I am an Assistant Professor of Applied Psychology and Economics at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.
My research focuses on how school systems in developing countries can ensure all children acquire basic skills by improving children’s preparation for school, supporting teachers to cater to heterogeneous student groups, and helping principals use data to inform management practices. I pursue this agenda through randomized field trials in Latin America and South Asia. I leverage my training in economics to estimate the impact of interventions and in psychometrics to develop measures of academic and social-emotional development. My research has been published in the American Economic Review, the World Bank Economic Review, the Review of Educational Research, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, and the Journal for Research on Educational Effectiveness.
I hold a doctorate in Quantitative Policy Analysis in Education from Harvard University, where I was a fellow in the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy; a master’s in Educational Research from the University of Cambridge, where I was a Gates Scholar; and a bachelor’s in International Politics from Georgetown University. I was also a post-doctoral fellow at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). I am currently a NAEd/Spencer postdoctoral fellow.
I am a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution; a Special Invitee of the regional office of J-PAL for Latin America and the Caribbean; and a member of the Advisory Board of the Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science, and Culture (OEI). I have worked as a consultant for multiple international organizations, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and Innovations for Poverty Action, among others.