• I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics at Harvard University. I graduated from UC Berkeley with a PhD in Economics in 2014.

    My research tries to bring insights from psychology to bear on topics in economics, particularly topics relevant to developing countries. Recent projects include studying how improving sleep affects the economic outcomes of workers in India, how the endowment effect influences consumer demand for collateralized loans in Kenya, how research findings affect the beliefs and policy choices of...

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Harvard University
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EMail: grao@fas.harvard.edu

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