Natalie Carlson

Natalie A. Carlson is an Assistant Professor of Management at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on entrepreneurship, digital platform work, and other forms of nontraditional employment, with a particular focus on emerging economies. Her work draws on a variety of methodologies, with a focus on experiments and computational methods. She has worked on field studies in collaboration with NGOs in settings such as Zimbabwe and Tanzania. She studied for her Ph.D. in Management at Columbia Business School, and holds a B.A. in Economics from Yale University.

Awards and Honors

• Finalist, Best Conference Paper Award, Strategic Management Society, 2018
• Deming Center Doctoral Fellowship, 2018-2019
• Winner, Best Paper Award, International Conference on Social Informatics, 2017
• Eugene M. Lang Ph.D. Fellowship, 2017-2019
• Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship, 2017-2018
• Finalist, Best Conference Paper Award, Strategic Management Society, 2016
• Paul and Sandra Montrone Doctoral Fellowship, 2016-2017

Education

• Bachelor of Arts (BA) Yale University

Companies

• Assistant Professor The Wharton School (2020)
• PHD Student Columbia Business School (2014 — 2020)
• Research Assistant Princeton University (2014 — 2014)
• Project Associate Innovations for Poverty Action (2012 — 2014)
• Research Associate Economists Incorporated (2010 — 2012)