Sahil Chinoy

Ph.D. candidate
Department of Economics
Harvard University

schinoy@g.harvard.edu
CV available here

Hello! I am a Ph.D. candidate at Harvard studying the contemporary and 20th-century political economy of the United States.

In 2026, I will join Stanford’s Department of Political Science as an assistant professor, following a postdoc at Yale’s Program on Ethics, Politics and Economics.

Previously, I was a graphics editor at The New York Times. Before that, I studied physics and economics at UC Berkeley.

Working papers

Political Sorting in the U.S. Labor Market: Evidence and Explanations

with Martin Koenen

Vanguard: Black Veterans and Civil Rights After World War I

with Desmond Ang
Conditionally accepted, Quarterly Journal of Economics

Zero-Sum Thinking and the Roots of U.S. Political Differences

with Nathan Nunn, Sandra Sequeira, and Stefanie Stantcheva
Conditionally accepted, American Economic Review

The Effect of Childhood Environment on Political Behavior:
Evidence from Young U.S. Movers, 1992–2021

with Jacob Brown, Enrico Cantoni, Martin Koenen, and Vincent Pons

Other writing

The New York Times

The Washington Post

The Los Angeles Times

Other projects