Stories by Supreet Kaur

Supreet Kaur is an associate professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work applies insights from psychology to economics to study the persistence of poverty and barriers to economic mobility. She is co-founder of the Psychology and Economics of Poverty Initiative, an interdisciplinary lab that develops new approaches to antipoverty policies and programs, at U.C. Berkeley’s Center for Effective Global Action. She holds a B.S. in operations research from Columbia University, an master in public administration in international development (M.P.A./I.D.) from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a Ph.D. in political economy and government (economics) from Harvard.