Charlie Rafkin
I'm a third-year 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.eduWorking Papers
“The Welfare Effects of Eligibility
Expansions: Theory and Evidence from SNAP”
(with Jenna Anders), 2021.
“Intergenerational Mobility in India: New Methods and Estimates Across Time, Space, and Communities” (with Sam Asher and Paul Novosad), 2021.
“Intergenerational Mobility in India: New Methods and Estimates Across Time, Space, and Communities” (with Sam Asher and Paul Novosad), 2021.
“Optimal Regulation of E-cigarettes: Theory and Evidence” (with Hunt Allcott), 2020. NBER Working Paper #27000. Revise and resubmit at American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.
“Mortality Change Among Less Educated Americans” (with Sam Asher and Paul Novosad), 2020. Conditionally accepted at American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.
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+ Replication archive (and general-use programs to create NRA bounds)
Publications
“When Guidance Changes: Government Stances and Public Beliefs” (with Advik Shreekumar and Pierre-Luc Vautrey). Journal of Public Economics, 2021.Code
scfses: A Stata program to obtain quantiles of variables (point estimates and standard errors) in the Survey of Consumer Finances.