Neil Thakral provided commentary in this article on the housing crisis in Rhode Island.
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Neil Thakral
Nancy Donohue and Diane Elam Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs and Economics
111 Thayer Street, Room 262
Areas of Expertise
Inequality & Poverty, Labor, Tax Policy
Areas of Interest
Behavioral economics, Housing policy, Labor markets
Biography
Neil Thakral joined Brown University after receiving a Ph.D. in business economics from Harvard University's Department of Economics and Harvard Business School in 2018 and a bachelor's degree in mathematics and economics from Brown University in 2013. He is an associate editor at the Review of Economics and Statistics.
Research
Thakral's research focuses on behavioral economics and applied microeconomics. He has investigated topics such as the spending response to stimulus payments, preferences for public policies, preferences for workplace amenities, the design of public housing policies and poverty.
Publications
Thakral, Neil, and Linh T. Tô. 2021. "Daily Labor Supply and Adaptive Reference Points." American Economic Review, 111 (8): 2417-43.
"The Design of Public-Housing Policies," More Equal by Design: Economic Design Responses to Inequality, eds. Scott Duke Kominers and Alexander Teytelboym, Oxford University Press.
Thakral, Neil. 2019. "Matching with Stochastic Arrival." AEA Papers and Proceedings, 109: 209-12.
Teaching
MPA 2040 - Statistics for Program Evaluation
ECON 1629 - Applied Research Methods for Economists
ECON 1825 - Behavioral Economics and Public Policy
Recent News
Neil Thakral provided commentary in this article, citing his co-authored study on the anticipation and use of stimulus checks.
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This article cites Neil Thakral on what happens when people have time to prepare for financial windfall.
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News from Watson
Anticipation and Consumption
In "Anticipation and Consumption," Neil Thakral analyzes how the timing of information affects consumption decisions using data from the 2008 stimulus payments in the U.S. and data from randomized experiments in Kenya and Malawi.
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