Associate Professor of Economics and Charles E. Merrill Faculty Scholar
Rebecca Dizon-Ross is a development economist and applied microeconomist with an interest in human capital. Much of her current work is on the demand side, aiming to understand the determinants of households’ investments in health and education and to evaluate interventions to increase investment.
Before joining Booth, Dizon-Ross was a Prize Fellow in Economics, History, and Politics at Harvard University and a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She received a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University and a B.A. (summa cum laude) from Harvard University. Prior to graduate school, she worked as an analyst at McKinsey & Co.
A study looks at how parents react when they learn assistance for their children will end.
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Research is examining how forces outside the workplace affect inequalities in professional outcomes.
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Findings from a series of surveys suggest that simple gender preference may be the explanation.
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