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Simone Schaner

    University of Southern California

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

Dr. Schaner is 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.

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Related Projects

  • Is Heading Home a Dead End? COVID-Induced Migration and Local Labour Market Opportunities in Rural India
  • A Tough Call: Understanding the Impact of Mobile Technology on Women’s Work, Gender Gaps, and Social Norms
  • Empowering Women through Public Policy

Related Publications

  • GLM|LIC Policy Brief No. 18

    An Account of One‘s Own
  • G²LM|LIC Policy Brief No. 50

    Is Heading Home a Dead End?
  • G²LM|LIC Policy Brief No. 68

    What Works to Close Digital Gender Gaps?
  • GLM|LIC Working Paper No. 32

    On Her Account

Published Articles

  • eClinicalMedicine

    Indian female migrants face greater barriers to post−Covid recovery than males: Evidence from a panel study
  • American Economic Review, 111(7): 2342-75

    On Her Own Account: How Strengthening Women’s Financial Control Impacts Labor Supply and Gender Norms

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