Professor Noam Yuchtman

Professor Noam Yuchtman

BA, PhD
Economics
Quondam Fellow since 2025

Noam was Drummond Professor of Political Economy and University Academic Fellow at All Souls from 2023 to 2025.

Research Areas
Political Economy
Economic History
Labour Economics

Selected Publications

“AI-tocracy”

Quarterly Journal of Economics, 138(3), pp. 1349-1402, 2023 (joint with Martin Beraja, Andrew Kao, and David Y. Yang)

"Protests as Strategic Games: Experimental Evidence from Hong Kong’s Anti-Authoritarian Movement”

Quarterly Journal of Economics, 134(2), pp. 1021-1077, 2019 (joint with Davide Cantoni, David Y. Yang, and Y. Jane Zhang)

“Curriculum and Ideology”

Journal of Political Economy, 125(2), pp. 338-392, 2017 (joint with Davide Cantoni, Yuyu Chen, David Y. Yang, and Y. Jane Zhang)

“Understanding Mechanisms Underlying Peer Effects: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Financial Decisions"

 Econometrica, 82(4), pp. 1273-1301, 2014 (joint with Leonardo Bursztyn, Florian Ederer, and Bruno Ferman)

“Medieval Universities, Legal Institutions, and the Commercial Revolution”

Quarterly Journal of Economics, 129(2), pp. 823-887, 2014 (joint with Davide Cantoni)

“Coercive Contract Enforcement: Law and the Labor Market in 19th Century Industrial Britain”

American Economic Review, 103(1), pp. 107-144, 2013 (joint with Suresh Naidu)

Background
  • University Academic Fellow, All Souls College (from 2023 to 2025)
  • Professor of Management, London School of Economics (2019-2024)
  • Associate Professor, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley (2016-2020)
  • Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley (2010-2016)
  • PhD, economics, Harvard University (2010)
  • BA, economics, Williams College (2005)