Sahil Chinoy

sahil.chinoy@gmail.com
CV available here

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

My research is on the contemporary and 20th-century political economy of the United States.

I received my Ph.D. in economics from Harvard in May 2025. Previously, I was a graphics editor at The New York Times, and 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, The 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 projects

The New York Times

The Washington Post

The Los Angeles Times

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