2013 Graduate Student Fellows in Democracy & Markets

The Tobin Project awards fellowships annually to graduate students across disciplines and institutions whose research addresses the relationship between democracy and markets. Through monthly forums in Cambridge and New Haven, the students present and discuss their work with one another for uniquely interdisciplinary feedback. Below are the 2013 fellows in the Democracy & Markets program.

 

 

Vivekinan (Vivek) L. Ashok

YALE UNIVERSITY, POLITICAL SCIENCE

PROJECT TITLE: The Role of Wealth and Risk Perceptions on Attitudes Toward Redistribution: A Survey Experiment

 

 

 

Rudi Batzell

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, HISTORY

PROJECT TITLE: Capitalism and Democracy: The Rise of the Corporation and Welfare States in Global Perspective, 1870-1930

  

 

 

Charlotte Cavaille

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, GOVERNMENT AND SOCIAL POLICY

PROJECT TITLE: Social Policy Design and Demand for Government Provided Income Protection

 

 

Claire Dunning

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, HISTORY

PROJECT TITLE: The Privatization of Progress: How the Nonprofit Sector Did (and Did Not) Reshape American Cities

 

 

 

 

Dan Feder

YALE UNIVERSITY, POLITICAL SCIENCE

PROJECT TITLE: In Government We Trust? How Citizens' and Interest Groups' Views of Government Capacity and Competence Structure Their Demands for Problem Solving

 

 

 

Will Goldsmith

DUKE UNIVERSITY, HISTORY

PROJECT TITLE: Kids, the New Cash Crop: Redistributing Educational Opportunity in the Cotton Belt, 1969-2009

 

 

 

Jonathan Gould

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, GOVERNMENT, HARVARD LAW SCHOOL

PROJECT TITLE: Randomization and Policy Design: Promise and Perils

 

 

 

 

 

Kate C. Harris

YALE LAW SCHOOL

PROJECT TITLE: Hidden Liabilities of the State

 

  

 

Daniel Eric Herz-Roiphe

YALE LAW SCHOOL

PROJECT TITLE: Age, Lifesaving Regulation, and Cost-Benefit Analysis: Rethinking the Question and the Answer

 

 

 

Carly Knight

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, SOCIOLOGY

PROJECT TITLE: The Taxman in Historical Perspective - Morality and Rhetoric in American Taxation Discourse

 

 

 

Biko Koening

NEW SCHOOL, POLITICS

PROJECT TITLE: A New Model for Labor: Low Income Workers, Political Networks and the Struggle against Inequality

 

 

 

Tom O'Grady

MIT, POLITICAL SCIENCE

PROJECT TITLE: Why is Reducing the Budget Deficit so Politically Difficult? Evidence on Rising Inequality and the Public's Willingness to Pay Taxes

 

 

Maxwell Palmer

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, GOVERNMENT

PROJECT TITLE: Corporate Boards as Legislatures

 

 

 

 

  

 

June Park

BOSTON UNIVERSITY, POLITICAL SCIENCE

PROJECT TITLE: Echoes of the Asian Financial Crisis in Reverse: Capital Controls and Currency Conflict in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis

  

 

Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, PSYCHOLOGY

PROJECT TITLE: Toward a Psychology of Inequality: Experimental Studies of the Cognitive and Regulatory Consequences of Low Socioeconomic Status

 

 

 

 

Miranda Yaver

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, POLITICAL SCIENCE

PROJECT TITLE: Bureaucratic Control and Dynamic Lawmaking in the United States