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Emma is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Michigan.
Her research is in development economics, with a regional focus on Sub-Saharan Africa, and primarily utilises large-scale field-experiments. Her research concentrates on two broad topics. The first examines the impact of digital financial services, such as mobile money and mobile banking services, on female-owned enterprises and their households. The second studies the impact of anti-poverty programs, such as cash transfers and graduation programs, on household welfare and women’s empowerment. Emma also has studies looking at the impact of role models on secondary school students’ educational attainment and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on household welfare.
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Email: erileyg@umich.edu
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Alan Stein is a Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Department of Psychiatry, Medical Sciences Division. He has led a series of initiatives both in LMICS and in the UK in relation to child and adolescent mental health, including co-leading two Lancet series on risk factors for refugee children developing mental health problems and perinatal mental health. He has also been involved in the development of batteries of executive function measures for use in trials in rural areas.
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Email: alan.stein@psych.ox.ac.uk
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Giulio recently defended his PhD (DPhil) at the Department of Economics at the University of Oxford.
His research interests are in development, labour, and behavioural economics. He uses randomised and natural experiments to help answer policy questions. Giulio's current research studies firm and household behaviour in low-income rural settings.
He is also affiliated with the Applied Microeconomics research group, the Bissau Economics Lab, and the Centre for the Study of African Economies.
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Julia R Pozuelo, Ph.D., is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Julia’s research interests lie at the intersection of psychiatry and development economics. Her work focuses on developing and implementing cost-effective and scalable interventions to treat depression in low-resource settings. She is also interested in the relationship between depression, poverty, and risk-taking among adolescents.
Julia holds a BSc in Economics from the University Carlos III in Madrid, an MSc in Economics for Development from the University of Oxford, and a Ph.D. in Psychiatry from the University of Oxford. She is a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford and an honorary researcher in the MRC/Wits-Agincourt Unit at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa.
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Email: julia.ruizpozuelo@psych.ox.ac.uk or julia_ruizpozuelo@hms.harvard.edu
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Marta is studying for a PhD candidate in Health Economics and Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science, under the supervision of Dr Mylène Lagarde and Dr Ranjeeta Thomas. Her research focuses on the role of beliefs and expectations in health seeking behaviours, such as vaccine hesitancy and health investment decisions for school-aged children.
Previously, she was the Research, Policy and Projects Officer for the Mind and Behaviour Research Group (MBRG) at the Blavatnik School of Government and the Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE). She supported research projects focusing on behavioural themes – on voter responses to polling information in South Africa, on the civic and community response to income shocks in Kenya, and on the measurement of psychological and mental health outcomes in field surveys. At the MBRG, she managed the administrative and financial running of the Group, as well as its policy and outreach activities. She previously worked as a research intern for the NGO WaterSHED Asia, Cambodia. Marta has a BA(Hons) in Economics and History from the University of Durham and an MSc in Economics for Development from the University of Oxford.
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Email: m.t.grabowska@lse.ac.uk
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Mahreen is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Economics at the University of Exeter Business School Department of Economics.
Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Development Economics with the Mind and Behaviour Research Group at the Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford.
Her field of research is development and behavioural economics.
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Email: m.mahmud@exeter.ac.uk
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