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Personal Information

Email: knoray@g.harvard.edu
Phone: +1 (908) 327 4908 (mobile)
Harvard Site: scholar.harvard.edu/kadeem
Personal Site: kadeemnoray.com

Education

Ph.D. Student in Public Policy (Economics Track) at Harvard University  (2017-2023)
M.S. in Applied Economics from Montana State University (2015-2017)
B.S. in Mathematics, Economics, and Physics from Hillsdale College (2011-2015)

Affiliations and Other Employment

Harvard College Resident Tutor at Adams House (2018-)
The Education Innovation Laboratory at Harvard University (2018-)
The Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) at Harvard University (2017-)
American Economic Association’s Pipeline Mentoring Program (2017-)

Working Papers

STEM Careers and the Changing Skill Requirements of Work (with David Deming) (NBER Working Paper # 25065)
The Impact of Police Brutality on Local Crime Rates: Evidence from Chicago

Research in Progress

The Long Run Effects of Early-life Exposure to Clean Water and Milk
The Black Hospital Movement and its Effect on Mortality (with D. Mark Anderson, Kerwin Charles, and Daniel Rees)
Efficient Cultural Capital Taxation (with E. Glen Weyl)
A Signaling Theory of Cultural Differences (with E. Glen Weyl)

Articles in Refereed Journals (Before Graduate School)

Political Corruption and Public Activism: An Evolutionary Game Theoretic Analysis (with William Abram). Dynamic Games and Applications. (January 2017) (Adapted from Undergraduate Math Thesis)

Selected Awards & Honors

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholar (2018-2023)
Terence M. Considine Fellowship in Law and Economics, Harvard University (2018-2019)
James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Ph.D. Scholar in Inequality and Wealth Concentration, Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality & Social Policy, Harvard University (2018-)
University of Chicago Becker Friedman Institute Price Theory Summer Camp (2018)
Finalist: Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans (2018)
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Prize Fellowship (2017-2019)
IHS Humane Studies Fellowship (2017-2019)
Honorable Mention: Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship (2017 & 2019)
Mildred Livingston Presidential Fellowship (2015-2016)