Alper D. Karakas

• Business Analyst at Arixa Capital | Mar.2025 - Current

• Optometry Patient Data Modeling at Kaiser Permanente | Sep.2024 - Feb.2025

• Product Marketing Science at Western Digital | Jun.2024 - Sep. 2024

• Associate II at Guidehouse, Inc.  |  Jul.2020 - Jul.2023

• Strategic Services Analyst at AgilOne, Inc.  |  Jun.2018 - Oct.2019

• Business Development Researcher at The Manhattan Institute of Policy Research  |  Feb.2018 - May.2018

• University of California, Los Angeles |  Master of Quantitative Economics  |  Sep.2023 - Dec.2024

  • Economics Fellow

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology |  MicroMasters in Data, Economics, and Development Policy  |  Feb.2021 - Sep.2022

• New York University  |  Bachelors of Arts in Economics, Business Studies |  Sep.2016 - May.2020

  • Magna Cum Laude with High Honors

• Henry M. Gunn Senior High School  |  High School Diploma | Aug.2012 - Jun.2016

  • Distinguished Scholar Award

• The Persistent Effects of Peru’s Mining MITA: Double Machine Learning Approach (2024) 

• Reevaluating the Taylor Rule with Machine Learning (2021)

• Human Capital, Tech Diffusion, and Tax Rates (2020)*

• Who Supports the Underdog? (2017)*

*Full paper can be viewed per request via email

• Karma Insights Podcast | Transforming Public Policy with AI: Insights on Machine Learning, Causal Inference, and AI Agents 

• Destiny of the "Hockey Stick" Economic Growth (2019)

• Google Maps: Friendly Giant? (2019)

• A Growing & Green Economy (2019)

• The Economics of Immigration (2017)

• Meal Plan or No Meal Plan: Accountant vs Economist (2017)

• What's Going On Up There? (2017)

• Nationalization and Cost as Healthcare Quality Indicators of Health Care (M. Simoes 2020)*

• Evaluating the Effect of Mobile Banking on Overall Banking Security (S. Omar & P. Persad 2019)*

*Mentored papers can be viewed per request via email