Introduction
I am an Assistant Professor (Research) of Economics at the University of Southern California, an affiliate of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development, the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, the Center for Effective Global Action, and a Faculty Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. I am a development economist whose research focuses on household decision-making and its intersection with financial access and innovation, health-seeking behavior, and international migration.
Expert
Simone Schaner is a development economist whose research focuses on household decision-making, financial access and innovation for the unbanked, health-seeking behavior, and gender. She has extensive experience managing field-based research projects, with prior work in Kenya, Ghana, Mali, India, and Indonesia. Dr. Schaner is an affiliate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development, the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, and a member of the Innovations for Poverty Action research network. Dr. Schaner holds a joint appointment at CESR and the USC Department of Economics. Prior to joining CESR she was an Assistant Professor at Dartmouth College. She has a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT and an A.B. in Economics from Princeton University.
Fields of expertise: Gender equality, Health and wellbeing, Monitoring and evaluation, Policy design and delivery, Social innovation / public sector innovation / policy innovation, Social policy