Matthew Johnson 63 Dana St, Apt 2 Cambridge, MA 02138 ● (626) 272-7455 ●
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Education 2011-2016 (expected)
Ph.D. Candidate in Economics, Boston University
2003-2007
B.A.
Economics and History (with honors), University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests Labor Economics, Development, Applied Econometrics
Awards and Honors 2014 Spring 2014 2012 2011-2016 2007
Outstanding Paper Award, Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability (ARCS) Annual Conference Funding for Research Assistant, RA Mentor Program, Boston University Department of Economics Honorable Mention, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Dean’s Fellowship, Boston University Distinction in General Scholarship, UC Berkeley
Research Experience 2013-2014
Research Assistant for Professor Carola Frydman; Professors Claudia Olivetti and Daniele Paserman Boston University
2009-2011
Research Associate for Professor Fritz Foley; Professor Laura Alfaro; Professor Michael Toffel Harvard Business School
2007-2009
Senior Research Assistant for Dr. Martin Baily The Brookings Institution
Peer-Reviewed Publications Levine, David I., Michael W. Toffel, and Matthew S. Johnson. 2012. “Randomized Government Safety Inspections Reduce Worker Injuries with No Detectable Job Loss.” Science 336, no. 6083 (May 18). Johnson, Matthew S. “The Power of Ideas and American Racial Struggles in the Early Nineteenth Century.” Clio’s Scroll: Berkeley Undergraduate History Journal; spring (2007).
Working Papers Does Publicizing Enforcement Deter Future Crime? Evidence from Press Releases on Workplace Safety
Other Publications Foley, C. Fritz and Matthew S. Johnson. “The Export-Import Bank of the United States.” Harvard Business School Case 211-032.
Foley, C. Fritz and Matthew S. Johnson. “Belco Global Foods.” Harvard Business School Case 211-033. Foley, C. Fritz, Matthew S. Johnson and David Lane. “Note on International Trade Finance.” Harvard Business School Note 2-211-007. Alfaro, Laura and Matthew Johnson. "Foreign Direct Investment and Growth." Chap. 20 in The Evidence and Impact of Financial Globalization, edited by Gerard Caprio, 299–307. Elsevier, 2012. Alfaro, Laura, and Matthew Johnson. "Foreign Direct Investment and Ireland's Tiger Economy (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 710-057. Foley, C. Fritz, Michael Shih-Ta Chen, Matthew Johnson, and Linnea Meyer. “Noble Group.” Harvard Business School Case 210-021. Baily, Martin N., Robert E. Litan and Matthew S. Johnson. “The Origins of the Financial Crisis,” in Lessons from the Financial Crisis: Causes, Consequences and Our Economic Future, (ed. Robert W. Kolb), Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (June 2010). Baily, Martin N., Robert E. Litan and Matthew S. Johnson. “The Origins of the Financial Crisis.” The Brookings Institution; Fixing Finance Series: Paper 3 (2008).
Teaching Experience 2012-2013
Teaching Fellow, Principles of Microeconomics, Boston University
Conferences and Presentations 2014: Society of Labor Economists (SOLE) Annual Meeting, Alliance for Research in Corporate Sustainability (ARCS) Annual Meeting 2013: Harvard School of Public Health ERC Seminar, Suffolk Law School 2012: Association for Public Policy and Management Fall Research Conference, Baltimore MD
Skills Computer: Stata, LaTeX, Matlab Language: Spanish (intermediate)
Other Experience 2013-2014 Officer, BU Graduate Economics Association 2009-present Volunteer Tutor, Tutoring Plus! (Cambridge, MA)
