Jesse M. Shapiro - Chicago GSB Faculty
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Jesse M. Shapiro

Assistant Professor of Economics and Neubauer Family Faculty Fellow

Jesse M. Shapiro is a Faculty Research Fellow in Labor Studies at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Before joining the Chicago Booth faculty, he was the inaugural Becker Fellow at the Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory.

His research focuses on the economics of communication and persuasion, in the areas of industrial organization and political economy.

Shapiro attended Harvard University, where he earned a bachelor's degree summa cum laude in economics and a master's degree in statistics in 2001, and a PhD in economics in 2005.

Selected Publications

With Matthew Gentzkow, "Competition and Truth in the Market for News," Journal of Economic Perspectives (2008).

With Matthew Gentzkow, "Media Bias and Reputation," Journal of Political Economy (2006).

With Edward L. Glaeser and Giacomo A. M. Ponzetto, "Strategic Extremism: Why Republicans and Democrats Divide on Religious Values," Quarterly Journal of Economics (2005).

With Matthew Gentzkow, "Media, Education, and Anti-Americanism in the Muslim World," Journal of Economic Perspectives (2004).

 
   

Courses
33610 Applied Economics Workshop 2008(Fall)
42001 Competitive Strategy 2009(Spring)

Other Interests
Comic books, video games, Brooklyn.