Edward Miguel

Edward Miguel is a Professor of Economics and director of the Center of Evaluation for Global Action at the University of California at Berkeley. He is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received his Ph.D in 2000 from Harvard University. Ted is a research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Centre for Economic Policy Research and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, as well as a Co-Organizer for the Working Group in African Political Economy and Associate Editor at a number of journals, including the Quarterly Journal of Economics. Ted's main research focus is African economic development, including work on the economic causes and consequences of violence, the impact of ethnic divisions on local collective action, and interactions between health, education, and productivity for the poor.