ANDREW D. FOSTER
George and Nancy Parker Professor of Economics
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Andrew Foster, George and Nancy Parker Professor of Economics at Brown University. He is an empirical microeconomist interested in population, environment, development, and health. Recent work has examined economic growth in rural India, exploring such issues as growth in the non-farm economy, the effects of local democratization, groundwater usage, forest cover, household structure, inequality, and schooling. He has also worked on projects in Bangladesh, Mexico, the Philippines, South Africa, and the United States. He has played a key role in the collection of long-term panel data sets in India and Bangladesh. Much of his work integrates observational data with applied theory. He teaches courses in development economics at the Ph.D. and undergraduate levels. A native of the U.S., he lived in Bangladesh and Nigeria as a child and received his undergraduate degree from Princeton and his graduate degree from UC Berkeley.
DEAN YANG
Professor of Economics
Dean Yang is a Professor in the Department of Economics and the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. His research agenda spans a range of applied microeconomic topics, including international migration, microfinance, health, disasters, trade, religion, and political economy. Methodologically, much of his work involves randomized controlled trials in field settings, while other work involves unearthing and analyzing novel data sources. His past and current field research locations include El Salvador, Guatemala, Indonesia, Malawi, Mozambique, and the Philippines, as well as migrant populations of Filipinos in Italy and the UAE, Indians in Qatar, and Salvadorans and Kenyans in the U.S. He teaches courses in development economics at the Ph.D., master, and undergraduate levels. A native of the Philippines, he received his undergraduate and Ph.D. degrees in economics from Harvard University.