Emma Harrington is a labor economist. Her research focuses on remote work and systemic discrimination in the criminal justice system. In her research, she has investigated remote work's consequences on workers' productivity, on-the-job training, and career progression in the context of a Fortune 500 retailer. In addition to remote-work topics, her current projects evaluate the extent to which prosecutors in criminal courts either check or pass through racial biases introduced by police.
Harrington is an affiliate of JPAL North America. Her research has been funded by the Lab for Economic Applications and Policy and the Bradley Foundation. Her research on prosecutors won the Donald M. Ephraim Prize in Law & Economics at the University of Chicago. Her research on remote work has been featured in The New York Times, The Economist, National Public Radio, Bloomberg, Vox, and other media outlets. She has co-organized the Remote Work Conference at Stanford and a session at the American Economic Association meetings.
She received her Economics Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2021. She did a postdoctoral fellowship in Princeton’s Industrial Relations Section in 2021-2022 and was previously an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Iowa.
This fall, she will be teaching Graduate Labor Economics (Econ 8150).
Vladimir Smirnyagin is a macroeconomist whose research interests lie at the quantitative nexus of macroeconomics and finance. In his work, he combines large, comprehensive datasets with quantitative models to answer important questions in macro-finance. Vladimir's current research focuses on the macroeconomic analysis of supply chain disruptions and environmental regulations. Prior to joining the University of Virginia, he was a postdoctoral associate at Yale University.
He holds a B.A. in Economics from the Higher School of Economics, an M.A. from the New Economic School, and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. During his doctoral studies, he worked as a research analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. He also spent several months at the Bank of England as an academic visitor. His work has been supported by the Heller-Hurwicz Economics Institute and by the Tobin Center for Economic Policy at Yale.
This fall, he will be teaching Graduate Macroeconomics (Econ 7020).