1. Edward "Ted" Andrew Miguel was born on 1974 and is an American development economist currently serving as the Distinguished Professor of Economics and Oxfam Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.
Edward Miguel is the founder and faculty co-director of the Center for Effective Global Action, a Berkeley-based hub for research on development economics.
Edward Miguel has pursued projects on the causes and consequences of conflict, the effects of early life health and educational interventions, and research transparency in the social sciences.
Alongside Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Dean Karlan, and Michael Kremer, Edward Miguel has pioneered the use of randomized controlled trials and other forms of impact evaluation to test the effects of social interventions in the developing world.
Edward Miguel is the recipient of a Sloan Research Fellowship, Frisch Medal, and is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Edward Miguel is affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research and Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development.
Edward Andrew Miguel was born in New York City in 1974, and raised in New Jersey.
Edward Miguel is the son of Krystyna Miguel, a nutrionist, and Eduardo Miguel, a rheumatologist.
Edward Miguel attended Tenafly High School in Tenafly, New Jersey, graduating as valedictorian of his class in 1992.
Edward Miguel's thesis, entitled "Political Economy of Education and Health in Kenya", was supervised by Michael Kremer, Abhijit Banerjee, Alberto Alesina, and Lawrence F Katz, and included an early draft of Kremer and Miguel's evaluation of the Kenya Primary School Deworming Project.
Edward Miguel is the husband of Alison Reed, a pediatric endocrinologist at the University of California, San Francisco, whom he married in 2006.
Edward Miguel is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Edward Miguel is a prolific adviser, and has sat on over 140 dissertation committees while teaching at UC Berkeley.
In 2008, Edward Miguel founded the Center for Effective Global Action, a research network and funder based at UC Berkeley that supports research in global health and development focused on impact evaluation.
In 2012, Edward Miguel founded the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences, an academic initiative within the Center for Effective Global Action aimed at promoting scientific transparency and reproducibility in the social sciences.
In line with his work at BITSS, Edward Miguel published a how-to guide entitled Transparent and Reproducible Social Science Research: How to Do Open Science alongside Garrett Christensen and Jeremy Freese.
In 2002, alongside Daniel Posner of UCLA, Edward Miguel co-founded the Working Group in African Political Economy, an organization of economists, political scientists, and graduate students in the social sciences based on the West Coast of the United States conducting field research on the African continent.
Edward Miguel's research focuses on development economics and poverty alleviation, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Edward Miguel has pursued research on a range of topics within these fields, including the effects of environmental shocks and extreme weather on conflict and violence, global health, corruption, energy and electrification, the impacts of cash transfers, the economy of aging, and transparency in social science.
In 2020, Edward Miguel released a paper alongside Kremer, Joan Hamory, Michael Walker, and Sarah Baird documenting the long-term effects of the program on earnings, educational attainment, and employment.
Edward Miguel has pursued research alongside Marshall Burke and Solomon Hsiang evaluating the implications of climate change for productivity and conflict across countries.
Alongside Burke, John Dykema, Shanker Satyanath, and David Lobell, Edward Miguel has an article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showing that historically, the risk of armed conflict in a given country in Sub-Saharan Africa in a year is strongly correlated with the presence of extreme temperatures.
Alongside Halvor Mehlum and Ragnar Torvik, Edward Miguel published an article in the Journal of Urban Economics examining the effects of rising crop prices on property crime in 19th century Bavaria.
Edward Miguel has pursued work on the effects of unconditional cash transfers.
In 2022, Edward Miguel published the results of a randomized controlled trial examining the direct and general equilibrium effects of unconditional cash transfers on village economies in rural Kenya.
Edward Miguel published the results of the GiveDirectly evaluation in Econometrica, alongside co-authors Paul Niehaus, Michael Walker, Dennis Egger, and Johannes Haushofer.
Edward Miguel is actively involved in further research on the effects of the cash transfer program, including evaluations of its effects on child mortality.
Edward Miguel has pursued research on corruption in low and middle income countries.
Fisman and Edward Miguel found a strong correlation between third-party measures of political corruption and the number of parking tickets accumulated by a country.
Edward Miguel is among the most productive economists in the world, ranking in the top 300 according to Research Papers in Economics by total publication output.