I am a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and a Research Associate at the Center for Policy Research. As a labor and urban economist, my work examines how environmental conditions shape individual well-being and broader economic outcomes. My CV is available [here].  Most of my work uses large spatial datasets so I primarily work in R and Python.

Prior to the Maxwell School, I worked as an instructional designer at MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), served as head teaching assistant at Harvard Extension School, and founded the economics program at Excel Academy, where I taught high-school economics and history.

Email: lukaplan[at]syr.edu,  lucas.m.kaplan[at]gmail.com