PhD Candidate in Public Policy
Harvard University
383 Pforzheimer Mail Center (map)
56 Linnaean St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 595-2437 john.joseph.horton at gmail.com
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PhD Candidate in Public Policy Harvard University 383 Pforzheimer Mail Center (map) 56 Linnaean St. Cambridge, MA 02138 (617) 595-2437 john.joseph.horton at gmail.com
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I am a student in the Public Policy PhD program at Harvard University. My primary research field is labor economics. I am particularly interested in employer learning, the returns to education and skills, job search, the determinants of wages and the role of fairness and "social preference" factors in explaining labor market relationships.
One of my areas of interest is the emergence of online labor markets and labor market intermediaries. In these markets, workers from around the world perform tasks amenable to remote completion (e.g., computer programming, graphic design, data entry, writing, consulting, etc.) for paying customers. These markets are (a) useful for answering basic questions in economics and the social sciences and (b) potentially important phenomena in their own right. The markets themselves may serve as sources of high-quality observational data and be used for conducting field experiments.
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