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Jeremy Majerovitz

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Education

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

• Jerry A. Hausman Graduate Dissertation Fellowship
• 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