Daniel T. Roberts is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Government at Harvard University. He is a political economist who researches on the politics of opportunity with a focus on credit access, education, and labor market policy in rich democracies, including in the American Political Economy. His dissertation explains why “opportunity boundaries”, policies that reinforce unequal opportunity, are so politically resilient in the United States, Germany, and Japan. In other work at the intersection of these themes and his financial economics research background, he explores how domestic strategies to secure opportunity given exclusionary boundaries can promote financial risk-taking that triggers global credit crises. Daniel’s research approach is mixed-methods, drawing on administrative data, public opinion surveys, and archival sources.
Daniel is affiliated with Harvard’s Center for European Studies, who supported his research with a dissertation fellowship. Before coming to Harvard, he received a B.A. in Economics at the University of Chicago and worked as a research analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Contact
danielroberts@g.harvard.edu
1737 Cambridge Street
Subfields
American Politics | Comparative Politics | International Relations
Academic Interests
Civil Society & Social Movements | Democracy | Education Policy | Institutions | International Organizations | Judiciary & Public Law | Legislatures | Parties, Campaigns & Elections | Political Economy & Development | Political Geography | Public Opinion | Public Policy | Race and Ethnicity | Social Policy & the Welfare State | State & Local Politics | State-Society Relations | Voter Behavior
Research Methods
Qualitative Methods | Quantitative Methods
Geographic Regions of Study
Europe | Japan | United States