The Basics:
I am currently the Senior Research & Evaluation Manager at Kiva.org. As part of the Kiva Labs initiative, I focus on how and where access to subsidized credit can help to alleviate poverty. I have a PhD in Agriculture & Resource Economics from UC Berkeley. My research focuses on approaches to measuring individual welfare and how that informs impact evaluation. I am especially interested in replicating influential research and the ways public collaboration can help us learn more from complex datasets.

CV
Working Papers:
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