Zoe Cullen

Zoe Cullen graduated with a PhD from Stanford in Economics in 2016. She worked from 2016-2018 as the Chief Economist for an Asian bank on the roll out of a digital transaction platform. In 2018 she joined HBS as an Assistant Professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. Her interests are in the design of labor markets and the choices of employers and labor platforms that affect matters of public interest, such as pay transparency, pay inequality and criminal background screening. She’s an NBER Affiliate in Labor Studies, and Associate Editor at the Journal of Political Economy.

PUBLICATIONS

JOURNAL ARTICLES

• Cullen, Zoë B., and Ricardo Perez-Truglia. "How Much Does Your Boss Make? The Effects of Salary Comparisons." (pdf) Journal of Political Economy (forthcoming).
• Balla-Elliott, Dylan, Zoë B. Cullen, Edward L. Glaeser, Michael Luca, and Christopher Stanton. "Determinants of Small Business Reopening Decisions After COVID Restrictions Were Lifted." (pdf) NBER Working Paper Series, No. 27362, June 2020. (Revised August 2021. Forthcoming in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-132, June 2020)
• Bartik, Alexander, Marianne Bertrand, Zoë B. Cullen, Edward L. Glaeser, Michael Luca, and Christopher Stanton. "The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Business Outcomes and Expectations." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117, no. 30 (July 28, 2020).
• Cullen, Zoë, and Chiara Farronato. "Outsourcing Tasks Online: Matching Supply and Demand on Peer-to-Peer Internet Platforms." Management Science 67, no. 7 (July 2021).

WORKING PAPERS

• Cullen, Zoë B., Will Dobbie, and Mitchell Hoffman. "Increasing the Demand for Workers with a Criminal Record." (pdf) Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-023, September 2021. (Revise and Resubmit at The Quarterly Journal of Economics.)
• Cullen, Zoë B., and Bobak Pakzad-Hurson. "Equilibrium Effects of Pay Transparency." (pdf) NBER Working Paper Series, No. 28903, June 2021. (Formerly two papers, "Equal Work for Unequal Pay" and "Is Pay Transparency Good?" Selected as Exemplary Applied Modeling Paper at EC '19. Revise and Resubmit at Econometrica.)
• Cullen, Zoë B., and Ricardo Perez-Truglia. "The Old Boys' Club: Schmoozing and the Gender Gap." (pdf) Working Paper, June 2021.
• Cullen, Zoë B., and Ricardo Perez-Truglia. "The Salary Taboo: Privacy Norms and the Diffusion of Information." (pdf) NBER Working Paper Series, No. 25145, October 2018. (Revised January 2020. Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-057, November 2019)
• Bartik, Alexander, Zoë B. Cullen, Edward L. Glaeser, Michael Luca, Christopher Stanton, and Adi Sunderam. "The Targeting and Impact of Paycheck Protection Program Loans to Small Businesses." (pdf) Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-021, August 2020.
• Bartik, Alexander, Zoë Cullen, Edward L. Glaeser, Michael Luca, and Christopher Stanton. "What Jobs Are Being Done at Home During the COVID-19 Crisis? Evidence from Firm-Level Surveys." (pdf) Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-138, June 2020.

CASES AND TEACHING MATERIALS

• Bussgang, Jeffrey J., Zoë B. Cullen, William R. Kerr, Benjamin N. Roth, and Michael Norris. "A Close Shave at Squire." Harvard Business School Case 821-073, July 2021.

SCHOLARSHIPS, HONORS AND AWARDS

• 2019 Exemplary Applied Modeling Paper EC’19
• 2015-16 CCSRE Fellow (Stanford University)
• 2013-14 E2A Research Challenge, UC Berkeley CEGA
• 2008-09 Bradley Foundation Fellowship
• 2005-08 Humanities in Medicine Program, Mount Sinai, New York
• 2006 Rhodes Finalist
• 2005-06 Phi Beta Kappa