About Me

I am a 4th year PhD candidate in Economics at Stanford. I am interested in industrial organization and political economy, with particular interests in media and social networks. Along the way, I dabble in applied econometrics.

You can reach me at samthau (at) stanford [dot] edu. My Google Scholar is here. My CV is here.

Working papers

Non-Robustness of Diffusion Estimates On Networks With Measurement Error (with Arun G Chandrasekhar, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Tyler McCormick and Jerry Wei) R&R at Econometrica

Publications

Interacting Policies in Containing a Disease (with Arun G Chandrasekhar, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, and Matthew O Jackson)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (May, 2021): vol. 118 no. 19 doi:10.1073/pnas.2021520118. Supplemental Material, Code

Work in progress

The Political Content of College Courses (with Gideon Moore and Jacob Light)

Access Journalism: Theory and Evidence from Coverage of Congress

Learning-by-Doing and the Life Cycle of Innovation (with Gideon Moore and Janet Stefanov)