About me

I’m an Economics PhD student at Stanford, where I’m supported by a Knight-Hennessy Scholarship. My google scholar page is here. My email is trutter (at) stanford [dot] edu.

Working Papers

Social Capital in the United Kingdom: Evidence from Six Billion Friendships

as part of a large team, co-first author. (2025)

Media Coverage: The Economist, The Guardian 1, The Guardian 2, The Independent, The Standard, The Times

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Publications

The Economic Impacts of COVID-19: Evidence from a New Public Database Built Using Private Sector Data

as part of a large team. The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2024)

Media Coverage: NPR, Washington Post 1, Washington Post 2, Washington Post 3

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Social Capital I: Measurement and Associations with Economic Mobility

as part of a large team. Nature (2022)

Media Coverage: Axios, Brookings, CBS, Economist 1, Economist 2, Nature, Nature Podcast, New Scientist, New York Times 1, New York Times 2, New York Times 3, NPR, The Verge, Washington Post

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Social Capital II: Determinants of Economic Connectedness

as part of a large team. Nature (2022)

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Meta-Analysis of Present-Bias Estimation Using Convex Time Budgets

with Taisuke Imai and Colin F. Camerer. The Economic Journal (2021)

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The Effectiveness of a Neighbor-to-Neighbor Get-Out-the-Vote Program: Evidence from the 2017 Virginia State Elections

with Cassandra Handan-Nader, Daniel E. Ho, and Alison Morantz. Journal of Experimental Political Science (2021)

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