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
- 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
- Placement: Assistant Professor, London School of Economics (UK)
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: Essays in Historical Political Economy : Trade, Innovation, and Forced Labor
On June 27, 2024 at 5:00 PM (Paris time), I will defend my thesis Essays in Historical Political Economy: Trade, Innovation, and Forced Labor.
To participate:
https://univ-amu-fr.zoom.us/j/86479447641?pwd=VUpBTFN1TTRKa01NWndZdWZYdVlydz09
ID: 864 7944 7641
Code: 090749
Jury:
M. Thomas CHANEY, University of Southern California
Mme Sheilagh OGILVIE, University of Oxford
M. Leah PLATT BOUSTAN, Princeton University
Mme Ekaterina ZHURAVSKAYA, EHESS, PSE-Ecole d’économie de Paris
Thesis supervisor:
M. Thomas PIKETTY, EHESS, PSE-Ecole d’économie de Paris