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Jacob Conway serves as an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he bridges corporate finance, industrial organization, and political economy to examine firms' engagement with social, political, and environmental issues. His research extends to regulation, polarization, and discrimination dynamics.
His academic foundation includes:
- PhD in Economics from Stanford University
- Bachelor's degrees in Mathematics, Economics, and Statistics from the University of Chicago
Prior to academia, he worked as a senior research analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Conway's research program employs innovative methodologies including payment card transaction analysis, newspaper archives, and census data to investigate how consumer alignment with corporate social stances drives economic behavior. His work reveals persistent consumption responses to social issues (19% increase from aligned consumers, 11% decrease from opposed), examines journalist ideology's role in news slant using 20+ million articles, and analyzes historical discrimination through skin tone perception in 19th-20th century African American communities.
His recent publications (2020-2024) demonstrate consistent focus on crisis-driven societal dynamics, particularly how the COVID-19 pandemic affected partisan behavior, geographic health disparities, and social cohesion. Key findings include voluntary social distancing outweighing policy mandates in pandemic response and temporary reductions in affective polarization during crisis onset.
His recognitions include:
- HEC Paris Top Finance Graduate Award for "Consuming Values"
Collaborating with Federal Reserve economists and prominent scholars, Conway's work appears in top journals while influencing policy discussions through media publications. No doctoral students or dedicated research labs are publicly listed in his profile.
