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Jesse Bruhn

Assistant Professor of Economics
jesse_bruhn@brown.edu
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Areas of Expertise Children & Families, Criminal Justice, Education, Inequality & Poverty, Labor

Biography

Jesse Bruhn an Assistant Professor of Economics at Brown University. He also holds affiliations with the Annenberg Institute, the Wheelock Educational Policy Center, Blueprint Labs, the Brown University Population Studies and Training Center, and the National Bureau of Economic Research. Jesse is a labor economist who studies the economics of education and crime. He received his Ph.D. from Boston University. Prior to becoming an economist, Jesse spent four years as an active-duty enlisted soldier in the United States Army and one year as a Mathematics Educator in the Springfield, MA, public school system.

Publications

Community Engagement with Law Enforcement after High Profile Acts of Police Violence (with Desmond Ang, Panka Bencsik, and Ellora Derenoncourt), American Economic Review: Insights (2025). 

The Effects of Combat Deployments on Veterans' Outcomes (with Kyle Greenberg, Matthew Gudgeon, Evan K. Rose, and Yotam Shem-Tov), Journal of Political Economy (2024). 

Regulatory Arbitrage in Teacher Hiring and Retention: Evidence from Massachusetts Charter Schools (with Scott Imberman and Marcus A. Winters), Journal of Public Economics (2022). 

Professional Development at Scale: The Causal Effect of Obtaining an SEI Endorsement Under Massachusetts' RETELL Initiative (with Nathan Jones, Yasuko Kanno, and Marcus Winters), Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis (2022).

Teaching

MPA 2455