About Me

I am a Professor of Economics and Associate Chair of the Economics Department at Williams College. I am also an Associate Editor at Economic Development and Cultural Change and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Global Development. I am affiliated with BREAD, IPA, IZA, and J-PAL.

Current Teaching

ECON 523: Program Evaluation for International Development

Now with empirical exercises in R and Python (in addition to Stata)

New Working Papers

The Software Behind the Stats: A Student Exploration of Software Trends Across Disciplines

Joint with Elizabeth Upton, Xizhen Cai, Owen Ozier, Shyam Raman

Other Activities

Williams Record Op-Ed on reduced childcare hours

Open letter to the AEA Executive Committee

Find Me

Email: pj5@williams.edu
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