Sean Higgins
Associate Professor Of Finance
United States
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Top SchoolSean Higgins is an Associate Professor of Finance at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management with nine years of academic and policy-focused experience bridging rigorous economic research and real-world development practice. He earned a Ph.D. in Economics from Tulane and completed postdoctoral work at UC Berkeley, then translated that training into consulting roles at the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank on macroeconomics, poverty reduction, and gender. His research and teaching blend empirical microeconometrics with policy evaluation, informed by on-the-ground work in Latin America as a Fulbright-García Robles Scholar and visiting researcher. Known for straddling academia and global institutions, he brings a pragmatic orientation to questions of inequality, fiscal policy, and development economics that yields actionable insights for both scholars and policymakers.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Haas School of Business, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Haas School of Business at University of California, BerkeleyDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Economics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Economics at Tulane University
Spanish, French, Portuguese
Github Skills (32)
reproducible-research10
r-package10
tidyverse10
tidy10
stata10
python9
assistants9
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estimate7
ado7
fiscal6
technical-writing5
summaries5
webscraping4
management4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
skhiggins/guidelines
Jan 2021 - Jun 2021
Guidelines and onboarding for research assistants and research managers working with professors
Contributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 10 pushes in 5 months
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skhiggins/KLC_Guide
Feb 2021 - Apr 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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