Update: The Business Economics & Public Policy group at Wharton is hiring multiple pre-doctoral researchers to start July 1, 2024, in the fields of environmental economics and/or development economics. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Click here for more information. ​

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Assistant Professor of Business Economics & Public Policy, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania​ 

NBER Faculty Research Fellow 

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J-PAL affiliate

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Contact
322 Vance Hall
3733 Spruce Street, Philadelphia
sberkou@wharton.upenn.edu

About me

My research interests are in development economics and environmental economics, specifically the individual and institutional factors that shape how energy and the environment interact with economic decision-making and well-being. My projects cover topics in energy efficiency adoption, electricity grids, air pollution, and environmental risk mitigation and use experimental and non-experimental applied econometrics methods.

At the University of Pennsylvania, I am affiliated with: 

• The Penn Environmental Innovations Initiative 
• The Penn Development Research Initiative
• The Wharton Climate Center at Wharton's new Environmental, Social, and Governance Initiative 
• Analytics at Wharton​
• The Penn Program on Regulation

I teach Microeconomics for Managers in Wharton's MBA program. I also co-organize the Development Economics seminar, the Energy Economics and Finance seminar, and the Applied Economics Workshop. 

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