UC-Berkeley, Haas School of Business

email: yuchtman at haas dot berkeley dot edu

Teaching:

My CV

Assistant Professor, Business and Public Policy Group

“Coercive Contract Enforcement: Law and the Labor Market in 19th Century Industrial Britain,” American Economic Review, 103(1), 107-144 (Also, NBER Working Paper 17051)

(with Suresh Naidu)

“Crime, Punishment, and Politics: An Analysis of Political Cycles in Criminal Sentencing,”

forthcoming in the Review of Economics and Statistics (with Carlos Berdejo)

“Medieval Universities, Legal Institutions, and the Commercial Revolution” (NBER Working Paper 17979)

(with Davide Cantoni)

“Teaching to the Tests: An Economic Analysis of Educational Institutions

in Late Imperial and Republican China”

“Intergenerational Mobility and Institutional Change in 20th Century China”

(with Yuyu Chen and Suresh Naidu)

MBA 200S: Data and Decisions

PHDBA 297B: Research and Theory in Business: Behavioral Science

UGBA 178: Introduction to International Business

ECON 224 / PHDBA 279D: The Economics of Institutions

Publications:

“Understanding Peer Effects in Financial Decisions: Evidence from a Field Experiment” (Also, NBER Working Paper 18241)

(with Leonardo Bursztyn, Florian Ederer, and Bruno Ferman)

Working papers:

“The Political Economy of Educational Content and Development: Lessons from History,”

forthcoming in the Journal of Development Economics (with Davide Cantoni)