Benjamin Scuderi
I am a labor economist and Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan.
I received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 2022, and spent the '22-'23 academic year as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Industrial Relations Section at Princeton University.
Curriculum Vitae: [PDF]
Email: bscuderi@umich.edu
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Research In Progress:
Bidding for Talent: A Test of Conduct in a High-Wage Labor Market (with Nina Roussille) [Updated, Feb. 2024] Revise and Resubmit, American Economic Review
Spinning the Wheel: Heterogeneity and Choice in the Provision of Indigent Defense [Draft Coming Soon!]
Design-Based Inference for Many Treatment Effects
Measuring the Incidence of Wage Subsidies Under Imperfect Competition (with Nina Roussille)
Pinpointing Discrimination in Jury Selection: Operationalizing Batson
Publications:
The Association Between Income and Life Expectancy in the United States, 2001-2014 (with Raj Chetty, Michael Stepner, Sarah Abraham, Shelby Lin, Nicholas Turner, Augustin Bergeron, and David Cutler) The Journal of the American Medical Association: 315(16): 1750-1766, 2016. [Website] [Data] [Video] [Editorial] [Press]
Childhood Environment and Gender Gaps in Adulthood (with Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, Frina Lin, and Jeremy Majerowitz) American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings 106(5): 282-88, 2016. [Website] [Data] [Press]