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Jeremy Majerovitz

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Cambridge, MA
Started August 2016 — PhD in Economics

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Stanford University — Stanford, CA
Graduated June 2015 — Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Economics; Secondary Major in Math; Minor in Statistics

Graduated with Distinction
Sterling Award for Scholastic Achievement (Given to the top 25 graduating seniors by academic achievement in the School of Humanities and Sciences, of over 1200 total)
Firestone Medal for Excellence in Undergraduate Research
David M. Kennedy Honors Thesis Prize for Social Sciences (Given to best undergraduate thesis in the social sciences; first ever recipient for Economics)

Stuyvesant High School — New York, NY
Graduated June 2012 — Advanced Regents Diploma with Honors

Experience

Harvard Lab for Economic Applications and Policy — Cambridge, MA
Pre-doctoral Fellow, June 2015 – June 2016

Provide research assistance to Raj Chetty, Nathan Hendren, and John Friedman
Extensive work on the Health Inequality Project, including designing statistical estimators for life expectancy and parametric bootstrap standard errors and testing them against alternatives for bias, variance, and computational efficiency
Work on additional projects related to income inequality and intergenerational mobility, including the relation of these topics to gender and to higher education

Stanford Department of Economics — Stanford, CA
Research Assistant to Caroline Hoxby, January 2015 – March 2015

Worked towards assembling a data set on financial aid for different schools and types of applicants

Stanford Graduate School of Business — Stanford, CA
Research Assistant to Frederico Finan, February 2014 – June 2014

Worked with data set on all Brazilian elections from 1994 to present and generated descriptive statistics

Columbia Business School — New York, NY
Research Assistant to Saki Bigio, June 2013 – September 2013 and June 2014 – September 2014

Worked with data on banks from CRSP, FDIC Call Reports, and FR Y-9Cs
Ongoing work towards a coauthored paper with Saki Bigio and Juliane Begenau

The Clayman Institute for Gender Research — Stanford, CA
Research Assistant to Christin Munsch, October 2012 – June 2013

Helped design experiments and code surveys related to bias against flexible work schedules