Jonathan Hersh

Graduate Student Fellow, Economics, College of Arts & Sciences

Jonathan Hersh became a Hariri Graduate Fellow in May, 2016. He is a PhD candidate in the Department of Economics. His research focuses on topics in development, international economics, and applied microeconomics. Hersh is interested in applying methods from machine learning and data science to open questions in economics, with a particular focus on methods used for prediction and inference. He is also a consultant in the Poverty and Equity Global Practice at the World Bank, where he was a co-awardee of a Big Data Innovation Challenge Grant. He was previously a visiting lecturer at Wellesley College.