Daniel Han

Bio

I am an Economics Ph.D. student at Boston University. My research interests are in Development Economics, Behavioral Economics, the Economics of Education and Political Economy. I was formerly a Senior Research Specialist at the Busara Center for Behavioral Economics, Nairobi, Kenya, where I managed Professor Johannes Haushofer (Cornell University)’s academic projects in the fields of Behavioral and Development Economics. I have also worked with researchers such as Edward Miguel (UC Berkeley), Dennis Egger (Oxford) and Toman Barsbai (Bristol).

I was previously a Research Associate at INSEAD, assisting Professors Michael Freeman and Chun So Yeon in the Technology and Operations Management field of research. Furthermore, at Singapore Management University, I worked with faculty on projects in Development Economics and Economic Forecasting.

I obtained my Master of Science degree in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Bachelor of Science degree (Summa Cum Laude) in Economics from Singapore Management University.

Curriculum Vitae (Updated June 2025)

Contact

Email: danielsh@bu.edu
Address:
270 Bay State Road
Boston University Department of Economics
Boston, MA 02215, United States

Publications

Brain Drain or Brain Gain? Effects of High-Skilled International Emigration on Origin Countries

(with Catia Batista, Johannes Haushofer, Gaurav Khanna, David McKenzie, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Caroline Theoharides and Dean Yang)

Science 388 (6749), eadr8861 (2025)

Forecasting GDP with Many Predictors in a Small Open Economy: Forecast or Information Pooling?

(with Chow Hwee Kwan and Yijie Fei)

Empirical Economics 65(2), 805-829 (2023)

Personal

Website: I am grateful to Gautam Rao sharing the template for his website, which has been adapted for this website. Please check out his GitHub repository for the template.