Sahil Patil

Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

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Education

• Ph.D. in Econometrics and Quantitative Economics, Washington State University, expected 2024
  • Advisors: Wesley Blundell, Benjamin Cowan, Bidisha Mandal
• M.S. in Statistics, Washington State University, expected 2023
• B.S in Economics, Arizona State University, 2016-2019
  • Minor in Statistics
  • Summa Cum Laude and Moeur Award Recipient

Research Interests

• Primary: Applied Microeconomics, Econometrics, Causal Inference
• Secondary: Industrial Organization

Working Papers

• “A Kick or a start? Gender disparity evidence of winning a Kickstarter on future funding”
• “Impact of library capital investments on juvenile delinquency rates” with Wesley Blundell Benjamin Cowan
• “Algorithmic collusion with firm-specific shocks” with Felix-Munoz Garcia

Research Experience

• Research Assistant — Student Success and Academic Programs, Washington State University, U.S., Fall 2023; Present
• Research Assistant — School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University, U.S., Fall 2020; Present
• Research Assistant — W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, U.S., Spring 2018-Spring 2019

Teaching Experience

• Instructor for ECONS 305: Intermediate Microeconomics without Calculus
• Teaching Assistant for ECONS 301: Intermediate Microeconomics with Calculus
• Teaching Assistant for ECONS 320: Finance and Banking,

Skills

Coding: Python, R, Stata, PostgreSQL, Tableau, LaTeX

Technical: Causal Inference, Light GBMs, CausalML, Decision Trees, Neural Nets, K-Nearest Neighbors,

References

• Wesley Blundell
• Benjamin Cowan
• Bidisha Mandal