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., Yulu Tang, and Cheryl Wu. "Civil Wars and Strategic Subsidies." Working Paper, 2022. View Details
- Davis, C. Austin, Paula Lopez-Pena, A. Mushfiq Mobarak, and Jaya Wen. "The Causes and Consequences of Ethnic Violence in Myanmar." Working Paper, October 2022. View Details
- Wen, Jaya Y. "State Employment as a Strategy of Autocratic Control in China." Working Paper, January 2022. View Details
- 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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- Wen, Jaya Y., and Sachet Bangia. "Internal and External Threats." Working Paper, 2022. View Details
- Wen, Jaya Y., and Yulu Tang. "Civil Wars and Strategic Subsidies." Working Paper, 2021. View Details
- Wen, Jaya Y., Xiaolin Lynn Guo, and Liu Zhang. "The Political Economy of Hukou Reform." Working Paper, 2021. View Details
- Wen, Jaya Y., and Grace Finley. "Demand for Decollectivization." Working Paper, 2021. View Details
- Wen, Jaya Y., Joris Mueller, and Cheryl Wu. "The Party and Firm." Working Paper, 2022. View Details
- Wen, Jaya Y., and Cheryl Wu. "Chinese Banks and Firm Credit." Working Paper, 2021. 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
- Cases and Teaching Materials
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- Wen, Jaya Y. "The Crisis with Two Names: The 1997 Asian Financial Crisis - The IMF Crisis (아이엠에프 위기)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 722-071, May 2022. View Details
- Wen, Jaya Y. "The Crisis with Two Names: The 1997 Asian Financial Crisis - The IMF Crisis (아이엠에프 위기)." Harvard Business School Case 722-041, February 2022. (Revised February 2023.) View Details
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