
Saumitra Jha
Associate Professor of Political Economy at the GSB, Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute, at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research & Associate Professor, by courtesy, of Political Science and of Economics
Web page: https://people.stanford.edu/saumitra/
Bio
Saumitra Jha is an Associate Professor of Political Economy at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, and, by courtesy, of Economics and of Political Science.
Saumitra holds a BA from Williams College, master’s degrees in economics and mathematics from the University of Cambridge, and a PhD in economics from Stanford University. Prior to joining the GSB, he was an Academy Scholar at Harvard University. He has been a Fellow of the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance and the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University and received the Michael Wallerstein Award for best published article in Political Economy from the American Political Science Association in 2014 for his research on ethnic tolerance. Saumitra has consulted on economic and political risk issues for the United Nations/ WTO and the World Bank.
Academic Appointments
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Associate Professor, Political Economy
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Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
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Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)
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Associate Professor (By courtesy), Economics
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Associate Professor (By courtesy), Political Science
2020-21 Courses
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Independent Studies (5)
- Directed Reading and Research in Comparative Politics
POLISCI 349 (Spr) - Doctoral Practicum in Research
POLECON 699 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Doctoral Practicum in Teaching
POLECON 698 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Individual Research
GSBGEN 390 (Aut, Win, Spr) - PhD Directed Reading
ACCT 691, FINANCE 691, MGTECON 691, MKTG 691, OB 691, OIT 691, POLECON 691 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
- Directed Reading and Research in Comparative Politics
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Prior Year Courses
2019-20 Courses
- MSx: Strategy Beyond Markets
POLECON 239 (Aut) - Political Development Economics
POLECON 683 (Win)
2018-19 Courses
- MSx: Strategy Beyond Markets
POLECON 239 (Aut) - Political Development Economics
POLECON 683 (Win)
2017-18 Courses
- MSx: Strategy Beyond Markets
POLECON 239 (Aut) - Political Development Economics
POLECON 683 (Win)
- MSx: Strategy Beyond Markets
Stanford Advisees
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Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
Janka Deli -
Postdoctoral Faculty Sponsor
Nirvikar Jassal -
Doctoral Dissertation Advisor (AC)
Marcos Manuel Salgado -
Master's Program Advisor
Rehana Mohammed -
Doctoral (Program)
Hyeon Seok Yu, Floyd Zhang
All Publications
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Valuing Peace: The Effects of Financial Market Exposure on Votes and Political Attitudes
ECONOMETRICA
2019; 87 (5): 1561–88
View details for DOI 10.3982/ECTA16385
View details for Web of Science ID 000488189200006
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Trading for peace
ECONOMIC POLICY
2018; 33 (95): 485-+
View details for Web of Science ID 000441002900005
- A New Economic History of Colonial India: A Review Journal of Economic History 2017; 77 (2): 641-643
- Financial Market Exposure Raises Support for Peace The Political Economist 2016; Spring
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FINANCIAL ASSET HOLDINGS AND POLITICAL ATTITUDES: EVIDENCE FROM REVOLUTIONARY ENGLAND
QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS
2015; 130 (3): 1485-1545
View details for DOI 10.1093/qje/qjv019
View details for Web of Science ID 000359638900010
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'Unfinished business': Historic complementarities, political competition and ethnic violence in Gujarat
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR & ORGANIZATION
2014; 104: 18-36
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.jebo.2014.02.023
View details for Web of Science ID 000337982300003
- Gandhi’s Gift: Lessons for Peaceful Reform from India’s Struggle for Democracy Economics of Peace and Security Journal 2014; 9 (1): 80-92
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Trade, Institutions, and Ethnic Tolerance: Evidence from South Asia
AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW
2013; 107 (4): 806-832
View details for DOI 10.1017/S0003055413000464
View details for Web of Science ID 000330464600010
- Analyzing Political Risk in Developing Countries: A Practical Framework for Project Managers Business and Politics 2013; 15 (1): 117-136
- Can Financial Innovations Mitigate Ethnic and Civil Conflict? World Financial Review 2013
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Who has voice in a deliberative democracy? Evidence from transcripts of village parliaments in south India
JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
2012; 99 (2): 428-438
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2012.05.005
View details for Web of Science ID 000309092400019
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Does Combat Experience Foster Organizational Skill? Evidence from Ethnic Cleansing during the Partition of South Asia
AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW
2012; 106 (4): 883-907
View details for DOI 10.1017/S000305541200041X
View details for Web of Science ID 000311519300011
- Sharing the Future: Financial Innovations and Innovators in Solving the Political Economy Challenges of Development Proceedings of the 16th World Congress of the International Economic Association 2012
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The administrative foundations of self-enforcing constitutions
120th Annual Meeting of the American-Economic-Association
AMER ECONOMIC ASSOC. 2008: 105–9
View details for DOI 10.1257/aer.98.2.105
View details for Web of Science ID 000256370300017
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Governance in the gullies: Democratic responsiveness and leadership in Delhi's slums
WORLD DEVELOPMENT
2007; 35 (2): 230-246
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.worlddev.2005.10.018
View details for Web of Science ID 000245063300004
- Maintaining Peace across Ethnic Lines: New Lessons from the Past Economics of Peace and Security Journal 2007; 2 (2): 89-93