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
Generative AI Can Harm Teaching (with Duckworth and Lira)
Phones Impede Learning: Evidence from a Massive Phone-free Classroom Experiment (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)
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)