Welcome!

I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics at Harvard. My research combines economics and data science to develop or justify statistical methods for social‑science applications, with a focus on policy design and causal inference.

I was a Post‑doctoral Fellow at Harvard in 2023–2024. Before that I spent a year at Stanford GSB as a post‑doctoral fellow sponsored by Guido Imbens. I received my Ph.D. from the Department of Economics at UC San Diego in 2022 and a Master’s in Data Science from Pompeu Fabra in 2017.

You can find my CV and my Research page. My email is dviviano@fas.harvard.edu

I am excited to involve students in my research projects. Here are some positions:

Full‑time Research Assistant (joint with Emily Breza)

Part time Research Assistant (Harvard Students)

Favourite quote: “I would rather discover one causal law than be King of Persia.” — Democritus (460–370 B.C.)