Biography: Graeme Blair is an associate professor of political science at UCLA and serves as Co-Director of Training and Methods of Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP). Graeme uses experiments, field research, and statistics to study how to reduce violence and how to improve social science research. He works primarily in Nigeria, often in partnership […]
Biography: Robert A. Hummer is the Howard W. Odum Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Fellow of the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH). He moved to UNC-CH in 2015 after spending 19 years at the University of Texas at Austin, where he served as Director of their NICHD-supported […]
Biography: Juliana Londoño-Vélez is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles, an NBER Faculty Research Fellow, a J-PAL Affiliate, and a Faculty Affiliate at CCPR and CEGA. Juliana works on inequality and redistributive tax and transfer policies, with a particular interest in developing countries. Title: "Financial Aid and Social Mobility: […]
Biography: Chris Blattman is the Ramalee E. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies at The University of Chicago’s Pearson Institute and Harris School of Public Policy. He is an economist and political scientist, and his work on violence, crime, and poverty has been widely covered by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Financial […]
Please note that this is an in-person event only. The talk will not be live streamed or recorded. Biography: Sonalde Desai (Distinguished University Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Maryland and Professor and Centre Director, NCAER-National Data Innovation Center, New Delhi) is a demographer whose work deals primarily with social transformation and its impact on […]
