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 has focused on various approaches to measuring individual and aggregate welfare, and how that informs survey design and impact evaluation. I’m especially interested in financial inclusion and how to identify it.

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