Mohit Karnani

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About Me

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at Harvard, working in the Kennedy School.

I graduated from MIT with a PhD in Economics and Statistics, where I was advised by Esther Duflo and Parag Pathak.

I fancy topics related to Development Economics, Empirical IO/Market Design, and Education/Labor Economics. Additionally, I am interested in Econometrics and Causal Inference.

Previously, I was an Instructor at Universidad de Chile. I also worked at The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Microsoft Research as a Predoctoral Fellow.

Curriculum Vitae

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Research


Publications

Aftermarket Frictions and the Cost of Off-Platform Options in Centralized Assignment Mechanisms

Journal of Political Economy, 2024

(with A. Kapor and C. Neilson)


Effects of a Large-Scale Social Media Advertising Campaign on Holiday Travel and COVID-19 Infections: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

Nature Medicine, 2021

(with E. Breza, F. C. Stanford, M. Alsan, B. Alsan, A. Banerjee, A. G. Chandrasekhar, S. Eichmeyer, T. Glushko, P. Goldsmith-Pinkham, K. Holland, E. Hoppe, S. Liegel, T. Loisel, L. Ogbu-Nwobodo, B. Olken, C. Torres, P. Vautrey, E. Warner, S. Wootton, and E. Duflo)


Effect of Physician-Delivered COVID-19 Public Health Messages and Messages Acknowledging Racial Inequity on Black and White Adults’ Knowledge, Beliefs, and Practices Related to COVID-19: A Randomized Clinical Trial

JAMA Network Open, 2021

(with C. Torres, L. Ogbu-Nwobodo, M. Alsan, F. C. Stanford, A. Banerjee, E. Breza, A. G. Chandrasekhar, S. Eichmeyer, T. Loisel, P. Goldsmith-Pinkham, B. Olken, P. Vautrey, E. Warner and E. Duflo)


Sudden Stops of Capital Flows: Do Foreign Assets Behave Differently from Foreign Liabilities?

Journal of International Money and Finance, 2019

(with M. Agosin and J. Diaz)


Impact Evaluation of a Freshmen Remedial Math Program: A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Experiencias de Innovacion Docente, 2017

(in Spanish)


Working Papers

Screening and Recruiting Talent At Teacher Colleges Using Pre-College Academic Achievement

Submitted

(with F. Calle, S. Gallegos and C. Neilson)


RCTs with Interference in Matching Systems


Expiring Budgets and Dynamic Competition in Year-End Public Auctions: Theory and Evidence from Chile


Freshmen Teachers and College Major Choice: Evidence from a Random Assignment in Chile


Labor Shakes: Mid Run Effects of a Large Earthquake on Regional Unemployment


Work in Progress

Foreign Classmates and Student Outcomes: Evidence from Venezuelan Refugee Migration Waves

(with D. Paz)


Elite Colleges and Long Run Residential Sorting: Evidence from Centralized College Choice


Noise-Robust Change-in-Changes Estimation


Rational and Adaptive Expectations in School Choice: Evidence from Intertemporal College Admission Cutoffs


Local Cash Transfers, Price Adjustments and Competition: Evidence from a Market-Level Randomized Controlled Trial

(with C. Martinez and J. Tessada)


Teaching

MAC205 - Introduction to Macroeconomics

Assignments:
HW1 HW2 HW3 HW4

Course Material:
Slides Slides (Handout)

Evaluation Forms:
Lecture Evaluation TA Evaluation


MEM155 - Mathematical Methods II

Links to different problems and solutions:
P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 P9 P10 P11 P12 P13 P14 P15 P16 P17 P18 P19 P20 P21 P22

Course Material:
Slides Slides (Handout)

Evaluation Forms:
Lecture Evaluation TA Evaluation


ECO105 - Introduction to Economics

Links to short evaluations:
MOD1 MOD2 MOD3 MOD4 MOD5 MOD7 MOD8

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