PODER Fellows

Jared Gars is a PhD candidate in Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and currently visiting Universitat Pompeu Fabra (since May 2016) as a PODER research fellow. He completed his undergraduate degree in Economics at the University of Florida and a Masters in Applied Economics at Purdue University. He has worked as a consultant for the International Food Policy Research Institute on the topics of learning, confidence, and technology adoption in Bihar, India. His main research fields are Development Economics, Behavioral Economics, and Industrial Organization.

Jongwook was working for a preschool enrolment campaign project for Roma children in the Czech Republic at the Paris School of Economics as a PODER research fellow.

Kilian is a PhD student at the Bonn Graduate School of Economics and a PODER fellow at the London School of Economics. His reserach interests are mainly in the field of public and behavioral economics with focus on combining theoretical and empirical methods. He holds undergraduate degrees from Bonn University in both mathematics and economics. During his fellowship he worked on the "Promoting basic entrepreneurship among the ultra poor” project. Click on the research summary link below for more information on Kilian's work.

PODER Appointment: September 2016 - August 2017

Lukas is a PhD student in the Departments of Economics at the University of Oxford and a PODER fellow at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Prior to his doctoral studies, Lukas studied at the University of Bonn, spent a year at UC Berkeley as a Fulbright scholar, and completed the MPhil in Economics at Oxford. Lukas’ general research interests lie in the intersection between political economy and development economics, with a particular focus on democratisation processes, political institutions and inequality, as well as political competition.