The BFI Predoctoral Research in Economics Program (PREP) serves as a bridge between college and graduate school to provide those with an interest in economics or another quantitative social science with work experience prior to continuing their education.

Current Research Professionals

Funmilayo Ajayi

Research Professional, Development Innovation Lab

Franco Albino

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: John List

Scott Blatte

Predoctoral Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Josh Gottlieb

Daniela Bresciani Andaluz

Predoctoral Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Ariel Kalil

Aidan Buehler

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Jonathan Dingel and Joshua Gottlieb

Junbiao Chen

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

Yen-Chi Chen

Predoctoral Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Magne Mogstad

Bin Cheng

B.S. in Mathematics and B.A. in Economics from Renmin University of China; M.S. in Economics from Toulouse School of Economics, Macro Finance Research Program

Giuseppe Cognata

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisors: Peter Ganong and Pascal Noel

Joy Dada

Predoctoral Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Luiza Cardoso de Andrade

Zayne El-Kaissi

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Magne Mogstad

Jan Fasnacht

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Leo Bursztyn

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

Chun Hei Hung

Predoctoral Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Lars Peter Hansen

Jiwon Hwang

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: John List

Cynthia Ji

Predoctoral Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Wendy Wong

Seha Karabacak

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

Maksym Kutsenko

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Chris Blattman

Tobias Leigh-Wood

Predoctoral Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Manasi Deshpande

Fengzhe (Allen) Liu

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Oeindrila Dube

Bernardo Lisboa

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Emanuele Colonnelli

Gustavo Luchesi

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Yana Gallen and Dmitri Kostas

Nicholas Martens

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Evan Rose

Benjamin Mayer

Research Professional , Faculty Supervisors: Anne Karing and Rachel Glennerster

Paul McDermott

Predoctoral Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Oeindrila Dube

Claire McMahon

Predoctoral Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Leah Rosenzweig

Hussein Moussa

Predoctoral Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Chris Blattman

Seyed Mohsen Alavi

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

Anastasia Nebolsina

Predoctoral Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Leo Bursztyn

Francesca Pagnotta

Predoctoral Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: John List

Sebastian Quaade

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Michael Kremer

Ana Maria Radu

Predoctoral Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Akito Kamei

Devan Rawlings

Predoctoral Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Magne Mogstad

Aishwarya Rebelly

Research Professional, Development Innovation Lab

Ramiro Rossi

Predoctoral Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Eric Zwick

Ethan Sawyer

Predoctoral Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Evan Rose

Angira Shukla

Predoctoral Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Oeindrila Dube

Yash Singh

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

Haoyang Sun

Research Professional , Faculty Supervisor: Lars Peter Hansen

Sviatoslav Tiupin

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

Juri Trifonov

Predoctoral Research Professional, Faculty Supervisors: Azeem Shaikh and Max Tabord-Meehan

Kuan-Ju Tseng

Predoctoral Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Manasi Deshpande

Santiago Velasquez

Research Professional, Development Innovation Lab

Raghav Warrier

Predoctoral Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Alexander Torgovitsky

Cole Weaver

Predoctoral Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Kyle Murphy

Tim (Tianyu) Wu

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

Ian Xu

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

Luis Yepez Salazar

Predoctoral Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Carolin Pflueger

Brianna Youngblood

Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Damon Jones

Jialing Zhang

Predoctoral Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

Xiaoyang Zhang

Predoctoral Research Professional, Faculty Supervisor: Josh Gottlieb

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

Hongchang Guo

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

Predoctoral Fellowship Program