Jesse Shapiro (Redirected from Jesse M. Shapiro)

Jesse Shapiro
Jesse Shapiro, MacArthur Fellows 3 (cropped).jpg
Bornc. 1979 (age 43–44)
United States
SpouseEmily Oster
InstitutionsUniversity of Chicago
Brown University
Harvard University
FieldPolitical economy
Behavioral economics
School or
tradition
Chicago School of Economics
Alma materHarvard University
Doctoral
advisor
Edward Glaeser
InfluencesSteven D. Levitt
AwardsMacArthur Fellowship
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Jesse M. Shapiro is an American economist 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. In 2021, Shapiro was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.

Education and career

Shapiro was valedictorian of Stuyvesant High School in 1997. He holds a PhD (2005) in Economics, an MA (2001) in Statistics and a BA (2001) in Economics, all from Harvard University.

Shapiro has published a number of influential papers in the area of industrial organization, political economy and behavioral economics. 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 University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

In 2008, The Economist 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, in June 2006, and they have two children.


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