Khanh-Duy Nguyen Phan
Khanh–Duy Nguyen Phan

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I am a Master's student in Applied Economics (Digital Economics track) at the University of Padova.

My fields of interest include Digital Economics, Industrial Organization, and Political Economy.

Contact: im.kduy@gmail.com
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Paper
Working Paper
Technology Spillovers from Special Economic Zones to Local Firms with Saurabh Singhal
Who Answers When Access Is Restricted? with Leonardo Madio
Cheap to Make, Hard to Leave? Generative AI and Short–Form Video
Research
Can Tho University
  • Teaching Assistant, KT113H Econometrics (Fall 2024, Fall 2025)
  • Teaching Assistant, KT110H Statistics for Business (Spring 2025)
  • Teaching Assistant, KT111H International Economics (Spring 2024)
University of Padova
Research Assistant for Associate Professor Leonardo Madio May 2026 – Present
  • Collected and structured Digital Service Acts compliance data across designated Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) to track changes in platform governance practices.
  • Produced descriptive visualisations and summary statistics on moderation counts by platform to document heterogeneity in compliance responses.
James Madison University
Research Assistant for Assistant Professor Huiyi Chen April 2025 – April 2026
  • Built custom Python scripts to crawl and extract social media engagement indicators (Facebook likes, followers, group members) for each labour union strike, enriching the Cornell ILR School's Labor Action Tracker dataset.
  • Processed and analysed a preliminary panel dataset of over 20 million observations using STATA.
Can Tho University
Research Assistant for Associate Professor Pham Le Thong October 2022 – March 2025
  • Led 5 research projects funded by USAID, the Alliance for Biodiversity & CIAT, and the Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training.
  • Designed survey questionnaires, cleaned and analysed datasets using STATA, visualised data using R.
  • Prepared and formatted manuscripts for journal submission.
Achievement
  1. Invest Your Talent in Italy Scholarship 2025
    Awarded €30,000 by the Italian government for a Master's degree at the University of Padova
  2. Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI) Academic Fellows Program 2025
    Awarded $20,000 by the U.S. Department of State to study public policy at James Madison University
  3. Conference Grant – National Pingtung University, Taiwan 2024
    Awarded $500 by Can Tho University
  4. Summer School Grant – Brunei Darussalam University, Brunei 2024
    Awarded $1,500 by Can Tho University and Brunei Darussalam University
  5. Small Research Grant 2023 – 2024
    Awarded $4,000 by Alliance for Biodiversity & CIAT
  6. Dean’s List, Can Tho University 2022 – 2024
    Awarded $3,000 by Can Tho University
  7. Undergraduate Research Grant (Principal Investigator) 2022 – 2023
    Awarded $800 by Can Tho University
  8. Conference Grant – Airlangga University, Indonesia 2022
    Awarded $500 by Can Tho University
Curriculum Vitae
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