About Me
I am a development economist focused on quantitative research and evidence-based policy making. My research focuses on educational investments in developing countries, child labor substitution, occupational identity, and dissonance in beliefs to returns to education.
Efforts to promote school progression, reduce dropout rates at all levels of education and improve learning proficiencies raise new theoretical and empirical questions on the decisions of educational investments in children. My dissertation research is derived from field work of how low-income parents make educational investments for their children with an emphasis on child labor substitutability and occupational identity.
More details about my research can be found on my research page.
Research
Job Market Paper
In Progress
Educational Investments of Money and Time: Implication of Dissonance Beliefs.
A One-of-a-Kind Occupation: A Qualitative Study of Domestic Workers
Other Research Projects
Asymmetric Dominance Eliminates Hyperbolic Discounting in Intertemporal Choice (with Barry Sopher)
Teaching
CV
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