Simone Schaner

Simone Schaner head shot

J-PAL Affiliated Professor

Associate Professor of Economics

University of Southern California

Simone Schaner is an Associate Professor (Research) of Economics at the University of Southern California. Her research applies insights from behavioral economics to examine savings behavior in Kenya and Ghana, and the delivery and adoption of malaria treatment in Kenya.

Simone earned her PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Simone has served on the review board of J-PAL's Inclusive Financial Innovation Initiative. She has also lectured at J-PAL training events.