I am a PhD candidate in Applied Economics at Cornell University and am on the job market.

I research how information, beliefs, and behavior shape markets in low-income countries using randomized field experiments, large-scale surveys, qualitative methods, and secondary and remotely-sensed data. 

My job market paper, "Social Concerns Impede Price Competition Among Small Firms: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania," studies why firms remain small in low-income countries. It confirms the hypothesis that fear of social sanctions restricts price competition between firms. 

You can contact me at bpn23@cornell.edu.