Oscar Volpe

Welcome!

I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at Harvard University. I study topics in labor, drawing on tools from econometrics and industrial organization. My recent projects explore the sources of wage inequality and worker sorting in labor markets, as well as the role of spillovers in social and economic networks. I completed my Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago in 2025.

My CV is linked here.

You can contact me at: ovolpe@fas.harvard.edu.

I am excited to involve students in my research projects. If you are interested, please feel free to email me and complete this form.


Working Papers

Job Preferences, Labor Market Power, and Inequality
Job Market Paper; Updated: May 2026

Discrete Choice with Generalized Social Interactions
Revise and Resubmit at Econometrica (2nd Round); Supplemental Materials

Supply and Demand with Market Heterogeneity
(with L. H. de Frahan, Ingvil Gaarder, Magne Mogstad, and Alex Torgovitsky)

The Linear-in-Means Model with Heterogeneous Interactions
(with Magne Mogstad and Alex Torgovitsky)