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Employment / Affiliations
Visiting Scholar, Harvard Business School (2023-present)
Buzz and Judy Newton Facutly Fellow, University of Michigan, Ross School of Business (2022 - present)
Associate Professor (with tenure), University of Michigan, Ross School of Business (2022 - present)
Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research (2022 - present)
Affiliate, Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, MIT (2021 - present)
Affiliate, Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (2021 - present)
Arnold M. & Linda T. Jacob Faculty Fellow (2020-2021)
Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research (2017 - 2022)
Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Good Business Lab (March 2017-present)
Research Affiliate, International Growth Centre (2016 - present)
Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, Ross School of Business (2019 - 2022)
Assistant Professor, Boston College, Department of Economics (2015 - 2019)
Assistant Professor, University of Southern California, Department of Economics (2012 - 2015)
Education:
Ph.D., Economics, Yale University, May 2012
B.Sc., Economics, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, May 2006
Fellowships, Honors, Awards, and Grants:
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 2023-2025 ($1,381,908)
Wellspring Philantrhopic Fund, 2023-2025 ($415,000)
G2LMLIC - IZA FCDO, 2023-2025 ($388,208)
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 2022-2025 ($3,576,242)
The Skills Lab - Harvard, 2023 ($46,411)
Livelihood Impact Fund, 2023-2025 ($15,249)
SILP Micro-Grant Climate KIC, 2023 ($2,000)
JPAL Jobs and Opportunity Initiative, 2023-2024 ($57,990)
GEM Incubation Fund - Harvard CID, 2023-2024 ($15,000)
National Science Foundation, 2022-2024 ($503,800)
JPAL Gender and Economic Agency Initiative, 2022-2024 ($212,239)
SAKSHAMAA - Centre for Catalyzing Change, 2022-2024 ($86,530)
Inter-American Development Bank - GD Lab, 2022-2024 ($115,000)
Inter-American Development Bank, 2022 ($18,000)
PEDL Exploratory Grant, 2022-2024 ($36,255)
Researcher of the Year Award, University of Michigan - Ross, 2022-2023
TechnoServe, 2022-2023 ($28,746)
China Research Award - Ross, 2022-2023 ($4,000)
Provost Faculty Research Support - Michigan, 2022-2023 ($3,000)
Harvard University, 2022-2027 ($30,000)
MIT Solve Prize, Future of Work in India & Indonesia, 2022 ($120,000)
Wellcome Trust, 2021-2026 ($4,340,000)
WEE-DiFine - BRAC, 2021-2024 ($49,653)
Inter-American Development Bank, 2021 ($25,000)
JPAL Gender and Economic Agency Initiative, 2021-2023 ($249,976)
Russell Sage Foundation, 2021-2023 ($161,368)
CK Prahalad Research Grant, 2021-2022 ($10,000)
USAID DIV (sub-award through VisionSpring), 2020-2025 ($237,284)
USAID Development Innovation Ventures, 2020-2024 ($757,998)
USAID DIV (sub-award through VisionSpring), 2020-2023 ($212,531)
IPA IPV Initiative Competitive Fund, 2020-2021 ($98,000)
World Bank, 2020-2021 ($77,240)
Global Challenges in Economics and Computation, 2020 ($20,000)
Humanity United (Omidyar Network), 2019-2020 ($46,000)
Penn ALACRITY (NIMH), 2018-2019 ($39,990)
PEDL Major Grant, 2016-2018 ($470,000)
PEDL Exploratory Grant, 2015-2016 ($62,973)
International Growth Centre – India Central Programme Grant, 2015-2016 ($61,030)
PEDL Exploratory Grant, 2013-2014 ($40,000)
Yale University Dissertation Fellowship, 2011-2012
Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship, 2010-2011
Falk Fellowship, 2009-2011
Association of Yale Alumni Fellowship, 2008
Yale University Fellowship, 2006-2011
Wharton Research Scholar, 2005-2006
University of Pennsylvania Dean’s List, 2004-2005
Joseph Wharton Scholar, 2003-2006
Benjamin Franklin Scholar, 2003-2005
Professional Activities:
Referee—American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Political Economy, Econometrica, Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Economic Review: Insights, Economic Journal, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of the European Economic Association, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Development Economics, Management Science, International Economic Review, European Economic Review, Economic Development and Cultural Change, World Bank Economic Review, World Development, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Scienc Advances
Invited Talks and Conference Selections:
2023: NBER Organizational Economics, MIT, NBER SI (Development, Personnel)
2022: MIT
2021: BREAD (NYU), NBER SI (Crime), University of Pennsylvania, BREAD Pre-conference
2020: University of Michigan: Ross (Hosmer), University of Chicago, NBER Development, NBER National Security
2019: University of Michigan, Advances in Field Experiments (UChicago), NBER SI (Personnel); BREAD Behavioral Economics (Stanford)
2018: AEA (Philadelphia); University of Minnesota; University of North Dakota
2017: Clark; McGill; IPA SME Meeting (MIT); USC; IGC Firms/Trade/Development Conference (Columbia); Advances in Field Experiments (U Chicago); Asian Meetings of Econometric Society; NBER Enivronment and Energy Economics Spring Meeting; NBER Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Spring Meeting; Stony Brook
2016: Georgetown University; Boston University; NBER Summer Institute (Children's); NEUDC; Harvard-MIT-Stanford Empirical Management Conference; International Growth Centre (India Central); Barcelona GSE Summer Forum
2015: University of Pennsylvania; Brown University; Boston College; UC San Diego; Northeastern; NBER Productivity; NEUDC; Barcelona GSE Summer Forum; 29th BREAD Conference
2014: Stanford Development Seminar; University of Michigan Development Seminar, UI Urbana-Champagne Development Seminar; Northeast Universities Development Consortium (NEUDC) Conference; IZA Workshop: Labor Market Effects of Environmental Policies; NBER Development Summer Institute; NBER Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Spring Meeting; Pacific Conference on Development Economics (PAC-DEV)
2013: RAND Labor and Population Group; NBER Summer Institute (Entrepreneurship); NEUDC; PAC-DEV; Private Enterprise Development in Low-Income Countries (PEDL) London
2012: 22nd BREAD Conference; UC Berkeley Development Seminar; UC Riverside Applied Micro Seminar; UC San Diego Development Seminar; PAC-DEV; NBER Children’s Meeting; NBER Summer Institute (Health Economics, Health Care); Johns Hopkins; UI Urbana-Champagne; University of Warwick; Notre Dame; Stanford GSB
2011: NEUDC; PAC-DEV
2010: Northeast Universities Development Consortium (NEUDC) Conference; Pacific Conference on Development Economics (PAC-DEV)