Seth Richards-Shubik

Seth Richards-Shubik is an Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon's Heinz College. He received a PhD in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2010, and has an MPA from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. His earlier professional experience involved work in politics as a Congressional Aide and Campaign Manager. Much of Professor Richards-Shubik's research focuses on social and economic networks in health economics and finance. Among other topics, he has applied network models to study peer effects in adolescent sexual behavior and financial contagion in the European debt crisis.