Jonathan Old

Economics Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley. Interested in political economy, development economics, and international trade.

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Bio

Welcome to my website! I am a second year Ph.D. student in economics at the University of California, Berkeley. I am interested in political economy and development economics, and have previously worked on conflict and political reservations in India, democratic transitions and state repression, and longevity.

Before my Ph.D., I worked as a predoc with Robin Burgess and Oriana Bandiera at the LSE, where I also did a masters in economics.


Publications

Healthy ageing trends in England between 2002 to 2018 : Improving but slowing and unequal

(with Andrew Scott)

The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, Volume 26 (2023), 100470

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Online Appendix

Cycles of Fire: Politics and Forest Burning in Indonesia

(with Clare Balboni, Robin Burgess, Anton Heil and Ben Olken)

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2021, Vol. 111, 415–419

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Online Appendix, Replication data (on OpenICPSR)

Democracy and the transnational dimensions of low-level conflict and state repression

(with Martin Rößler and Patrick Zwerschke)

International Studies Quarterly, September 2021, Vol. 65, Issue 3, 753–767

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Online Appendix, Replication data (.zip file)

Working Papers

Mandated Political Representation and Low-Level Conflict: Evidence from India

Working Paper, available on request

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📻 Radio interview with KALX.FM

(When) Do Democracies Repress Less?

(with Martin Rößler and Patrick Zwerschke)

Working Paper

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Online Appendix

Policy


Teaching

A few examples of the visualizations I use to teach undergraduate applied econometrics:

See my teaching materials on the dedicated page.


Resources

Mentoring for donations


Archive

Some old projects are on the dedicated page.


This website is inspired by Gautam Rao and Lei Yang. You can find the source code on my Github repository. Please feel free to copy it for your own website.