Tom Raster
PhD student
Paris School of Economics, EHESS
Campus Jourdan – 48, boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris
5th floor, office 70
Phone +33(0)7 67 16 06 70
Research groups:
Economic and Social History
- Agricultural Economics and development
- Labor and development
- Political economy of development
- History of Development
- Labor history
- International Trade and Trade policy
Tom Raster is available for positions
Tom Raster is an EJME candidate and JOE Network candidate
- Primary Field: International Economics
- Secondary Fields: Economic History, Labor Economics, Migration
- References: Thomas Piketty, Edward Glaeser, Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, Sheilagh Ogilvie
- Job Market PAPER: Breaking the ice: The persistent effects of pioneers on trade relationships
Brief Candidate Profile:
Tom works at the intersection of trade, labor economics, and economic history. He collects large-scale archival data and uses natural experiments to causally test prominent theories in economics and economic history.
Thesis Supervisor: Piketty Thomas
Academic year of registration: 2019/2020
Thesis title: Trade, Inequality and Social Conflict in Northern and Eastern Europe, 1500-1914