I’m a fourth-year Political Economy Ph.D. candidate at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy and Department of Political Science. My primary research interests are formal theory, American politics, and information economics. I am currently working on research on policy revision, the effect of fact checking on cheap-talk communication, career concerns and succession in political organizations, and dynamic policy experimentation.

Before my Ph.D., I completed a research fellowship at the University of Chicago’s Urban Labs, a Master’s degree at the University of Chicago’s Committee on International Relations, and a Bachelor’s in International Studies with a minor in Statistics at American University.

You can reach me at blshaver@uchicago.edu.