Simone Schaner

Simone Schaner is a rising development economist and an Assistant Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College. Her primary research interests include household decision-making and health-seeking behavior, access to financial instruments and financial innovation for the unbanked poor, and international migration.
During 2016 - 2017, she was as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School. She has also been a Visiting Assistant Professor at Brown University, and Visiting Scholar at the Evidence for Policy Design at the Center for International Development at the Harvard Kennedy School.
She is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and an Affiliate of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development as well as the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab.
Research
Schaner's current research projects study the effect of financial services and entitlement reform on woman's empowerment in India; the impact of new financial service products in Ghana; and the effect of information on migration service provider quality on the welfare of international migrants in Indonesia.
She is also developing a study to evaluate a family-base breastfeeding education curriculum for the Indian government.
Her prior research includes a study of household savings account use in Kenya published in the Journal of Human Resources, and the effect of transaction costs, bargaining power, and gender on savings account use; a study of heterogenous preferences within households on savings strategy in Kenya published in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics; and a study of the effect of price subsidies on providing effective treatment of malaria published in the American Economic Review.
Schaner has given numerous presentations of her work at various universities and has provided referee services to various prominent economic journals, including Econometrica and the American Economic Journal.
Honors
Schaner's research, as a part of the Financial Services for the Poor initiative, will be funded by Innovations for Poverty Action in 2017-2018. She also received two grants from the Gates Foundation, including the Grand Challenges Explorations Grant, to support her research for 2015-2017 and numerous other grants from J-PAL prior.<ref name="CV" />

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