Professors Van Benthem, Lockwood, Low, Rees-Jones, Kessler and I are hiring 3 predoctoral researchers (in environmental, behavioral, and public econ) to start in July 2025. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. ​Click here for more information. 

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Primary appointment
Assistant Professor
​Business Economics & Public Policy
The Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania​ 

External affiliations

• Associate Editor, Journal of Development Economics
• NBER Faculty Research Fellow (DEV, EEE)
• BREAD Affiliate
• J-PAL Affiliate

Internal affiliations

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

Contact
322 Dinan Hall (formerly Vance Hall)
3733 Spruce Street, Philadelphia
[email protected]
ORCID
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Wharton webpage
Linkedin
X: @BerkouwerS

About me

I study development economics and environmental economics. My research uses experimental and non-experimental applied econometrics methods to study energy efficiency adoption, electricity grids, and air pollution from energy usage.

I teach microeconomics in the Wharton MBA program. I also occasionally co-organize the Development Economics seminar, the Energy Economics and Finance seminar, and the Applied Economics Workshop. 

Please use they/them pronouns when referring to me.

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