Junior Fellow
Harvard Society of Fellows
Office: Littauer M19
Email: zhitzig@g.harvard.edu
I am a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. My current research centers on privacy and transparency in markets, contracts and other forms of communication. I received my PhD in economics from Harvard in 2023.
Contextually Private Mechanisms
with Andreas Haupt
Extended abstract at EC ‘22
Draft: April 2024
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Opaque Mechanisms
with Andreas Haupt
Draft: January 2023
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Platform Growth is Hard: Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Carpooling Platform
with Abhijit Banerjee & Rema Hanna
Draft: October 2023
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Optimal Defaults, Limited Enforcement and the Regulation of Contracts
with Benjamin Niswonger
Draft: February 2023
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I am the author of Not Us Now (forthcoming in May 2024) which was selected by Louise Glück as a winner of the Changes Prize. My first book, Mezzanine, was published in 2020 by Ecco/HarperCollins. I currently serve as Poetry Editor of The Drift.
The Normative Gap: Mechanism Design and Ideal Theories of Justice
Economics & Philosophy, Vol. 36 (3), November 2020
Best paper award at MD4SG ‘19
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The Problem of New Evidence: P-hacking and Pre-Analysis Plans
with Jacob Stegenga
Diametros Vol. 17 (66), March 2020
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Truth from the Machine: Artificial Intelligence and the Materialization of Identity
with Os Keyes & Mwenza Blell
Interdisciplinary Science Reviews Vol. 46 (1), March 2021
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The Technological Politics of Mechanism Design
with Lily Hu & Salome Viljoen
University of Chicago Law Review, May 2019
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A Crossroads, Not an Island: A Response to Hanoch Dagan
with Glen Weyl
University of Michigan Law Review Online, 2019
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