Claudia Marangon
Claudia Marangon

Postdoctoral Fellow

Harvard University

Welcome to my website! I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

I am also a Research Affiliate at the Group for Law, Economics and Data Science and the Public Policy Group at ETH Zurich. I obtained my Ph.D. in Economics at ETH Zurich in May 2025 and was Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government in Spring 2023.

I am a Political Economist using methods from machine learning and natural language processing to investigate questions at the intersection of Media Economics and Economics of Crime.

I also co-organize the Online Seminar in Economics + Data Science. You can join our mailing list to be up to date with our events and contact me directly if you are interested in presenting!

I will be on the Academic Job Market 2026/2027

CV
Research

Working Papers

Job Market Paper
with Elliott Ash

Work in Progress

Visual Justice: The Effect of Media Mugshots on Attitudes and Judicial Outcomes.
with Elliott Ash, Sergio Galletta, and Benjamin Kohler
What's in a Name? The Effect of Judge-Defendant Name Similarity in Sentencing.
with Elliott Ash

Conference Publications

WCLD: Curated Large Dataset of Criminal Cases from Wisconsin Circuit Courts. Proceedings of the 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NEURIPS). 2023
with Elliott Ash, Naman Goel, Nianyun Li, and Peiyao Sun
Teaching
Data Science for Public Policy: From Econometrics to AI — ETH Zurich (Spring 2025)
Lecturer for graduate-level course connecting econometric methods with modern AI applications in public policy.
Course materials on GitHub
Text Data in Economics — University of Basel (Fall 2023, Fall 2024)
Lecturer for a PhD-level course on natural language processing methods applied to Economics
Course materials on GitHub
Building a Robot Judge: Data Science for Decision Making — ETH Zurich (Fall 2020–2023)
Teaching assistant for graduate-level course on causal inference and machine learning methods for decision-making
NLP for Law and Political Economy — ETH Zurich (Spring 2020–2022)
Teaching assistant for graduate-level course on natural language processing methods applied to Law and Political Economy