Suresh Naidu
Harvard Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow 2008-2010

snaidu |at| wcfia |dot| harvard |dot| edu



My CV is here


Completed Papers

Suffrage, Schooling, and Sorting in the Post-Bellum U.S. South (Job Market Paper)

How Green Was My Valley? Coercive Contract Enforcement in 19th Century Industrial Britain (with Noam Yuchtman)

Bases, Bullets, and Ballots: The Effect of U.S. Military Aid on Political Conflict in Colombia (with Oeindrila Dube)
An exchange with Andrew Gelman over this paper is here
An interview in El Espectador about the U.S. aid to Colombia is here

Coups, Corporations, and Classified Information (with Arin Dube and Ethan Kaplan)
Revise and resubmit at the Quarterly Journal of Economics
A column in Slate about this paper is here.

Intergenerational Wealth Transmission and the Dynamics of Inequality in Small-Scale Societies
Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, Samuel Bowles, Tom Hertz, Adrian Bell, Jan Beise, Greg Clark, Ila Fazzio, Michael Gurven, Kim Hill, Paul L. Hooper, William Irons, Hillard Kaplan, Donna Leonetti, Bobbi Low, Frank Marlowe, Richard McElreath, Suresh Naidu, David Nolin, Patrizio Piraino, Rob Quinlan, Eric Schniter, Rebecca Sear, Mary Shenk, Eric Alden Smith, Christopher von Rueden, and Polly Wiessner
Forthcoming in Science 2009.

Recruitment Restrictions and Labor Markets: Evidence from the Post-Bellum U.S. South
Accepted subject to minor revisions at the Journal of Labor Economics.

Occupational Choices: Economic Determinants of Land Invasions (with Danny Hidalgo, Simeon Nichter, and Neal Richardson)
Forthcoming in the Review of Economics and Statistics 2009.

The Price of Fertility: Marriage Market Effects of A Family Planning Experiment in Bangladesh (with Raj Arunachalam)

Institutional Persistence (with Sam Bowles and Sung-Ha Hwang)

Equilibrium Selection with Intentional Idiosyncratic Play (with Sam Bowles and Sung-Ha Hwang)
Submitted

The Economic Impacts of a Citywide Minimum Wage (with Arin Dube and Michael Reich)
Published in Industrial and Labor Relations Review 2006.