About

I am a PhD student at Princeton University, affiliated with the Research Program in Political Economy. During the 2024-2025 academic year, I was a research fellow at the Yale Institute for Social and Policy Studies, collaborating with Adam Meirowitz and Alan Gerber. I graduated from Yale in 2024, where I majored in Mathematics and obtained a second degree in Economics. My senior thesis was advised by Dirk Bergemann.

My research sits broadly at the intersection of political economy and organizational economics, where I use tools from economic theory to study how political incentives and institutional constraints shape organizational structure, behavior, and policy outcomes, particularly in dynamic settings. I also think about questions related to the comovement of market competition and political competition.

I previosuly have worked in the Research and Statistics Group at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. I worked on Bayesian estimation of macroeconomic models and econometric theory in the Applied Macroeconomics & Econometrics Center (AMEC).

I can be reached at justice dot harasha at princeton dot edu.