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Teacher and Researcher
Email: gernhardt.r@northeastern.edu
​​​I am a PhD candidate in Labor and Development Economics at Northeastern University, with degree conferral expected Spring 2025. ​
I am interested in the study of structural poverty as well as the development and evaluation of poverty interventions.
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​​​​​​I hold an M.A. in Economics and a B.A. in Economics and Mathematics from Boston University.
Research/Teaching Fields
Labor and Development Economics, Structural Poverty, Game Theory & Conflict, AI and Machine Learning
White Flight In The 21st Century (Job Market Paper) [PDF]
A national dataset of U.S. elementary school student demographics is used 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.
