Welcome
I am a visiting assistant professor of economics at Haverford College. I use experimental methodology and behavioral models to investigate the impact of public policy on the economic wellbeing of workers. This year, I am teaching Statistical Methods in Economics (H203) and Economic Statistics with Calculus (H204).
I am also currently an affiliated researcher at the Better Government Lab, a joint research center of Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy and the University of Michigan’s Ford School of Public Policy.
I earned a Ph.D. in economics at the University of Pittsburgh in 2025, worked in the federal government at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and graduated from Swarthmore College in 2017.
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Daniel Banko-Ferran
Department of Economics
Haverford College
Chase Hall, Office 216
370 Lancaster Ave
Haverford, PA 19041
News
June 2026: Presented at the Liberal Arts College Behavioral and Experimental Economics (LACBEE) workshop in Waterville, ME.
May 2026: Served as external examiner at Swarthmore College for Econ 155: Seminar in Behavioral Economics.
March 2026: Awarded Upjohn Institute Early Career Research Award for research on "Fully Subsidized Public Transit and Nontraditional Work Arrangements".
February 2026: Guest lecturer for Social Policy undergraduate course and Intermediate Microeconomics graduate course at Georgetown University.
January 2026: Presented at the American Economic Association (AEA) conference in Philadelphia, PA.
November 2025: Presented at the Society for Judgement and Decision Making (SJDM) conference in Denver, CO.
September 2025: Presented at the Behavioral and Experimental Economists of the Mid-Atlantic (BEEMA) meeting in Bethlehem, PA.
April 2025: Defended dissertation (title: "Essays on the Behavioral Determinants of Productivity, Beliefs, and Well-Being") at the University of Pittsburgh. My committee consisted of David Huffman (Co-Chair), Osea Giuntella (Co-Chair), Lester Lusher, and Silvia Saccardo.