Edward Miguel

About

Edward Miguel is the Oxfam Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. His professional title indicates a focus on environmental and resource economics, suggesting his research and academic contributions are centered on economic issues related to the environment and natural resources. The information provided lists him among the Senate Faculty at the Goldman School of Public Policy, highlighting his role within the academic community at UC Berkeley. Beyond his title and departmental affiliation, no additional details about his research focus, background, or key contributions are provided in the text.

Research topics

• Economics
• Political Science
• Engineering
• Computer Science
• Economic growth
• Geography
• Medicine
• Econometrics
• Public economics
• Monetary economics

Selected publications

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

  Science Advances · 2021 · 472 citations

  Despite numerous journalistic accounts, systematic quantitative evidence on economic conditions during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic remains scarce for most low- and middle-income countries, partly due to limitations of official economic statistics in environments with large informal sectors and subsistence agriculture. We assemble evidence from over 30,000 respondents in 16 original household surveys from nine countries in Africa (Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Sierra Leone), Asia (Banglad…

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• General Equilibrium Effects of Cash Transfers: Experimental Evidence From Kenya

  Econometrica · 2022 · 164 citations

  How large economic stimuli generate individual and aggregate responses is a central question in economics, but has not been studied experimentally. We provided one‐time cash transfers of about USD 1000 to over 10,500 poor households across 653 randomized villages in rural Kenya. The implied fiscal shock was over 15 percent of local GDP. We find large impacts on consumption and assets for recipients. Importantly, we document large positive spillovers on non‐recipient households and firms, and min…

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• Reevaluating Agricultural Productivity Gaps with Longitudinal Microdata

  Journal of the European Economic Association · 2020 · 92 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  Recent research has pointed to large gaps in labor productivity between the agricultural and non-agricultural sectors in low-income countries, as well as between workers in rural and urban areas. Most estimates are based on national accounts or repeated cross-sections of microsurvey data, and as a result typically struggle to account for individual selection between sectors. This paper uses long-run individual-level panel data from two low-income countries (Indonesia and Kenya) to explore these…

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• Reporting all results efficiently: A RARE proposal to open up the file drawer

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2021 · 29 citations

  While the social sciences have made impressive progress in adopting transparent research practices that facilitate verification, replication, and reuse of materials, the problem of publication bias persists. Bias on the part of peer reviewers and journal editors, as well as the use of outdated research practices by authors, continues to skew literature toward statistically significant effects, many of which may be false positives. To mitigate this bias, we propose a framework to enable authors t…

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• Ending publication bias: A values-based approach to surface null and negative results

  PLoS Biology · 2025-09-24 · 6 citations

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  Sharing knowledge is a basic tenet of the scientific community, yet publication bias arising from the reluctance or inability to publish negative or null results remains a long-standing and deep-seated problem, albeit one that varies in severity between disciplines and study types. Recognizing that previous endeavors to address the issue have been fragmentary and largely unsuccessful, this Consensus View proposes concrete and concerted measures that major stakeholders can take to create and ince…

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Recent grants

• The Impact of Vocational Education on Incomes, Health and Wellbeing in Kenya

  NIH · $150k · 2010–2013

• Intergenerational Impacts of Health Investments

  NIH · $2.9M · 2017–2023

• Health/Human Capital Investimates- Long-term impact: Randomized Experiments Kenya

  NIH · $4.6M · 2005–2017

Frequent coauthors

• Michal Bauer

  1184 shared

• Julie Chytilová

  1173 shared

• Joseph Henrich

  Harvard University

  1157 shared

• Tamar Mitts

  Columbia University

  1155 shared

• Christopher Blattman

  University of Chicago

  849 shared

• Kjetil Bjorvatn

  540 shared

• Bertil Tungodden

  538 shared

• Lars Ivar Oppedal Berge

  Norwegian School of Economics

  538 shared

Labs

• GSPP Student GroupsPI

Education

• Ph.D., Economics

  Harvard University

  2000

• M.A., Economics

  Harvard University

  1998

• S.B., Mathematics

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  1996

• S.B., Economics

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  1996

Awards & honors

• 2024 Frisch Medal by the Econometric Society
• 2005 Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship
• 2005 Kenneth J. Arrow Prize by the International Health Econ…
• 2002 Berkeley Hellman Fellow
• 2020 Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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