Hariharan Jayashankar
Doctoral Student at University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolHariharan Jayashankar is an Economics PhD student at the University of Maryland with eight years of research and applied quantitative experience across academia and policy institutions. He has worked on experimental and field economics projects at J-PAL and policy-relevant research at the National Bureau of Economic Research and CAFRAL, combining experimental design, logistics, and team training with rigorous analytical methods. His background includes hands-on data work using R and SQL to analyze investor behavior and craft actionable recommendations for practitioners. Hariharan’s progression from field experiments in India to doctoral research in the U.S. reflects a strong blend of practical implementation skills and theoretical economic training from LSE and the University of London. He brings a proven ability to translate complex empirical problems into workable study designs and reports that inform policy and practice. Outside pure research, his GitHub presence signals ongoing engagement with reproducible code and open research workflows.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Economics and Finance, First Class Honours, Bachelor’s Degree, Economics and Finance, First Class Honours at University of London International ProgrammesHigh School, Specialized in Economics, Distinction, High School, Specialized in Economics, Distinction at Bombay Scottish SchoolLondon School of Economics and Political Science
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Github Skills (49)
imputation10
netlify9
hugo-theme9
gwas9
bioinformatics9
rmarkdown8
rstudio8
forestry8
open-science8
hugo8
r8
jupyter8
page-builder8
solver7
roamresearch7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
HariharanJayashankar/aiyagari
Feb 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
HariharanJayashankar/LinearTimeIteration.jl
May 2021 - Jul 2021
A solver for Linear Rational Expectation Models
Contributions:30 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
solvermachine-learninglinearrationalexpectation
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