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