Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln

Economist

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Fuchs-Schündeln is an assistant professor of economics at Harvard. She received her PhD in economics from Yale University in 2004. Her research and teaching concentrate on household consumption and saving behavior, as well as heterogeneous preferences. In her current research, she exploits German reunification as a natural experiment to test different life-cycle consumption theories and to analyze the transferability of human capital. Her work also covers the effect of the economic system on preferences for redistribution. Her publications include “Precautionary Savings and Self-Selection: Evidence from the German Reunification ‘Experiment’” (with M. Schündeln) in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, as well as “Good Bye Lenin (or not?): The Effect of Communism on People’s Preferences” (with A. Alesina) in the American Economic Review.