Gabriel Kreindler is an Assistant Professor in the economics department at Harvard. He is also a faculty affiliate of J-PAL, a faculty research fellow with the NBER, and an affiliate of BREAD. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from MIT, and A.B. in mathematics from Princeton University. Gabriel is a development economist working on questions in urban mobility. His research in looks at the design of public transport networks and congestion pricing, the use of digital trace data to describe urban mobility behavior as well as measures of infrastructure quality. He is also interested in understanding how urban residents explore their cities and how distance affects spatial choices and why. His work relies on a mix of data, methods and approaches, including primary data collection, (smart)phone data, randomized experiments, and quantitative models.
