New Affiliated Professors Join J-PAL
In September, J-PAL welcomed seven new affiliated professors: Scott Carrell (University of California, Davis), Rebecca Dizon-Ross (University of Chicago), Eliana La Ferrara (Bocconi University), Adam Osman (University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign), Vincent Pons (Harvard), Gautam Rao (Harvard), and Adam Sacarny (Columbia). Their diverse research interests range from Islamic finance to the economics of health care payment policy. We are pleased to have them join J-PAL’s network of affiliated professors.
Scott Carrell
Scott Carrell is a professor of economics at the University of California, Davis, where he studies topics in the fields of labor economics, economics of education, and public economics.
Scott Carrell is a professor of economics at the University of California, Davis, where he studies topics in the fields of labor economics, economics of education, and public economics.
Rebecca Dizon-Ross
Rebecca Dizon-Ross is an Assistant Professor of Economics and Charles E. Merrill Faculty Scholar at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. She is a development economist with an interest in human capital.
Rebecca Dizon-Ross is an Assistant Professor of Economics and Charles E. Merrill Faculty Scholar at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. She is a development economist with an interest in human capital.
Eliana La Ferrara
Eliana La Ferrara is the Fondazione Romeo ed Enrica Invernizzi Chair in Development Economics at Bocconi University. Her research focuses on the economics of conflict, ethnicity, social norms, institutions, and the media.
Eliana La Ferrara is the Fondazione Romeo ed Enrica Invernizzi Chair in Development Economics at Bocconi University. Her research focuses on the economics of conflict, ethnicity, social norms, institutions, and the media.
Adam Osman
Adam Osman is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign. He studies occupational choice, Islamic finance, and the impacts of international trade on small and medium enterprises.
Adam Osman is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign. He studies occupational choice, Islamic finance, and the impacts of international trade on small and medium enterprises.
Vincent Pons
Vincent Pons is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Harvard Business School’s Business, Government, and International Economy Unit. He studies questions in political economy and development with the goal of understanding how to make rights and services more accessible to everyone, including disadvantaged groups.
Vincent Pons is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Harvard Business School’s Business, Government, and International Economy Unit. He studies questions in political economy and development with the goal of understanding how to make rights and services more accessible to everyone, including disadvantaged groups.
Gautam Rao
Gautam Rao is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Harvard University and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). His research seeks to bring insights from psychology to bear on topics in economics, particularly topics relevant to developing countries.
Gautam Rao is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Harvard University and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). His research seeks to bring insights from psychology to bear on topics in economics, particularly topics relevant to developing countries.
Adam Sacarny
Adam Sacarny is an Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management in the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He studies the economics of health care payment policy, with a focus on documentation and coding, upcoding, and fraud.
Adam Sacarny is an Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management in the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He studies the economics of health care payment policy, with a focus on documentation and coding, upcoding, and fraud.