The Basics:
I am an economist with research focusing on various approaches to measuring individual and community welfare, and how that informs survey design and impact evaluation. I’ve worked more recently on issues related to sampling and bias in multi-modal surveys. I completed my PhD in Agriculture & Resource Economics at UC Berkeley. I am currently working as a researcher at Meta.
I served for five years as a researcher at Innovations for Poverty Action, working with research and policy partners to develop rigorous empirical evidence on a range of subjects. I also serve as director of the Poverty Measurement initiative, which develops and supports rigorous, cost-effective ways for researchers, businesses, and non-profits understand the economic lives of their clients including the PPI.
Before that, I was Senior Research & Evaluation Manager at Kiva.org, focusing on how or when access to subsidized credit can help to alleviate poverty.
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Publications:
Working Papers:
Assessing survey methods for measuring vaccine acceptance anduptake in 14 African countries
Do Asset Transfers Reduce Vulnerability? Experimental Evidence in a Frisch Demand System
(Job Market Paper)Modeling the Welfare Effect of Asset Transfers: An Experiment in South Sudan
(with Ethan Ligon)Randomized Comparisons of Cash & Asset Transfers in South Sudan
(with Reajul Chowdhury, Munshi Sulaiman, & Ethan Ligon)
Contact Me:
email: elliottmcollins@gmail.com OR elliottc@kiva.org
Twitter: @elliottmcollins