Edward "Ted" Miguel is the Oxfam Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics in the Department of Economics at University of California, Berkeley. He is also a Faculty Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He earned his PhD from Harvard University (2000) and he has been visiting Professor at Stanford University and a visiting fellow at Princeton University. He is the founder and faculty director of the Center for Effective Global Action at U.C. Berkeley.
He has published widely in all the leading economic journals, such as The Quaterly Journal of Economics, Econometrica, the American Economic Review, The Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Economic Literature, to mention a few. And he also published in the most famous interdisciplinary journals like Science and Nature. 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 M. Kremer, E. Duflo, D. Karjan and A. 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, Prof. Miguel has focused his efforts on increasing transparency in the Social Sciences.
His current or former editorial responsibilities include prestigious journals: The Quaterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Development Economics, and many others.
Noticeable scientific distinctions: Prof. Miguel has received several awards (e.g. K. J. Arrow 2005 award, Kiel Institute Excellence Awards in Global Economic Affairs 2010) and grants from prestigious institutions (e.g. National Science Foundation, National Institutes for Health).
Web page: http://emiguel.econ.berkeley.edu/
(credit photo: Edward Miguel's Home Page)
