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Edward "Ted" Andrew Miguel (born 1974) is an American development economist currently serving as the Oxfam Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the founder and faculty director of the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA), a Berkeley-based hub for research on development economics.
Miguel's research focuses on economic development, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. He has pursued projects on the causes and consequences of conflict, the effects of early life health and educational interventions, and research transparency in the social sciences. Alongside Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Dean Karlan, and Michael Kremer, Miguel has pioneered the use of randomized controlled trials and other forms of impact evaluation to test the effects of social interventions in the developing world. In 2019, the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer for "their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty", citing Miguel and CEGA as additional actors linking "experimental research to policy change and advice."
Miguel is the recipient of a Sloan Research Fellowship, and is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research and Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development.




Education


Miguel attended Tenafly High School in Tenafly, New Jersey, from which he graduated as the valedictorian of the class of 1992.
He earned S.B. degrees in economics and mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996, where he was a Truman Scholar. In 2000 he completed a PhD in economics at Harvard University with a thesis entitled Political Economy of Education and Health in Kenya under the supervision of Michael Kremer, Abhijit Banerjee, Alberto Alesina, and Lawrence F. Katz where he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow.
Miguel is the husband of Alison Reed, a pediatric endocrinologist at the University of California, San Francisco, whom he married in 2006.




Career


After finishing his PhD, Miguel joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, where has remained a professor since 2000. Since 2012, he has been the Oxfam Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics, with joint appointments in UC Berkeley's Department of Economics and Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics. Since 2009, he has been a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Miguel is a prolific adviser, and has sat on over 80 dissertation committees while teaching at UC Berkeley. His formers students include economists such as Chris Blattman, Manisha Shah, Eva Vivalt, and Suresh Naidu. In 2015, he was awarded the Carol D. Soc Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring Award from UC Berkeley for his work mentoring and training PhD students.




= Working Group in African Political Economy

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In 2002, alongside Daniel Posner of UCLA, Miguel co-founded the Working Group in African Political Economy (WGAPE), an organization of economists, political scientists, and graduate students in the social sciences based on the West Coast of the United States conducting field research on the African continent. The group has semi-annually meetings, in which members and invited guests present research in progress. Current and former members of the working group include Miguel, Posner, Chris Blattman, Jenny Aker, and Joshua Graff Zivin.




= Center for Effective Global Action

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In 2008, Miguel founded the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA), a research network and funder based at UC Berkeley that supports research in global health and development focused on impact evaluation. The network currently includes over 160 affiliated faculty at UC Berkeley, Stanford, UCLA, UCSD, and a number of other universities based on the west coast of the United States. CEGA supports research in development economics that leverages randomized controlled trials or other rigorous methods aimed at evaluating the causal effect of interventions on health and well-being in low and middle income countries. Since 2009, the network has distributed over $52 million in competitive grants, and supported over 535 studies across 57 countries.



Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences

In 2012, Miguel founded the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS), an academic initiative within the Center for Effective Global Action aimed at promoting scientific transparency and reproducibility in the social sciences. Alongside organizations such as the Center for Open Science, BITSS creates and disseminates educational resources and tools to promote transparent practices, such as the use of pre-analysis plans, in the social sciences. In 2018, for example, BITSS collaborated with the Journal of Development Economics to launch a pre-results review track in the journal in which authors can apply for publication before results are known in an effort to reduce publication biases and eliminate null result penalties. In line with his work at BITSS, Miguel published a how-to guide entitled Transparent and Reproducible Social Science Research: How to Do Open Science alongside Garrett Christensen and Jeremy Freese. For its work promoting quality in social research, BITSS was awarded an Einstein Foundation Berlin Institutional Award in 2023.




Research


Miguel's research focuses on development economics and poverty alleviation, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. He has pursued research on a range of topics within these fields, including global health, corruption, energy and electrification, and the effects of environmental shocks and extreme weather on conflict and violence.




= School-based deworming

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Miguel's doctoral thesis was advised by Michael Kremer, an American development economist who later received the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to developing the "experimental approach to alleviating global poverty." Beginning in the late 1990s, Miguel collaborated with Kremer on a randomized controlled trial aimed at evaluating the direct and spillover effects of a school-based deworming program on education and health in rural Kenya. The experiment was inspired by a trip Kremer took to rural Kenya with his wife, Rachel Glennerster, shortly after the completion of his PhD. The randomized controlled trial involved a total of 32,000 children, and found that administering deworming treatments to children reduced rates of school absenteeism by 25%. The study thus estimated that deworming could keep children in school for an additional year at a cost of $3.50 USD, substantially lower than other interventions such as subsidizing school uniforms or constructing additional schools. The results of the study were published in Econometrica in 2004, and inspired the Deworm the World Initiative, an international campaign which has since 2014 delivered 1.8 billion deworming treatments to children around the world.




= Corruption

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Miguel has also pursued research on corruption in low and middle income countries. Prior to 2002, United Nations diplomats based in New York City were essentially immune from parking violations, with vehicles ticketed but rarely towed. This changed in 2002, when Senators Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer of New York sponsored an amendment to a foreign aid bill allowing New York City to recoup unpaid parking tickets from disbursements of foreign aid to select countries. In a 2006 paper with Raymond Fisman, then of Columbia University, Miguel evaluated the distribution of parking tickets across countries in an effort to shed light on the relative importance of norms and legal enforcement in shaping anti-social behavior and lawfulness. Fisman and Miguel found a strong correlation between third-party measures of political corruption and the number of parking tickets accumulated by a country. Diplomats from Sweden, Canada, and Japan had few if any parking violations, while countries such as Kuwait, Egypt, and Sudan accumulated many. To summarize this and other work, Miguel and Fisman wrote Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence and the Poverty of Nations, a popular science book examining the effects of corruption and violence on economic development published by Princeton University Press. In it, they argue for automatically indexing foreign aid to climate shocks in an effort to prevent civil wars or other outbreaks of violence.




= Cash transfers

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Miguel has also pursued work on the effects of unconditional cash transfers. In 2022, Miguel published the results of a randomized controlled trial examining the direct and general equilibrium effects of unconditional cash transfers on village economies in rural Kenya. The experiment was implemented by GiveDirectly, an international NGO, and involved the distribution of over $10 million USD in lump-sum transfers to over 10,000 poor households in Siaya County. The project was distinguished for evaluating not just the direct effects of cash transfers on recipient households, but also their indirect effects on non-recipient households residing in the same villages. It found that cash transfers have substantial indirect effects on village economies: every $1 USD of cash received by a local economy was associated with a $2.60 USD increase in total economy activity, implying a fiscal multiplier of 2.6.

Miguel published the results of the GiveDirectly evaluation in Econometrica, alongside co-authors Paul Niehaus, Michael Walker, Dennis Egger, and Johannes Haushofer. The paper received the 2024 Frisch Medal, awarded every two years to the best empirical or theoretical article published in the journal within the past five years. Miguel is actively involved in further research on the effects of the cash transfer program, including evaluations of its effects on child mortality.




= Poverty, weather shocks, and conflict

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Miguel has also pursued research on the link between poverty, crime, and conflict. Alongside Halvor Mehlum and Ragnar Torvik, Miguel published an article in the Journal of Urban Economics examining the effects of rising crop prices on property crime in 19th century Bavaria. Using rainfall as a source of random variation in rye yields, they show that grain prices are strongly correlated with rates of property crime, which Bavaria kept meticulous records of. Therefore, they suggest that poverty, hunger, and economic uncertainty may encourage theft.
In an article with Marshall Burke, Shanker Satyanath, John Dykema, and David Lobell in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Miguel further shows that historically, the risk of armed conflict in a given country in Sub-Saharan Africa in a given year is strongly correlated with the presence of extreme temperatures. If historical estimates of the link between battle deaths and temperature are found to persist, they find that standard climate models suggest that the incidence of armed conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa may increase by 54% by 2030, representing an additional 393,000 battle deaths per year.




Awards


2024 Winner of the Frisch Medal for his outstanding paper "General equilibrium effects of cash transfers: experimental evidence from Kenya" together with Dennis Egger, Johannes Haushofer, Paul Niehaus, & Michael Walker. Award granted by the Econometric Society
2020 Elected Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2015 Carol D. Soc Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring Award
2014 Chancellor's Award for Public Service for Research in the Public Interest
2012 UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award
2010 Kiel Institute Excellence Award in Global Economic Affairs
2005 Kenneth J. Arrow Award for the best paper in health economics (entitled "Worms: Identifying impacts on education and health in the presence of treatment externalities"), presented by the International Health Economics Association
2005 Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship
2003–04 UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award, Social Sciences Division
1995 Truman Scholarship (NJ)




Selected publications






= Global public health

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Miguel, Edward; Kremer, Michael (December 10, 2003). "Worms: Identifying Impacts on Education and Health in the Presence of Treatment Externalities". Econometrica. 72 (1): 159–217. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0262.2004.00481.x.
Hamory, Joan; Miguel, Edward; Walker, Michael; Kremer, Michael; Baird, Sarah (March 31, 2021). "Twenty-year economic impacts of deworming". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118 (14): e2023185118. doi:10.1073/pnas.2023185118. PMC 8040658. PMID 33790017.




= Scientific transparency

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Miguel, Edward; Camerer, Colin; Casey, Katherine; et al. (January 3, 2014). "Promoting transparency in social science research". Science. 343 (6166): 30–31. doi:10.1126/science.1245317. PMC 4103621. PMID 24385620.
Miguel, Edward (2021). "Evidence on Research Transparency in Economics". Journal of Economic Perspectives. 35 (3): 193–214. doi:10.1257/jep.35.3.193.




= Civil conflict

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Miguel, Edward; Satyanath, Shanker; Sergenti, Ernest (2004). "Economic Shocks and Civil Conflict: An Instrumental Variables Approach". Journal of Political Economy. 112 (4): 725–753. doi:10.1086/421174.




References






External links


Official website
Center for Effective Global Action
Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences

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