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Professor Kuziemko came to Columbia Business School in 2012. She received her A.B. in economics from Harvard in 2000, a second BA in mathematics from Oxford in 2002 (where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar) and a Ph.D. in economics From Harvard in 2007. Before coming Columbia, she taught as an assistant professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton from 2007 to 2012. In 2009, she took a public-service leave to serve as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy at the U.S. Treasury. Her research explores how government institutions impact inequality, with a recent focus on inequality with respect to health care and insurance access.

• Spring 2013
  Managerial Economics (MBA)
  

Why Do Mothers Breastfeed Girls Less Than Boys? Evidence and Implications for Child Health in India In Quarterly Journal of Economics (2011)
Author(s): Seema Jayachandran, Ilyana Kuziemko

Does the Threat of the Death Penalty Affect Plea Bargaining in Murder Cases? Evidence from New York's 1995 Reinstatement of Capital Punishment In American Law and Economics Review (2006)
Author(s): Ilyana Kuziemko

How Much Is a Seat on the Security Council Worth? Foreign Aid and Bribery at the United Nations In Journal of Political Economy (2006)
Author(s): Ilyana Kuziemko, Eric Werker

The Homecoming of American College Women: The Reversal of the College Gender Gap In Journal of Economic Perspectives (2006)
Author(s): Claudia Goldin, Lawrence Katz, Ilyana Kuziemko

Using shocks to school enrollment to estimate the effect of school size on student achievement In Economics of Education Review (2006)
Author(s): Ilyana Kuziemko

An empirical analysis of imprisoning drug offenders In Journal of Public Economics (2004)
Author(s): Ilyana Kuziemko, Steven Levitt

'Last-Place Aversion': Evidence and Redistributive Implications (2012)
Author(s): Ryan Buell, Ilyana Kuziemko, Michael I. Norton, Taly Reich

Human Capital Spillovers in Families: Do Parents Learn from or Lean on Their Children? (2012)
Author(s): Ilyana Kuziemko

The Demand for Health Insurance among Uninsured Americans: Results of a Survey Experiment and Implications for Policy (2011)
Author(s): Alan Krueger, Ilyana Kuziemko

Will risk-adjustment decrease health care costs? New evidence from the Medicare Advantage Program (2011)
Author(s): Jason Brown, Mark Duggan, Ilyana Kuziemko, William Woolston

Did the Vietnam Draft Increase Human Capital Dispersion? Draft-Avoidance Behavior by Race and Class (2010)
Author(s): Ilyana Kuziemko

Is Having Babies Contagious? Estimating Fertility Peer Effects Between Siblings (2006)
Author(s): Ilyana Kuziemko

Robin Hood and His Not So Merry Plan: Capitalization and the Self-Destruction of Texas' School Finance Equalization Plan NBER Working Paper No, 10722 (2004)
Author(s): Caroline Hoxby, Ilyana Kuziemko