Applied Microeconomics Seminar - Dec 5th, 2024

*This seminar will take place exceptionally in Room H 101 (ground floor)*

Manisha Shah is the Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy of the University of California at Berkeley (UC Berkeley). Prior to joining UC Berkeley in 2023, she taught at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) for ten years. She is also a Faculty Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a Research Faculty Affiliate at the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), at the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA), at the California Center for Population Research (CCPR), and a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). Among her editorial duties, she is Associate Editor of The Review of Economics and Statistics and Editor of the Journal of Health Economics.

She is a development economist whose primary research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of applied microeconomics, health, and development. She has written several papers on the economics of sex markets in order to learn how more effective policies and programs can be deployed to slow the spread of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections. She also works in the area of child health and education. Shah has been the PI on various impact evaluations and randomized controlled trials and is currently leading projects in Tanzania, Indonesia, and India. She has also worked extensively in Ecuador and Mexico. Her research has been supported by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the World Bank, and the National Science Foundation, among others.

Manisha Shah's website

She will present a paper at the next Applied Microeconomics Seminar on the topic:

Sex, Power, and Adolescence: Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Behaviors (read abstract, PDF 39.63 KB)

This is our last Applied Microeconomics Seminar this Fall: we look forward to seeing you again during the Winter-Spring Semester 2025!