Jesse Shapiro

Jesse M. Shapiro is an American economist and university professor, who has been professor of economics at the University of Chicago. Shapiro in 2008 was highlighted by The Economist as one of eight top young scientists in the field of economics. According to the Economist Shapiro follows, as well as his colleague Roland Fryer of the intellectual tradition of Steven Levitt in so far as that it uses economic methods and theories in order to find answers to socio-political problems. The research interests of Professor Shapiro are located mainly in the fields of industrial organization theory and political economy.

Training

2001 Shapiro from Harvard College one A. B. awarded in Economics with the top grade summa cum laude. Also in 2001 he received from Harvard University, an AM in statistics. He was following his doctorate at Harvard University from this a Ph.D. in 2005 awarded.

Professional career

After graduating from Harvard University, Shapiro worked from 2005 to 2007 as a Becker Fellow at the Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory at the University of Chicago and started for the National Bureau of Economic Research as Faculty Research Fellow in the field of laboratory studies (since 2011 Research Associate ) to investigate. For the National Bureau of Economic Research, he also worked as a Research Associate in the field of Political Economy. 2007 Shapiro was at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago to an Assistant Professor of Economics, before he was promoted to full professor in 2010. He was also at the University of Chicago a Neubauer Family Faculty Fellow (2008-2009), a Robert King Steel (2009-2011) and a Centel Foundation / Robert P. Reuss Faculty Scholar (2010-2011).

In the field of scientific publication Shaprio is an Associate Editor of the American Economic Journal since 2011: Applied Economics and worked since 2012 as an editor of the Journal of Political Economy.

Research

Jesse Shapiro consulted in accordance with the economics publication database IDEAS at the 5 percent of the most cited most economists. His most cited publication is the 2003 with David Cutler and Edward Glaeser has written articles Why Have Americans Become More Obese? . In this article, Shapiro, Glaeser and Cutler examine the question of why the proportion of obese people has increased dramatically in the U.S. since the 1970s. This increase primarily lead the authors attributed that more calories are consumed. The increase in food consumption in the U.S. is again as a result of those technological innovations rated the preparation of food consumption away from the resort and a faster consumption of food at lower preparation and clean-up costs have made it possible. Furthermore, the authors point out that this is in terms of price changes are usually helpful, but this may not apply if self-control problems are present.

In addition, article by Shapiro in leading economics journals such as the American Economic Review, which publishes Quarterly Journal of Economics, Econometrica or the Journal of Political Economy.

Awards and scholarships

During his postgraduate studies at Harvard University, Daniel Benjamin and Shapiro shared from 2003 to 2006 the Russell Sage Foundation Small Grant for behavioral economics. Furthermore, Shapiro received along with Matthew Gentzkow two research grants from the National Science Foundation (2005-2009, 2009-2012 ).

In addition, Shapiro was a Graduate Research Fellow of the National Science Foundation (2001-2004), a Chilean Foundation Fellow (2004-2005), a Humane Studies Fellow of the Institute for Humane Studies (2001-2005), a Research Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and received a scholarship to fund his PhD from the Center for Basic research in the Social Sciences (2004-2005).

Trivia

Jesse Shapiro is also interested in comic books, computer games and Brooklyn.

Writings

• Edward L. Glaeser with, Giacomo AM Ponzetto: Strategic Extremism: Why Republicans and Democrats Divide on Religious Values. In: The Quarterly Journal of Economics. Vol 120, No. 4, 2005, pp. 1283-1330.
• Is there a daily discount rate? Evidence from the food stamp nuri tion cycle. In: Journal of Public Economics. Vol 89, No. 2-3, 2005, pp. 303-325.
• Matthew Gentzkow: Media bias and reputation. In: Journal of Political Economy. Vol 114, No. 2, 2006, pp. 280-316.