eight top young academics in economics by The Economist in 2008 . According to the Economist , Shapiro, like his colleague Roland Fryer, follows the intellectual tradition of Steven Levitt in that he uses economic methods and theories to find answers to socio-political problems. Professor Shapiro's research interests are primarily in the fields of industrial organization theory and political economy .

education

In 2001 Shapiro received an AB in Economics from Harvard College with the top grade summa cum laude . Also in 2001, he received an AM in Statistics from Harvard University . In 2005, following his PhD from Harvard University, he received a Ph.D. awarded.

Professional background

After graduating from Harvard University, Shapiro worked from 2005 to 2007 as a Becker Fellow at the Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory at the University of Chicago and started as a Faculty Research Fellow in Labor Studies for the National Bureau of Economic Research (since 2011 Research Associate ) to research. For the National Bureau of Economic Research he also worked as a research associate in the political economy department. In 2007, Shapiro became an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business before being promoted to Full Professor in 2010. He was also a Neubauer Family Faculty Fellow (2008–2009), a Robert King Steel (2009–2011) and a Centel Foundation / Robert P. Reuss Faculty Scholar (2010–2011) at the University of Chicago. In 2014, he first went to Brown University as a visiting professor for economics, and then took a long-term position as professor there from 2015 to 2019. In 2019 he moved to the Chair of Political Economy.

In the field of scientific publications, Shaprio has been Associate Editor of the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics since 2011 and Editor of the Journal of Political Economy since 2012 .

research

According to the economic publications database IDEAS, Jesse Shapiro is one of the 5 percent of the most cited economists. His most cited publication is Why Have Americans Become More Obese ? , co-authored with David Cutler and Edward Glaeser in 2003 . . In this article, Shapiro, Glaeser, and Cutler examine why the percentage of the obese population in the US has increased dramatically since the 1970s. The authors attribute this increase primarily to the fact that more food energy is consumed. The growth in food consumption in the USA is in turn assessed as the result of those technological innovations that have made it possible to prepare food far away from the place of consumption and to consume food more quickly with lower preparation and cleaning costs. Furthermore, the authors point out that price changes are usually useful in this regard, but this may not be the case if there are self-control problems.

In addition, Shapiro has published articles in renowned economic journals such as the American Economic Review , the Quarterly Journal of Economics , Econometrica and the Journal of Political Economy .

Awards and grants

During his postgraduate studies at Harvard University, Daniel Benjamin and Shapiro shared the Russell Sage Foundation Small Grant in Behavioral Economics from 2003 to 2006. In addition, Shapiro and Matthew Gentzkow received two research grants from the National Science Foundation (2005–2009, 2009–2012).

Shapiro was also a Graduate Research Fellow of the National Science Foundation (2001-2004), a Chiles Foundation Fellow (2004-2005), a Humane Studies Fellow of the Institute for Humane Studies (2001-2005), a Research Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and received a scholarship from the Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences (2004–2005) to finance his doctorate.

Trivia

Jesse Shapiro is also interested in comics , computer games and Brooklyn .

Fonts

  • with David M. Cutler, Edward L. Glaeser: Why Have Americans Become More Obese? In: Journal of Economic Perspectives. Vol. 17, No. 3, 2003, pp. 93-118.
  • with Edward L. Glaeser, Giacomo AM Ponzetto: Strategic Extremism: Why Republicans and Democrats Divide on Religious Values. In: The Quarterly Journal of Economics. Vol. 120, No. 4, 2005, pp. 1283-1330.
  • Is there a daily discount rate? Evidence from the food stamp nurition cycle. In: Journal of Public Economics. Vol. 89, No. 2-3, 2005, pp. 303-325.
  • with Matthew Gentzkow: Media Bias and Reputation. In: Journal of Political Economy. Vol. 114, No. 2, 2006, pp. 280-316.
  • with Matthew Gentzkow: What drives media slant? Evidence from US daily newspapers. In: Econometrica. Vol. 78, No. 1, pp. 35-71.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jesse Shapiro | Brown University. Retrieved January 17, 2020 .
  2. ↑ http://www.economist.com/node/12851150
  3. ↑ http://www.chicagobooth.edu/faculty/bio.aspx?person_id=12825712640
  4. ↑ Jesse Shapiro | Brown University. Retrieved January 17, 2020 .
  5. ↑ http://ideas.repec.org/e/psh70.html
  6. ↑ http://ideas.repec.org/p/nbr/nberwo/9446.html
  7. ↑ http://www.chicagobooth.edu/faculty/bio.aspx?person_id=12825712640

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personal data
SURNAME Shapiro, Jesse
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shapiro, Jesse M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American economist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century