Contact Information

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Personal Webpage

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European Job Market for Economists (EEA)

Allied Social Science Associations (ASSA)

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Research interests

Behavioral and Experimental Economics. Game Theory. Inequality. Political Economy

Placement Officer

Edouard Schaal
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References

Rosemarie Nagel (Advisor)
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Fabrizio Germano (Advisor)
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Marta Reynal-Querol
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Research

"The Origins of Inequality: an Experiment in Minecraft" (Job Market Paper)

Abstract: I study the emergence of inequality in a massively multiplayer natural experiment in Minecraft. I use machine learning methods and real-time activity and location data to estimate how random assignment of starting locations affects economic outcomes at the individual and group level. I find that the composition of food sources produced in a starting location has a significant effect on the level of inequality within groups of closeby players; the emergence of inequality depends on the interaction between four properties of food production: capital intensity, appropriability, renewability, and land dependence. These factors also have a significant effect on economic growth and wealth accumulation. I provide causal evidence in favor of historical theories of inequality, in particular, ones that suggest that capital-intensive highly appropriable food leads to long-term economic inequality.

Work in Progress

“The Origins of Inequality: an Experiment in a State of Nature"
“Fair and Efficient: Re-evaluating Normal-form Games with Near-Equal Split” (with R.Nagel).
“Wavelength and Targeted Messaging”.
“Acting and Matching”.