Daniel Carnahan
Redondo Beach
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Graduate Research Assistant
University Of California, Los Angeles
01.2022 - Current
- Conducted 20+ semi-structured interviews with stakeholders involved with municipal waste management in Bangkok, Thailand.
- Assisting the design of impact evaluation study for national identification program (PhilSys) in the Philippines.
- Coordinating with in-country research partners on crafting survey of corporate executives in Singapore.
- Analyzed results of a survey experiment and helped prepare relevant charts and tables for publication.
Research Analyst
EMarketer
09.2019 - 08.2021
- Contributed articles on media and marketing to Business Insider on a weekly basis.
- Conducted structured interviews to support research reports produced by senior analysts.
Undergraduate Research Assistant
University Of California, San Diego
03.2018 - 06.2019
- Hosted regular workshops to teach junior research assistants R basics.
- Collected data and created visualizations related to UN peacekeeping deployments in West Africa.
- Completed a latent class analysis using data from Afrobarometer surveys.
Undergraduate Research Assistant
University Of California, San Diego
12.2016 - 09.2017
- Directed 100+ experimental endowment trials related to the development of social capital.
- Prepared publication summaries on social capital, social networks, and small-group decision-making.
- Assisted in designing survey instruments for primary data collection.
- Drafted sections of a grant proposal for the National Science Foundation.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Political Science/International Relations
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA06.2019
Academic Activities
Published Work
- Carnahan, Daniel and Sebastian Saiegh. 2020. “Electoral Uncertainty and Financial Volatility: Evidence from Two-Round Presidential Races in Emerging Markets,” Economics and Politics.
- Carnahan, Daniel and Sebastian Saiegh. 2021. "Political Shocks and Asset Prices: Evidence from Argentina," Political Science Research and Methods.
Conference Presentations
- 2020 APSA Annual Meeting. Political and Economic Uncertainty Panel
- 2018 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. Hackathon Competitor
- 2017 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. Hackathon Competitor
Timeline
Graduate Research Assistant
University Of California, Los Angeles
01.2022 - Current
Research Analyst
EMarketer
09.2019 - 08.2021
Undergraduate Research Assistant
University Of California, San Diego
03.2018 - 06.2019
Undergraduate Research Assistant
University Of California, San Diego
12.2016 - 09.2017
Bachelor of Arts - Political Science/International Relations
University of California, San Diego
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