What I study

Research interests

Behavioral economics

How individuals interact with a digital economy, and how social media influences economic systems. The questions I care about here are about behaviour at the interface: what changes when a market is mediated by a feed, and what happens to an economy when attention is one of the things being allocated.

Macro & development economics

What are the barriers to economies of scale forming in developing nations? And how accurate are our macro models, really — how much of their predictive power survives contact with economies structured unlike the ones the models were built for?

Undergraduate research

Education

High school

• Myers Park High School 1st year
• Asheville School 2nd & 3rd years
• Providence Day School 4th year

College

• UNC Asheville First semester
• Appalachian State University Second‑semester freshman year, sophomore year, and junior year
• University of Ghana Summer, sophomore–junior
• London School of Economics Senior year

Elsewhere

The more conventional version lives on LinkedIn. For research conversations or anything academic, email is best — oscaryarbrough1@gmail.com.