Nicolaj Thor

I am a PhD candidate in economics at Brown University.
I received my BA from NYU Abu Dhabi.
You can reach me at thor@brown.edu.

Working Papers

The Explanatory Power of Causal Effects
with James Stratton
PDF · Online Appendix

Selected publications

The Economic Impacts of COVID-19: Evidence from a New Public Database Built Using Private Sector Data
on the Opportunity Insights Team, with Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman and Michael Stepner
Quarterly Journal of Economics (2024)

Social capital II: determinants of economic connectedness
with many co-authors
Nature (2022)

Social capital I: measurement and associations with economic mobility
with many co-authors
Nature (2022)

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