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Mentor Areas

  • Development economics
  • Household finance

Description:

I am eager to get Wharton and UPenn Economics undergraduates involved in my research. All of my projects focus on household financial decision making and the operation of household financial markets, primary in developing countries. Please see my website for examples of past research projects. Please contact me directly about currently available research assistant positions.

I am also interested in supervising Honors Theses (WH399), Huntsman Theses and Independent Study Projects . Please contact me, attaching your informal transcript and resume, if you are a UPenn undergraduate interested in completing one of these types of research projects with me.

Preferred Qualifications

The best training is having taken my course BEPP 280: Applied Data Analysis. 

Please also include in your email to me a description of prior programming experience (both coursework and work experience) in R, Stata, Python, GIS and other statistical computing languages.

Project Website

Learn more about the researcher and/or the project here.
Research Website

Details:

Preferred Student Year

First-year, Second-Year, Junior, Senior

Academic Term

Fall, Spring, Summer

I prefer to have students start during the above term(s).

Volunteer

No

Yes indicates that faculty are open to volunteers.

Paid

Yes

Yes indicates that faculty are open to paying students they engage in their research, regardless of their work-study eligibility.

Work Study

No

Yes indicates that faculty are open to hiring work-study-eligible students.

Researcher


Associate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy