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18 Facts About Stefanie Stantcheva

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Stefanie Stantcheva has been a member of the Conseil d'Analyse Economique since 2018.

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Stefanie Stantcheva became interested in economics had after witnessing the economic turmoil Bulgaria during its political and economic transition in the 1990s.

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Stefanie Stantcheva attended the Lycee International de Saint-Germain-en-Laye near Paris, and read economics at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2007.

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Stefanie Stantcheva then received a Master of Science degree in economics from the Ecole Polytechnique in 2008, and a second MS in economics from the Paris School of Economics and the ENSAE in 2009.

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Stefanie Stantcheva received a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2014, where she was advised by James Poterba and Ivan Werning.

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From 2014 to 2016, Stefanie Stantcheva was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.

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Stefanie Stantcheva became an assistant professor at Harvard University in 2016, and an associate professor at Harvard the following year.

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Stefanie Stantcheva became a full professor of economics at Harvard in 2018, and was appointed the Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy at Harvard in 2021.

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Stefanie Stantcheva was appointed a member of the Conseil d'Analyse Economique in 2018.

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Stefanie Stantcheva received the Prix du meilleure jeune economiste de France in 2019, and the Elaine Bennett Research Prize in 2020.

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Stefanie Stantcheva is the recipient of a Carnegie Fellowship in 2021 and a Guggenheim Award in 2022.

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Stefanie Stantcheva has been a research associate at the NBER since 2018, where she was a faculty research fellow from 2014 to 2018.

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Stefanie Stantcheva has been an editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics since 2020.

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Stefanie Stantcheva was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2021, and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences that year.

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At Harvard, Stefanie Stantcheva founded and directs the Social Economics Lab.

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Stefanie Stantcheva particularly focuses on perceptions of intergenerational mobility, immigration, and inequality and their link to support for redistribution.

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Stefanie Stantcheva has made numerous appearances in the media both as an author and a speaker.

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Stefanie Stantcheva has given many lectures and talks, some of which are filmed.