I’m an Associate Professor of Finance (without tenure) at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. I am also an Associate Editor at the Review of Finance and an Affiliated Professor at the MIT Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL).

My research studies how technology reduces frictions in payments markets and consumer financial markets, and the effects of reducing these frictions on households and small firms in emerging economies. Within consumer financial markets, I have a set of papers on frictions that prevent households from saving, and a second set of papers and projects on credit market frictions. My papers employ natural experiments or randomized controlled trials (RCTs) for identification, and generally use a combination of confidential (often transaction-level) administrative data and survey data.

I teach Entrepreneurial Finance and Venture Capital to MBA students, and I won the Sidney J. Levy Teaching Award. I was named a Poets&Quants 2024 Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professor.

I also co-founded and co-organize the Webinar in Finance and Development (WEFIDEV), which hosts webinars and an annual in-person conference to enable junior researchers to share both early-stage and more-polished research on finance and development. The 2025 WEFIDEV-RFS-CEPR Conference on Finance and Development features a dual-submission option with the Review of Financial Studies.

Job Opportunity: Dean Karlan, Jacopo Ponticelli, and I are looking to hire two predocs in Finance and Development. We will review applications on a rolling basis, with a target initial review on September 30, 2024. Details here.