Early Childhood Development, Parental Investments and Social Interactions in Developing Countries
Organized by the Johns Hopkins University SAIS Europe Student Government Association
hosted by Professor
Federico Rossi
Karen Macours
Paris School of Economics; French National Institute for Agricultural Research, France
Karen Macours is Associate Professor at the Paris School of Economics, and Researcher at the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA).
Her research focuses on the micro-economic constraints to agricultural productivity and rural poverty reduction, as well as rural households' human capital investments (productive social safety nets, conditional cash transfer programs, early childhood development, education and rural labor markets). Much of her current research involves the evaluation of pilot programs addressing these issues and related measurement questions in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America.
She is an affiliate of CEPR and JPAL Europe, and co-chair of JPAL's health sector. Macours currently serves as the Chair of the Standing Panel on Impact Assessment (SPIA) of the CGIAR, and was previously an associate professor of international economics at Johns Hopkins SAIS. She received her PhD from the University of California at Berkeley.
