Rebecca Diamond
Alma materYale College
Harvard University
AwardsElaine Bennett Research Prize, 2022
Scientific career
FieldsEconomics
InstitutionsStanford Graduate School of Business
Doctoral advisorsLawrence F. Katz, Edward Glaeser, Ariel Pakes
Websitehttps://www.rebecca-diamond.com/

Rebecca Diamond is Class of 1988 Professor of Economics at Stanford Graduate School of Business[1] and an associate editor of Econometrica and American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. Her research areas include urban economics and labor economics.

In 2022, she was awarded the Elaine Bennett Research Prize.[2]

Biography

Diamond is the daughter of Elizabeth Cammack Diamond and Douglas Diamond, recipient of the 2022 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.[3][4]

She graduated from Yale University in 2007 with a BS in Physics and Economics & Mathematics, worked for a year as an analyst for Goldman Sachs Asset Management, and then began graduate study at Harvard University. She earned an MA in Economics in 2011 and a PhD in Economics in 2013, and has been at Stanford University since then.[1]

Research

Diamond's research focuses on topics in housing and inequality, including gender gaps in gig work, affordable housing development, and the geography of consumption inequality.[5] Her work combines theoretical modeling with empirical analysis using new datasets, and often involves the connections between housing markets and labor markets.[2] In work receiving media coverage, she studied a rent control policy implemented in San Francisco in 1994, finding that this policy reduced the amount of rental housing eligible for the policy as landlords sold rent-controlled apartments for condominium-conversions and replaced rent-controlled apartments with new buildings not covered by the policy.[6][7][8]

Selected works

References

  1. ^ a b "Rebecca Diamond". Stanford Graduate School of Business. Retrieved October 23, 2022.
  2. ^ a b "Rebecca Diamond Recipient of the 2022 Elaine Bennett Research Prize". American Economic Association. Retrieved October 22, 2022.
  3. ^ List, John A (July 2020). "NON EST DISPUTANDUM DE GENERALIZABILITY? A GLIMPSE INTO THE EXTERNAL VALIDITY TRIAL" (PDF). NBER Working Paper Series (27535): 30.
  4. ^ "Douglas Diamond wins Nobel Prize for research on banks and financial crises | University of Chicago News". news.uchicago.edu. Retrieved January 10, 2023.
  5. ^ Saito, Shinya (February 3, 2021). "Rebecca Diamond". UH Better Tomorrow Speaker Series. Retrieved October 23, 2022.
  6. ^ "The Evidence Against Rent Control". NPR.org. Retrieved October 26, 2022.
  7. ^ Brinklow, Adam (November 3, 2017). "Stanford paper says rent control is driving up cost of housing in San Francisco". Curbed SF. Retrieved October 26, 2022.
  8. ^ Diamond, Rebecca (October 18, 2018). "What does economic evidence tell us about the effects of rent control?". Brookings. Retrieved October 26, 2022.
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