I am a tenure-track assistant professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. I received my Ph.D. in Economics from New York University in 2019 and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles from 2019 - 2020. My primary research interests are in development economics and applied microeconomics, particularly in the areas of human capital formation, migration, and digital financial services.
I am a development economist with research interests in the economics of legal institutions (political economy), and organization structures in agricultural production. My research can be classified into three major buckets. First, I study the role of frontline judiciary (for e.g., district or county courts) and broader dispute resolution institutions in the economic development process. Second, I examine collective action and coordination in improving agricultural productivity in the context of smallholder agricultural production. This spans farmer producer organization structures, technology diffusion, and access to and management of local irrigation resources. Third, I study structural transformation process of moving from agricultural production into urban and/or non-agricultural sectors from the lens of rural land inequality.
I am an Associate Professor of Economics at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. I have a PhD in Economics from the Ohio State University. My research, teaching, and consulting interests are Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Game Theory, Mechanism Design, Gender Economics, Industrial Organization, Development Economics, and Agricultural Economics.
I am a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Economic Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK), India. I joined IITK as an Assistant Professor in July 2013 and was promoted to Associate Professor in December 2019. While on leave from IITK, I have worked as an Associate Professor in the College of Business at Zayed University, United Arab Emirates, between December 2020—December 2022, and as a lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Irvine, United States, in the summer of 2014.
I received my Ph.D. in Economics from the Department of Economics at the University of California, Irvine (2013) under the guidance of Ivan Jeliazkov (Chair), Dale J. Poirier, David Brownstone and Fabio Milani.
My research interest includes Bayesian Econometrics, Quantile Regression, Markov chain Monte Carlo Techniques, Measurement Error, Computation and Data Analysis, and Program and Policy Evaluation.
I am an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policyand Economics Program at Oregon State University. I am also a Research Fellow at IZA (Institute for the Study of Labor), an Invited Researcher for the Jameel Poverty Action Lab (JPAL), and a Fellow of the Global Labor Organization (GLO). My research areas are developmenteconomics, labor economics, and the economics of education. My current work focuses on education policy in developing countries (including Rwanda, The Gambia, and India), and promoting student success in higher education in the U.S.
Dr Andrea La Nauze is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor with tenure) at the School of Economics at the University of Queensland. She returned to Australia after 4 years as Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. Dr La Nauze is an environmental economist with a focus on studying household behaviour. She has published in top general interest journals such as the Review of Economics and Statistics and top field journals like the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. She has two main research agendas: one on retail electricity markets and in particular the impacts of rooftop solar and electric vehicles. The other agenda is on the impacts of air quality and air quality monitoring. She is particularly interested in behavioural responses to information and financial incentives and the unintended effects of environmental policy.
I am an assistant professor at the KDI School of Public Policy and Management in Sejong City, South Korea. I am also a Research Affiliate at IZA (Institute of Labor Economics) in Bonn, Germany.
My research and teaching interests include the microeconomics of development, applied microeconometrics, labor markets in developing countries, and poverty.
My current work focuses on three separate strands of literature: labor allocation, poverty, and methodologies to improve estimates of statistics of interest to economists and policymakers. Ongoing work studies how households allocate their labor in developing countries, with a particular focus on how market failures and the overall environment affect allocation decisions. I also have ongoing work studying poverty and the best ways to improve poverty estimates, whether across time or across space. Relatedly, in work with regular collaborators, we are studying the best options to estimate different statistics – including poverty and labor force statistics – in developing countries, where data infrastructure may not allow the types of methods used in developed countries. For example, we are studying whether small area estimation methods or machine learning methods – like XGBoost and other implementations of random forests – offer more accurate predictions of different outcomes and at different levels of aggregation.
I am an associate professor of economics at Emory University and a research associate with the NBER. My research examines the effects of institutions, policies, and market structure on health care pricing and delivery, focusing specifically on the role of information disclosure and the relationships between different healthcare providers. Prior to joining Emory, I was a director in the economic consulting practice of FTI Consulting and the Director of Health Economics for Baylor Scott and White Health in Dallas, TX. I received my PhD in Economics from Indiana University.
I am an Assistant Professor in the Truman School of Government and Public Affairs and the Department of Economics. My research focuses on issues in public finance, with a particular interest in the nonprofit sector. Recent work has examined the impact of charity ratings, as well as the long-run distribution of philanthropy.
I am a Research Scientist in the Economics and Policy Research team at Facebook. Prior to joining Facebook, I completed my PhD in Economics at Northwestern University. My research interests are in the economic issues of developing countries, with a focus on trade policy, agriculture, technology adoption, financial inclusion, and political economy.
In the past, I worked as a Consultant in the World Bank’s Development Impact Evaluation group, and was a visiting researcher at the University of Ghana. I have conducted fieldwork in Ghana, Rwanda, Kenya, Bangladesh, and India. Prior to my PhD, I received a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Cornell University.