Predoctoral Research Professionals | Becker Friedman Institute

Current Research Professionals

Franco Albino

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: John List

Aidan Buehler

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Jonathan Dingel and Joshua Gottlieb

Bin Cheng

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

Giuseppe Cognata

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisors: Peter Ganong and Pascal Noel

Zayne El-Kaissi

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Magne Mogstad

Jan Fasnacht

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Leo Bursztyn

Jiwon Hwang

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: John List

Seha Karabacak

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisors: Chang-Tai Hsieh and Marianne Bertrand

Maksym Kutsenko

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Chris Blattman

Fengzhe (Allen) Liu

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Oeindrila Dube

Bernardo Lisboa

Haddad Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Emanuele Colonnelli

Gustavo Luchesi

Haddad Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Yana Gallen and Dmitri Kostas

Nicholas Martens

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Evan Rose

Seyed Mohsen Alavi

Predoctoral Research Professional, Faculty Supervisors: Ali Hortacsu and Chad Syverson

Haoyang Sun

Research Professional , Faculty Supervisor: Lars Peter Hansen

Sviatoslav Tiupin

Predoctoral Research Professional, Faculty Supervisors: Rodrigo Adao, Rohan Kekre, Guido Lorenzoni

Raghav Warrier

Predoctoral Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Alexander Torgovitsky

Brianna Youngblood

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Damon Jones

Rhea Choudhary

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Manasi Deshpande

Jiaying (Jessie) Liao

Predoctoral Research Professional , Faculty Supervisor: Lars Peter Hansen

Vaishnavi Krishna Mohan

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Michael Kremer

Ben Fraser

Research Professional, Faculty Organizer: Brent Neiman

Julian Tsang

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Esteban Rossi-Hansberg and Rodrigo Adao

Giyoung Kwon

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisors: Chang-Tai Hsieh and Erik Hurst

Mauricio Koechlin

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Ariel Kalil

Xuhang Ke

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisors: Esteban Rossi-Hansberg and Rodrigo Adão

Patrick Kim

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Azeem Shaikh

Cedric Elkouh

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Josh Gottlieb

Paul Kirch

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: John List

Aman Aggarwal

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Maggie Shi and Zarek Brot-Goldberg

Vedant Monger

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Ali Hortaçsu

Tomoki Nishiyama

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Koichiro Ito

Brayant De Leon

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Magne Mogstad

Shay Houseknecht

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Chris Blattman

Mohit Negi

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Erin Kelley

Julio Cesar Ballen Mugnol

Haddad Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Kilian Huber

Amangku Brahmanaputra B. Satiman

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Manasi Deshpande

Utkarsh Dandanayak

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Magne Mogstad

Ryan Lee

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Chris Campos

Emily Lightfoot

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Michael Greenstone

Jack Mulqueeney

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Evan Rose

Victor de Faro Quadros

Haddad Research Professional, Faculty Supervisors: Esteban Rossi-Hansberg and Rodrigo Adão

Jennifer Amarachi Agbo

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Ashwin Rode

Marine de Franciosi

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Ashwin Rode

Juliana Lalinde Velasquez

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: John List

Caleb Halvorson-Fried

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Koichiro Ito

Lena Wiśniewska

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Michael Kremer

Ema Nakayama

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor:

Marsya Paramita Candradewi

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Michael Greenstone

Elliot Grenier

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Amir Jina

Maiqi Yu

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Ashwin Rode

DaiGianna Williams

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Damon Jones

Anora Wu

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Michael Greenstone

Nour Abdelbaki

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: John List

Ada Gianassi

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Leo Bursztyn

Katherine Papen

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Josh Gottlieb and Maggie Shi

Zhaoyang Xu

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Lars Peter Hansen

Emre Mutlu

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Ali Hortacsu

Keishi Kimura

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Michael Greenstone

Alumni

Luca Adorni

BS in Business Administration and Management at Bocconi University; MS in Economic and Social Sciences at Bocconi University, Faculty Supervisor: Evan Rose

The Weiss Fund

Muskan Aggarwal

Host Institution: Northwestern University

Dylan Baker

BA in Economics, Political Science, Psychology, and History at University of Kentucky, Faculty Supervisor: Joshua Gottlieb

Mexico Alberto Vergara Bahena

Predoctoral Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Chris Blattman

Christine Blandhol

Faculty Supervisor: Magne Mogstad, Placement: PhD in Economics, Princeton University

John Bonney

Faculty Supervisor: Magne Mogstad, Placement: PhD Economics, Stanford | Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Marion Carr

B.A. in Economics at Swarthmore College, Faculty Supervisors: Marianne Bertrand and Chang-Tai Hsieh

Michelle Cherian

Research Professional, Development Innovation Lab

Futing Chen

M.A. in Economics from the University of Chicago, B.S. in Economics from Central University of Finance and Economics, Faculty Supervisor: Zhiguo He

Pengyu Chen

Predoctoral Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Lars Peter Hansen

Kwok Yan Chiu

Faculty Supervisor: Brent Neiman, Placement: PhD in Economics, Northwestern University

Terry Culpepper

B.A. in Economics at The University of Chicago, Faculty Supervisors: Ali Hortacsu and Chad Syverson

Michael Cuna

Faculty Supervisor: John List, Placement: PhD, Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics, University of Chicago

Yiren Ding

M.A. from the University of Chicago, Faculty Supervisor: Michael Dinerstein

Reigner Kane

B.S in Economics at University of Louisiana at Lafayette; M.A. in Social Sciences with a concentration in Economics at University of Chicago

Uditi Karna

B.A. in Economics from the University of Chicago, Faculty Supervisor: John List

Daniel Fox

B.S. in Economics and Mathematics from Brigham Young University, Faculty Supervisor: Greg Kaplan

Gaia Gaudenzi

B.S. in Economics and Business at Bocconi University; M.S. in Economics and Government at Bocconi University, Faculty Supervisor: Anne Karing and Rachel Glennerster

Maximiliano Gonzalez

B.S. in Industrial Engineering, Diploma in Mathematical Engineering at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; M.A. in Social Sciences, concentration in Economics at the University of Chicago

B.A. in Economics (Mathematical Economics and Mathematical Finance) from Central University of Finance and Economics; M.A. in Economics from Duke University, Faculty Supervisors: Azeem Shaikh and Max Tabord-Meehan

Seung ah Ha

M.S. in Statistics from the University of Chicago, B.A. in Applied Statistics from Yonsei University, Faculty Supervisors: Brent Neiman and Felix Tintelnot

Max Hippold

Faculty Supervisor: John List, BS in Economics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich; Currently enrolled in a MS Economics London School of Economics and Political Science

The Weiss Fund

Sharad Hotha

Yueh-ya (Sam) Hsu

Predoctoral Research Professional, Faculty Supervisors: Erin Kelley and Greg Lane

Hyong-gu Hwang

B.A. in Economics and Mathematics from The College of Wooster, Faculty Supervisors: Pietro Tebaldi and Alexander Torgovitsky

Omkar Katta

B.A. in Mathematical Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, Faculty Supervisors: Alexander Torgovitsky and Guillaume Pouliot

Xianglong Kong

M.A. in Social Sciences (Economics) at The University of Chicago and B.S. in Mathematical Economics and Finance at Central University of Finance and Economics., Faculty Supervisor: Felix Tintelnot

Santiago Lacouture

M.A. and B.A. in Economics and a B.A. in Government and Public Affairs from Universidad de Los Andes, Faculty Supervisors: Magne Mogstad and Ingvil Gaarder

Haoran Li

B.A. in Philosophy, Economics; B.S. in Statistics, Master's in Statistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Faculty Supervisors: Ali Hortacsu

Marcus Lim

M.A. in Economics from the University of British Columbia, B.A. in Economics from the National University of Singapore, Faculty Supervisor: Magne Mogstad

Isaac Liu

B.S. in International Political Economy from Georgetown University, Faculty Supervisors: Christina Patterson and Joe Vavra

Ariel Listo

M.S. in Economics from the University of Maine and B.A. in Economics from St. Thomas University, Faculty Supervisor: John List

Selene Cueva Madrid

Research Professional, Development Innovation Lab

Bruno Maguida

B.A. in Economics at Princeton University, Faculty Supervisor: Chris Blattman

Anya Marchenko

Faculty Supervisor: Steven Levitt, Placement: Center for Effective Global Action, UC Berkeley

Maria Milosh

Faculty Supervisors: Konstantin Sonin and Austin Wright, Placement: MS in Computational Analysis & Public Policy, Harris Public Policy

Purushottam Mohanty

B.A. in Economics from University of Delhi; M.S. in Economics from Paris School of Economics, Faculty Supervisor: Oeindrila Dube

Nick Niers

Predoctoral Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Jonathan Dingel

Adam Oppenheimer

B.A. in Economics from the University of Chicago, Faculty Supervisor: Thibaut Lamadon

Vaidehi Parameswaran

B.A. in Economics at Lady Shri Ram College for Women; M.A. in Economics at Columbia University, Faculty Supervisor: Josh Gottlieb

The Weiss Fund

Shashank Patil

Haomin Qin

B.S. in Economics at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics; M.A. in Economics at University of Chicago, Macro Finance Research Program

Lina M. Ramirez

M.A. and B.A. in Economics from Universidad de Los Andes, Faculty Supervisor: John List

María Alejandra Rodríguez

M.A. in Economics from the University of British Columbia and M.A. and B.A. in Economics from Universidad del Pacífico, Faculty Supervisor: Alessandra Voena

Marcia Ruiz

B.A. in Economics at Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru , Faculty Supervisor: Manasi Deshpande

Matthew Schwartzman

Faculty Supervisor: Alessandra Voena, Placement: PhD in Economics, Yale University

Becky Scurlock

Research Professional, Development Innovation Lab

Kazuatsu Shimizu

B.A. in Economics from Swarthmore College, Faculty Supervisors: Chang-Tai Hsieh and Erik Hurst

Rathan Sudheer

Research Professional, Development Innovation Lab

Nagisa Tadjfar

Faculty Supervisors: Erik Hurst and Kerwin Charles, Placement: PhD Economics, MIT | Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Sara Restrepo Tamayo

Research Professional, Development Innovation Lab

Haruka Uchida

Faculty Supervisor: John List, Placement: PhD, Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics, University of Chicago

Atom Vayalinkal

B.S. in Economics, Mathematics, and Statistics from the University of Toronto, Faculty Supervisor: John List

Arnstein Vestre

B.S. in Mathematics and Economics from the University of Oslo, Faculty Supervisor: Magne Mogstad

Jiaming Wang

B.B.A. in Accounting and B.A. in Economics from Xi’an Jiaotong University, M.S. in Finance from SAIF, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, M.S. in Financial Engineering from Columbia University, Faculty Supervisor: Lars Hansen

Jieyao Wang

Faculty Supervisor: Lars Hansen, Placement: PhD in Finance, University of North Carolina

John Wilson

Faculty Supervisor: Lars Hansen, Placement: PhD in Finance, MIT Sloan

Linghui Wu

B.A. in Economics at University of International Business and Economics; M.A. in Computational Social Science at the University of Chicago, Faculty Supervisors: Jonathan Dingel and Felix Tintelnot

Zhen Xie

B.A. in Economics and Mathematics from Xi’an Jiaotong University, Faculty Supervisor: Guillaume Pouliot

Zhenhuan Xie

Research Professional, Macro Finance Research Program

Han Xu

B.A. in Economics from Chinese University of Hong Kong, Faculty Supervisor: Lars Peter Hansen

Jay Leeds

Predoctoral Research Professional, Faculty Supervisors: Peter Ganong and Pascall Noel

Menglu Xu

M.A. in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin, B.S. in Economics from Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Faculty Supervisors: Brent Neiman, Rodrigo Adao and Rohan Kekre

Yifan Xu

B.A. in Economics and Mathematics from the University of Chicago, Faculty Supervisor: Magne Mogstad

Haoyang Xie (Stan)

B.A. in Economics at Peking University; M.A. Masters of Arts in Public Policy with Certificate in Research Methods at University of Chicago, Faculty Supervisors: Leo Bursztyn

Jiada Ye

M.A. in Economics and B.S. in Economics and Mathematics from the University of Toronto , Faculty Supervisor: Manasi Deshpande

Mingjie Zhu

M.A. in Economics from University of Chicago and B.A. in Economics from Nankai University, Faculty Supervisors: Jonathan Dingel and Felix Tintelnot

Mengdi Zhang

B.S. in Computer Science and Quantitative Social Analysis from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; M.A. in Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences from Columbia University, Faculty Supervisor: Zhiguo He

Shengning Zhang

Research Professional, Development Innovation Lab

Ian Xu

Predoctoral Research Professional, Faculty Supervisors: Alex Torgovitsky and Guillaume Pouliot

Cole Weaver

Research Professional, Development Innovation Lab

Tim (Tianyu) Wu

Predoctoral Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Ali Hortacsu and Chad Syverson

Funmilayo Ajayi

Research Professional, Development Innovation Lab

Scott Blatte

Predoctoral Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Josh Gottlieb

Daniela Bresciani Andaluz

Predoctoral Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Ariel Kalil

Junbiao Chen

Predoctoral Research Professional, Faculty Supervisors: Jonathan Dingel and Felix Tintelnot

Yen-Chi Chen

Predoctoral Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Magne Mogstad

Joy Dada

Research Professional, Development Innovation Lab

Michelle Gard

Predoctoral Research Professional, Faculty Supervisors: Zarek Brot-Goldberg and Maggie Shi

Kyel Governor

Research Profesional, B.A., B.Math in Economics, Mathematics, University of Guelph (Economics), Carleton University (Mathematics); MA in Economics at the University of Guelph