Doctoral Advisees

Pooja Suri

Completion DateAugust 2024

DepartmentSchool of Public Health

Committee RoleMember

DissertationMaternal Health Decision-making in Multigenerational Households: Evidence from Field Experiments in India

Initial PlacementStanford University, School of Medicine, Post-doctoral fellow

Emily Aiken

Completion DateApril 2024

DepartmentSchool of Information

Committee RoleMember

DissertationTargeting Social Protection Programs with Machine Learning and Digital Data

Initial PlacementCarnegie Mellon University Africa (Kigali, Rwanda), Postdoctoral Fellow

Websitehttps://emilylaiken.github.io/

M. Zia Mehmood

Completion DateAugust 2024

DepartmentHaas

Committee RoleCo-Chair

DissertationEssays on Development and Political Economy

Websitehttps://www.ziamehmood.com/

Marion A.J. Richard

Completion DateJune 2024

DepartmentEconomics, Paris School of Economics

Committee RoleMember

DissertationEssays on conflict and spatial inequality in the Sahel

Initial PlacementUniversidade Nova de Lisboa

Websitehttps://sites.google.com/view/marionrichard/

David (Qihang) Wu

Completion DateMay 2024

DepartmentEconomics

Committee RoleChair

DissertationEssays in Development Economics

Initial PlacementHarvard Post-Doctoral Scholar & Georgia State University

Websitehttps://sites.google.com/view/qihangwu

Miguel Ortiz

Completion DateMay 2024

DepartmentHaas School of Business

Committee RoleMember

DissertationHate, Fear and Intergroup Conflict

Initial PlacementPrinceton Post-Doctoral Scholar & University of British Columbia

Websitehttps://miguelortizp.github.io/

Jedediah Silver

Completion DateMay 2024

DepartmentARE

Committee RoleMember

DissertationEssays on Productivity and Consumption Smoothing Under Imperfect Markets

Initial PlacementHebrew University of Jerusalem

Websitehttps://www.jedediahsilver.com/

Emily Aiken

Completion DateApril 2024

DepartmentSchool of Information

Committee RoleMember

DissertationTargeting Social Protection Programs with Machine Learning and Digital Data

Websitehttps://emilylaiken.github.io/

Emma Smith

Completion DateApril 2024

DepartmentPublic Policy, Harvard University

Committee RoleMember

DissertationEssays in Development Economics

Initial PlacementGeorgetown University

Websitehttps://sites.harvard.edu/emmasmith/

Nicholas Swanson

Completion DateApril 2024

Department Economics

Committee RoleCo-Chair

DissertationEssays in Development Economics

Initial PlacementStanford Post-Doctoral Scholar & World Bank

Websitehttps://nicholasgswanson.github.io/

Pierre Biscaye

Completion DateMarch 2024

DepartmentARE

Committee RoleMember

DissertationNatural Disasters and Livelihoods: Evidence from Pests, Floods, and Disease in African Countries

Initial PlacementCERDI Université Clermont Auvergne

Websitehttps://www.pierrebiscaye.com/

David Rhys Bernard

Completion DateSeptember 2023

DepartmentEconomics (Paris School of Economics)

Committee RoleMember

DissertationUsing experiments to evaluate non-experimental methods

Initial PlacementRethink Priorities

Websitehttps://www.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/en/bernard-david/

Edward Miguel

Edward Miguel

Pooja Suri

Emily Aiken

M. Zia Mehmood

Marion A.J. Richard

David (Qihang) Wu

Miguel Ortiz

Jedediah Silver

Emily Aiken

Emma Smith

Nicholas Swanson

Pierre Biscaye

David Rhys Bernard