Elliott Collins
Job Market Paper:
Do Asset Transfers Reduce Vulnerability? Experimental Evidence in a Frisch Demand System
Dissertation:
Theoretical Approaches to Measuring the Welfare Effects of Asset Transfers
Fields of research:
- Development Economics
- Consumer Welfare & Demand Theory
- Applied Econometrics & Data Science
Publications / Working Papers:
- Do Asset Transfers Reduce Vulnerability? Experimental Evidence in a Frisch Demand System (JMP)
- Modeling the Welfare Effect of Asset Transfers: An Experiment in South Sudan (with Ethan Ligon)
- Randomized Comparisons of Cash & Asset Transfers in South Sudan (with Reajul Chowdhury, Munshi Sulaiman, & Ethan Ligon)
Education:
- Ph.D. Agriculture and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley - 2017
- M.S. Agriculture and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley - 2013
- B.A. Philosophy & Economics, University of California, Santa Cruz - 2009
Teaching:
- Development Economics, Lecturer - UC Berkeley (Summer 2015)
- Microeconomic Theory w/ Applications to Natural Resources, Graduate Student Instructor - (Spring 2015; Fall & Spring 2013; Fall 2012)
- Natural Resource Management, Graduate Student Instructor (Spring, 2016)
- Population, Environment, and Development, Graduate Student Instructor - (Spring, 2012)
- Topics in Development Economics, Graduate Student Instructor - (Summer 2014)
- Health and Environmental Economic Policy, Graduate Student Instructor (Fall 2015)
- Introduction to Macroeconomics, UC Santa Cruz, TA - (Winter 2009)
References:
Ethan Ligon
Associate Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley
Email: ligon@are.berkeley.edu
Office Phone: 510-859-3266
Edward Miguel
Professor, Economics, UC Berkeley
Email: emiguel@berkeley.edu
Office Phone: (510) 642-4361
Jeremy Magruder
Associate Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley
Email: jmagruder0@gmail.com
Office Phone: (510) 643-8742
Contact Information:
Placement Directors:
Professor Sofia Villas-Boas
sberto@berkeley.edu
Placement Officer:
Diana Lazo
lazo@berkeley.edu
Tel: 510-642-3345
Contact details
Elliott Collins
E-mail elliottmcollins@berkeley.edu
Phone Number
(925)209-6215
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