Bridging the Divide: Two Newly Hired Professors Bring Expertise in Development Economics to Solving Global Challenges
Pascaline Dupas’ first job in research was, in her words, “at the very bottom of the pecking order.” She’d traveled to Kenya to work for a year as a field research assistant to Michael Kremer, a pioneer in development economics. Her first task was to help measure parasite levels in Kenyan children, in part by examining their…