About
Justine is Vice President and Chief of People-Centered Science at Amazon and an affiliate professor of economics at the University of Washington. Previously a tenured Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs at Brown — where she was the founding director of the Rhode Island Innovative Policy Lab — and before that an Associate and Assistant Professor at Yale. Her research has spanned industrial organization, public economics, and the application of behavioral and structural methods to consumer markets and education. She and Christopher have collaborated on a long series of papers on information and choice in Chilean education markets.
Background
- Industrial Organization
- Public Economics
- Behavioral Economics
- Economics of Education
Education
- PhD, Economics · University of California, Berkeley (2001)
- MS, Agricultural and Resource Economics · University of California, Davis (1996)
- BA, Economics (with Mathematics minor) · University of California, Davis (1995)
Career
- Vice President and Chief of People-Centered Science, Amazon (2020–present)
- Affiliate Professor of Economics, University of Washington (2020–present)
- Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs, Brown University (2010–2020)
- Founding Director, Rhode Island Innovative Policy Lab, Brown University (2015–2020)
- Associate Professor of Economics, Yale University (2007–2010)
- Assistant Professor of Economics, Yale University (2001–2007)
Joint work with Christopher
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(Un)informed College and Major Choice: Evidence from Linked Survey and Administrative Data
Economics of Education Review, Access to Higher Education, Vol. 51, April 2016, (pp. 136-151) · 2016 · 138 cites
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Connecting Student Loans to Labor Market Outcomes: Policy Lessons from Chile
American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, Vol. 105, No. 5, May 2015 (pp. 508–513) · 2015
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Student Choices and the Return to College Major and Selectivity
2019
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