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Miriam Larson-Koester

Economist

Bureau, Office or Division
Antitrust
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Selected Publications

  • "Labor and Product Market Effects of Mergers," with Daniel Hosken and Charles Taragin, Working Paper, 2023.
  • "Economics at the FTC: Estimating Harm from Deception and Analyzing Mergers," with Michael Vita, Keith Brand, Nathan Petek, Charles Taragin, William Violette and Daniel H. Wood, Review of Industrial Organization, 2022. 
  • "Is There Still Son Preference in the United States?," with Francine D. Blau, Lawrence M. Kahn, Peter Brummund, and Jason Cook, Journal of Population Economics, 2020. 
  • "Occupation Gender Segregation: Empirical Evidence from a Matching Model with Transfers," Working Paper, 2020.
  • "Intrahousehold Interaction and Married Family Labor Supply," Working Paper, 2018.

Selected Presentations

  • Labor and Product Market Effects of Mergers. International Industrial Organization Conference (IIOC). Washington, DC (2023)

Education

Cornell University
PhD, Economics
Mount Holyoke College
BA, Economics

Fields of Interest

  • Labor Economics
  • Industrial Organization
  • Applied Econometrics

Professional Experience

Economist
Federal Trade Commission
2018-Present

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