Seema Jayachandran interview: On deforestation,
corruption, and the roots of gender inequality
https://www.minneapolisfed.org/article/2021/seema-jayachandran-interview-on-deforestation-corruption-and-the-roots-of-gender-inequality
Seema Jayachandran planned a career in theoretical physics when she graduated from MIT in electrical engineering and finished her master’s in physics and philosophy at Oxford University. Harvard offered her a spot in its selective doctoral physics program. But coffee conversations with an acquaintance changed her life.
“What he was doing was really cool,” she recalls. His discipline, economics, offered an irresistible blend of high theory and hardheaded fieldwork. It was “quantitatively analytical,” like physics, “but with more of an application to society.” She applied to Harvard’s economics doctoral program. “I didn’t have much economics when I transferred,” she admits. “But it was a perfect fit.”
Indeed. Jayachandran, now a professor at Northwestern University, is a leading authority in development economics, with particular focus on women. Much of her research involves randomized, controlled trials to evaluate program interventions aimed at improving well-being. Many of her field experiments are in India, but she’s worked throughout the world, from Mexico to Burkina Faso to Zambia.
https://www.minneapolisfed.org/article/2021/seema-jayachandran-interview-on-deforestation-corruption-and-the-roots-of-gender-inequality
Seema Jayachandran planned a career in theoretical physics when she graduated from MIT in electrical engineering and finished her master’s in physics and philosophy at Oxford University. Harvard offered her a spot in its selective doctoral physics program. But coffee conversations with an acquaintance changed her life.
“What he was doing was really cool,” she recalls. His discipline, economics, offered an irresistible blend of high theory and hardheaded fieldwork. It was “quantitatively analytical,” like physics, “but with more of an application to society.” She applied to Harvard’s economics doctoral program. “I didn’t have much economics when I transferred,” she admits. “But it was a perfect fit.”
Indeed. Jayachandran, now a professor at Northwestern University, is a leading authority in development economics, with particular focus on women. Much of her research involves randomized, controlled trials to evaluate program interventions aimed at improving well-being. Many of her field experiments are in India, but she’s worked throughout the world, from Mexico to Burkina Faso to Zambia.
Profiles of a New Generation of Star Economists
Emmanuel Farhi
https://www.richmondfed.org/-/media/richmondfedorg/publications/research/econ_focus/2019/q2-3/interview.pdf
Susan Athey
https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2019/06/pdf/profile-stanford-economist-susan-athey-people.pdf
Mariana Mazzucato
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/26/business/mariana-mazzucato.html
Edward Glaeser
https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2019/12/pdf/profile-of-harvard-economist-edward-glaeser.pdf
Susan Athey
https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2019/06/pdf/profile-stanford-economist-susan-athey-people.pdf
Mariana Mazzucato
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/26/business/mariana-mazzucato.html
Edward Glaeser
https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2019/12/pdf/profile-of-harvard-economist-edward-glaeser.pdf
Enrico Moretti
Gabriel Zucman
Antoinette Schoar
Gita Gopinath
Raj Chetty
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/08/raj-chettys-american-dream/592804/
RISE OF THE TECHONOMIST (Economists in the Tech World):
https://vivekjayakumar.blogspot.com/2019/05/economists-in-tech-world.html
RISE OF THE TECHONOMIST (Economists in the Tech World):
https://vivekjayakumar.blogspot.com/2019/05/economists-in-tech-world.html