Emily Breza
Emily Breza | |
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| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD); Yale University (BA) |
| Awards | Sloan Research Fellowship |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Development Economics |
| Institutions | Harvard University |
| Thesis | Essays on strategic social interactions: evidence from microfinance and laboratory experiments in the field (2012) |
| Doctoral advisor | Abhijit Banerjee; Esther Duflo; Sendhil Mullainathan |
| Website | https://sites.google.com/view/ebreza/home |
Emily Louise Breza is an American development economist currently serving as the Frederic E. Abbe Professor of Economics at Harvard University. She is a board member at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, and an affiliated researcher at the International Growth Centre and National Bureau of Economic Research. Breza's primary research interests are in development economics, in particular the interplay between social networks and household finance. She is the recipient of a Sloan Research Fellowship.