Elena Stacy

she/her/hers

Current Research

“The Environmental Opportunity Cost of Agricultural Land Expansion: The Case of Mennonites in Latin America”. Work in Progress.

“Flood Measurement Error: Unveiling Biases in Flood Measurement Techniques”. Work in Progress with Bangalore, M., Biscaye, P., & Olatunde, A.

“Flooding the Mind: Flood Shocks, Aspirations, and Labor Supply in Nigeria”. Work in Progress with Biscaye, P., & Isah, A. [AEA RCT Registry]

“The Gendered Impact of Floods on Labor and Time Use in India”. Work in Progress. (2023).

Published Work 

“Measuring Time Use in Rural India: Design and Validation of a Low-Cost Survey Module”. Journal of Development Economics (2023) with Field, E., Pande, R., Rigol, N., Schaner, S., & Troyer Moore, C. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2023.103105

"A Majority of India’s Poor Women May Miss COVID-19 PMJDY Cash Transfers", Yale Economic Growth Center, Policy Brief (2020) with Pande, R., Schaner, S., & Troyer Moore, C. https://egc.yale.edu/research/reaching-indias-poorest-women-covid-19-relief

Media

"For Elena Stacy, managing field work and learning Hindi as a predoc enhanced her research abilities", April 2025, Yale Department of Economics News.

"Elena Stacy argues that GitHub is the best project management tool in this week's D-Lab Blog Post" , Nov 2024, UC Berkeley D-Lab. 

"How do major flooding events impact women’s labor force participation in India?", Dec 2022, UC Berkeley Opportunity Lab Student Spotlight.

"...all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly" - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Dec. 24, 1967. 

[Listen to the full speech here, read the full transcript here.]