Organizer: Jeffrey Weaver 

The seminar talks are hosted each Wednesday from 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM, Pacific Time in KAP 319. 

Simone Schaner is an Associate Professor (Research) of Economics at the University of Southern California. She studies how the social and economic environment shapes choices, elucidating how beliefs and power affect decision-making in households, economies, and societies.  Her work studies economic mechanisms that contribute to inefficiency and misallocation in low-income settings and associated policy solutions, with a focus on labor, financial, and healthcare markets. 

Dr. Schaner is the Scientific Director for Gender at Inclusion Economics. She is also 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 Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She has a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an A.B. in economics from Princeton University.