2020 Dissertation Awardee
Jetson Leder-Luis is a new Assistant Professor in the Department of
Markets, Public Policy and Law at Boston University Questrom School of
Business as of July 2020. He received his PhD in Economics from MIT
in May 2020, where his dissertation examined the economics of fraud
and corruption. He was a 2019-20 Ford Foundation dissertation fellow,
an NBER predoctoral fellow in Health and Aging, and was recognized by
MIT in 2017 with the Levitan Teaching Award for excellence in
undergraduate instruction. Originally from Yonkers, New York, Jetson
is an alumnus of the REACH Prep bridge program and did his
undergraduate work at Caltech.