Daniel Jaar

I am a Ph.D. Candidate at the Economics Department of the University of Pennsylvania.  My research is in Macroeconomics, Development and Labor. A central topic in my research is understanding how limited state capacity impacts the way households in emerging economies self-insure against risk and how governments raise revenue and achieve redistribution.

My Job Market Paper studies the implications of microentrepreneurship substituting for the missing unemployment insurance in developing countries.

I am on the 2024-25 Academic Job Market.
 

Working Papers

1. Self-employment as Self-insurance, Job Market Paper
2. Informality, Inflation, and Fiscal Progressivity in Developing Countries (with Joao Ritto)

Work in Progress

1. Older and Wiser: Entrepreneur Age and Development (with Alex Sawyer)
2. Informality and Life Cycle Wage Growth in Developing Countries (with César Urquizo)