Welcome! I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at The National Bureau of Economic Research. I received my Ph.D. in the ARE Department at the University of California, Davis in 2024. My fields of interest are behavioral and development economics and my PhD research focused on experience effects and motivated beliefs, risk preferences and subjective beliefs, and disability policy in developing countries.

I am currently seeking roles where I can apply my causal inference expertise to real-world problems in data science and applied economics while continuing to grow professionally. I am an applied economist specializing in causal inference and experimentation, with hands-on experience applying quasi-experimental methods using Python, R, Stata, and SQL. I like to dive deep into complex data, improve analytical workflows and visualizations, and clearly translate findings into recommendations to non-technical audiences.

You can find my résumé here and my CV here.

Education 🎓

PhD. in Applied Economics (2024), University of California, Davis

MSc. in Applied Economics & International Agricultural Development (2019), University of California, Davis

BSc. in Community, Environment, and Development & Environmental Resource Management (2013), Pennsylvania State University

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Please feel free to contact me with any inquiries at seanfkiely4@gmail.com