Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University

Dan Tortorice

Department of Economics, Department of Economics

Dan graduated in 2002 with bachelor degrees in economics and mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute Technology. He enrolled in the Harvard University Economic Department Ph.D. program in September of 2002 and received his masters in economics in November of 2005. His main research fields are macroeconomics, particularly business cycles, and behavioral economics. Dan's thesis examines how individuals form expectations about future changes in unemployment, how uncertainty about the income process affects consumption decisions, and how well various models of investment are able to match the aggregate time series data on investment and q (the market price of an installed unit of capital).