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Dan Ehrlich

Ph.D. Candidate
University of Chicago
deehrlich@uchicago.edu


About Me

Welcome! I am a macroeconomics Ph.D. candidate at the University of Chicago Department of Economics. I am broadly interested in growth and development, drawning on tools from macroeconomics, trade, and finance. My research is at the nexus of models and data, combining structural models with original surveys, big data, and a range of causal inference methods including RCTs.

I was a visiting scholar at the Columbia Business School from September 2023 to June 2024 and a visiting scholar at the MIT Department of Economics from January 2023 to May 2023. I will be on the job market during the 2024-2025 academic year.

References

Working Papers

  1. Food Loss in Agricultural Value Chains (JMP)
    Draft Coming Soon!

  2. Scaling Financial Interventions in Space
    with Robert Townsend (MIT)
    [Abstract] [Paper]

  3. Trade-Financial Linkages and Regional Risk Sharing
    with Masao Fukui (BU) and Robert Townsend (MIT)
    Draft Coming Soon!
    [Abstract]

Work in Progress

  1. A Bank on Every Corner: Relationship Contracting and Firm Dynamics
    with Vishan Nigam (MIT)
    [Abstract] [Slides]

  2. Scope vs Scale: The Dynamics of Misallocation
    with Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (UChicago) and Chang-Tai Hsieh (UChicago)
    [Abstract]

Resting

  1. Selection and Hysterisis in Household Migration
    with Erik Hurst (UChicago)

Teaching