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Ph.D., Economics, University of California at San Diego
B.A., Economics, University of California at Berkeley, 2003
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Jacob is a Director of Economics & Data Science at Amazon. His research interests include Industrial Organization, Environmental & Public Economics, and markets characterized by externalities. Jacob uses applied theory to inform microeconometric, machine learning and experimental empirical techniques. He previously was a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft in the Office of the Chief Economist and a professor of Economics at University of Tennessee.