I'm an economics PhD student at MIT, with interests in public, behavioral, and labor economics. I received an AB in mathematics from Dartmouth College in 2016.
Email: crafkin@mit.eduResearch
“The Welfare Effects of Eligibility
Expansions: Theory and Evidence from SNAP”
(with Jenna Anders), 2021.
“Optimal Regulation of E-cigarettes: Theory and Evidence” (with Hunt Allcott), 2020. NBER Working Paper #27000.
“Intergenerational Mobility in India: New Methods and Estimates Across Time, Space, and Communities” (with Sam Asher and Paul Novosad), 2020.
“Optimal Regulation of E-cigarettes: Theory and Evidence” (with Hunt Allcott), 2020. NBER Working Paper #27000.
“Intergenerational Mobility in India: New Methods and Estimates Across Time, Space, and Communities” (with Sam Asher and Paul Novosad), 2020.
“Mortality Change Among Less Educated Americans” (with Sam Asher and Paul Novosad), 2020. Revise and resubmit at American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.
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+ Replication code (and general-use programs to create NRA bounds)
“When Guidance Changes: Government Stances and Public Beliefs” (with Advik Shreekumar and Pierre-Luc Vautrey), 2020. Accepted, Journal of Public Economics.
Code
scfses: A Stata program to obtain quantiles of variables (point estimates and standard errors) in the Survey of Consumer Finances.