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
muskan.aggarwal1@kellogg.northwestern.edu
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
paloma.avendano@kellogg.northwestern.edu
Research Analyst
makayla.barker@kellogg.northwestern.edu
Postdoctoral Fellow
lasse.brune@kellogg.northwestern.edu
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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.edu
Research Analyst
govind.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
deepika.nagesh@kellogg.northwestern.edu
Research Manager
a-nickow@kellogg.northwestern.edu
Senior Research Project Coordinator
erin.ntalo@kellogg.northwestern.eduResearch Analyst
finley.ong@kellogg.northwestern.edu
Research Analyst
carolina.ortiz@kellogg.northwestern.edu
Research Analyst
romil.pandey@kellogg.northwestern.edu
Postdoctoral Scholar
julius.ruschenpohler@kellogg.northwestern.edu
Research Analyst
osvaldo.sotofranco@kellogg.northwestern.edu
Research Manager
lauriane.yehouenou@kellogg.northwestern.edu
Research Manager
Affiliation: Innovations for Poverty Action; USAID
sstephen@poverty-action.org
The 2023 hiring cycle for full-time Research Analysts is currently closed. More information about 2024 hiring cycle will be coming soon.
Please email poverty-research@northwestern.edu with any questions.
We are also currently hiring several undergraduate Research Assistants.
International Development Evidence Database Research Assistantships
The Global Poverty Research Lab (GPRL) plans to hire several undergraduate Research Assistants (URAs) to help create a database of evidence in international development.
URAs will learn how to read academic papers efficiently, to identify fault lines in design and analysis, and will gain expertise in judging the strengths and weaknesses of academic work, specifically in the field of development economics. URAs will codify papers using a custom-made coding tool. This will involve the following tasks: coding information about research design and treatment effects, interacting with supervisors to clarify questions and improve as a coder, and engaging in weekly office hours. This role requires the URA to commit about 12-15 hours per week (adjustments can be made during exam times).
URAs will benefit from ample supervisor time and feedback on their work and will be part of an exciting project that promises to make an important contribution to both policy making and research. Candidates should be proficient at reading empirical academic papers with quantitative analysis, identifying research designs and main findings, and interpreting common statistical analyses. (The coding referred to here is not related to programming in Stata, R, Python, etc.) Candidates with a clear desire to further develop these skills will be preferred.
If you are interested in this position, please contact Andre Nickow (a-nickow@kellogg.northwestern.edu). Please include a resume/CV, unofficial transcript, and a brief statement of about five sentences about your experience with academic work in international development.