I am an Assistant Professor of Operations, Information, and Decisions at Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Contact
Alp Sungu
Office: JMH 555, Floor 5
Jon M. Huntsman Hall
3730 Walnut St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
I study how technology reshapes society by deploying operational levers that inform business and policy decisions.
Education
Phones Impede Learning: Evidence from a Massive Phone-free Classroom Experiment (forthcoming, Science, with Nielsen and Choudhury)
Should Schools Ban AI? Evidence from a Mastery-based Math Practise Experiment (with Oreopoulos, Luit, Low)
Generative AI Can Harm Teaching (with Duckworth and Lira)
Generative AI Can Harm Learning (PNAS with Bastani, Bastani, Ge, Kabakci, Mariman)
Business and Development
Between Trust and Trade: On Informal Credit Networks in India (with Allhor and Srivastava)
Digitizing Micro-retailers: Evidence from Hindustan Unilever's Last-mile Operations (with Ucel)
Social Impact Operations at the Global Base of the Pyramid (Production Operations Management with Jonasson and Ramdas)
The Digital Lives of the Poor: Entertainment Traps and Information Isolation (Management Science with Ramdas)
Sustainable Operations
Food Subsidies and Substitution: A Field Experiment Using Micro-grocery Transactions in Underserved Communities (with Aouad and Ramdas)
The Popeye Effect: Social Media Influencers Boost Healthy Shopping and Local Micro-Retailers (with Aouad, Ramdas, Gupta, Kesebir, Swaminathan)
Gendered Effects of a Work-from-Home Shock on Work, Leisure, and Job Search: A Time-motion Study Using Digital Footprints (w/ Miller and Ramdas)
Girls Night In? Effects of the Kenyan Covid-19 Lockdown on Web Browsing (Review of Industrial Organizations w/ Giardiali, Jain, Miller and Ramdas)