Edward Miguel
| Edward Miguel | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1974 (age 42–43) |
| Nationality | United States |
| Institution | University of California, Berkeley |
| Field |
Development economics Health economics Political economy |
| Alma mater |
Harvard University MIT |
| Doctoral advisor |
Michael Kremer |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Edward "Ted" Andrew Miguel (born 1974) is the Oxfam Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics in the Department of Economics at University of California, Berkeley. He is the founder and faculty director of the Center for Effective Global Action at U.C. Berkeley.
His research focuses on African economic development and includes work on the economic causes and consequences of violence; the impact of ethnic divisions on local collective action; and interactions between health, education, environment, and productivity for the poor. Along with colleagues, such as Michael Kremer, Esther Duflo, Dean Karlan and Abhijit Banerjee, he has pioneered the use of randomized controlled trials and other rigorous evaluation methods to test the impact of development interventions in the field. He has conducted field work in Kenya, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and India. More recently, Miguel has focused his efforts on increasing transparency in the social sciences.
Miguel attended Tenafly High School in Tenafly, New Jersey, from which he graduated as the valedictorian of the class of 1992.
He earned S.B. degrees in Economics and Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996, where he was a Truman Scholar. In 2000 he completed a PhD in economics at Harvard University with thesis titled Political economy of education and health in Kenya under the supervision of Michael Kremer, where he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow.
Miguel has been a Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley since 2000. He is also a Faculty Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and an Associate Editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics and Journal of Development Economics. His research has been funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, U.S. National Science Foundation, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the World Bank, among others.
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