Emily Breza | |
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| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD); Yale University (BA) |
| Awards | Sloan Research Fellowship |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Development Economics |
| Institutions | Harvard University |
| Thesis | Essays on strategic social interactions: evidence from microfinance and laboratory experiments in the field (2012) |
| Doctoral advisor | Abhijit Banerjee; Esther Duflo; Sendhil Mullainathan |
| Website | https://sites.google.com/view/ebreza/home |
Emily Louise Breza is an American development economist currently serving as the Frederic E. Abbe Professor of Economics at Harvard University.[1] She is a board member at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab,[2] and an affiliated researcher at the International Growth Centre[3] and National Bureau of Economic Research.[4] Breza's primary research interests are in development economics, in particular the interplay between social networks and household finance.[2] She is the recipient of a Sloan Research Fellowship.[5]