Martin Abel
Peter M. Small Associate Professor of Economics, Bowdoin College
I am a development, labor and behavioral economist. Much of my work uses field and online experiments to study discrimination and gender in labor markets, how people search for jobs, and how behavioral tools can change what people do. A lot of it is set in South Africa, with projects in India, Mexico and Saudi Arabia.
I am a Research Fellow at IZA and an Affiliate at J-PAL. I hold a PhD and an MPA in International Development from Harvard University and a Diplom from the University of Jena.
Research
Recent publications
Recent working papers
All papers
No papers match these filters.
Work in progress
Teaching
Bowdoin College
- Artificial Intelligence and Economics
- Labor Economics
- Microeconomics
- Detecting Discrimination
Middlebury College
- Economics of Discrimination
- Microeconomic Theory
- Senior Thesis Workshop
Harvard University (Teaching Fellow)
- Economic Development Policy Design
- Introductory Economics (Distinction in Teaching Award)
University of Cape Town
- Econometrics
Student Research
I work closely with undergraduates on original research. Several student projects have become published papers, including a JEBO article coauthored with 17 Bowdoin students.
Senior theses (Middlebury, 2021)
COVID-19 senior seminar projects (2020)
Based on a survey of more than 1,600 respondents across all 50 U.S. states.