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Associate Professor

Lewis & Clark College

I am an Associate Professor in the Economics Department at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, OR. I received my PhD in Applied Economics from the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. My current work focuses on the microeconomics of poverty alleviation and global health: fertility, health investments, education and women’s empowerment. I use experimental methods and econometric analysis to address policy-relevant research questions. My research has been published in top development economics journals including World Development, Agricultural Economics and Journal of Development Studies. I have conducted extensive fieldwork in East Africa, including collaborating with district health officials to design and implement a randomized control trial in the Simiyu region of Tanzania. My work has been funded by the European Union, Gates Foundation, USAID, and J-PAL.

During graduate school, I worked in data infrastructure on the IPUMS-International project.  Prior to graduate school, I worked in policy research at the RAND Corporation and majored in mathematics (and hiking in the Maine woods) at Colby College. 

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