Advait R. Aiyer


I am pursuing a PhD in Applied Economics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
My research interests include development economics, education, and health economics.
I also enjoy causal inference, applied Bayesian modeling, machine learning, and networks.

Previously, I worked as a J-PAL Research Associate at the Behavioral Development Lab,
with Profs. Gautam Rao and Frank Schilbach.

I earned an MS in Economics from the New School for Social Research and
a BSc. in Economics, Mathematics, and Statistics from St. Joseph's College, Bangalore University.

Email me at "advaitra at wharton dot upenn dot edu".
You can access my GitHub profile here and my CV here.



Economics & Statistics


Multilevel modeling of infant mortality in India

Bayesian analysis of randomized control trials (RCTs)

Access to credit in South Indian village networks

Multilevel Models for Growth vs. Debt to GDP ratio

General Social Survey experiments

Programming


wiodbayes - an R package for Bayesian modeling of World Input-Output Table data

Bayesian machine learning

PoissonMixR - an R package for fitting Poisson mixture models

Machine learning applications

Miscellaneous coding

Teaching


Quantitative Reasoning 2 : Research Methods and Data Visualization (Instructor)

Advanced Microeconomics 1 (TA - FA’16)