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Emily Breza joined the Economics Department at Harvard University as an Assistant Professor in January 2017. She received her Ph.D. in economics from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and her B.A. from Yale University. After graduate school, she joined the faculty of Columbia Business School in the Finance and Economics Division. She is particularly interested in how financial decision-making interacts with both social effects and behavioral biases, and how financial product design can better integrate these factors. Some of her current research aims to use social networks to help present-biased savers better accomplish their goals. She is also involved in a project to understand the impacts of the 2010 Andhra Pradesh microfinance ordinance, which stopped all collections and lending activities of micro-lenders, on previous microfinance borrowers.