Thomas Fujiwara
Associate Professor of Economics and International Affairs
Princeton University
Contact information:
Department of Economics and School of Public and International Affairs
Princeton University
131 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building
Princeton NJ 08544
Working Papers
Do Gender-Neutral Job Ads Promote Diversity? Experimental Evidence from Latin America’s Tech Sector
(with Lucia Del Carpio)
May 2025
Measuring Information Frictions in Migration Decisions: A Revealed Preference Approach
(with Charly Porcher and Eduardo Morales)
October 2025
Conditioning Out the Poor? Consumption Inequality and the Design of Cash Transfer Programs
(with Santosh Anagol and Martin Navarrete)
October 2025. Conditionally accepted, American Economic Review: Insights.
Biased Party Nominations as a Source of Women’s Electoral Underperformance
(with Hanno Hilbig and Pia Raffler)
October 2025. Conditionally accepted, American Journal of Political Science.
Publications
The Effect of Social Media on Elections: Evidence from the United States
(with Karsten Mueller and Carlo Schwarz) [Appendix]
Journal of the European Economic Association, 2024, 22(3): 1495-1539.
- A summarized version for the CEPR online book on Political Economy of Social Media.
- A summary for VoxEU (written before the results for 2020 were added).
Policy Deliberation and Voter Persuasion: Evidence from an Election in the Philippines
(with Gabriel Lopez-Moctezuma ⓡ Leonard Wantchekon ⓡ Daniel Rubenson ⓡ Cecilia Pe Lero) [Appendix]
American Journal of Political Science, 2022, 6(1): 59-74.
Rank Effects in Bargaining: Evidence from Government Formation
(with Carlos Sanz) [Appendix]
Review of Economic Studies, 2020, 87(3): 1261-1295.
The Origins of Human Pro-Sociality: Cultural Group Selection in the Workplace and the Laboratory
(with Patrick Francois and Tanguy van Ypersele)
Science Advances, 4(9): 19 September 2018.
- Media: Nature Human Behavior.
Acting Wife: Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Market Investments
(with Leonardo Bursztyn and Amanda Pallais) [Appendix]
American Economic Review, 2017, 107(11): 3288-3319.
- A summary for the Harvard Business Review.
- Media: NBER Digest, Chicago Booth Review, NY Times, NPR, CIFAR, Slate, WSJ, Boston Globe, Forbes.
Habit Formation in Voting: Evidence from Rainy Elections
(with Kyle Meng and Tom Vogl) [Appendix]
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2016, 8(4): 160-188.
- Media: AEA, NBER Digest, Boston Globe, Washington Post.
(with Santosh Anagol) [Appendix]
Journal of Political Economy, 2016, 124(4): 927-991.
Voting Technology, Political Responsiveness, and Infant Health: Evidence from Brazil
Econometrica, 2015, 83(2): 423-464.
- A summary for VoxDev.
- Media: The Economist, Vox, LiveMint, Chris Blattman, Why Nations Fail.
Can Informed Public Deliberation Overcome Clientelism? Experimental Evidence from Benin
(with Leonard Wantchekon) [Appendix]
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2013, 5(4): 241-255.
- Media: The Economist.
A Regression Discontinuity Test of Strategic Voting and Duverger's Law
Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 2011, 6: 197-233.
Miscellaneous:
Older slides on Estimating Excess Deaths due to Covid-19 [code and data] [figures]
- Much of the analysis is superseded by the CONASS' Website on Excess Mortality in Brazil.
- The link above discusses data issues in its technical notes.
- Earlier (now outdated) estimates were also used by the Economist, Financial Times, and New York Times.