Mohit Karnani

PUBLICATIONS

Aftermarket Frictions and the Cost of Off-Platform Options in Centralized Assignment Mechanisms 
Journal of Political Economy, 2024 
(with A. Kapor and C. Neilson)

Effects of a Large-Scale Social Media Advertising Campaign on Holiday Travel and COVID-19 Infections: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial 
Nature Medicine, 2021 
(with E. Breza, F. C. Stanford, M. Alsan, B. Alsan, A. Banerjee, A. G. Chandrasekhar, S. Eichmeyer, T. Glushko, P. Goldsmith-Pinkham, K. Holland, E. Hoppe, S. Liegel, T. Loisel, L. Ogbu-Nwobodo, B. Olken, C. Torres, P. Vautrey, E. Warner, S. Wootton, and E. Duflo)

Effect of Physician-Delivered COVID-19 Public Health Messages and Messages Acknowledging Racial Inequity on Black and White Adults’ Knowledge, Beliefs, and Practices Related to COVID-19: A Randomized Clinical Trial 
JAMA Network Open, 2021 
(with C. Torres, L. Ogbu-Nwobodo, M. Alsan, F. C. Stanford, A. Banerjee, E. Breza, A. G. Chandrasekhar, S. Eichmeyer, T. Loisel, P. Goldsmith-Pinkham, B. Olken, P. Vautrey, E. Warner and E. Duflo)

Sudden Stops of Capital Flows: Do Foreign Assets Behave Differently from Foreign Liabilities? 
Journal of International Money and Finance, 2019 
(with M. Agosin and J. Diaz)

Impact Evaluation of a Freshmen Remedial Math Program: A Regression Discontinuity Approach 
Experiencias de Innovacion Docente, 2017 
(in Spanish)

WORKING PAPERS 

Market Power and the Supply-Side of Cash Transfers: Experimental Evidence from Chile and Colombia 
(with C. Martinez and J. Tessada)

Screening and Recruiting Talent At Teacher Colleges Using Pre-College Academic Achievement 
Submitted 
(with F. Calle, S. Gallegos and C. Neilson)

RCTs with Interference in Matching Systems

Expiring Budgets and Dynamic Competition in Year-End Public Auctions: Theory and Evidence from Chile

Freshmen Teachers and College Major Choice: Evidence from a Random Assignment in Chile

Labor Shakes: Mid-Run Effects of a Large Earthquake on Regional Unemployment

WORK IN PROGRESS

Long-Run Effects of Housing Improvements on Labor, Education and Health Outcomes of Families: Evidence from a Nationwide Field Experiment in Chile 
(with D. Contreras, R. Cooper and N. Valdés)

Elite Colleges and Long Run Residential Sorting: Evidence from Centralized College Choice

Noise-Robust Change-in-Changes Estimation

Peer Effects in Matching Systems

Teaching Experience

Undergraduate Lecturer, Taught 10 courses as a sole lecturer: Introductory Economics (2), Macroeconomics (3) and Mathematics (5) as an Instructor at University of Chile.

Graduate Lecturer, Co-Taught 2 courses on Economic Development for the MA in Economic Analysis program as an Instructor at University of Chile.

Teaching Assistant Experience

Undergraduate Teaching Fellow, Professor Paul Peterson in American Education (Applied Statistical Methods in Education) at Harvard.

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, Professor Sara Fisher Ellison in Principles of Microeconomics (Head TA × 2) and Professor Parag Pathak in Market Design at MIT.

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Professors Eduardo Engel, Juan Pablo Torres-Martínez and Fabián Duarte in different courses of Public Private Partnerships and Advanced Microeconomics in the MSc. and PhD. in Economics programs at UChile.

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, Professors Dante Contreras, Pablo Tapia, Christian Belmar and Carlos Cáceres in different courses of Mathematics (TA Coordinator), Statistics, Econometrics (TA Coordinator), General Economics, Microeconomics and Labor Economics in the BSc. in Economics program at UChile.

Talks

(*Denotes coauthor presenting)

Harvard Graduate School of Education (Cambridge, MA, 2025), AEFP (Washington, DC, 2025), Columbia Economics of Education Guest Lecture ×2 (New York, NY, 2024 & 2025), Baker Institute at Rice University (Houston, TX, 2024), APSA (Los Angeles, CA, 2023), IHS ×2 (Raleigh, NC, 2023), EAGxLatAm (Mexico City, 2023), ChileConf (PUC Santiago and UDEC-Concepción, 2023), GPI ×2 (Oxford, 2022 & 2023), SDSCon (Cambridge, MA, 2022), Jane Street (virtual-NYC, 2022), WEAI ×3 (virtual-Hawaii, 2021), ConsiliumBots (virtual, 2021), NBER Market Design* (virtual-Cambridge, 2020), Econometric Society* (virtual-Milan, 2020), SITE* (virtual-Stanford, 2020), ASSA (San Diego, CA, 2020), U. Chile (Santiago, 2018), LACEA & LAMES ×2 (Puebla, 2019 & Buenos Aires, 2017), FLAUC (Bogotá, 2017), CLADEA (Riverside, CA, 2017), LAWEBESS (Cali, 2017), SECHI ×2 (Santa Cruz, 2017), SINERGIA & 3ie (Bogotá, 2016) and RIDGE (Buenos Aires, 2016).

Posters

APPAM (Austin, TX, 2022), MIT.nano (Cambridge, MA, 2018), SECHI ×2 (Viña del Mar, 2016 & Talca, 2015), ENIN (Valparaíso, 2016) and COES & LSE (Santiago, 2016).

Referee

American Economic Review, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, Journal of Econometric Methods, Journal of Labor Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics.

At Harvard

Postdoctoral Association Board (2024-); Founder of the Empirical Methods in Education Reading Group (2024-)

At MIT

Treasurer for: (i) Institute for Data Systems and Society ×1.5 (2022-2024), (ii) LatinX Graduate Students Association (2021-2022), (iii) Graduate Economic Association ×2 (2019-2021), (iv) Ashdown House (2019-2020); Development Lunch Co-Organizer (2020-2021); Presidential Taskforce: Beyond MIT (2020); Residential Scholar Coordinator (2019-2022); and several Graduate Student Council’s committees.

At UChile

High School Math Teacher in different institutions for underserved students (2012-2017), Volunteer in social entrepreneurship program (2012-2013).