John Hassett

John Hassett is a Summer in the Field Fellow, 2024 and a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Economics at Boston University. His research is at the intersection of labor economics, political economy and industrial organization.

For his Summer in the Field Fellowship, John will travel to Mexico City to obtain data for his project on gender quotas in Mexican elections, joint with past Summer in the Field Fellow Laura Aquino. The project studies the implementation of gender quotas for political candidates in local Mexican elections. Using detailed data on election results and municipal governing outcomes, the project examines the effectiveness of the quotas, documents the strategic reactions of political parties and explores the effects of the sudden and large increase of women in elected roles on policy. John will collect detailed data on elected officials in order to study a wide range of policy outcomes.