Roy Gernhardt
Labor and Development Economist
Roy will be completing his PhD in Labor and Development Economics at Northeastern University in the spring of 2025. His research interests include structural poverty and economic networks. He holds an MA in Economics and BA in Econ and Math from Boston University.Education
Northeastern University
2019 - Present
PhD Labor and Development Economics
Boston University
2015 - 2018
Masters Economics
Bachelors Economics and Mathematics
Minors: Physics and Computer Science
Job market Paper
White Flight in the 21st Century: I use a national dataset of U.S. elementary school student demographics to show that White Flight- the accelerating emigration of whites from demographically mixed neighborhoods- was still an important dynamic in the first two decades of the 21st century. On average, white schools reached the ‘tipping point’- the point at which net white exodus begins and accelerates- at a white share around 95%. I exploit the theory of Mediated Intergroup Contact to give a lower bound to the impact of antiblack prejudiced stereotypes on White Flight.
Work Experience
Teacher
- Teacher Rating And Course Evaluation (TRACE Survey) performance above department and university means in 5 of 5 categories.
- “What is your overall rating of this instructor's teaching effectiveness?” Score 4.86/5 Compared to Department mean of 4.4 and University mean of 4.5.
- Ratemyprofessors.com: Quality: 5/5. 100% would take again. “Caring” “Amazing Lectures” “Gives Good Feeback”
Researcher
- Eperience with strict PII protocols.
- Large datasets (e.g. Nielsen Consumer Panel).
- JPAL Research Staff Training.
- Expert in algorithms, complexity theory, and optimization.
- Machine learning including Feedforward Neural Networks, PCA, Bayesian ML
- Stata, R, C++, Fortran, Java, Pyhon, Julia, PHP, SQL
