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