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Nava Ashraf

Associate Professor of Business Administration
Harvard Business School

Ph.D., Harvard University

Professor Ashraf is an Associate Professor at Harvard Business School. Her research has focused on technology adoption, intra-household decision making, and employee motivation, with applications in health, agriculture, and micro-finance.

CV | evaluations | nashraf@hbs.edu | (617) 495-5058

Abhijit Banerjee

Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ph.D., Harvard University

Abhijit Banerjee has conducted randomized evaluations of remedial and computer assisted education in India and has assessed reforms of informal schools in tribal areas in India.

CV | evaluations | banerjee@mit.edu | (617) 253-8855

Lori Beaman

Assistant Professor
Northwestern University

Ph.D., Yale University

Lori Beaman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Northwestern University. Beaman's research interests lie in development and labor economics with a focus on the role of social networks in the labor market and in agriculture, and women's economic and social mobility.

CV | evaluations | l-beaman@northwestern.edu | (847) 491-5394

James Berry

Assistant Professor
Cornell University

Ph.D., MIT

James Berry is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Cornell University. His research addresses questions in development and labor economics, primarily through the use of field experiments.

CV | evaluations | jimberry@cornell.edu | (607) 255-6338

Marianne Bertrand

Chris P. Dialynas Professor of Economics
Booth School of Business, University of Chicago

Ph.D., Harvard University

Marianne Bertrand is a Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Her research focuses on racial bias in the US, affirmative action for disadvantaged castes in India, and corruption in India.

CV | evaluations | marianne.bertrand@ChicagoBooth.edu | (773) 834-5943

Nicholas Bloom

Professor
Stanford University

Ph.D., University of College London (UCL)

Nicholas Bloom is a Professor in the Department of Economics at Stanford University. Bloom's research interests include management practices, causes and consequences of uncertainty, and the effect of IT on factors such as tax, trade, and regulation.

CV | evaluations | nbloom@stanford.edu | +1 650 725 7836

Shawn Cole

Associate Professor of Business Administration
Harvard Business School

Ph.D., MIT

Shawn Cole is an Associate Professor in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School. His research examines corporate finance, banking, and consumer finance in developing countries, covering topics such as bank competition, government regulation, and household investment decisions.

CV | evaluations | scole@hbs.edu | (617) 495-6525

Esther Duflo

Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ph.D., MIT

Esther Duflo is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics in the Department of Economics at MIT and a founder and director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab.

CV | evaluations | eduflo@mit.edu | (617) 258-7013

Pascaline Dupas

Assistant Professor
Stanford University

Ph.D, EHESS, PSE-École d’économie de Paris

Pascaline Dupas is an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at Stanford University. Dupas' areas of research are applied microeconomics and development economics. She is currently conducting field experiments in health, education, and microfinance.

CV | evaluations | pdupas@ stanford.edu

Erica Field

Associate Professor
Duke University

Ph.D., Princeton University

Erica Field is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Duke University. Her current research examines the link between health investments and economic mobility.

CV | evaluations | emf23@duke.edu | (919) 660-1800

Frederico Finan

Assistant Professor of Economics
University of California, Berkeley

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Frederico Finan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on a broad range of economic topics in the areas of economic development and political economy.

CV | evaluations | ffinan@econ.berkeley.edu | (510) 642-7284

Paul Gertler

Professor of Economics
University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison

CV | evaluations | gertler@haas.berkeley.edu | (510) 642-1418

Paul Glewwe

Professor of Applied Economics
University of Minnesota

Ph.D., Stanford University

Paul Glewwe is a Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota and the current Director of the Center for International Food and Agricultural Policy. His interests are economics of education, poverty and inequality in developing countries, and applied econometrics.

CV | evaluations | pglewwe@umn.edu | (612) 625-0225

Marco Gonzalez-Navarro

Assistant Professor
University of Toronto

Ph.D., Princeton University

Marco Gonzalez-Navarro is an assistant professor at University of Toronto. His research area is development, focused on basic infrastructure in developing countries. His ongoing work examines the effect of sustainable rural clean water access in Brazil on children's health and adults' labor decisions.

CV | evaluations | marco.gonzalez.navarro@utoronto.ca | +1 (416) 9785-696

Michael Greenstone

3M Professor of Environmental Economics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ph.D, Princeton University

Michael Greenstone is the 3M Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The focus of his research is on estimating the costs and benefits of environmental quality.

CV | evaluations | mgreenst@mit.edu | (617) 452-4127

Rema Hanna

Associate Professor of Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School of Government

Ph.D., MIT

Rema Hanna is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, whose research focuses on understanding how to improve the provision of public services in developing countries.

CV | evaluations | Rema_Hanna@ksg.harvard.edu | (617) 496-1140

Seema Jayachandran

Associate Professor
University of Northwestern

Ph.D., Harvard University

Seema Jayachandran is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Northwestern University. Much of her work focuses on health in developing countries, and she also has research interests in education, labor markets, the environment, and political economy.

CV | evaluations | seema@northwestern.edu | (847) 491-4757

Robert Jensen

Professor of Public Policy
University of California, LA

Ph.D., Princeton University

Robert Jensen is a Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles Luskin School of Public Affairs. His research focuses on the microeconomics of international poverty and economic development, including topics such as gender, health, education, fertility, and the role of markets and private enterprise in promoting economic development

CV | evaluations | robertjensen@ucla.edu | 1 (310) 825-9865

Dean Karlan

Professor of Economics
Yale University

Ph.D., MIT

Dean Karlan is a Professor of Economics at Yale University and the Founder of Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA). He researches microeconomic issues of public policies, studying the impact of policies which fight poverty, and the relevance of theories of individual decision-making.

CV | evaluations | dean.karlan@yale.edu | (203) 432-4479

Asim Khwaja

Professor of Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School of Government

Ph.D., Harvard University

Asim Ijaz Khwaja is Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. His areas of interest include economic development, finance, education, political economy, institutions, and contract theory/mechanism design.

CV | evaluations | akhwaja@hks.harvard.edu | (617) 384-7790

Michael Kremer

Gates Professor of Developing Societies
Harvard University

Ph.D, Harvard University

Michael Kremer is the Gates Professor of Developing Societies in the Department of Economics at Harvard University and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Kremer's recent research examines education and health in developing countries, immigration, and globalization.

CV | evaluations | mkremer@fas.harvard.edu | (617) 495-9145

Dan Levy

Lecturer in Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School of Government

Ph.D., Northwestern University

Dan Levy is a Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and the Director of Training for J-PAL. His current research focuses on CCT education interventions.

CV | evaluations | dan_levy@harvard.edu | (617) 496-4281

Leigh Linden

Assistant Professor of Economics
University of Texas at Austin

Ph.D., MIT

Leigh Linden is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on the ability of social services to improve the well being of children, especially in impoverished areas.

CV | evaluations | leigh.linden@austin.utexas.edu

Jeremy Magruder

Assistant Professor
University of California, Berkeley

Ph.D., Yale University

Jeremy Magruder is an assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include unemployment in South Africa, job networks in India, and HIV/AIDS in Malawi.

CV | evaluations | jmagruder@berkeley.edu | (510) 643‐8742

Aprajit Mahajan

Assistant Professor
University of Stanford

Ph.D., Princeton University

Aprajit Mahajan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Stanford University. Mahajan’s research interests are in development and econometrics with a regional focus on India.

CV | evaluations | aprajit@stanfordalumni.org | (650) 723-3864

Isaac Mbiti

Assistant Professor
Southern Methodist University

Ph.D., Brown University

Isaac Mbiti is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics of Southern Methodist University. His research interests are in economic development, labor economics and demography.

CV | evaluations | Imbiti@smu.edu | (214) 768-3520

Margaret McConnell

Assistant Professor of Global Health Economics
Harvard School of Public Health

Ph.D, California Institute of Technology

Margaret McConnell is Assistant Professor of Global Health Economics at the Harvard School of Public Health. Her current research combines behavioral economics with field and laboratory experiments to design and evaluate policies to change health and financial behaviors.

CV | evaluations | mmcconne@hsph.harvard.edu | (203) 745-8321

Craig McIntosh

Associate Professor of Economics
University of California, San Diego

Ph.D., UC Berkeley

Craig McIntosh is Associate Professor of Economics in the International Relations school at the University of California, San Diego. He is a development economist whose work focuses on the evaluation of programs intended to contribute to the financial livelihoods of poor households.

CV | evaluations | ctmcintosh@ucsd.edu | (858) 822-1125

Costas Meghir

Douglas A. Warner III Professor of Economics
Yale University

Ph.D., University of Manchester

Costas Meghir is a professor of Economics at Yale University. His interests include labor economics, household behavior, retirement and pensions, income distribution, consumption, demand analysis and development economics.

CV | evaluations | c.meghir@yale.edu | (203) 432- 3558

Edward Miguel

Oxfam Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics
University of California, Berkeley

Ph.D., Harvard University

Edward Miguel, the Oxfam Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics at the University of California at Berkeley, focuses his research on the provision and the impact of public goods to the poor in sub-Saharan Africa, notably in Kenya and Tanzania.

CV | evaluations | emiguel@econ.berkeley.edu | (510) 642-7162

Mushfiq Mobarak

Associate Professor of Economics
Yale University

Ph.D., University of Maryland

Mushfiq Mobarak is a development economist at Yale with interests in environment, and public finance issues. His research focuses on field experiments which explore the adoption of profitable technologies in developing countries and the use of water and other environmental resources.

CV | evaluations | ahmed.mobarak@yale.edu | (203) 432-5787

Sendhil Mullainathan

Professor of Economics
Harvard University

Ph.D., Harvard University

Sendhil Mullainathan is a Professor of Economics at Harvard. He has conducted a randomized evaluation of racial bias in hiring in the US, examined the impact of cash transfers to the elderly in South Africa.

CV | evaluations | mullain@fas.harvard.edu | (617) 496-2720

Karthik Muralidharan

Assistant Professor of Economics
University of California, San Diego

Ph.D., Harvard University

Karthik Muralidharan is an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at University of California, San Diego. His research focuses on improving education and health in developing countries.

CV | evaluations | kamurali@ucsd.edu | (858) 534-2425

Paul Niehaus

Assistant Professor
University of California, San Diego

Ph.D., Harvard University

Paul Niehaus is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at UC San Diego. His research deals with welfare and corruption in developing countries and with learning processes.

CV | evaluations | pniehaus@ucsd.edu | (858) 534-3190

Benjamin Olken

Professor of Economics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ph.D., Harvard University

Ben Olken is a Professor in the Department of Economics at MIT His research focuses on the political economy of developing countries, with a particular focus on corruption.

CV | evaluations | bolken@mit.edu | (617) 253-6833

Rohini Pande

Mohammed Kamal Professor of Public Policy
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Ph.D, London School of Economics

Rohini Pande is the Mohammed Kamal Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government. Her research focuses on the economic analysis of the politics and consequences of different forms of redistribution.

CV | evaluations | rohini_pande@ksg.harvard.edu | (617) 384-5267

Dina Pomeranz

Assistant Professor
Harvard Business School

Ph.D., Harvard University

Dina Pomeranz is an assistant professor at the Harvard Business School. Her research focuses on public policies towards firms and entrepreneurs in developing countries.

CV | evaluations | dpomeranz@hbs.edu | (617) 495-1422

Jonathan Robinson

Assistant Professor of Economics
University of California, Santa Cruz

Ph.D., Princeton University

Jonathan Robinson is an assistant professor of economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research, primarily focused in sub-Saharan Africa, includes studies of how individuals cope with risk, farmers and their agricultural practices, and small businesses in Kenya.

CV | evaluations | jmrtwo@ucsc.edu | (831) 459-5618

Antoinette Schoar

Michael M. Koerner Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ph.D, University of Chicago

Antoinette Schoar is the Michael M. Koerner (49’) Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance at the Sloan School of Management. She holds a PhD is in Economics from the University of Chicago and an undergraduate degree from the University of Cologne.

CV | evaluations | aschoar@mit.edu | (617) 253-3763

Sandip Sukhtankar

Assistant Professor
Dartmouth College

Ph.D., Harvard University

Sandip Sukhtankar is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Dartmouth College. His research interests lie at the intersection of development, political economy, and public economics, with a focus on corruption and governance issues. Most of his field work is based in India.

CV | evaluations | Sandip.Sukhtankar@dartmouth.edu

Tavneet Suri

Associate Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ph.D., Yale University

Tavneet Suri's research centers on a variety of applied economics issues in sub-Saharan Africa. She uses microeconomic and econometric models to examine the efficiency of household behavior and to understand subsequent policy implications.

CV | evaluations | tavneet@mit.edu | (617) 253-7159

Rebecca Thornton

Assistant Professor of Economics
University of Michigan

Ph.D., Harvard University

Rebecca Thornton has worked on an evaluation of a merit-based scholarship in Kenya and is also working on evaluations examining HIV testing and prevention and menstruation and education in Nepal.

CV | evaluations | rebeccal@umich.edu | (734) 763-3720

Christopher Udry

Henry J. Heinz II Professor of Economics
Yale University

Ph.D., Yale University

Christopher Udry is a development economist whose research focuses on rural economic activity in sub-Saharan Africa. He has conducted extensive field research in West Africa on technological change in agriculture.

CV | evaluations | christopher.udry@yale.edu | 203-432-3637

David Yanagizawa-Drott

Assistant Professor of Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School

Ph.D., Stockholm University

David Yanagizawa-Drott is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. His research interests include economic development and political economy, with special focus on civil conflict, health, information and mass media.

CV | evaluations | David_Yanagizawa-Drott@harvard.edu | (617) 495-8479

Dean Yang

Associate Professor of Public Policy and Economics
University of Michigan

Ph.D., Harvard University

Dean Yang is an Associate Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the University of Michigan, where he studies international migration, human capital, disasters, crime, and corruption.

CV | evaluations | deanyang@umich.edu | (734) 764-6158

Jonathan Zinman

Associate Professor of Economics
Dartmouth College

Ph.D., MIT

Jonathan Zinman's research focuses on intertemporal choice and household finance. He works with policymakers and financial institutions around the globe to test economic theories of how firms and consumers interact in markets.

CV | evaluations | jzinman@dartmouth.edu | (603) 667-5068

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