#  Joseph Melkonian 

Graduate Student Associate, Herbert C. Kelman Fellow.

PhD Candidate, Program in Public Policy, Harvard University.

 

 

 



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 location\_on 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 

 laptop\_windows [Personal website](https://jmelkonian.github.io/) 

 

- [ Linkedin   ](https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-melkonian)
 
 



 

**Research interests:** Economic development; migration; labor economics; migrant networks; Middle East and North Africa; Ecuador; Spain; economic history; decolonization; minorities; social norms; and cultural remittances.



 

 

 





 

 

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