Ashley
Pople
Young Economist, World Bank
Affiliates

About

Ashley is an economist working on climate, cash transfers and labour markets. She currently works in the World Bank's Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management Unit for the South Asia Region as a Young Professional, and previously led a research agenda on anticipatory action for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in New York and consulted for the Centre for Disaster Protection.

Ashley completed my PhD in Economics at the University of Oxford in 2022. She remains affiliated with the University of Oxford's Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE) and the Mind & Behaviour Research Group.

Contact

Email: ashley.pople@economics.ox.ac.uk

Ongoing research projects
Learning to See a World of Opportunity

How do people make future choices in settings of uncertainty? We posit that the performance of different strategies stored in the brain can be accessed through mental visualisation (or imagery). We further hypothesise that people who have experienced trauma face greater barriers in undertaking visualisation and hence stand to benefit more from the intervention. To test this theory, we developed a curriculum to teach entrepreneurs in Bogotá how to visualise the likely outcomes of their choices and study the impact of this intervention on their economic and psychological resilience.

Ashley Pople