James Okun
Hi! I'm James. I'm a PhD candidate in Economics at MIT. I study industrial organization and public economics.
Cambridge, MA
Working papers
Racial Differences in Nursing Home Value Added with Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein, and Neale Mahoney, submitted
Work in progress
Public Procurement in the Presence of Private Market Spillovers: Evidence from WIC with Yuci Zhou
Publications
Pandemic Schooling Mode and Student Test Scores: Evidence from U.S. School Districts with Rebecca Jack, Clare Halloran, and Emily Oster, American Economic Review: Insights, June 2023
NBER Digest, January 2022
Press Coverage: NYTimes, WSJ, WaPo, The Economist, Bloomberg, Yahoo News, Yahoo Money
NBER Digest, January 2022
Press Coverage: NYTimes, WSJ, WaPo, The Economist, Bloomberg, Yahoo News, Yahoo Money
Other work
The Effect of Transparency on Political Behavior: Evidence from the U.S. Congressional Press Galleries
Awarded the Outstanding Thesis Award from the Economics Department at Brown University, May 2020
Awarded the Outstanding Thesis Award from the Economics Department at Brown University, May 2020