PEOPLE | Former Fellows| 2003-2004

Alumni of the Project

Andreea Balan

Economics Department, Harvard University
Research: Effects of Romanian educational reform on the extent of corruption and the impact on the equity of the admission process (by comparing the outcomes of candidates from various backgrounds, and looking explicitly at students from the most disadvantaged (rural areas).

Yael Aridor Bar-Ilan

Harvard Law School, S.J.D. Candidate
Research: An interdisciplinary study of the challenges underlying the advancement of change through law and their relation to dilemma of the ex post and the ex ante conflicting concepts of justice.

David Evans

Economics Department, Harvard University
Research: Ramifications of parent death on children's education and well being in Kenya, specifically looking at how orphans arrive at the households that foster them, how they are treated there, and how these factors affect their educational attainment.

Bryan Graham

Economics Department, Harvard University
Research: Identifying and assessing the significance of social interactions in explaining variations in a wide range of socioeconomic outcomes (e.g., wages, crime, etc.), focusing on the relationship between "peer group effects" and black-white differences in academic achievement.

Daniel Ho

Government Department, Harvard University and Harvard Law School
Research: Comparative and international political economy, financial regulation, empirical methodology.

Louis-Philippe Hodgson

Philosophy Department, Harvard University
Research: Applying Kantian social contract theory to questions of international justice, and in particular to questions concerning the institutions that are required for a just international order.

Klemen Jaklic

Harvard Law School, S.J.D. Candidate
Research: Constitutional Project for Europe by mapping European constitutional thought, examining new constitutionalism and the rising transnational constitutional theory, and the role and powers of the constitutional judiciary within the framework of the future European Constitution.

Karthik Muralidharan

Economics Department, Harvard University
Research: Study to measure, characterize, and explain teacher absenteeism across over 20 states in India that cover nearly 98% of India's population. Hopes to build on these empirical findings and ask the broader political economy question of how such a poorly functioning system came into existence, how the "low-level equilibrium" is sustained, and why there aren't enough political incentives in a democracy to resolve this fundamental problem.

Benjamin Olken

Economics Department, Harvard University
Research: The Political Economy of Community-Based Development in Indonesia.

Martin O'Neill

Philosophy Department, Harvard University
Research: "Fairness, Freedom and Responsibility: From Agency to Egalitarianism": The ideas of responsibility involved in criteria of distributive justice, and the kind of freedom that is required in order for someone to be responsible in the relevant sense.

Jonathan Rotter

Harvard Law School, J.D
Research: Examination of jury decision-making in the context of explicit efficiency analysis undertaken by a corporate defendant.

Carrie Thiessen

Health Policy, Harvard University
Research: Study of the extent to which clinical trials incorporate community benefits in developing countries and their impact on the health of communities in developing countries.