Matthew Harvey, PhD
matttheeconguy.bsky.social
Matthew Harvey, PhD
@matttheeconguy.bsky.social
I am a PhD economist who specializes in public economics. You can find my professional website here.

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✨New Article ✨
The Safe Passage Program was implemented in Chicago as a means of protecting the routes students take to school. @matttheeconguy.bsky.social finds that in areas where the program was implemented, fatal encounters decreased by 33%.
October 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
First post here is to announce a new paper with my co-authors that compares methods of deterring corruption. It turns out community monitoring can be very effective if structured properly. Important implications for the current debate on corruption.

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Monitoring Corruption: Can Top-Down Monitoring Crowd Out Grassroots Participation? | Economic Development and Cultural Change
Abstract Empirical evidence on the effectiveness of grassroots monitoring is mixed. This paper proposes a previously unexplored mechanism that may explain this result. We argue that the presence of ef...
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March 1, 2025 at 12:18 AM