IDSS Distinguished Speaker Seminar with Melissa Dell (Harvard University)

Monday, December 2, 2019 - 4:00pm to Tuesday, December 3, 2019 - 4:55pm

Event Calendar Category

IDSS

Speaker Name

Melissa Dell

Affiliation

Harvard University

Building and Room number

E18-304

Biography

Melissa Dell is a professor in the Economics Department and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her research focuses on long-run economic development, primarily in Latin America and Asia. She has examined the impacts of weather on economic growth and is currently conducting research about the long-run effects of agrarian reform and agricultural technology investments in Mexico and East Asia. She received a PhD in Economics from MIT, a masters degree in Economics from Oxford, and a BA from Harvard College.