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Martin Saavedra is an Associate Professor of Economics at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Previously, he held the William and Jeanette Smith Associate Professorship at Oberlin College. His research bridges economic history, health economics, and labor economics, with a focus on historical health crises, infant health, and the socioeconomic impacts of World War II Japanese American internment. He employs natural language processing to analyze sentiment in historical newspapers.
- Education: B.S.B.A. from Catholic University of America; M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from University of Pittsburgh.
His work has been published in top journals such as the Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Economic Literature, and Economic Journal. Recent projects examine the interplay between legal decisions and public health, as well as long-term economic impacts of historical pandemics.
Scientific awards include a Faculty Research Fellowship at NBER and editorial board membership at Explorations in Economic History. He has no listed graduate advisees in the provided texts.
