Frank Schilbach is the Gary Loveman Career Development Assistant Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His work focuses on the role of understudied correlates of poverty -- alcohol consumption, physical pain, and sleep deprivation -- in the lives of the poor, as well as the generation and diffusion of information about optimal agricultural inputs in sub-Saharan Africa. Frank received his PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 2015. Frank graduated in 2008 from Mannheim University with a Diploma in Economics and earned an M.A. in Economics from UC Berkeley in 2009.