I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics and a Brimmer Distinguished Scholar at the University of Washington, an Affiliated Professor at J-PAL, and a Research Fellow at IZA. My research focuses on understanding the choices people in developing countries make about health, education, employment, and savings, with a specific focus on Malawi, Uganda, and India.
I received my Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan, where I was also an Economic Demography Trainee at Michigan’s Population Studies Center. From 2015 to 2024 I was on the faculty of the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota.