Jaya Y. Wen
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
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(617) 496-1979
Jaya Wen is an Assistant Professor in the Business, Government and the International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School. Her research focuses on issues in development economics, political economy, and firm behavior.
Professor Wen has a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University. Prior to joining HBS, Professor Wen was a postdoctoral fellow at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. In her free time she enjoys cooking, kayaking, writing fiction, and playing soccer.
Pronunciation guide: the first syllable of "Jāy-a" rhymes with "May.”
- Working Papers
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- Wen, Jaya Y. "The Political Economy of State Employment and Instability in China." Working Paper, August 2020. View Details
- Wen, Jaya Y., Haichao Fan, Yu Liu, and Nancy Qian. "The Dynamic Effects of Computerized VAT Invoices on Chinese Manufacturing Firms." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 24414, April 2020. (Available also from VOX and in VOX China.) View Details
- Wen, Jaya Y. "Distrust and Political Turnover." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 24187, January 2018. (Available also from VOX and in Kellogg Insight.) View Details
- Work in Progress
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- Tabellini, Marco, and Jaya Y. Wen. "Partisanship, Information, and Policy Preferences." Working Paper, 2020. View Details
- Wen, Jaya Y., Austin Davis, Paula Lopez-Pena, and A. Mushfiq Mobarak. "The Causes and Consequences of Ethnic Conflict in Myanmar." Working Paper, 2020. View Details
- Wen, Jaya Y., M. Ashraful Haque, A. Mushfiq Mobarak, and Paula Lopez-Pena. "Improving Education through Bureaucrat Autonomy in Bangladesh." Working Paper, 2020. View Details
- Journal Articles
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- Wen, Jaya Y. "Industry-Level Supply-Side Market Concentration and the Price of Military Conflict." Conflict Management and Peace Science 29, no. 1 (February 2012): 79–92. View Details
- Wen, Jaya Y., Meta Brown, Wilbert van der Klaauw, Basit Zafar, and John Grigsby. "Financial Education and the Debt Behavior of the Young." Review of Financial Studies 29, no. 9 (September 2016): 2490–2522. View Details
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