Daniel T. Roberts is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Government at Harvard University. His research explores the politics of opportunity with a focus on credit access, education, and labor market policy in rich democracies, including Germany. His dissertation explains why "opportunity boundaries", policies that reinforce unequal opportunity, are so politically resilient in the United States, Germany, and Japan. In other work at the intersection of these themes and his financial economics research background, he explores how domestic strategies to secure opportunity given exclusionary boundaries can promote financial risk-taking that triggers global credit crises, with applications to the Eurozone Crisis. Daniel's research approach is mixed-methods, drawing on administrative data, public opinion surveys, and archival sources.
Daniel was a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, the AxPo Observatory of Market Society Polarization at Sciences Po Paris, and Nuffield College at Oxford University while on a dissertation fellowship supported by the Center. Before coming to Harvard, he received a B.A. in Economics at the University of Chicago and worked as a research analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
