Abiel Abdonel recently graduated in Data, Economics, and Development Policy from MIT, where he learned and practiced many research tools in classes such as Design and Running Randomized Evaluations, Econometric Data Science, and others. He is passionate about development economics and would like to pursue a PhD to conduct his own research on the role and impact that third-party service providers can have on resolving some dead capital problems in developing countries.
In his free time, he is currently working on research on the causal effect of football managers like Pep Guardiola, Carlo Ancelotti, Jürgen Klopp, and José Mourinho on the winning percentages of their teams to answer the question “Do managers matter?”, using a two-way fixed effect model with data from 2000 to 2024 from Europe’s top five leagues.