Leonardo Bursztyn is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on understanding how individuals make schooling, political, and financial decisions, and, in particular, how these decisions are shaped by individuals' social environment. His work has been published in leading journals such as the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the Review of Economic Studies.
Bursztyn is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and an affiliate at the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), and the Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). He is also the recipient of a 2016 Sloan Research Fellowship awarded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He received a Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard University in 2010.
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How gender norms are perceived across the world
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- Gender
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Rationales and social cover
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- Politics and economics
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Long-run contact with immigrant groups, prejudice, and altruism
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- Migration 
- Politics and economics
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Excuses for prejudice
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- Politics and economics
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Better dead than bad: Status competition among German fighter pilots during World War II
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- Economic history 
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