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Labor Economics, Political Economy, Public Economics

References

Raj Chetty
chetty@fas.harvard.edu

Nathan Hendren
nhendren@mit.edu

Edward Glaeser
eglaeser@harvard.edu

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Email Address: martin_koenen@g.harvard.edu

Personal Website: https://martinkoenen.com/

Hello!

I am a PhD Candidate in Political Economy and Government at Harvard, and a research affiliate at Opportunity Insights and the Institute for Quantitative Social Science.

In my research, I primarily explore how social capital shapes economic outcomes, for instance by influencing where people live and how much they earn. In a second strand of work, I investigate the causes and consequences of political preferences and polarization.

Before graduate school, I worked at Opportunity Insights and earned a MSc in Economics from the University of Mannheim, and a BSc in Economics from Humboldt University of Berlin.

I am currently on the 2024-2025 economics job market.