Shapiro attended
Stuyvesant High School, where he was
valedictorian in 1997. He received an
AB in
economics and an
AM in
statistics from
Harvard University in 2001, and a
PhD in economics from Harvard in 2005. From 2005 to 2007, he was a Becker Fellow at the
Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory at the
University of Chicago. In 2008,
The Economist described Shapiro as one of the 8 best young economists in the world. In 2021, he was named a
MacArthur Fellow for "devising new frameworks of analysis to advance understanding of media bias, ideological polarization, and the efficacy of public policy interventions." Shapiro has been a research associate at the
NBER since 2011, and was a member of the Steering Committee of its Political Economy Program from 2014 to 2020. He served as Editor of the
Journal of Political Economy from 2012 to 2017, and was elected a
Fellow of the
Econometric Society in 2017.
Selected works • Cutler, David M., Edward L. Glaeser, and Jesse M. Shapiro. "Why have Americans become more obese?."
Journal of Economic Perspectives 17, no. 3 (2003): 93–118. • Gentzkow, Matthew, and Jesse M. Shapiro. "What drives media slant? Evidence from US daily newspapers."
Econometrica 78, no. 1 (2010): 35–71. • Shapiro, Jesse M. "Smart cities: quality of life, productivity, and the growth effects of human capital."
Review of Economics and Statistics 88, no. 2 (2006): 324–335. • Gentzkow, Matthew, and Jesse M. Shapiro. "Media bias and reputation."
Journal of Political Economy 114, no. 2 (2006): 280–316. • Gentzkow, Matthew, Jesse M. Shapiro, and Michael Sinkinson. "The effect of newspaper entry and exit on electoral politics."
American Economic Review 101, no. 7 (2011): 2980–3018. • Gentzkow, Matthew, and Jesse M. Shapiro. "Ideological segregation online and offline."
Quarterly Journal of Economics 126, no. 4 (2011): 1799–1839. ==Personal life==