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. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law in the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Affairs and convenes the Stanford Conflict and Polarization Lab.
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 Center Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, as well as of the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance and the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University. He was voted Teacher of the Year by the students of the Stanford GSB Sloan Fellow Class of 2020. He 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 and his co-authored work on Heroes was awarded the 2020 Oliver Williamson Best Paper Award from the Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics.
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
2024-25 Courses
- Political Development Economics
ECON 222 (Spr) - Political Development Economics
POLECON 683 (Spr) - Political Development Economics
POLISCI 446 (Spr) - Political Economy Research Workshop
POLECON 661 (Spr) - Research Fellows Practicum
GSBGEN 697 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) -
Independent Studies (9)
- Directed Reading
ECON 139D (Spr) - Directed Reading
ECON 239D (Spr) - Doctoral Practicum in Research
POLECON 699 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Doctoral Practicum in Teaching
POLECON 698 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Honors Thesis Research
ECON 199D (Spr) - Individual Research
GSBGEN 390 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Master¿s Thesis and Thesis Research
LATINAM 398 (Aut, Win, Spr) - PhD Directed Reading
ACCT 691, FINANCE 691, MGTECON 691, MKTG 691, OB 691, OIT 691, POLECON 691 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Practical Training
ECON 299 (Spr)
- Directed Reading
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Prior Year Courses
2023-24 Courses
- France in Crisis & Revolution: Historical Political Economics through a French Lens
OSPPARIS 21 (Aut) - Political Development Economics
POLISCI 446 (Win) - Research Fellows Practicum
GSBGEN 697 (Sum)
2022-23 Courses
- Managing Politically Conflictual Environments
POLECON 383 (Spr) - Political Development Economics
ECON 222 (Win) - Political Development Economics
POLECON 683 (Win) - Political Development Economics
POLISCI 446 (Win)
2021-22 Courses
- Political Development Economics
ECON 222 (Win) - Political Development Economics
POLECON 683 (Win) - Political Development Economics
POLISCI 446 (Win)
- France in Crisis & Revolution: Historical Political Economics through a French Lens
Stanford Advisees
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Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
Mariam Malashkhia, Natalia Vasilenok -
Doctoral Dissertation Advisor (AC)
Anna Dagorret, Mitchell Harvey
All Publications
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Heroes and Villains: The Effects of Heroism on Autocratic Values and Nazi Collaboration in Frances
AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
2023; 113 (7): 1888-1932
View details for DOI 10.1257/aer.20211509
View details for Web of Science ID 001033929200005
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Heroes and Villains: The Effects of Combat Heroism on Autocratic Values and Nazi Collaboration in France
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS. 2022: 608-609
View details for Web of Science ID 000797585400058
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Pandemic Spikes and Broken Spears: Indigenous Resilience after the Conquest of Mexico
Journal of Historical Political Economy
2022; 2 (1): 89-133
View details for DOI 10.1561/115.00000025
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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