Edward Miguel
J-PAL Affiliated Professor
Distinguished Professor of Economics, and the Oxfam Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics
University of California, Berkeley
Edward Miguel is the Distinguished Professor of Economics, and the Oxfam Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics at the University of California at Berkeley. His work focuses on the provision and the impact of public goods on the poor in sub-Saharan Africa, notably in Kenya and Tanzania. He has conducted a randomized evaluation of a deworming program in Kenya and of a nutrition supplement program aimed at pre-primary school children in India.
Edward has served on the review boards of J-PAL's Crime and Violence Initiative and Jobs and Opportunity Initiative. He has also lectured at J-PAL training events.