Hi, my name is Patrick! I’m a second year PhD student at Northwestern University in the Department of Economics. If you want to know more about me, feel free to take a look at:

• my education,
• my employment,
• publications I’ve (co-) written
• roles of responsibility during my time at LSE

Most of this information can also be found bundled in my CV, of which you can request a copy via email: patrickleitloff2029@u.northwestern.edu

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Research Interests:

Labour Market Inequality, Gender Norms, Occupation Choice and Education

Areas of Competence:

Quantitative Economics and Empirical Research Designs, Household Bargaining Models, Statistical Learning

Further Areas of Interest:

Information Frictions and Expectation Error, particularly in the context of macroeconomic forecasting

Tools of Choice:

R, Stata, Python, Latex, Matlab

Projects

The projects I’m currently working on include:

• RA work for Matthias Doepke on Fertility, Labor Force Participation, and Intra-Family Bargaining
• a comprehensive literature survey on recent developments in demographic economics
• extensions to my undergraduate thesis on information frictions in inflation forecasting
• my postgraduate thesis on regional changes in google search behaviour in response to a trade shock

Files

A limited set of replication files for my postgraduate thesis can be found here

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Get in Touch

If you want to get in touch, you can reach me at any time via patrickleitloff2029@u.northwestern.edu.

On the internet, there are also some other places where you can find me and reach out, including but not limited to:

• Academia.edu
• Twitter/X