Daniel J. Banko-Ferran, Ph.D.

Welcome

I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow 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 work in the fields of behavioral, labor, and public economics.

I will be a visiting assistant professor of economics at Haverford College for AY 2026-2027 and continuing to work with the Better Government Lab as an Affiliated Researcher.

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Contact Information

daniel.bankoferran@georgetown.edu

McCourt School of Public Policy

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Georgetown University

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Washington, DC 20001

News

May 2026: Serving as External Examiner at Swarthmore College for Honors students in Econ 155: Seminar in Behavioral Economics.
March 2026: Awarded Upjohn Institute Early Career Research Award ($7,500) for research on the topic, "Fully Subsidized Public Transit and Nontraditional Work Arrangements".
February 2026: Gave a guest lecture (title: "Evaluating Public Programs with Economics") to students in undergraduate and graduate classes of Professor Krista Ruffini (McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University)
January 2026: Presented "Attention Cost of Unfair Treatment" as a poster at the American Economic Association (AEA) conference in Philadelphia, PA.
November 2025: Presented "Attention Cost of Unfair Treatment" at the Society for Judgement and Decision Making (SJDM) conference in Denver, CO.
September 2025: Presented "Attention Cost of Unfair Treatment" at the Behavioral and Experimental Economists of the Mid-Atlantic (BEEMA) meeting in Bethlehem, PA.
April 2025: Successfully defended dissertation (title: "Essays on the Behavioral Determinants of Productivity, Beliefs, and Well-Being"). Committee: David Huffman (Co-Chair), Osea Giuntella (Co-Chair), Lester Lusher, and Silvia Saccardo

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