Karen Macours

Karen Macours

Co-Chair, Health

Co-Chair, Learning for All Initiative

J-PAL Affiliated Professor

Karen Macours is a professor at the Paris School of Economics and researcher at INRA and Co-Chair of J-PAL's Health Sector. Her current research focuses on conditional cash transfer programs, early childhood development, rural poverty, and agriculture. Karen earned her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.

Karen serves as Co-Chair of J-PAL's Health sector. She has also lectured at J-PAL training events.