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Edward Miguel

University of California, Berkeley

Edward Miguel is the Oxfam Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics at the University of California at Berkeley. His work focuses on the provision and the impact of public goods to the poor in sub-Saharan Africa, notably in Kenya and Tanzania.

He earned his S.B. degrees in both Economics and Mathematics from MIT, received a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University, where he was a National Science Foundation Fellow, and has been a visiting professor at Princeton University and Stanford University.

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Related Projects

  • Gender Effects of COVID-19: Evidence from the Kenya Life Panel Survey
  • Start-Up Capital for Youth

Related Publications

  • G²LM|LIC Policy Brief No. 36

    Gender Effects of COVID-19: Evidence from the Kenya Life Panel Survey

Published Articles

  • Science Advances, vol. 7, no. 6

    Falling living standards during the COVID-19 crisis: Quantitative evidence from nine developing countries

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