Gabriel Kreindler
Gabriel Kreindler is an Assistant Professor in the economics department at Harvard. He is also a faculty affiliate of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), a faculty research fellow with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and an affiliate of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD). He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and A.B. in mathematics from Princeton University.
He is a development economist working on questions in urban mobility. His research in India, Indonesia, Kenya, Uganda, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and the US, looks at the design of public transport networks and congestion pricing, the use of digital trace data to describe urban mobility behavior as well as measures of infrastructure quality. He is also interested in understanding how urban residents explore their cities and how distance affects spatial choices and why. His work relies on a mix of data, methods and approaches, including primary data collection, (smart)phone data, randomized experiments, and quantitative models.
The Salata Institute
The Salata Institute supports interdisciplinary research that leads to real-world action, including high-risk/high-reward projects by researchers already working in the climate area and new endeavors that make it easier for Harvard scholars, who have not worked on climate problems, to do so. Faculty interested in the Climate Research Clusters program should note an upcoming deadline for concepts on April 1, 2024.