Hello! I am a PhD student in the Business Economics program at Harvard University and a graduate student affiliate at the Center for History and Economics and the Center for International Development. My current research focuses on health and development.
I graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College in 2024, with an AB in Economics and a secondary in Astrophysics. My email address is jgarg@g.harvard.edu.
Publications
Sarah Holmes Berk, John Beshears, Jay Garg, James Choi, and David Laibson. “Employer-Based Short-Term Savings Accounts.” Elgar Companion to Consumer Behaviour and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Forthcoming.
Sajeev Kohli, Jay Garg, David Velasquez, and Scott Weiner. “Designing a Public Access Naloxone Program for Public Transportation Stations.” Healthcare. Vol. 11. No. 2. Elsevier, 2023.
Working Papers
Sarah Holmes Berk, James Choi, Jay Garg, John Beshears, and David Laibson. “Automating Short-Term Payroll Savings: Initial Evidence from Two Large U.K. Experiments.” NBER Working Paper w32581.
Non-Peer Reviewed Articles
David Velasquez, Jay Garg, and Sajeev Kohli. “How the MBTA could help Mass. combat the opioid epidemic.” WBUR Cognoscenti. November 2022.
Ethan Rouen and Jay Garg. “Companies Used to Share How Each Dollar of Revenue Was Spent.” Harvard Business Review. September 2020.
Works in Progress
Beliefs About Disease Etiology and Health-Seeking Behavior.
Does Publicly Accessible Naloxone Save Lives? Evidence from the MBTA.
Poppy Eradication and the Development of Political Consciousness in Qing China.
Drugs, Health, and Development: The Effects of Opium in Qing China.
The Historical Origins of Current Welfare Stigma.
Causal Quality Estimates for Substance Use Treatment Facilities.
