Get to know our faculty members and find contact information for our staff. For general inquiries about the Lab, please contact Poverty-Research@Northwestern.edu.
Affiliation: Kellogg School of Management
Dean Karlan is a Buffett Institute Faculty Fellow and the Nemmers Distinguished Professor of Economics and Finance at the Kellogg School of Management. His research focuses on microeconomic issues of poverty, typically employing experimental methodologies and behavioral economics insights to examine what works, what does not and why in interventions in sustainable income generation for those in poverty, household and entrepreneurial finance, health behavior and charitable giving.
Affiliation: Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences
Chris Udry is a Buffett Institute Faculty Fellow and the King Professor of Economics. He is a development economist whose research focuses on rural economic activity in Sub-Saharan Africa. His current research examines technological change, risk and financial markets, gender and households, property rights, psychological well-being and economic decision-making and a variety of other aspects of rural economic organization.
Affiliation: Kellogg School of Management
Nancy Qian is a professor of managerial economics & decision sciences. Her research provides empirical evidence for a set of core questions in development economics that broadly fall into three sub-categories: demography and development, geography and development, and institutions and development. She holds a PhD in economics from MIT.
Research Analyst
hasan.ahamed@kellogg.northwestern.edu
Administrative Assistant for Dean Karlan
saira.ahmad@kellogg.northwestern.edu
Postdoctoral Scholar
samuel.ampaw@kellogg.northwestern.edu
Research Analyst
svankita.arora@kellogg.northwestern.edu
Research Analyst
makayla.barker@kellogg.northwestern.edu
Postdoctoral Fellow
lasse.brune@kellogg.northwestern.edu
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Research Analyst
tommaso.crosta@kellogg.northwestern.edu
Director of Finance, Operations, and Outreach
k-dallia@kellogg.northwestern.edu
Senior Research Project Coordinator
navishti.das@kellogg.northwestern.edu
Research Manager
isabel.onate@kellogg.northwestern.edu
Research Analyst
liam.frolund@kellogg.northwestern.eduResearch Analyst
srishti.gupta@kellogg.northwestern.eduResearch Analyst
nathan.haddon@kellogg.northwestern.edu
Research Analyst
jeanbaptiste.koadima@kellogg.northwestern.edu
Project Coordinator
elise.mitchell@kellogg.northwestern.edu
Research Manager
Phone number: 847-491-5480
a-nickow@kellogg.northwestern.edu
Senior Research Project Coordinator
erin.ntalo@kellogg.northwestern.eduResearch Analyst
finley.ong@kellogg.northwestern.edu
Research Analyst
romil.pandey@kellogg.northwestern.edu
Postdoctoral Scholar
julius.ruschenpohler@kellogg.northwestern.edu
Research Manager
lauriane.yehouenou@kellogg.northwestern.edu
CEGA Fellow at Northwestern
ashagrie.moges@kellogg.northwestern.edu
Senior Program Associate
Affiliation: Innovations for Poverty Action
ebates-jefferys@poverty-action.org
CEGA Fellow at Northwestern
eugenierose.fontep@kellogg.northwestern.edu
CEGA Fellow at Northwestern
halefom.nigus@kellogg.northwestern.edu
Professor-Researcher
Affiliation: Universidad del Pacífico
matthew.bird@northwestern.edu
Regional Director
Affiliation: Innovations for Poverty Action
bpkasina@poverty-action.org
Research Manager
Affiliation: Innovations for Poverty Action
sstephen@poverty-action.org
Research Analyst
Affiliation: Innovations for Poverty Action
ykashlan@poverty-action.org
Visit this link to apply for the full-time research analyst position.
Please email poverty-research@northwestern.edu with any questions.
We are also currently hiring several undergraduate Research Assistants.
The undergraduate research assistants will help conduct a series of literature reviews at the intersection of entrepreneurship, gender, and/or economic development. Tasks will include one or more of the following: searching for literature, coding articles and extracting statistics, and data management and analysis. Participating students will have the opportunity to gain familiarity with the literature, development economics research methods, systematic review/meta-analysis research methods, and policy analysis. Candidates should be proficient at reading quantitative economic articles, identifying research designs and main findings, and interpreting statistical analyses.
If you are interested in the undergraduate research assistant position, please email Andre Nickow (a-nickow@kellogg.northwestern.edu) a resume/CV, unofficial transcript, and a brief statement of a few sentences or short paragraph about your interest in development.