Postgraduate Scholar
2008-2009 Academic Year
Sarah Baird
CVSarah Baird is a development economist whose work focuses on issues of health and risk, as well as on program evaluation. She finished her Ph.D. in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Berkeley in 2007 and has spent time in the Development Research Group of the World Bank and at the Asian Development Bank.
She has worked on issues ranging from consumption risk in Vietnam to technology adoption in India to deworming in Kenya to infant mortality globally. She has conducted field work in Vietnam and Kenya and is currently working on designing a cash transfer experiment in Malawi with Craig McIntosh and Berk Özler. She plans to continue working on issues of health and risk as well as expanding to new topics particularly in the area of natural resource economics.
Research Interests
She has worked on issues ranging from consumption risk in Vietnam to technology adoption in India to deworming in Kenya to infant mortality globally. She has conducted field work in Vietnam and Kenya and is currently working on designing a cash transfer experiment in Malawi with Craig McIntosh and Berk Özler. She plans to continue working on issues of health and risk as well as expanding to new topics particularly in the area of natural resource economics.
Research Interests
Education
Ph.D., University of California Berkeley, 2007 (agricultural & resource economics)
M.S., University of California Berkeley, 2002 (agricultural & resource economics)
B.A. Claremont McKenna College, 2001(economics, environmental science, & politics)
development economics, applied econometrics, health economics, applied microeconomics,
program evaluation
