I am an Assistant Professor of Operations, Information, and Decisions at Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. I study the interplay between technology, policy and society.
Contact
Alp Sungu
Office: JMH 555, Floor 5
Jon M. Huntsman Hall
3730 Walnut St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Tecnhology and Education
Generative AI Can Harm Teaching (with Duckworth and Lira)
Removing Phones from Classrooms Improves Academic Performance. (with Nielsen and Choudhury)
Making AI Tutoring Productive: Evidence from a Mastery-based Math Practise Experiment (with Oreopoulos, Luit, Low)
Generative AI Can Harm Learning (PNAS with Bastani, Bastani, Ge, Kabakci, Mariman)
Digital 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)
The Popeye Effect: Social Media Influencers Boost Healthy Shopping and Local Micro-Retailers (with Aouad, Ramdas, Gupta, Kesebir, Swaminathan)
Food Subsidies and Substitution: A Field Experiment Using Micro-grocery Transactions in Underserved Communities (with Aouad and Ramdas)
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)
The Digital Lives of the Poor: Entertainment Traps and Information Isolation (Management Science with Ramdas)
Girls Night In? Effects of the Kenyan Covid-19 Lockdown on Web Browsing (Review of Industrial Organizations w/ Giardiali, Jain, Miller and Ramdas)
Social Impact Operations at the Global Base of the Pyramid (Production Operations Management with Jonasson and Ramdas)